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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