Gilbert Isabella, the Burgemeester van Houten since 2019, will resign after one appeared on Tuesday afternoon report on cross -border behavior. The PvdA’er announced this on Tuesday evening during the municipal meeting. Two aldermen left earlier, also due to allegations of cross -border behavior.
Last August, the law firm Capra started an integrity investigation at the request of the municipality, in which the behavior of the College of recent years was considered. The interviewees, including two former employees who say they have left through the behavior of the mayor, often denounce the “inappropriate and uncomfortable” micro-managed of the mayor.
Isabella would “extend to a far -reaching extent” about the content of official documents and advice. Isabella has a different view of the events than the former employees and says “not to recognize in [hun] qualifications, “the report says.
In a single case, Isabella would have adjusted an official document independently without informing the official on duty about the change, according to the report. The civil servant would not support the additions in the play, while his name was above the document.
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In a different situation, an experienced former official made her complaint to the mayor by e-mail. According to her, Isabella had treated a colleague unjustly and unnecessarily. The researchers state that the mail from the former employee does not contain an unnecessary sharp tone. Nevertheless, the mayor e -mailed that he found “the tone and content” of the mail “inappropriate”. He promised to report the mail to the municipal secretary.
During the council meeting on Tuesday evening, Isabella announced that it “took a while” until the report penetrated, thus RTV Utrecht. He wondered aloud if he should lead “an improved lecture: the honest answer is no.”
The abuses in Houten would have started when a new college took place in 2018, after the local residents’ party Houten became the largest party. Due to the change of power, civil servants would “substantially more often” adjust official documents than under previous colleges. Once an alderman would have threatened to dismiss an official if a requirement was not implemented.