Ryde mayor Roy Maggio may be banned from speaking to his staff In hot water: Mayor Roy Maggio. A Sydney mayor is facing a ban on speaking directly to his staff after he was found to have used "inappropriate and offensive" language towards them. Instead of communicating directly with staff the new Liberal mayor of Ryde, Roy Maggio, will have to call or email the council "help desk" for six months. If he maintains a proper tone in that time, he will be allowed to resume "normal communication protocol." These are the recommendations of a confidential report into Cr Maggio's conduct, from D.M.B. Consultants, which will be subject to a council vote on Tuesday night. Cr Maggio, who is one of a handful of Ryde councillors not mired in a corruption inquiry, refused to answer questions about the report. It is understood the inquiry was sparked by complaints about Cr Maggio before he assumed the role in September. He lashed out at council staff last year when he discovered a senior manager, Dominic Johnson, had held a planning briefing in a Surry Hills building owned by the Manufacturing Workers' Union. "The building is located close to the brothel at the centre of the recent controversy involving federal MP Craig Thompson [sic]," Cr Maggio wrote in a statement sent to a local newspaper last year. Staff credit card activity would have had to be carefully accounted for. The consultants' report says Cr Maggio should apologise for these remarks and acknowledge the basis for them was "false and misleading." It is understood that other complaints against the mayor relate to the style of his emails to senior council managers and the scolding of a council ranger. He also claimed that the community had little confidence in council staff. The council voted in September to adopt the report's recommendations after adding a clause that exempted the council's senior managers from the direct communications ban. However, the measures have since been suspended as council has been locked in a dispute about whether to make these findings public. Last Tuesday, a council meeting seemed poised to reinstate the ban and release it, when debate was shut down. Two Liberal councillors walked out of the meeting minutes before midnight, forcing it to be adjourned because of a lack of numbers. Another Liberal councillor, Bill Pickering, spoke in the mayor's defence. "Mayor Maggio has privately and publicly apologised to staff members," Cr Pickering said. [Cr] Maggio has been mayor since September and there have been absolutely no issues with staff. The proof is in the pudding. Cr Maggio's Liberal faction controls five votes in the 12-member council. He became mayor after his name was drawn out of a hat, following a tied vote.