Public Meeting on Auckland ‘Super City’ Reforms

Tamaki Community Board
5 June 2009
For Immediate Release

Public Meeting on Auckland ‘Super City’ Reforms

The government is calling for submissions on the Auckland Super City Reforms. The Tamaki Community Board wants to hear from the residents and ratepayers of Tamaki about their views on the Super City reforms.

The government wants to turn Auckland into a ‘Super City’ and is asking for submissions to the Local Government (Auckland Council) Bill.

“The submission process is the residents’ and ratepayers’ chance to have their say,” says Tamaki Community Board Chair Kate Sutton.

The Tamaki Community Board wants to hear what Tamaki people think about the Super City plan to inform the Board’s own submission. It is to run a public meeting about the reforms to solicit local views. The meeting will include a submission writing workshop for locals.

“The Community Board also calls on everyone in the Ward to have their own say and tell Government how they feel and what they want for their suburb by making individual submission,” says Ms Sutton.

The Community Board particularly wants feedback on the following:
1.The Government wants 8 members elected at large and 12 members from wards for the Auckland Council. Do you agree with this? Do you have other ideas?
2.The Government think that there should be 20–30 local boards: is this enough or too many?
3.What should the Auckland Super City councillors be in charge of and what should the local boards do?
4.The Royal Commission on Auckland Regional Governance recommended that there should be three Maori seats on the Auckland Council, two elected and one appointed by Mana Whenua. The Government has rejected this recommendation: what do you think?

Everyone in the Tamaki Ward – from Otahuhu through Mt Wellington, Sylvia Park, Panmure, Glen Innes to Point England – is invited to this public meeting and submission writing workshop:
Thursday 11 June 2009, 6–8pm
Glen Innes Community Hall, 96 Line Road, Glen Innes

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