FREDERIKSHAVN: The city council members in Frederikshavn were entitled to see the memo about the financial problems of the Port of Frederikshavn, which, according to Mayor Birgit S. Hansen (S), was presented to the Finance Committee in March 2022. This is what Professor Sten Bønsing at the Department of Law at Aalborg University believes to TV2 Nord.
- It is in both the port regulations and the municipal council regulations that the municipal council must be involved relatively early in this type of important decision. This cannot be done administratively, says Sten Bønsing. Member of the city council Jens Nygaard Johansen (DD) tells the channel:
- Someone is sorting through those papers and assessing whether the city council should have them or not, and it's scary. We need to have all the notes. Those that the municipal council has to make decisions based on some information, it's damn important that we get them, he says.
A former board member of Frederikshavn Port, Lars Pedersen, tells TV2 Nord that not all information about the port's finances reached the entire city council.
- Things have stopped at the municipal office or the municipal director's desk, and then they have decided what they want to pass on and what they don't want to pass on, he explains. According to him, it is the mayor and the municipal director who say no to the board's proposal to strengthen the port's liquidity.
- It is basically them who sit and say what they want and don't want. And when the board recommends something and we get a no, and we get a no, then we can't do anything, says Leif Pedersen.
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