The City of Casey welcomes today the appointment of Ms Laurinda Gardner as a Monitor for the City. Her appointment is until January 31, 2020 and will take effect immediately. Her roles are to advise the Minister of the following:

• if Councillors, individually or as a group, are behaving in a manner that does not accord with the role of Councillor
• of any impact on the integrity and/or functioning of council decision-making and the orderly governance of the City of Casey arising from Operation Sandon.

The city council is looking forward to working with her to ensure governance and decision-making is being upheld with the community’s best interests at heart.

Casey CEO Glenn Patterson said,”As previously stated, we remain committed to ensuring the highest standards of integrity and probity and believe Ms Gardner’s appointment can only strengthen this.”