A CONTROVERSIAL former town mayor is to face a tribunal next week.
The Adjudication Panel for Wales informed Saltney Town Council the hearing of Cllr Klaus Armstrong-Braun will begin on Tuesday at 10am in the Beaufort Park Hotel, New Brighton.
The tribunal, which is expected to last four days, follows complaints made to the Ombudsman and will consider several alleged breaches of the councillor’s code of conduct. These allegations include:
Cllr Armstrong Braun’s comments about Saltney being a ‘backwater’ in his first meeting as town mayor in 2008 and his refusal to withdraw the remark.
Referring to Saltney councillors as ‘wild bisons and spoilt brats’.
Cllr Armstrong-Braun’s action in contacting the widow of the former mayor regarding an allowance which the town council had allocated to the former mayor.
Refusing to account to the town council for his expenditure of the mayoral allowance, his refusal to respond to the town clerk’s correspondence and his comments in the Press.
Disclosing confidential information made by fellow councillors at a private meeting to discuss preparation of the town council’s business plan by writing a letter to the headteacher of a local secondary school on March 14, 2009.
Several breaches of conduct made during Saltney Town Council meetings.
Saltney Town clerk Alan Thorniley and Flintshire county councillor Veronica Gay are among those expected to attend as witnesses to the hearing.
Cllr Armstrong-Braun said he was unable to comment following legal advice.
