Yesterday I joined councillors from across Sydney to attend a community event in the city. At this event, the well meaning organisers gave us ‘the curse’…. A bottle of wine!
Each councillor handles these things differently. I normally decline gifts but in this particular context it was very rude to reject the gift so I took it back to council and filled in a declaration form this morning. The bottle can be purchased for $8.95 at Dan Murphy’s but in the declaration form I’ve chosen to surrender the bottle and requested that staff donate it to charity or some other cause.
Please don’t give us councillors these things. Please let us focus on serving the public undistracted..
