Hamilton City Council's elected members had only just completed a two-hour training session on appropriate behaviour at a cost of $5520 to ratepayers when two more councillors were slammed for insensitive actions and comments.
Councillors James Casson and Siggi Henry simultaneously offended the public less than two months after the session dubbed Diversity Awareness run by Auckland-based consultancy Diversity Works was held for elected members and management on February 18.
Casson - who was one of three councillors who did not attend the workshop - has been slammed for comments he made on Friday on Facebook about New Zealand's reactions to the terrorist attacks in Christchurch. The council has so far received eight formal complaints about him but will not take further action because it is not a breach of the code of conduct.
A second councillor - Henry who did attend the training - has also apologised for offending members of the autistic community when she wore an anti-vaccine T-shirt to an autism awareness and fundraising event Light up the Lake at Hamilton Lake on Friday night.
Hamilton City Council decided to hold a session relating to the code of conduct when councillors Garry Mallett and Mark Bunting made offensive religious and gay comments in 2017.
