Throwing shade at City Hall…
Mayor of Georgetown, Patricia Chase – Green (right) and Deputy Mayor Sheron Duncan
Mayor of Georgetown, Patricia Chase – Green (right) and Deputy Mayor Sheron Duncan

Mayor warns against name-calling on Facebook; Duncan says City Hall is not church

THERE SEEMS to be no closing of the rift between Georgetown’s Mayor Patricia Chase-Green and her Deputy Sherod Duncan with not even the saluting and stoic respect shown to President David Granger translating into any real effort to cooperate.

No sooner had President Granger left City Hall where he delivered a speech in which he pleaded for unity than the Mayor and her Deputy went to town with each other again.

After the President’s speech, those at the horsehoe table went to work, or so it seems as tension was observed between the Mayor and her Deputy, with the two often clashing with different ideas on a particular subject.

In one instance, after the Mayor reported that a councilor had invaded the privacy of Town Clerk Royston King, she made a decision that the Council would not debate the issue.

The Deputy Mayor, though, felt otherwise and stood up to urge the Mayor not to raise issues such of these if she was not prepared to debate them.

The Mayor also threw jabs at the Deputy Mayor for his use of Facebook where he had documented his position on certain controversial issues, including the installation of parking meters in the City.

Although not speaking directly to Duncan, Chase-Green called on all officers to be professional and not to be calling each other names, such as the “fantastic four” and the “big four.”

It is public knowledge that Duncan had referred to the Mayor, Town Clerk, and Councillors Oscar Clarke and Junior Garrett as the “fantastic four” when he was stating his views about their trip to Mexico and Panama on Facebook.

Asked if he believes the recent controversies at City Hall has put a strain on his relationship with the Mayor, Duncan told this publication that the answer is no because he understands fully the reason he was sent to the Council.

“I personally wasn’t sent here to make friends; I wasn’t sent here to seek consensus. I was sent here to get a job done by the people who elected me, for me to find ways to move Georgetown forward and move their interest forward. And I try to do that to the best of my ability.

“If we make friends and form lasting relationship as a result of me trying to do my job, that’s incidental to my real purpose here. So I wouldn’t say there’s a strain. I think within this setting where persons have different ideas and opinions, you would always find some amount of tension. I didn’t come to church; I came to City Hall to get things done for the City.”

Duncan said he believes there would be no strains on relationships if officers conduct themselves with professionalism.

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