A survey of the 720 people who attended Infrastructure NZ’s Building Nations symposium 3 weeks ago indicates three-quarters of them want the Government to transform the relationship between central & local government, rather than make incremental change.
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Infrastructure funding requires most scrutiny in mayoral budget
Auckland Council moves forward on Monday with approval for public consultation of the mayor’s budget & long-term plan proposals, as altered in a committee meeting then signed off by the council’s governing body on Monday afternoon. The most startling event in all of this comes under the low-key title of “finance growth infrastructure”.
Read more →Pt England reserve law passed, but still rankles with mayor & board chair
The Point England Development Enabling Bill became law on Wednesday after a 7-month jaunt through the parliamentary process, enabling the Government to complete a Treaty of Waitangi settlement with Ngati Paoa.
Read more →Last-ditch attempt to derail Pt England bill questions super-city rationale
As the Point England Development Enabling Bill heads to its third reading in Parliament tomorrow – and therefore enactment – Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board chair Josephine Bartley posed a last-minute question about the rationale for governance changes made in 2010.
Read more →Bob Dey Property Report diary, week 26 June-2 July 2017
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Read more →Take a rest after reading this one – but not on a memorial bench
The family of a woman who made crossing the street to & from Opaheke School, Papakura, a safer exercise for 27 years decided to offer a seat outside the school in her memory. It turns out you could dig a rail tunnel through the middle of the city centre more easily.
Read more →Council value for money review gets tick tomorrow
Auckland Council goes to the basics of the super-city tomorrow when its finance & performance committee will formally institute a “value for money” programme review.
Read more →Auditor-general argues for more Westgate deal disclosure but doesn’t see wrongdoing
Auditor-general Lyn Provost told Parliament yesterday, in a report tabled on dealings between the Waitakere City and Auckland Councils and Westgate landowner NZ Retail Property Group Ltd (NZRPG), that both councils could have made better disclosure. But she did not disclose any wrongdoing in the financial arrangements.
Read more →Goff gets agreement on council budget consultation and starts to tighten grip on CCOs
Auckland Council’s finance & performance committee held a 9-hour session yesterday which indicated some directions under the new mayor, Phil Goff: a closer watch on its commercial operations, a tighter rein on costs and a bigger role for local boards.
Read more →Minister defers return of bill to redesign local body sector
Local Government Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga has asked the select committee considering the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill (No 2) to extend the report back date from 28 October to 31 March to allow for further policy consideration & drafting changes.
Read more →No ticks yet for mayoral candidates though Goff makes start on fiscal policy
On the Auckland mayoral candidates: All these percentage thinkers have it wrong.
Read more →Attempt to scuttle Maori vote on unitary plan fails
The “unelected”, who will be “sitting in judgment” on Auckland Council’s unitary plan.
Read more →Lotu-Iiga urges more collaboration between councils
Local Government Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga called yesterday for greater collaboration between local councils to meet future community needs.
Read more →Government accepts almost all “loopy rules” recommendations
Local Government Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga said on Monday the Government had accepted 72 of the 75 recommendations in a report on “loopy rules”.
Read more →Commission says second breakaway call also affects whole region, and minister says new law on the way soon
The Local Government Commission has decided to consider the application from Our Waiheke for a unitary council for Waiheke Island as an “alternative application’’ in the Auckland Council reorganisation process initiated by the North Rodney breakaway group. That means the commission will treat both applications as 2 options for how local government in the Auckland […]
Read more →Waiheke board chair prompts a thorough governance rethink
Waiheke Local Board chair Paul Walden’s motion to Thursday’s board meeting starts with a concern which most would hardly rate as a weighty matter: Who’s in charge of a small roadside reserve & toilet block at Onetangi?
Read more →Council resolves to stay member of lobby group
Auckland Council contributes, through its corporate membership, to the Property Council’s campaigns against its own planning proposals. Should the public administrator & regulator maintain such a membership?
Read more →Council opposes law change on Easter trading, suggests alternative
Auckland Council has sent Parliament’s commerce committee a submission opposing the Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill as an unnecessary law that will create expensive expectations and increase the council’s exposure to legal challenges.
Read more →That “process” vote fitted into a long context
Auckland Council voted on Wednesday night to reject changed isthmus zoning maps allowing for more intensification, and to support a motion to return to pre-December versions. This story gives it context.
Read more →Council explicit on who CCOs belong to
Now to the council-controlled organisations – which, in a number of instances, have been distinctly uncontrolled.
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