❓ Question regarding the dismissal of the City of Albany CEO and associated payments, and the Minister's response outlining the limits of their intervention in contractual matters and actions taken to address governance issues.
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CITY OF ALBANY — chief executive officer
I do not need to shout my message! I refer to ongoing issues at the City of Albany that are causing great concern to local ratepayers. (1) Given that all 18 charges and complaints brought by the Albany CEO against three councillors have been dismissed by the minister’s office and the CEO has used this as an excuse not to see out his contract, when will the minister commence an inquiry into the dismissal of the CEO and the payment that the CEO received? (2) If the minister will not commence an inquiry, why not? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI
I do not need to shout my message! I refer to ongoing issues at the City of Albany that are causing great concern to local ratepayers. (1) Given that all 18 charges and complaints brought by the Albany CEO against three councillors have been dismissed by the minister’s office and the CEO has used this as an excuse not to see out his contract, when will the minister commence an inquiry into the dismissal of the CEO and the payment that the CEO received? (2) If the minister will not commence an inquiry, why not? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI
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I thank the member for his question. (1)–(2) The payment of the CEO is a contractual arrangement between the council and the CEO. They have made that decision; they came to that arrangement. It is up to them. I have no power to interfere in that. The good governance of any local government is paramount to everything that happens in local government in this state; it is paramount. There was a breakdown of governance in Albany, and that is why I initiated the action that I did in the City of Albany. Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
I refer to ongoing issues at the City of Albany that are causing great concern to local ratepayers. (1) Given that all 18 charges and complaints brought by the Albany CEO against three councillors have been dismissed by the minister’s office and the CEO has used this as an excuse not to see out his contract, when will the minister commence an inquiry into the dismissal of the CEO and the payment that the CEO received? (2) If the minister will not commence an inquiry, why not? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(2) The payment of the CEO is a contractual arrangement between the council and the CEO. They have made that decision; they came to that arrangement. It is up to them. I have no power to interfere in that. The good governance of any local government is paramount to everything that happens in local government in this state; it is paramount. There was a breakdown of governance in Albany, and that is why I initiated the action that I did in the City of Albany. Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
(1) Given that all 18 charges and complaints brought by the Albany CEO against three councillors have been dismissed by the minister’s office and the CEO has used this as an excuse not to see out his contract, when will the minister commence an inquiry into the dismissal of the CEO and the payment that the CEO received? (2) If the minister will not commence an inquiry, why not? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(2) The payment of the CEO is a contractual arrangement between the council and the CEO. They have made that decision; they came to that arrangement. It is up to them. I have no power to interfere in that. The good governance of any local government is paramount to everything that happens in local government in this state; it is paramount. There was a breakdown of governance in Albany, and that is why I initiated the action that I did in the City of Albany. Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
(2) If the minister will not commence an inquiry, why not? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(2) The payment of the CEO is a contractual arrangement between the council and the CEO. They have made that decision; they came to that arrangement. It is up to them. I have no power to interfere in that. The good governance of any local government is paramount to everything that happens in local government in this state; it is paramount. There was a breakdown of governance in Albany, and that is why I initiated the action that I did in the City of Albany. Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(2) The payment of the CEO is a contractual arrangement between the council and the CEO. They have made that decision; they came to that arrangement. It is up to them. I have no power to interfere in that. The good governance of any local government is paramount to everything that happens in local government in this state; it is paramount. There was a breakdown of governance in Albany, and that is why I initiated the action that I did in the City of Albany. Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
I thank the member for his question. (1)–(2) The payment of the CEO is a contractual arrangement between the council and the CEO. They have made that decision; they came to that arrangement. It is up to them. I have no power to interfere in that. The good governance of any local government is paramount to everything that happens in local government in this state; it is paramount. There was a breakdown of governance in Albany, and that is why I initiated the action that I did in the City of Albany. Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
(1)–(2) The payment of the CEO is a contractual arrangement between the council and the CEO. They have made that decision; they came to that arrangement. It is up to them. I have no power to interfere in that. The good governance of any local government is paramount to everything that happens in local government in this state; it is paramount. There was a breakdown of governance in Albany, and that is why I initiated the action that I did in the City of Albany. Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
