By Phil Herrick

The general manager at Eurobodalla Shire Council, Warwick Winn, has resigned, leaving his job worth around $400,000 a year after just 30 months.

No reasons have been given for the resignation.  Mr Winn has been on leave for at least the past three weeks.  Council unanimously accepted his resignation and resolved on the steps now required to fill the position.

Mr Winn started at Eurobodalla Council in September 2022 after resigning from a $455,000 position at Penrith Council.

Finance director Stephanie Speedy has been named as the acting general manager while the hunt starts for a permanent replacement. 

The news came after a special session of council yesterday (Tuesday 18 March).

That session closed the longest ever meeting of the Eurobodalla Shire Council.  It lasted three weeks, starting on Tuesday 25 February at 12.30pm.  General manager Warwick Winn was not in his usual chair at the meeting, with mayor Mat Hatcher explaining he was absent on annual leave.

A confidential item dealing with a staff matter was the last item of business at the meeting on 25 February, and, for reasons not revealed to the public, the item was kept open and the meeting was adjourned, rather than being finally closed.

Council moved back into session to consider the confidential staff matter, that we now know to be Mr Winn’s resignation, at 3pm on Tuesday 18 March, after which the meeting finally closed, three weeks after it began.