16 February, 2010
Tamworth Regional Council will lose its General Manager Glenn Inglis this year after his decision to move on to a new career.
Mr Inglis has told Tamworth Regional Council that he will not seek another contract term and is moving on.
The council has extended Mr Inglis’ present contract, which expires this month, for 12 months as a result of his decision not to seek a new contract.
The mayor James Treloar told councillors that Mr Inglis had indicated he was prepared to accept the extension and vacate the position when Council completed the recruitment process and appointed a new GM. This is expected to take take up to six months.
Mr Inglis has been general manager at Tamworth Regional Council since February 2005 and was appointed to the job after serving as the general manager of Parry Shire Council for 11 years.
Mr Inglis says he has not decided what his new career will be but he is definitely not retiring but seeking some new career moves.
Mr Inglis said he has enjoyed his job tremendously and says he is leaving the job with a feeling of great pride in his term and the team he has worked with at Council. He says he believes it is time for him to go and do other things and he also believes councils need periodic executive changes to keep the local government body fresh, innovative and energised.
Mayor James Treloar says recruitment for a new GM will get underway immediately.
He says Mr Inglis has proved to be an outstanding chief executive with an impressive grasp and enlightened attitude to strategic and management planning and the will to put in place new corporate and civic partnerships that have brought and will continue to bring outstanding results for the community and council.
Councillor Treloar said the GM’s many significant achievements and the performance by the council had been outstanding under his leadership with sound financial management and impressive planning processes put in place to underpin future strategic development.
“Glenn has been instrumental in helping the council connect with our community and to build on those relationships,” mayor Treloar said.
“His philosophy and idealism for social justice tied with a very real and dogged determination to introduce more corporate and business-like practices within our traditional local government bureaucratic model has driven this council to greater results. The Bluett Award for the council and the naming of Tamworth as Australia’s Tidiest Town in 2009 are a testimony to the foundations he helped set up within the council framework.”