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More complaints against city councillor Konge

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Complaints against Yellowknife city councillor Niels Konge are numerous and more egregious than previously reported, according to one city councillor.

Mayor SA国际影视传媒渢hinks I should go home and dress up I guess, put on a monkey suit.SA国际影视传媒

Coun. Shauna Morgan, who co-signed a request for a code of conduct review toward Konge with Mayor Mark Heyck, would not elaborate on the complaints but said they were SA国际影视传媒渁 set of complaints filed by multiple employeesSA国际影视传媒 in late November and early December of 2015 that allege SA国际影视传媒渕istreatment, abuse of power, (and) harassment on multiple occasions,SA国际影视传媒 and that Konge's behaviour had been SA国际影视传媒渃ommon and ongoing.SA国际影视传媒

SA国际影视传媒淚 could not let this matter drop because it goes far beyond a personal, isolated incident,SA国际影视传媒 said Morgan. SA国际影视传媒淚t's about us as a council being clear what responsibility we have to treat everyone respectfully, including staff given our position as leaders.SA国际影视传媒

Konge says the complaints against him were mishandled by the city, and lodged his own complaint against Heyck for his role in the dispute. He suggested the mayor has a vendetta against him.

SA国际影视传媒淭his is a personal thing,SA国际影视传媒 he said.

Konge is president of Konge Construction and regularly shows up to committee meetings wearing hoodies and work clothes.

SA国际影视传媒淭he mayor has made comments about my attire at city meetings,SA国际影视传媒 said Konge. SA国际影视传媒淗e thinks I should go home and dress up I guess, put on a monkey suit.SA国际影视传媒

Shauna Morgan: SA国际影视传媒淚 could not let this matter drop.SA国际影视传媒

He added he and the mayor disagree over who should enforce the Liquor Act.

In addition to and liquor inspectors, Konge wants bylaw officers to have authority to enforce Liquor Act violations, such as carrying an open liquor bottle outside.

SA国际影视传媒淚 think the mayor has had a problem with me since day one,SA国际影视传媒 he said.

Morgan says Konge made things personal when he asked for a public apology from Heyck.

SA国际影视传媒淭here had been an attempt at that point to avoid making it personal,SA国际影视传媒 she said, but SA国际影视传媒渘ow Coun. Konge was was accusing the mayor of personally attacking him ... of doing something that required a public apology.SA国际影视传媒

Konge was unclear about the number and nature of the complaints against him when News/North spoke to him last week.

At one point in the interview, he said there were three complaints, and at another, he said there was SA国际影视传媒渓ike a dozen different complaints.SA国际影视传媒

Konge reiterated a complaint from a building inspector who visited his job site in 2015. He suggested there were tensions between himself and the inspector prior to the incident in 2015, and that there was another time when he yelled at the inspector, which sparked a separate complaint.

Konge believes his position as a city councillor was not a factor in the complaint lodged by the city inspector.

In Konge's view, his critics SA国际影视传媒渏ust blast out a whole bunch of allegations and see if anything sticks.SA国际影视传媒

He said three city workers are behind the complaints: an inspector, a manager and a director. He would not offer names.

Konge says the way the complaints were handled is invalidated by the fact that there isn't a clear procedure for dealing with councillor conduct.

SA国际影视传媒淭his was ad-hoc. There was no policy,SA国际影视传媒 he said, adding the mayor didn't have explicit authority to involve himself in the process.

To Morgan, the absence of a policy did not justify abandoning the allegations against Konge.

SA国际影视传媒淏ecause a formal process has not been laid out, a process had to be invented if these complaints were to be followed up on,SA国际影视传媒 she said.

SA国际影视传媒淪o yes,SA国际影视传媒 she added, SA国际影视传媒渢he mayor was involved in some decisions about finding a path forward in terms of a process.SA国际影视传媒

City spokesperson Kerry Penney did not respond to repeated requests for information about the complaints before deadline.

Last week, council tasked senior administrative officer Sheila Bassi-Kellett to draft a list of people to sit on a conduct review committee that will investigate the complaints against Konge and Heyck.





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