Governing Body Agenda – August 2014

Written by Ben Ross - Talking Auckland

Mayor Presents the Long Term Plan 2015-2025 MK1

 

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Tomorrow the Governing Body meets where the Mayor hands down his draft Long Term Plan 2015-2025 for the first time.

The Governing Body Agenda

 

The Governing Body Agenda Attachments

 

While our favourite New Zealand Herald reporter goes around talking about Black Budgets the more pressing issue for The City is simply this:

Do we continue with the Legacy Era?

or

Start the new era?

 

Meaning all Legacy Projects are wound up and finished – that is it. No more legacy projects from the legacy era. We start blank canvas and begin our work from there as and for the Super City.

Also depending which answer you picked will be how heavily influences the Rates will be as well…

 

 

As for Transport deferrals I am waiting to see what the Governing Body, and the Auckland Transport Board have decided before commenting further. None-the-less from what I am seeing our leadership around Transport is much to be desired at the moment…

More on this and the results from the Governing Body next week.

 

 

Blog Update

With me settling into my role as full-time stay at home dad with our 14 week old daughter, Talking Blog posts will be a bit scatty as I settle in to the domestic dad role and establish new routines. I still have a few posts and series in the pipeline that will trickle out over the next month so there is definitely no shortage of material.

I will also be away from Friday until next Tuesday joining up with the rest of the wider family for a reunion in Tauranga. Blog posts will be limited however, if Auckland Transport does send through the rest of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act requests in the duration I will do my best to get them up when possible.

 

Also thanks for your messages of support and encouragement yesterday after I filed my Resigned from The Party post yesterday. Needless to say it is refreshing to step back from Central Politics while it is in the state it is in. However, my involvement for Local Politics remains.

So again my thanks to you all.