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Similar to what was achieved with the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, which explicitly supports five critical transmission lines in the Southwest, a capital spend totalling $2.8 billion over 10 years.. | May 3, 2023 ....
Council executive manager Pete Thompson said Shadbolt was offered one-on-one weekly IT training sessions, but the Mayor had not taken them up. Thompson said Shadbolt has also received informal one-on-one IT training from administrative staff and IT staff as requested. “These requests have usually been impromptu in relation to a specific issue/device,” Thompson said. Deputy Mayor Nobby Clark also provided one-on-one training for Shadbolt on November 26, 2020, he said. On top of that Thompson said Local Government Training New Zealand digital training was offered to all elected members but Shadbolt declined to attend. A Specialised Diligent Boardbooks training (the software used for council agendas - accessible via council-provided iPads) was offered to all elected members in October 2019, Thompson said. ....
McKenzie said it was up to council to decide if any other action would be taken. Cr Rebecca Amundsen said a public apology was requested because the chairs committee felt the incorrect comments painted the council in a bad light. Given Shadbolt declined, Amundsen put up a motion at Tuesday s council meeting which stated that: “The council record its concern about the factually incorrect statements His Worship the Mayor made in the ODT when he claimed that he had been denied one on one IT training by the council, and [council’s] disappointment that he has failed to correct the facts, and to apologise in an equivalent public forum for the harm caused to the organisation.” ....