Rodney Mayor questions ATA’s priorities

Rodney Mayor Penny Webster is questioning the priorities of the Auckland Transition Agency (ATA), which will this week begin a public competition to design a corporate logo for the new Auckland Council.

“It is a surprise to hear that the ATA has sorted out the thousands of details needed for the new Auckland Council to function and can now focus on such trivial issues such as the design of a logo.

"Last I heard, fundamental details such as the location of the various parts of the new Council were still yet to be sorted. Meanwhile the functions of the new local boards are still up in the air,” Mrs Websters adds.

“In addition to this, the new Council has no Interim Chief Executive and is yet to begin the process of mapping staff into the new corporate structure for the new Council and other CCOs. It will be several months before council staff have any certainty about their futures.”

Mayor Webster says that Auckland has always been known as the city of sails and that spending ratepayers’ money as well as ATA's time and focus searching for a new identity and logo at this time is truly bizarre.

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