WHITTLESEA: Crisis time for Council
The City of Whittlesea has a Mayor, Aidan McLindon, who would have preferred to have been the Member of Parliament for Werribee, 58 kilometres away. He won just 267 votes (0.64 per cent) of the total 41,749 votes cast in this month’s Werribee by-election.
The municipality has a $390,000-a-year Chief Executive Officer, Craig Lloyd, who has been pursuing a part-time career in country music at Tamworth in New South Wales, and was due to be MC at a music festival this month in Tasmania.
Councillors this month voted to organise arbitration to discuss their belief that Mayor Cr Aidan McLindon breached the Model Councillor Code of Conduct on multiple occasions.
Deputy Mayor Cr Daniela Zinni was authorised by her colleagues to write to Local Government Minister Melissa Horne.
Mayor Cr Aidan McLindon had indicated that he was taking from January 23 to February 8, yet attended to chair the February 4 ‘non-scheduled’ meeting. He chaired the meeting about his own conduct, but abstained from voting.

