There are fresh calls for Redland City Mayor Karen Williams to resign after she was charged with drink driving on Saturday.
Police will allege Ms Williams was three times over the legal limit when she crashed her car on June 23.
On Saturday night, she confirmed she would seek to take a period of unpaid leave, undergo counselling and again apologised for drinking and driving.
Ms Williams described her actions as a "serious personal error of judgement" and said she had received abuse since the incident.
But road safety advocate Judy Lindsay, whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver in 2009, told ABC Radio Brisbane Ms Williams should resign as mayor.
Ms Lindsay was in a Zoom meeting with Ms Williams and other families who had lost loved ones to drunk drivers earlier in the day she was allegedly drink driving.
"She needs to resign from her job and she needs to go and sort out whatever's causing these issues with what's happening with her right now because it is not up to us to keep sitting here and pushing her to do that, she needs to resign," Ms Lindsay said.
"Stand up, be accountable. Exactly what we're in the meeting for was for us to step in to make these people accountable ... for doing the wrong thing, and the Youth Justice Act making these harsher penalties.
'You cannot do that job anymore'
Ms Lindsay said Ms Williams called her on the night of the incident and she told the Mayor her position was untenable.
"She asked me what should she do and I said do the right thing and stand down," she said.
"You cannot do that job anymore. No-one will trust you and how dare you drink before that meeting, this was serious for us.
"Our kids had lost their lives and here she was drinking."
Ms Lindsay started a petition last week, which has since garnered 6,000 signatures, calling on Ms Williams to resign as mayor.
Redland City councillor Adelia Berridge said she would move a no confidence motion against Ms Williams at the next council meeting on July 20.
"In the days since the Mayor's crash, my constituents have expressed their views to me loud and clear," she said in a Facebook post.
"I recognise that at a granular level, this motion has no direct power to remove Cr Williams from the mayoralty.
"It does however, send a message to the people of Redlands that its elected representatives are listening to their constituents and acknowledge their bitter disappointment and disapproval of Cr Williams actions."
Push for ministerial intervention
State Labor MP for Capalaba Don Brown has been vocal in demanding for Ms Williams resignation, going as far as to call on Local Government Minister Steven Miles to sack or suspend her.
For their part, the Local Government Association of Queensland said it should be for the community to decide whether someone remains in office.
Mr Brown told ABC Radio Brisbane his Redlands constituents were outraged.
"I feel that the trust and respect in her in her position has completely gone and that's the feedback I'm getting from my local community," Mr Brown said.
"We all know there's a court proceeding to happen. But her role as mayor, I believe irreparable damage has been caused and therefore she should resign."
Mr Brown said should Ms Williams resign, a by-election would occur.
"I think it's a good opportunity to draw a line in the sand and change the culture of the council," he said.
"I think that people of Redlands want to have a chance to have a say in new leadership in that council.
"I think it would give an opportunity to have a mayor that we, the public, respects that is voted in."
Minister to take no action
However, Mr Miles said his department would take no further action against Ms Williams now that she has stepped aside.
His department has the power to order a council or mayor to be dismissed or suspended from office.
"I said on Saturday that I would seek further advice from my department subsequent to … news of the blood-alcohol level of Councillor Williams as well as the fact that police have charged her," he said.
"Councillor Williams took the step to voluntarily stand aside, that's what many people thought she should have done, now that she has done that the advice to me is that it would not be appropriate to take further action.
"Let's see what the court process results in.
"The advice to me would at this stage has been that it wouldn't be appropriate for me to take any further action."
Ms Williams will face Cleveland Magistrates Court on August 1.
