Ald Jeremy Ball: MGAB Letter ... My letter of resignation fro MGAB

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From: Ray Norman <raynorman@eftel.net.au>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:19:43 +1000
To: Alderman Jeremy Ball <Jeremy.Ball@launceston.tas.gov.au>
Conversation: MGAB Letter
Subject: MGAB Letter

TO: Acting Mayor and Aldermen

Dear Jeremy,

I write to you as Acting Mayor and I ask that you accept my resignation from my position on the QVMAG’s MGAB conditional upon the proposed Special Meeting of the MGAB going ahead as has been planned.  I take this action under some duress and to prevent there being any further damage to my reputation against the background of no evidence being provided to support the allegations being made against me, nor any reasonable means proposed to assure me of procedural fairness.

Given that from my perspective: 

• Launceston City Council via the Mayor and the General Manager appear to me to have utterly failed to provide procedural fairness under the principles of natural justice to a ratepaying member of the community; and 
  

• Despite my volunteer work to try to help the QVMAG, and thus Council, find a new and fiscally sustainable operational paradigm within which to operate the QVMAG I am expected to sign a 'loyalty' clause to support the QVMAG no matter what plus give up my independence and other freedoms without any consideration in exchange; and 
  

• Given that the MGAB and General Manager are focussing on internal processes at the expense of any open, creative and inclusive debate or critical discourse relevant to alternatives for the QVMAG's future and the protection of its Community of Ownership and Interest’s investments in the institution over time;
  

Then please accept this letter as my resignation from the MGAB in order that I can spend my time more productively on my research interests and especially so in regard to musingplaces and all that which communities invest in them and the cultural property they individually and collectively place in their trust.

Overall, it is of some interest to me, and it saddens me, that the Council and it's officers seem to be able to convert supporters and ratepayers into enemies so readily. I really feel for any staff member anywhere who finds themselves trapped in a toxic environment.

I wish Council well and the QVMAG well.  I want nothing further to do with either Mr McKinnon or Mr Dobrzynski unless I am provided with suitable legal protections.

Yours sincerely,

Ray Norman

Ray Norman
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