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Five minutes. That’s how long an Invercargill City Council meeting has lasted, just 24 hours after the Council’s issues were aired for all to see.
The council held its full monthly council meeting on Tuesday, the day after the findings of an independent council review were made public.
The review report says Mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt is struggling to fill the role, although Shadbolt has denied the report saying he is not prepared to be the scapegoat for the council’s shortcomings.
The media filled the council chambers for Tuesday’s meeting.
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Invercargill Mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt addressed the city council meeting on Tuesday, a day after an independent report was released saying he was struggling to get the job done.
Councilors confirmed minutes before moving on to the only other item on the agenda, the Shadbolt mayor’s monthly report.
However, it did not produce it.
“There is no report from the mayor for this meeting because I have been informed that there are not enough issues to discuss,” Shadbolt said.
The meeting was then moved to the excluded public where councilors had more meeting minutes to confirm.
In his mayoral report, Shadbolt traditionally lists his commitments over the past month and also provides some comments on different topics.
Previously, some councilors criticized him for not providing them with enough feedback from his various external stakeholder meetings.
In May, then-Deputy Mayor Toni Biddle made a motion in a meeting to allow her to attend all official stakeholder meetings with Shadbolt, which she said would ensure good reporting to the council.
The councilors agreed and Biddle began producing his own deputy mayor reports to keep the councilors informed.
However, Biddle resigned from the council last month saying, “He [Shadbolt] it has been the decorative figure while I did the work.
Shadbolt, at the time, in response to Biddle’s comment denied the allegations that he was not doing his best.
