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Theatre, cabaret collide on Main St
THE live performance I Knew These People Too, by RAWcollective, has been reworked to fit The Social on Main St this Wednesday and Thursday night. It follows a sell-out performance at The Anywhere Theatre Festival Frankston. I Knew These People Too, directed by Ru Atma, is a combination of dance, theatre, cabaret and comedy. Its cast includes Kelly Nash, Brigitte Jarvis, Sally Grage-Moore, Georgia Rollings, Cindy Foster and Tayler Craig. Show time is 8pm at 58 Main St, Mornington. Tickets are $25 full/$20 concession and the rating is MA 15+ The Social is open for dinner and drinks from 6pm. A two-course meal and complimentary drink is $39 per person. To book visit trybooking.com/ GDON
Shire CEO takes his leave David Harrison david@mpnews.com.au MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire will have a new person in the top administrator’s job in a fortnight, following councillors’ decision not to reappoint Dr Michael Kennedy. Councillors are likely to appoint an acting CEO until the new one is chosen. A shire news release stated Dr Kennedy will leave his job on Friday 14
November after serving the shire for 15 years. His contract expires in February. Some 109 applicants are believed to have applied for the shire’s top job. This was whittled to a shortlist of 30, according to reliable sources, then to a final list of 12. Dr Kennedy’s name was not among the 12. Councillors had until 9 November to tell Dr Kennedy if he was to be reappointed. The news that he would not retain the post appeared on the shire web-
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site about 11am Thursday 30 October. “Michael has made a significant and long-lasting contribution to both the organisation and the broader community of the Mornington Peninsula during his tenure and leaves us very well placed to ensure that the opportunities and challenges of the future are continually met,” the mayor Cr Antonella Celi stated in the official release. Councillors told Dr Kennedy on 11 August that they had decided to ad-
vertise his job after what is believed to have been a long and at times bitter meeting during which his support among councillors dwindled to about three or four. Their decision on Monday last week not to reappoint him was welcomed in some sections of the community. Many said Dr Kennedy had been in the job too long and had become less effective in the latter years of his tenure of the $350,000 position.
A spokesman for the Nepean Ratepayers Association said his group welcomed the prospect of a new CEO. “Dr Kennedy has been in the job for too long,” he said. “A bad attitude had developed in the shire workforce.” The Tyabb & District Ratepayers Group issued a statement that the decision to seek the best available new talent to take the helm of the shire was “very welcome, if long overdue”. Continued Page 12