Mayor Rob Ford has again committed a likely breach of city rules by publicly discussing confidential matters — though his target says he didn’t have his facts straight.

At a Thursday news conference, Ford accused Councillor Maria Augimeri, a Toronto Community Housing board member, of being the one person who voted to fire chief executive Gene Jones at a closed-door meeting Thursday.

Augimeri is Ford’s own designate on the TCHC board. But she is facing a tough re-election battle against conservative Gus Cusimano, whom Ford has strongly endorsed.

“I completely disagree with Maria Augimeri voting against it, to remove him; that’s disturbing to me. She doesn’t want to be on the board, we’ll find someone else who does want to be on the board. She was the dissenting vote…I don’t know, I was just told it was 12 to 1 and she was the dissenting vote,” Ford said.

Augimeri said that is incorrect.

“There was no vote to either get rid of or keep Mr. Jones,” Augimeri said. She added: “An indignity has been done to me by this mayor. Again.”

Board chair Bud Purves wouldn’t say what happened at the meeting. But he said the board “will need to look into” Ford’s comment.

“We are not sure how any information about confidential in camera board meetings is being released to the public,” Purves said.

In 2010, the city’s integrity commissioner found that Ford, then a councillor, “recklessly” divulged confidential information about a real estate deal on talk radio and again on the council floor.