Several members of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council staged a walk out yesterday as the Council convened its regular statutory meeting. Of the 30 Council members that make up the constituted body, 12 were in attendance, but nine walked out as a means of demonstrating their unwillingness to work with Town Clerk (ag) Carol Sooba.Georgetown Mayor Hamilton GreenFor some time now, there has been an ongoing feud between the acting Town Clerk and some members of the Council.When the meeting was called to order, Mayor Hamilton Green highlighted that there were several Councilors who expressed their unwillingness to work with Sooba.This led to one Councilor, Llewellyn John, requesting that the Major name those Councilors who were refusing to work with the Town Clerk. This however did not occur. But a short while later, the members began making their way to the exit doors; leaving only three Council members at the table; John, Junior Garrett and Ferdinand Bacchus.The meeting could not continue since the three Councilors alone did not constitute a quorum for the statutory meeting.Mayor Hamilton Green said yesterday that the Councilors’ walk out emanated from a series of events. The most recent, he said, is when Sooba tried to reverse votes from a previous meeting. “Minutes of a previous statutory meeting related to the motion by Councilor John. The Town Clerk sought to reverse the vote count- a clear falsehood and deception.”Another instance he noted,Cheap Jerseys From China, was when the Local Government Minister requested a representative of the Council to sit on the interview panel for the Town Clerk position, Sooba alleged that she was instructed by Minister within the Local Government Ministry, Norman Whittaker,NFL Jerseys China, that, “the representative should come from among? the administration (her staff).” This the Mayor said, proved a total untruth, since the Minister denied giving Sooba any such instructions.Green said that when the Town Clerk position was vacant in July of last year,Cheap Jerseys USA, the Mayor and Councilors did not identify Sooba but she was placed by the Local Government Ministry despite the Councilors’ disapproval.He said, nonetheless, that the Council sought to cooperate with the Town Clerk and was willing to establish a harmonious relationship. “However,Wholesale Jerseys, it soon became clear that this was not possible since the Town Clerk (ag) is consistently flouting decisions of Council and obviously wish to manage the affairs of Council like a dictator.”Town Clerk (ag) Carol SoobaThis, the Mayor continued,NFL Jerseys China, culminated in a very disrespectful and insubordinate letter in reply to a request made for a meeting of all staff to discuss the Restoration of Georgetown. The letter resulted in the Mayor demanding the immediate removal of the acting Town Clerk.A meeting was also held on April 15 with the Local Government Minister, where three issues emerged; that the Town Clerk should withdraw the memo and apologize to the Mayor, that a new Town Clerk would be identified and that the Town Clerk should only deal with the media on administrative matters and recommended more use of the Council’s Public Relations Officer.Despite this, the Town Clerk is yet to apologize or withdraw the letter. She also called a press meeting on May 10, notifying the Mayor only half an hour prior and discussed matters that were currently under consideration by the Council.In these circumstances the Mayor noted,Wholesale Jerseys Store, “Councilors feel strongly that we could not go on. The person is not only arrogant and disrespectful, but is a mendacious.”Some Councilors are on the other hand quite upset over their colleagues walking out of the meeting. They expressed disapproval saying that while the Councilors have a right to express their dissatisfaction about Sooba remaining as Town Clerk they cannot impede on the work of the Council whose agenda is to conduct the business of the city.One Councilor in fact opined that those refusing to work with Sooba should tender their resignation and allow the city’s business to go on.“We are being paid as Councilors to the city’s business and every time we meet it’s a bickering or an argument and our young people are the ones who feel it. We cannot have promotions (for Council staff); we cannot get anything done.”These Councilors stated that the move by the Councilors to refuse to work with Sooba and the ongoing dispute with the Town Clerk “is leaving room for the government to impose an Interim Management Committee (IMC).”The Councilors said that despite the personal or professional dispute between the Town Clerk and oth