Concerns' over top Cheshire East Council officials' conduct

[Denise Lloyd]

https://t.co/UkxlMnxsIo                   BBC News - 'Concerns' over top Cheshire East Council officials' conduct

[Denise Lloyd]

Sorry should have added I assume that this is the same Bill Norman surely there is only one who follows the Council like a bad smell.

 

Strange they have named the 3 already prior to investigation.

[Colin James]

This is a separate topic to Bill Norman taking redundancy, so I have split this creating a topic of its own.

[Denise Lloyd]

It is comforting to have an Editor!

[Denise Lloyd]

The first link I picked up off Twitter courtesy of Paul Cardin - thank you and now herewith a more comprehensive version from Wirralleaks

 

 https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwie6MfeibbTAhWM8RQKHav0AIsQFggtMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwirralleaks.wordpress.com%2Ftag%2Fbill-norman%2F&usg=AFQjCNEWafvpEZCCjIO7OV7QMTvMo11nTw&sig2=eCZORadDxcRz5aO3xU4owg

[Pete Boggs]

Chief Executive has been suspended, possibly Bill Norman and A. N. Other was well?

 

Suarez the chief exec should have been suspended as soon as he appointed Norman.  Check out his report to members recommending the El Normo's appointment:

 

http://moderngov.cheshireeast.gov.uk/ecminutes/documents/s44376/Report%20to%20Council%20-%20Appt%20of%20Director%20of%20legal%20Services%205.pdf

 

Strangely no mention of the mess Norman left in Herefordshire or his dubious activities at Torbay and Wirral. I wonder why that was? Suarez is at worst mendacious, at best a bloody idiot. Either way, he's hardly worth £246k a year is he?

[Cambo]

Non stick bill was among 5 candidates during final selection…if they went with non stick bill then that does not say much for the other 4…are they also passengers riding on the gravy train of dubious character's?!

[twowheelsgood]

Not even been there 4 months and he's up to his neck in it! Extraordinary! Did no one from the Staffing Committee, the Cabinet or the Group Leaders think to do a quick search on BN's history? 

[Pete Boggs]

An interesting detail buried in this article about Cheshire East spaffing the council tax payers' money on "interims" (a practice not unknown in our own dear county)

 

http://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/news/cheshire-east-appoints-interim-council-12955720

 

It seems to suggest that the Council has, temporarily at least, dispensed with El Normo's services: "The appointment will be for the duration of the director of legal services’ absence from work". At the same time there's been no report of suspension in the same way as Suarez the Chief Executive. Perhaps El Normo found the committee hearing into officers' conduct a bit too stressful and has been signed off? Still, as his prior history at Wirral shows, he's no stranger to sitting around on his thumb while continuing to be handsomely remunerated at public expense.