FW: CONFIDENTIAL: Letter

NOTE TO FILE:
A patronising response and soft way out of doing doing what really needed to be done
relative to Council’s standards and policies let alone fair dealing.
The GM & Chair need to do the same but there you go!
NOTE: No commitment to deal with the outstanding 3 letters of defamation.

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From: Mayor <Mayor@launceston.tas.gov.au>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:49:56 +0000
To: Ray Norman <raynorman@eftel.net.au>
Subject: RE: CONFIDENTIAL: Letter

Dear Ray
 
Thank you for your email.  I apologise for any hurt and disappointment that I have caused you in relation to your belief of my inaction in relation to the Museum Governance Advisory Board's Special meeting.
 
I wish you all the best with future endeavours.  You have a lot to offer and I am pleased you will continue with your research interests.
 
Kind regards
 

Albert van Zetten I Mayor I Launceston City Council
T 03 6323 3101 I F 03 6323 3125 I www.launceston.tas.gov.au <http://www.launceston.tas.gov.au/>


From: Ray Norman [mailto:raynorman@eftel.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2014 10:23 AM
To: Mayor
Subject: RE: CONFIDENTIAL: Letter

Dear Albert,

If there was as you say, correspondence and discussions, between yourself and the Chairman of the MGAB I have not received any evidence of it. Neither have I received any evidence of the substantive matter that supposedly brought on the Chairman’s Notice of Motion for the MGAB’s Special Meeting. I would need that for natural justice to be served.

It seems that you are asking me to trust you, and on the evidence, I’ve not been provided with a reason to do so in regard to this matter. Consequently, it is likely that I will have an outstanding grievance that is ever likely to be unresolved. It is now also very clear to me that you do not see my point of view. In any event, I do seem to recall you saying somewhere in past correspondence, paraphrased, that you couldn’t help me. It seems not.

I have other things to do with my life besides exchange pointless correspondence with you on all this. Therefore, I’ve decided not to continue this unproductive, unsatisfactory and deeply disturbing  exchange.

I believe that I’m entitled to several apologies and should I ever get one I will graciously receive it and move on. I wish Council well and especially the QVMAG. As Launceston’s musingplace, the institution will remain a research interest for me and not the least for the reason that it is the Tasmanian musingplace at the bottom of the hill upon which I live.

Regards,

Ray

Ray Norman
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On 22/07/14 6:08 PM, "Mayor" <Mayor@launceston.tas.gov.au <mailto:Mayor@launceston.tas.gov.au> > wrote:

Dear Ray
 
I reject your claim that I have shown no leadership and did not lift a finger.  I did have correspondence and discussions with the Chair to ensure that you would be treated fairly; afforded due process; and be the recipient of natural justice.
 
Ray, I was unaware that three people outside MGAB received the material.  Are you aware how/who they received the information from?  I will follow up.
 
As you are aware through your position as a member of the Museum Governance Advisory Board, the Board has an advisory function to the Council on matters falling within its remit. The Board does not have specific authority to determine on matters other than generally procedural issues.
 
Mr McKinnon has the prerogative to call a Special Meeting of the MGAB as Chairman. He also has a right, equal to other members of MGAB, to put forward a Notice of Motion for consideration by the meeting as it sees fit.
 
Any member of MGAB, including yourself, has the right to attend the Special Meeting and discuss the Notice of Motion as part of the debate.  The members of MGAB will ultimately make a decision on the Notice of Motion.
 
My understanding is that the NOM was withdrawn following the adoption by the MGAB of a Communications, Confidentiality, Commitment and Conflicts of Interest Policy.
 
As Mayor of Council, I have no specific authority or obligation to intervene in or influence the activities of a legally constituted Committee which reports and is accountable to the elected Council.
 
Kind regards
 
Albert van Zetten I Mayor I Launceston City Council
T 03 6323 3101 I F 03 6323 3125 I www.launceston.tas.gov.au <http://www.launceston.tas.gov.au> <http://www.launceston.tas.gov.au/>


From: Ray Norman [mailto:raynorman@eftel.net.au] <mailto:raynorman@eftel.net.au]>
Sent: Sunday, 20 July 2014 3:53 PM
To: Mayor
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL: Letter

CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Albert,

I’ve postponed writing to you until your return from leave. I anticipate that your response to this email will be, as likely as not, the same as previous emails I’ve sent you over the years. That is, you appreciate my point of view and that I’m entitled to it. However, I now ask you how is it possible to comprehend, or accept, such a response in this instance given the position Launcestonians have entrusted you with?

In regard to circumstances surrounding the MGAB’s Special Meeting, I believe that you have stood by and watched as I’ve been defamed – and I believe groundlessly defamed. If I have done something wrong what evidence is there that I’ve done anything at all that was wrong? Do you have it? If you do have it, where is it? Why haven’t I yet seen it?

Whatever, it appears to me that you have shown no leadership whatsoever here in so much as you have not lifted a finger to ensure that:

• I was treated fairly;
• I was afforded due process; or that
• I was the recipient of natural justice.
  

Furthermore, it seems to me, on this evidence, that you’re not all that interested in upholding Council’s organizational values or its community engagement policy – all things you should be seen as claiming to be a champion of. Why is that so? Why haven’t you championed these values here in my case?

All that said, because of your inaction, it seems that the defamation against me persists. Why haven’t you acted? How is it so? Well, three people now outside the MGAB have received the defamatory material and so far as I’m aware no effort at all has been exerted to redress that.

It is your role as Mayor to deliver the leadership you promised to provide to those to whom you are accountable, the Launcestonian’s who elected you, and recompense you, as their community leader. By failing me you are failing all of them too.

Your constituency expects you to ensure that all ratepayers and residents are dealt with in accord with the law and fairly. So far, you clearly haven’t done so in my case. Nonetheless, the opportunity remains open for you to do so. I’ll leave it to your conscience to demonstrate to me that you’re up to the task of matching your promises with unambiguous action.

So as not to end on a sour note I can pass on to you that you are the vicarious recipient of much praise for Council’s provision of Saturday’s Crowdfunding seminar and workshop. It was an excellent initiative on Amanda Mackowski’s & Angela Walsh’s part and long term it promises to keep on giving to the community. That seems to be something of a paradigm shift! Their efforts need to be noted and congratulated by Aldermen.

The only sad note was that nobody from the QVMAG was there. Arguably it’s the very institution in Launceston that most needed the information and opportunities on offer. There are QVMAG staff members that could use the professional development – especially so in a marketing sense.

However, I must acknowledge that one MGAB member was there on another mission, and on his own initiative, so perhaps the opportunity wasn’t entirely lost.

I look forward to your early response.

Regards,

Ray

Ray Norman
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The lifestyle design enterprise and research network

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