On Tuesday, both TA and PD could write that a final agreement must be negotiated between Porsgrunn municipality and councilor Rose-Marie Christiansen.
On Tuesday afternoon, the matter came up at the meeting notice for the members of the city council in Porsgrunn. But there is no information. It only says “Processing of agreement”.
In the case that has been posted, it only says that case papers will be handed out at the meeting. TA has requested access to the case documents.
Must agree
According to what TA could learn, before the weekend they had come a long way to an agreement. PD was able to report on Tuesday “that Porsgrunn municipality and their lawyer, a lawyer from KS, should have produced not just a memo, but a report of over 100 pages with a number of employees’ opinion of councilor Rose-Marie Christiansen’s suitability as top administrative manager in Porsgrunn municipality .”
In that case, this will be a different report than what was initially the concern reported by the top managers in December last year, and must be produced along the way.
Many months
The dispute between Porsgrunn municipality and councilor Rose-Marie Christiansen has been going on since last autumn. In December, the other top managers went to Mayor Janicke Andreassen with a message of concern. First orally, then this was concretized in a memo. This happened at the very beginning of December. Since then, councilor Rose-Marie Christiansen has also been on sick leave.
Before the weekend, TA received hints that the matter could now be resolved and that a matter will probably come to the town council’s meeting on Thursday. It is the city council that must formally adopt a final agreement with the councillor. Since it is the city council that hires and has the formal employer role.
Over three million
According to what TA has reason to believe, a final agreement with Councilor Rose-Marie Christiansen will cost the municipality over NOK three million. Christiansen turns 60 in May and has been clear that she wants an agreement that ensures her severance pay until she turns 62. And that there is no work obligation linked to this agreement. With an annual salary of over NOK 1.5 million, this means that the municipality has to fork out over NOK three million.
But for the municipality, the most important thing now is probably to finish the matter so that a new councilor can be hired.
No visibility
TA and several media have previously requested access to documents related to the case, but we have not been granted this. It is therefore unlikely that the residents of Porsgrunn will find out what has actually happened at the Town Hall in recent years. Unless you get access to documents later.
When the mayor presents the case to the city council, it will only be a proposal for a final package to which the city council must say yes or no. There will be no discussion of the matter as such in an open meeting of the city council.
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