Cr Vandervis yesterday called into question the record of Cr Kate Wilson when he said he should have been made chairman of that committee.
Cr Vandervis has ended up with no senior role at the council, after turning down the opportunity last week to head the hearings committee.
Cr Vandervis told the inaugural council meeting he was concerned issues such as cycleways that were built and then removed because of poor design, and the flooding in South Dunedin last year, could have been avoided if people like himself had been listened to.
It would be in Dunedin's interest to have ``a new chair with a greater grasp'' of problems in the infrastructure area.
Cr Wilson has been chairwoman of infrastructure services for the past three years.
Cr Vandervis said Cr Wilson's continuing to chair the infrastructure services committee ``may not be in the best interests of the city''.
Cr Wilson said after the meeting that a lack of investment in infrastructure had been a problem well before her three-year term as chairwoman.
At the meeting, Mr Cull told Cr Vandervis the meeting was voting to note his appointments, made in his role as mayor.
When the vote was taken, Cr Vandervis, who was deputy chairman of infrastructure services from 2010 to 2013, was the only one who voted against.
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Committee chairs are responsible for the orderly running of their meetings (which I saw Cr Wilson as doing very efficiently.) Councils, collectively, are responsible for the consequences of their decisions but not for decisions of preceding councils. And certainly not for outcomes over which they had neither responsibility nor control.