Province spends €10,000 on farewell party
Wednesday 22 July 2009
Noord-Holland provincial council is spending €10,000 on a farewell party for its finance head, who quit after the province lost €78m investing in Icelandic banks, the Haarlems Dagblad reports on Wednesday.
The party for Ton Hooijmaijers is to be held in the newly-opened Hermitage annex on the Amstel river. The council offices are said to be too small to hold all the guests. 'He has a very big network,' a provincial spokesman told the paper.
Several councillors are planning to boycott the bash. 'It is a question of principles. He never apologised,' said Labour councillor Gohdar Massom.
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"He has a very big network".
Good for him. So let him pay for it himself. Better still, sell tickets. If he has that many friends the outlay will soon be recouped. Mind you, bet you attendance would be dramatically reduced if they were told it wasn't a free booze-up!
The very idea of spending such an amount of money after incurring such critical losses is unthinkable. Even more absurd, to spend that money on the person who lost those funds in the first place. Incredible!
By Russell | July 22, 2009 4:14 PM