I refer to ongoing issues at the City of Albany that are causing great concern to local ratepayers. (1) Given that all 18 charges and complaints brought by the Albany CEO against three councillors have been dismissed by the minister’s office and the CEO has used this as an excuse not to see out his contract, when will the minister commence an inquiry into the dismissal of the CEO and the payment that the CEO received? (2) If the minister will not commence an inquiry, why not? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(2) The payment of the CEO is a contractual arrangement between the council and the CEO. They have made that decision; they came to that arrangement. It is up to them. I have no power to interfere in that. The good governance of any local government is paramount to everything that happens in local government in this state; it is paramount. There was a breakdown of governance in Albany, and that is why I initiated the action that I did in the City of Albany. Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
(1) Given that all 18 charges and complaints brought by the Albany CEO against three councillors have been dismissed by the minister’s office and the CEO has used this as an excuse not to see out his contract, when will the minister commence an inquiry into the dismissal of the CEO and the payment that the CEO received? (2) If the minister will not commence an inquiry, why not? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(2) The payment of the CEO is a contractual arrangement between the council and the CEO. They have made that decision; they came to that arrangement. It is up to them. I have no power to interfere in that. The good governance of any local government is paramount to everything that happens in local government in this state; it is paramount. There was a breakdown of governance in Albany, and that is why I initiated the action that I did in the City of Albany. Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
(2) If the minister will not commence an inquiry, why not? Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(2) The payment of the CEO is a contractual arrangement between the council and the CEO. They have made that decision; they came to that arrangement. It is up to them. I have no power to interfere in that. The good governance of any local government is paramount to everything that happens in local government in this state; it is paramount. There was a breakdown of governance in Albany, and that is why I initiated the action that I did in the City of Albany. Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
Mr G.M. CASTRILLI replied: I thank the member for his question. (1)–(2) The payment of the CEO is a contractual arrangement between the council and the CEO. They have made that decision; they came to that arrangement. It is up to them. I have no power to interfere in that. The good governance of any local government is paramount to everything that happens in local government in this state; it is paramount. There was a breakdown of governance in Albany, and that is why I initiated the action that I did in the City of Albany. Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
I thank the member for his question. (1)–(2) The payment of the CEO is a contractual arrangement between the council and the CEO. They have made that decision; they came to that arrangement. It is up to them. I have no power to interfere in that. The good governance of any local government is paramount to everything that happens in local government in this state; it is paramount. There was a breakdown of governance in Albany, and that is why I initiated the action that I did in the City of Albany. Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
(1)–(2) The payment of the CEO is a contractual arrangement between the council and the CEO. They have made that decision; they came to that arrangement. It is up to them. I have no power to interfere in that. The good governance of any local government is paramount to everything that happens in local government in this state; it is paramount. There was a breakdown of governance in Albany, and that is why I initiated the action that I did in the City of Albany. Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
Mr P.B. Watson : Minister, you have known since February this year that there were issues there. You sat on your hands. Now this thing has blown up, and this thing will bring you down, minister. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The member for Albany and I have had a couple of conversations in the corridor, as he will well recall. My whole overriding concern is not for the factions or whatever is happening in the City of Albany; my overriding concern is for the people of Albany. What is going on in Albany has already cost the people of Albany money. I am giving the councillors at the City of Albany the opportunity to rectify the situation by implementing processes down there, because if they do not, it will cost them in excess of $1 million, on my estimation. I will make it absolutely clear to the people of Albany that the elected members have been given an opportunity, and if they do not take it, they are the ones who are responsible. The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
The SPEAKER : Member for Albany, you have asked a question and you expect to get an answer. Continual interjecting during the answer is not going to achieve what you want. I am going to give you the opportunity to ask a supplementary question, but at this point I am formally going to call you for the second time. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
Mr G.M. CASTRILLI : The City of Albany has employed an experienced interim CEO. The councillors are going through the city’s planning policies, and a mediator has been engaged to go through the interpersonal relationships at the City of Albany. The councillors are going through a better practice review, and they are reporting to me on a monthly basis. Unless I am convinced that the processes that I have put in place are being adhered to and the councillors are considering the issues that I have asked them to consider and they are doing what I have asked them to do, I will take other action. However, at this point the councillors are preparing an interim report to me on a monthly basis. I am doing this on behalf of the people of Albany.
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