But the chairwoman of the working party behind the report, Cr Fliss Butcher, said yesterday it was Cr Stevenson's "appalling behaviour" that both delayed the report, and made it "a bit confused".
Cr Butcher said her fellow councillor could not accept losing votes, and kept bringing up the same issues.
"She does it all the time, because she has to get it her own way, and she can't articulate what she wants to say."
Cr Stevenson has complained $1 million of funding was removed from the social housing budget during what she called "non-public meetings" of councillors and senior council managers.
While all councillors were invited to the meetings to discuss the budget for next year, and Cr Stevenson attended, she said there was no reason the meetings should not have been public and formally recorded, and she questioned their legal status.
Asked if the council had not always had pre-budget meetings, she said in the past they had been presentations of the budget from staff.
She agreed the meetings gave councillors more input, and that the matters would be discussed in public during annual plan meetings in January, but said chief executive Jim Harland "promoted certain things" at the meetings.
"That's why it should be a public and official meeting."
Cr Stevenson also questioned additions to the report by staff detailing the effect of various options for social housing on ratepayers.
One paragraph in the report said an option being considered for council housing could return $1 million a year to the council, and that could be used to reduce debt in other parts of the council, or "fund other projects".
"That paragraph came from the executive management team [of council managers], not the working party."
But fellow working party member Cr Dave Cull said if the paragraphs were added, it would "just be conclusions we would have drawn from those options".
Cr Stevenson was "confusing things", he said.
Just because the council had a break-even policy for council housing did not mean it could not make a modest profit.
He did not agree with Cr Stevenson's attempts at Monday's meeting to remove options - she was particularly keen to remove an option to sell the housing - as that would censor matters on which the community could consult.
"They are all the options we could have for social housing."
If some were removed, it would pre-judge what the public wanted.
Cr Butcher said any document produced would be looked at by the executive management team, who had an over-view of council business, and she disagreed it was unusual.
"One of the reasons it's [the report] been drawn out for so long is the behaviour of Teresa Stevenson."
