This week at Tuesday Club we looked at Community Boards, community engagement, citizens assemblies and more. Thanks to Bebe Frayle for being the spark, thanks to those there who contributed. Voter return in 2022 local elections was 43.31%. Less than 50% of our voting age population voted. … [Read more...]
This weeks top links 8 November 2022
Complex conversations on complex questions - deliberative democracy in practice An excellent audio - "how the techniques of deliberative, as opposed to participatory democracy can be used to close the gap between public perceptions of major issues and their potential solutions. The discussion was … [Read more...]
Garry Writes 8 November 2022
One issue constantly raised during the election campaign was CCC’s inability to respond to local feedback. Time and time again people reported especially about traffic engineers producing plans for roading, or cycleways, and ignoring the feedback. Max Rashbrooke wrote in The Press this week - … [Read more...]
Phil Gets Things Done Column 8 Nov
This week we will give Phil a thumbs up and a thumbs down. On Monday Dan Gordon, mayor of Waimakariri, Wayne Brown, mayor of Auckland, and Phil Mauger, mayor of Christchurch, co-shared a press conference in Auckland promoting an alternative to the government’s current 3 Waters plan. They … [Read more...]
CCC – CEO Performance and Employment Committee
The makeup of the CCC’s CEO Performance and Employment committee is wrong and councillors should revisit it if they want their future monitoring of the CEO to be trusted. In 1924, Lord Hewart the then Lord Chief Justice of England said, “Justice must not only be done, but must also be seen to be … [Read more...]
Independent Electoral Review – have your say by 14 November
Rosemary has just made a submission to this review, mainly making the following points: Garry's comments I had some interesting responses to the report from the local government review. Here is one: It will be interesting to see what general coverage the report gets, and what views … [Read more...]
An analysis of the proposed financing for 3 Waters – it’s scary:
Below is a very detailed analysis on the funding package of 3 Waters. It has been undertaken by a corporate lawyer, working under a non-de-plume, who for years worked internationally putting together public/private funding packages. I am informed that he has retired back to NZ, and he has … [Read more...]
In conclusion 8 November 2022
The Phil gets things done Column – the Stadium roads
We are starting a new column. During the campaign we all heard about “Phil gets things done”. It was a winning PR line. Now’s the time to measure the performance of the new mayor using his own by-line. This week let’s consider the council consultation over roading around the … [Read more...]
The Local Government Review is out
The government set up a panel to review Local Government. This review was announced after the government had already started to garrot local government through its 3 Waters review and its rewriting of the Resource Management Act. It was a classic shut-the-gate-after-the-horse-has-bolted … [Read more...]
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