The municipal director’s upcoming Easter holiday in Phuket in Thailand creates a confrontation with the mayor and other elected officials in Kragerø municipality.
Mayor Charlotte Thorkildsen (Red) says more or less “wrapped up”. The cairn on Wednesday that municipal director Dag Willien Eriksen – the municipality’s chief administrative officer – should consider ditching his holiday and staying at work due to the difficult financial situation for the municipality.
Kragerø risks being added to the state’s “blacklist” of municipalities under state control because the state administrator does not approve the budget.
ROBEK list is the official name. In the latest update from the government on 19 February this year, is 17 ROBEK municipalities listed.
At most it was 118 municipalities on the economic blacklist in 2004.
At the latest in February this year, the director of the municipality received several questions about why he was not at the meeting, where Kragerø municipality received the justification from the state administrator that the budget had not been approved, writes Kragerø Blad Vestmar.
Spain last
He was then on winter holiday in Spain and participated digitally on Teams. He has also offered to do that after he arrives in Thailand on the Wednesday before Easter.
SKEPTICAL MAYOR: Charlotte Thorkildsen (R) believes the municipal director’s Easter holiday plans are not optimal in the critical financial situation for Kragerø municipality. Photo: Lars Eivind Bones/Dagbladet. view more
– I have communicated to the municipal director that it is not optimal for him to go to Thailand in this situation. But I have no reason to ask him to stay at home, says mayor Charlotte Thorkildsen to Varden.
After the publication in Varden about the Easter holidays in Thailand created attention, the director of the municipality gave a supplementary explanation to the newspaper.
Ordered in April 2023
– The trip was booked in April a year ago for us, children and grandchildren. There is also a delayed trip we have planned to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary, which was postponed a few years due to the pandemic. I am primarily concerned that we try to take our holidays during the “holiday times”, that is around Christmas, Easter, summer holidays, autumn holidays and winter holidays, writes Dag Willien Eriksen.
Kragerø Blad Vestmar meets the municipal director and his deputy, the head of health and care, on the street in Kragerø on Wednesday.
– Me, not the municipal director
There he clarifies:
– It is the employee Dag Willien Eriksen, and not the municipal director, who is going on holiday.
The Fredrikstad-based municipal director began as chief administrative officer in Kragerø municipality in autumn 2021.
In January of the same year, he left the day in the same job – then as a councilor – in Fredrikstad’s neighboring municipality Hvaler.
– There was a disagreement about the operation of Hvaler municipality and which direction we should choose for the future. Now we had reached a point where we could not continue on the same track, he added Fredriksstad Blad and.
2024-03-13 23:25:03
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