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Staff offer apology over walk out

Published

7 years ago

November 10, 2017

THE three Pembroke Dock Town Council staff that walked out of a meeting last week have apologised for what happened at an extraordinary meeting of the council.

The meeting held last night (Nov 9) was called to set up an appeals committee, but before that commenced, a joint statement was read out from the three staff members.

Bullying claims have rocked Pembroke Dock Town Council recently which led to Town Clerk Sarah Scourfield stepping down from her role.

At the meeting last week, Cllr Brian Hall had tabled a vote of no confidence in the three unnamed councillors caught up in bullying claims against the council staff.

Cllr Phil Gwyther stated that some people had said something the staff didn’t like and it was at that point that Sarah, Deputy Town Clerk Amanda Dillaway and Admin assistant Mandy Hart got up and walked out of the meeting.

Last night, Amanda Dillaway, Deputy Town Clerk, read out the short statement saying: “We would just like to apologise for what happened at the last meeting of the Town Council on Thursday (Nov 2), as we walked out of the meeting.

“We’ve been under a large amount of pressure recently and with the comments made we felt we could not take any more unnecessary stress and we felt the best way to deal with it was to leave the meeting.”

Cllr Brian Hall said it was not what they wanted to see but added it should have happened many months ago.

He went on to say: “Under the circumstances I thought you did very well. Regrettably it happened halfway through the agenda rather than at the end but that leaves us now with another special meeting next week and let’s see if we can draw a line under it.”

The special meeting of the Town Council will take place on Thursday, November 16, starting at 6:35pm.

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If you’re interested in having a stall, contact the Milford Haven Business Circle via email at [email protected] for more information.

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