Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale has called for public funding of council campaigns as he faced a grilling at a Crime and Corruption Commission hearing into alleged corruption during the 2016 Queensland local government elections.

The CCC's investigation into funding and disclosure allegations against independent candidates in the 2016 Ipswich, Gold Coast and Moreton Bay council elections entered its second day in Brisbane on Tuesday.

Cr Pisasale, who was re-elected with 83.45 per cent of the vote at last year's council election, said local government campaigns were expensive to run.

His own campaign cost $220,000, Cr Pisasale said, with that money coming by 76 donors, "about 15 per cent" of which came from developers.