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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Ian Kirkwood

Inside the deal to keep Jeremy Bath at Newcastle council until 2027

City of Newcastle CEO Jeremy Bath at a council meeting last year. Picture by Simone De Peak

CITY of Newcastle chief executive Jeremy Bath has been reappointed until December 2027 on a package that will take his earnings above half a million dollars a year, in a decision communicated to councillors in a memo in the days before Christmas.

The in-principle decision to extend Mr Bath's contract by five years was made just after midnight on February 23 last year at the first meeting of the newly-elected council.

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