At an Invercargill City Council meeting earlier this week, Sir Tim was the lone voice in voting against a legacy report about council matters.
Last week at a council governance group meeting, Sir Tim had also been the only elected member to vote against making the legacy report public.
At the time, Sir Tim said that the report was like "a celebrity roast of the mayor".
The mayor said last week the report failed to acknowledge he did not have support like every other mayor in New Zealand and every time he raised issues with the mayoral office he felt like he met a brick wall.
The report outlined the council’s progress in response to matters raised by the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) in 2020.
Although some progress had been made, the feeling was momentum was slowing.
Independent adviser and risk and assurance committee chairman Bruce Robertson said the most obvious impediment to progress was a fully integrated leadership, but a reasonable work-around had still enabled improved governance.
There was still a mayoral leadership void, but the mayor rejected he was the reason for the void, Mr Robertson said.
Council chief executive Clare Hadley will provide the DIA with a copy of the report and request a response for the council to consider at its meeting on May 24.
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So it has cost the council $114,000 a year. With the change in policy approximately $65,000 will generate additional revenue. Well done Chief Executive Parry. Even better for ratepayers is how you plan to recover all of the unnecessary legal bills you have sustained over the past 20 years!