Horowhenua District Mayor, Michael Feyen says the fight over the council's email interceptions isn't over.
"It's got to be looked at. I can say I'm under huge pressure to let this go, but I'm not letting it go."
Last month an internal audit revealed the HDC Chief Executive had been intercepting the Mayor and Councillor Campbell's emails for 18 months prior to the local body election in September last year.
The council chose to keep that audit secret and get it reviewed by KPMG, at a cost of $22,000. And last week KPMG delivered the review, with good news for the underfire Chief Executive. KPMG couldn't find the auditor's working papers so couldn't confirm his findings.
"That was probably the surprising factor, in that a good internal process would have had good working papers and KPMG identified that as a real short coming that the auditor went through," Mr Clapperton says.