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The investigation found Foster breached the council’s code of conduct by attempting to share private information with at least two councillors before a vote on whether to sell and lease council land for a planned $500 million development at Shelly Bay. The investigation was launched in November following a complaint from Condie, one of the councillors Foster tried to share the information with. 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 offic...

Wellington Mayor Andy Foster avoids formal censure but told to apologise 13 May, 2021 04:28 AM 5 minutes to read Wellington City mayor Andy Foster. Photo / Mark Mitchell Wellington issues reporter, NZ Heraldgeorgina.campbell@nzme.co.nz Wellington's mayor has been told to apologise after he was found to have breached the council's code of conduct. Earlier today Wellington City councillors voted to publicly discuss the findings of a code of conduct complaint against Andy Foster. The complaint, by councillor Jenny Condie, claimed Foster shared potentially defamatory and previously discredited ...

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. If ever there was a chance for the 15 people around the Wellington City Council to start afresh, this was it. Councillor Rebecca Matthews took to Twitter to seemingly label some of her colleagues racist and ignorant. She has since deleted the tweet and said she didn’t mean to label individual people racist. There was thereport that said Mayor Andy Foster should be censured for sharing confidential information with some...

Monique Ford/Stuff Wellington City Council councillor Simon Woolf says things have gone from bad to worse at the council since an independent review was completed. (File photo) The dysfunction in the Wellington City Council has gone from bad to worse, multiple councillors say, since the release last month of an independent report that was meant to chart a constructive path forward for the capital’s local authority. The independent report, by former Local Government New Zealand chief executive Peter Winder, recommended sweeping reforms to encourage “collaboration not division” so the co...

What's there to hide? Call to lift the lid on investigation into Wellington's mayor 9 May, 2021 05:00 PM 5 minutes to read Wellington City councillor Fleur Fitzsimons. Photo / Mark Mitchell Wellington issues reporter, NZ Heraldgeorgina.campbell@nzme.co.nz Several Wellington City councillors say the findings of a code of conduct complaint against mayor Andy Foster should be made public immediately. Wellington City Council is withholding the report until after it's discussed behind closed doors at a council meeting on Thursday. One of the reasons for this, as listed on the meeting's agenda, is...