The Gore District Council is holding its first public meeting since it was revealed its most senior elected and unelected officials are no longer speaking.
Ben Bell ousted long-time incumbent Tracy Hicks by just eight votes to become New Zealand's youngest ever mayor at October's local elections.
But since then he and the council's chief executive, Stephen Parry, have shared a frosty relationship.
At a behind-closed-doors meeting last month councillors were told the pair have been in mediation since December and the relationship has broken down to the point they're no longer on speaking terms.
Details of that meeting were leaked to RNZ, and that led to a call for an independent review into exactly what's going on.
Our Otago-Southland reporter, Timothy Brown, has been at the meeting and joins Lisa Owen with the latest details.
