HIGH profile Ipswich councillor Nicole Jonic may be lining herself up for a tilt at running for mayor.
While she says she has yet to decide on whether she will stand again for any council position, her resignation last week from four of the five council committees she was on, is another clear indication that she is at loggerheads with Mayor Teresa Harding and some other councillors.
Cr Jonic, who voted against the recent council budget, said her resignation from the committees would enable her to get back to the grass roots of why she stood for election.
She said it was time for her to invest more time in her Springfield division rather than being locked up for hours and hours trying to get her views endorsed by her fellow councillors.
“I’m about making this a better city and to do that I need to be in my division hearing first-hand from my constituents,” she said.
“Some of my fellow councillors and the mayor may see my resignation from the committees as a personal protest, and in part it is.”
Jonic refused to elaborate more on that statement.
Since being elected to council Cr Jonic has had to defend internal complaints and has been intimidated by unsigned letters getting sent to her home containing burnt black feathers.
She was also the subject of two highly defamatory anonymous letters that were sent to the media and fellow councillors.
Despite the pressures she says she remains totally committed to her role as a councillor and is looking forward to getting back out and finding ways she can help improve the council’s performance in her division.
Cr Jonic’s has only remained on council’s growth, infrastructure and waste committee, her resignations included the deputy chair’s role of the Ipswich Central Redevelopment Committee which overlooks the Ipswich CBD project which has had a massive cost blow-out.
