The Gore District Council will next month consider a petition calling for its chief executive, Stephen Parry, to resign.
Mr Parry and the district's 24-year-old Mayor, Ben Bell, haven't been speaking since December, and the fractured relationship has reverberated around the council table with councillors in the last fortnight calling for Mr Bell's resignation and then publicly backing down on a vote of no confidence.
Mr Parry is on leave at the moment and the council's acting chief executive, Rex Capil, received the almost 5000 signature petition a week ago.
Charlotte Cook speaks with RNZ's Otago-Southland reporter, Timothy Brown, who broke the story of the mayor and chief executive's chilly relationship in March.
