Discussions and manner of Councillor Mike Brunker at the most recent Whitsunday Regional Council Ordinary Meeting dissolved, with unprofessional behaviour and disrespectful tone.
The Ordinary Meeting began with a voluntary apology from Cr Brunker, a recommendation for mediation from the Office of Independent Assessor, of two complaints received regarding Cr Brunker’s manner.
The complaint was in relation to an email Cr Brunker received from a resident in his division, regarding Hansen Park in Horseshoe Bay.
“I replied saying that was a load of rubbish,” Cr Brunker explained in the meeting.
“It should be constructed immediately. I didn’t feel that that was disrespectful or dis-serious in any way.”
Mayor Hall interrupted Cr Brunker, saying that “I just remind you that this is an apology. That doesn’t sound like an apology.”
In which Cr Brunker responded “I’m getting to the apology. I’m being confidential with council, sitting around this table, they wouldn’t know what this is about.”
“If those people have received that email and thought that, then I certainly apologise. I certainly apologise for that because there is no way for certain to be disrespectful, so for that I do apologise.”
Throughout the remainder of the Ordinary Meeting, Cr Brunker continued to be disruptive.
He continuously did not stand to speak, nor address the Mayor before he spoke, or go through the Mayor to lead discussions or ask other attendees questions.
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