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Even though this has been a difficult time for me and my good colleagues in the
administration and the Town Council, I feel confident that we will resolve the crisis.
I will not allow last month’s development of events to undermine the social and
political unity of our small community. Despite allegations, Farum Municipality
still has the highest level of service with respect to the municipal tax level in
Denmark.
Lastly, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all of you who
have sent us encouraging letters. I am forever grateful for your support and I look
forward to continue our good collaboration in the future.”
Bertelsmann Fonden skrev den 15. maj 2002 til borgmester Lars Carpens: 1
”Dear Mayor Carpens,
I am writing to you about Peter Brixtofte’s resignation as the Mayor of Farum.
We have tried to follow the whole process but it is difficult for us as we are not
able to read the Danish press. Nevertheless, we had information from Danish and
Scandinavian contacts during recent weeks. We also had several inquiries from
Danish and German Journalists as well as from the Wall Street Journal. Until the
beginning of May, we have told journalists about our former good co-operation
and that we were waiting for the Interior Ministry’s report of the inquiry. This report
has obviously been published recently and on Monday, May 13 has caused
Peter to resign. As there are further charges held against Peter by the public prosecutor,
we would like to ask you for an official statement about the resignation
and about the charges brought against Peter in English. We need this statement for
future inquiries from journalists but above all for informing the members of the
Cities of Tomorrow network.
On the basis of the charges brought against Peter Brixtofte, we will officially exclude
Farum from the International Network for Better Local Government ,,Cities
of Tomorrow” as of May 15th.
Please delete all texts about the Cities of Tomorrow from the Farum website
(www.farum.dk) by the end of May 2002.
We are sorry that our good co-operation with the City of Farum has to be terminated
under these circumstances.” 2
Borgmester Lars Carpens svarede den 27. juli 2002 bl.a.: 3
1 629-1,f5. Peter Brixtofte fratrådte som borgmester den 13. maj 2002.
2 Underskrevet af Prof. Dr. Marga Pöhl, Vice President.
3 951-17,b15
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