Community Council Fires Clerk

It now emerges that, at their extra-ordinary meeting on Monday 13th March, Manorbier Community Council voted by 7 to 2 in favour of sacking the Clerk. There were several reasons for the dismissal but, I understand, the main one was gross misconduct. The Chairman, Clr Tony Wales, instructed the Clerk to call an extra-ordinary meeting of the Council. This instruction was sent to the Clerk on two occasions by email, both of which she ignored, and on a third occasion the Chairman handed her written instructions in the presence of witnesses. In response to this third instruction the Clerk wrote a letter to the Chairman flatly stating that she would not call the meeting. These refusals to obey a lawful instruction from the Chairman are insubordination amounting to gross misconduct and gave the Council no alternative but to dismiss the Clerk. The decision will now, no doubt, be the subject of an appeal by the Clerk.