The previous council's code of conduct complaint process was deemed "toothless" and "a waste of time" by councillor Matt Lawrey. Nelson City Council has set its code of conduct for the new trienniumThe last triennium's code was described as "toothless" and a "waste of time" by councillor Matt Lawrey, who last year said he had "never been aware of a code of conduct complaint leading to any actual consequences". Councillor Kate Fulton also criticised the previous complaints process, which she said "in a way punish[ed] the complainant more than the other councillor". Failing this, the complaint will then go back to the chief executive to be forwarded to a code of conduct panel, which was the first step under the previous code of conduct complaints process. JOE LLOYD Judene Edgar said she was hopeful that the council would never need to use its formal code of conduct complaint process.

Source: Stuff November 06, 2019 00:02 UTC