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Gore councillors to mull petition calling for CEO to resign
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English - June 12, 2023 19:27 - 3 minutes - 3.2 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The Gore District Council will this afternoon consider a petition calling for chief executive Stephen Parry to resign. The almost 5000 signature petitions came in response to calls from a group of councilors last month for 24-year-old Mayor, Ben Bell, to resign. Mr Bell and Mr Parry aren't speaking, and that broken relationship has reverberated around the council table, with battle lines drawn in the council chambers and in the community. Our Otago-Southland reporter Timothy Brown broke the news back in March that the two men aren't speaking, and spoke to Tim Brown