Cr Benedict Ong publicly claimed council chief executive Sandy Graham oversaw a December council workshop and witnessed a potential breach of the code of conduct by Cr John Chambers, which she then had a duty to act on.
Cr Ong has laid a separate complaint about the incident, which is being independently assessed.
Dunedin Mayor Sophie Barker took the unusual step last week of looking to correct the narrative about the code of conduct case.
Ms Barker told councillors she had two points of factual clarification about a workshop held on December 12.
"The chief executive was not in the room at the time of the alleged incident," Ms Barker said.
The mayor also pointed out that she had chaired the workshop herself.
On Friday, Cr Ong sought to clarify with the Otago Daily Times what he believed.
He forwarded Ms Barker’s email and accepted she had overseen the meeting.
Within further commentary, Cr Ong made no mention of Ms Barker’s other contention, that Ms Graham was not in the room at the time of the alleged incident.
He focused on what he described as a lack of responsiveness from Ms Graham on the issue while showing gratitude for Ms Barker’s input.
Cr Ong continued to "request for CEO Sandy to please reply and advice [sic] according to her responsibility and role".
He did not respond to a question from the ODT about whether he had apologised to the chief executive.
Ms Graham told Cr Ong on Friday his complaint about Cr Chambers was subject to an independent investigation and she would not be providing any comment.
Last month, Cr Ong alleged Cr Chambers had made "remarks against our South Asian community".
The council this month appointed independent investigator Steph Dyhrberg to consider Cr Ong’s complaint.
She is to make a preliminary assessment.
Ms Graham had some advice for Cr Ong on December 19.
That advice included that "this matter should not be litigated in public or in the media, in order not to prejudice any investigation that may be required following the preliminary assessment".
She asked him not to contact other elected members about the case.
"It is important that the investigation is not compromised."
Cr Ong contacted elected members within 25 minutes of being asked not to.
Last week, he published a post on social media about the case.
