Mr Booth submitted a code of conduct complaint to the Meander Valley council’s general manager on July 7, regarding a decision and debate at the June meeting over the future use of the Meander Primary School site by Christian organisation Teen Challenge.

The declaration by the code of conduct panel, which was determined on August 25, said that councillor King did not breach standards relating to objective decision making and conflicts of interest.

Mr Booth alleged that when speaking to the motion in support of leasing the school, councillor King said she was at the meeting representing Teen Challenge.

“The complaint alleges that it could be easily perceived that if councillor King was there to ‘represent’ a particular group, that creates a conflict of interest and further, that councillor King brought a closed mind to the council meeting,” the panel’s determination said.

The investigation included statutory declarations from councillor King, deputy mayor Michael Kelly, general manager Greg Preece, councillor Deb White, councillor John Temple, councillor Ian Mackenzie and Teen Challenge’s Tanya Cavanagh.

They all agreed that there was not a time when councillor King said she represented Teen Challenge.

This evidence was further support by a letter from mayor Craig Perkins.

“The panel concludes that the statutory declarations … provide overwhelming evidence that councillor Tanya King did not say she represented Teen Challenge, and did not present a perception of bias, and therefore did not breach Standard 1 Objective Decision Making or Standard 2 Conflicts of Interest of the code of conduct,” the finding stated. The report will be formally recived by the council at its meeting on Tuesday,