Tag: Auckland Council

Progress from the Long Term Plan 2015-2025 Debate

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Some Transport Projects Get the Chop, Others Stay

 

Some of the transport options remaining in the 2015-2025 LTP pic.twitter.com/86P6k4QGn3

 

That is from the Long Term Plan 2015-2025 presentation which is being given at the moment by the Mayor.

This list apparently shows capital funding options remaining for the above projects through the 2015-2025 Long Term Plan (still subject to consultation and final ratification).

So Walters Road gets grade separated, Takanini gets a new library (and possibly station if the developer at Takanini Village still wants to build it), and two new stations at Paerata and Drury. But some causalities were: Pukekohe Electrification, PENLINK, and a pile of roading projects.

The Mayor has stated rate rises will be at an average of 2.5% this year and moves to 3.5% after that. He has stated Council can go higher if the public want it. Councillor Cameron Brewer has said this LTP is an encouraging document to work on.

 

More as it comes to hand

 

Changing of the Guard at Council? Transformation Time

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Could we see the eventual change of the guard with Auckland Council?

 

Prominent writer Bob Dey has penned together a rather thought-provoking post about a transformation a Council. Tomorrow he will post part two of this upcoming transformation but below is an excerpt of part one.

From The Property Report

Council transformation begins with a must-change moment

on Monday 25 August 2014
At what point does transformation begin? It’s most often a gradual process with occasional reference points where significant change occurs or is agreed.I saw transformation at Auckland Council last week. It’s by no means complete, though many battles have been waged to get the council to the point it reached by Thursday.

What’s different is that the council must change.

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In short, I see change coming:

  • New councillors who are pragmatic, with an understanding of how businesses should be asked to operate, raising their profiles
  • The governing body working hard to establish smoother funding lines to the local boards
  • The governing body putting proposals to its commercial arms on how they should operate and what they should be targeting, not just waiting for the CCOs to put proposal to which the answer is yea or think again
  • More co-operation between council & Government, led by a council push to state its objectives forcefully, ending the era of lurching, politically motivated decision-making and also ending the era of central government dropping unfunded costs & tasks on local government.

Is this mere imagination? No, I think the moment of change has arrived. I’ll write in more detail about this tomorrow.

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Full post (and source) can be seen here: http://www.propbd.co.nz/council-transformation-begins-must-change-moment/

 

“New councillors who are pragmatic, with an understanding of how businesses should be asked to operate, raising their profiles”

Could we see a changing of the guard in 2016 (next Local Government Elections) with the Legacy Era finally and phasing out new Councillors (new blood who have never been an elected representative prior to the Super City being formed in 2010) coming in? We will soon see I suppose