No City Hall hit list: Mayor
Just hours after the departure of community services director Greg Zeeben was confirmed, Prince Albert’s mayor is shooting down rumours that there’s a list of people targeted for dismissal.
“There is not a hit list and there never was a hit list,” Mayor Greg Dionne said Tuesday afternoon.
The rumours first came about shortly after Robert Cotterill was removed from his position as city manager earlier in September. “And they had actually named some people on the hit list, which totally shocked me. What I think that is, I think that’s very cruel of people to say that, because you’re stressing other people out, they’re worried about their job and they don’t have to be,” Dionne said.
The mayor and his staff do not know who started the rumours. “That’s why I’ve started, as I’ve said, ‘I have a hit list today,’ and what I’m doing is I’m sending a memo out to all the staff, with my personal cell phone [number] and at any time they’re approached by anyone saying that ‘there is a hit list,’ they ‘better watch their back because they’re on it,’ I’m encouraging them to say ‘well, that’s interesting, because I have the mayor’s personal phone number and I’m supposed to call him, because he’d like to talk to you, because he would like to know where you’re getting that information.’”