BEHRAKIS TELLS MAYOR HE IS SORRY

OUTSPOKEN Hobart City alderman Simon Behrakis apologised to Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds and the council at a meeting on Monday night.

Ald Behrakis had a code of conduct complaint against him upheld over a series of social media posts that targeted the Lord Mayor.

In a curt apology he said he had been clear about his views on the determination but, as per the requirements of the determination, he offered his “unreserved apology”.

Cr Reynolds lodged a complaint against Ald Behrakis, saying a number of his social media posts targeted her personally.

According to the panel decision: “Cr Reynolds alleged that during the relevant six-month period, many of Ald Behrakis’s public posts on his ‘Ald Simon Behrakis’ Facebook page were designed to damage her professional reputation, and to incite his followers to make abusive and insulting statements about her, many of which, she alleged, were unmoderated, and should have been removed from his Facebook page.”