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Wellington Mayor Andy Foster paid for his own legal advice arguing he should not have apologise for his conduct ahead of a major council vote, despite an independent report concluding an apology was warranted. ....
Wellington Mayor Andy Foster paid for his own legal advice arguing he should not have apologise for his conduct ahead of a major council vote, despite an independent report concluding an apology was warranted. ....
The investigation subsequently revealed Foster tried to give the confidential information to at least two councillors shortly before the vote. The information contained Foster’s notes from a phone conversation in April 2019 with a former staff member, in which that person alleged another former staff member had pressured council officers to deem the narrow Shelly Bay Rd suitable for the development. Review author Hornsby-Geluk recommended Foster be censured for the “inappropriate” conduct and apologise to the former staff member. She found Foster did breach the code, but that the breach was at the “lower end of the scale”. Councillors will vote on the recommendations on Thursday, and councillor Nicola Young plans to request a vote calling for Foster to pay part of the review cost. ....
Wellington council Councillor Jenny Condie was stopped from tabling allegations of underhand tactics by mayor Andy Foster ahead of a Shelly Bay land sale vote in November. Wellington Mayor Andy Foster has apologised for breaching the council’s code of conduct by attempting to share confidential, and potentially defamatory, information about a former council staff member. Foster tried to give the information to at least two councillors before a vote in November last year on whether to sell and lease council land for a planned $500 million development at Shelly Bay. Councillor Jenny Condie lodged a code of conduct complaint about Foster’s attempt to share the information with her, and the subsequent investigation found Foster breached the code for elected members, although that the breach was at the “lower end of the scale”. ....
Ross Giblin/Stuff An independent report says Wellington Mayor Andy Foster (left) breached the council’s code of conduct after he tried to sway councillors against selling council land for a planned Shelly Bay redevelopment. Sir Peter Jackson (right) backed Foster’s campaign to stop the development. (File photo) An independent report has recommended Wellington Mayor Andy Foster be censured for attempting to disclose confidential information to councillors before a crucial vote on the planned Shelly Bay redevelopment. The report, released to councillors on Friday and obtained by Stuff, was commissioned following a code of conduct complaint from councillor Jenny Condie. ....