SO, it turns out lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi wasn’t getting a hairdo when her official limo was spied outside a Queen Street hairdresser just hours before she announced her re-election campaign (Voice, September 12, 2015).
Instead, we’ve been told — via a complaint letter from council CEO Gary Stevenson — that she’d been on official business at an event nearby. Indeed, a reader kindly got in touch Monday to say he’d been at the same event.
We had emailed the lord mayor and the council’s media team before we went to print, seeking info, but none of them saw fit to fill us in at the time.
According to Mr Stevenson, the lord mayor didn’t respond because “the tone and content of Mr Bell’s email regarding the matter was provocative and disrespectful… and did not warrant the courtesy of a response”.
He pointed out the lord mayor’s vehicle is authorised to park in the city under local laws and it doesn’t pay fees since they’d only be going back to the city anyway.
by DAVID BELL


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