WHITTLESEA: Guess who was spotted at Council?
Just when you thought politics couldn’t get any crazier at Whittlesea Council …
Guess who was spotted in the public gallery at this week’s Council meeting?
Pictured is Simon Overland, former CEO of Whittlesea Council (2017-2019) and former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police.
Mr Overland was removed from the municipal CEO position following a Whittlesea City Council meeting on December 10, 2019, a week before his scheduled appearance at the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants.
It is not clear why Mr Overland was in attendance at South Morang on Tuesday night. He retired as General Manager of Burnie City Council (Tas.) last November.
If he had have wanted to have remained low profile, he could have viewed the meeting on live streaming in the privacy of his own home.
Perhaps he wanted to see some of the recycled Councillors who themselves were sacked in March 2020 by the Victorian State Government?
Or maybe he is eyeing Craig Lloyd’s $390,000-a-year Whittlesea Council CEO position? At Whittlesea, stranger things have happened.

