CCB member Robin Dicey slammed the new Code of Conduct adopted by the CCB at Tuesday's meeting, the CCB was asked how it could support community opposition to a proposed 900-home subdivision near Cromwell, and board member Nigel McKinlay used his member's report to support Mr Gillespie and remind that community boards operate as "open forums, transparent and subject to scrutiny from the public and media".
Mr Dicey also again slammed the council's decision to approve extra hangars at the Cromwell Aerodrome, criticising Cromwell councillors Mr Gillespie and Mr McKinlay for voting for the proposal without seeking feedback from the CCB.
However, it emerged that Cr Calvert, who voted against the extra hangars, had also not told the CCB about the aerodrome issue.
She and Mr Gillespie acknowledged the Cromwell councillors could have told the CCB about the issue, even though the council had the say legally over the future of the aerodrome.
But Mr Gillespie said it was unfair just to criticise him and Mr McKinlay for not mentioning the issue, when Ms Calvert confirmed she had also done nothing to inform the CCB about it.
Last month's attempted ousting of Mr Gillespie by CCB members Mr Dicey, Annabel Blaikie, Werner Murray and Ms Calvert was not mentioned directly at Tuesday's meeting, but Mr McKinlay read out a statement as his member's report "given the events that have occurred since our last board meeting".
He reminded items should go to the CCB as agenda items with reports for discussion "around the table", and said "if groups of members meet and caucus away from the boardroom and arrive at decisions amongst themselves then that system is undermined. It leads to poor decision making and a lack of transparency''.
He also restated his support for Mr Gillespie, saying "in the two years this board has been running with its present membership
I have not a heard a single word voiced around this table criticising his competence or calling into question that he should be chair, nor seen a single piece of hard evidence that would support such a view".
He said board members were elected or appointed "to make the best decisions we can on behalf of the Cromwell community . . . not put there to further personal ambitions or personal agendas".
Mr Dicey was scathing of the adoption of a new Code of Conduct up for adoption by council and all community boards, saying "I'm being picky and miserable", but he thought it was vague, generic, unclear, "and could be improved".
Mr Dicey also asked how the CCB could support opposition from the Cromwell community to Plan Change 13, which would allow River Terrace Developments Ltd to develop a 900-section subdivision opposite the Highlands corner.
About 400 submissions to the application have been received, almost all opposing it.
Mr Gillespie said the CCB would need to make a formal resolution to make a submission and, procedurally, any submission from the CCB would carry no more weight than a submission from a single person, as it was still just one submission.
CODC chief executive Sanchia Jacobs also said it was important to ask did the 397 submissions represent the entire Cromwell community, or did an opposing view happen to come from the 397 who had made submissions.
At the end of the meeting, the Otago Daily Times asked chairman Gillespie and deputy chairwoman Calvert to comment about how the meeting went.
Ms Calvert refused to comment.
Mr Gillespie said it had been "business as usual . . . today's meeting should have been no different from how it has been so far, and it wasn't".
