Sean Bellew, standing outside Invercargill City Council headquarters, is unhappy the council's chief executive is hiring out-of-towners instead of locals to senior roles. A prominent Invercargill resident has criticised the city council's chief executive Clare Hadley for hiring out-of-towners for senior jobs at the council instead of local people. Sean Bellew said Invercargill was being "run remotely" by outsiders and he was sick of it. John Hawkins/Stuff Invercargill City Council chief executive Clare Hadley said the logic for hiring the six people was different in each case. Bellew, an Invercargill Licensing Trust board member, Southland Racing Club president and real estate agent, said the city council was not delivering on its social responsibility to the community.

Source: Stuff March 31, 2019 02:15 UTC