We have a City Council without a Mayor -
Local Government Commission Dog breakfast
Massey
Community Board Chairman, John Riddell, believes that the
Local Government Commission has sold Massey residents down
the river, by providing for one local board, and for Massey
to be represented on that board by two people.
We now have
a City Council known as a Local Board, without a Mayor.
Massey is the fastest growing area in Waitakere, the
residents and ratepayers of the area need representation,
people who will stand up to the unelected
bureaucrats.
Massey goes from having five elected
Community Board members and four Councillors representing
approximately 5500 people each, to two members representing
19900 each. On top Massey looses Ranui to Henderson which
becomes a board of 80000 people, with only four elected
members on the local board.
The Local Board is far to
large, with nine elected members representing 18800 people
per elected member.
The average sub division across the
Auckland region under the Commissions proposals sees an
elected Board member representing 12900 people each, while
most of the proposed Boards will represent 8000 people
each.
Local Government representation is being able to
talk to, touch, hear, breath and stand next to local
government politicians at the supermarket checkout, says Mr
Riddell.
If we accept the local government commission
draft, our local government politicians will be more remote
than our MPs.
However the dog breakfast can be fixed,
what we need is two maybe three local boards out west, and
some extra boards in other parts of
Auckland.
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