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LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION WARNS REMUNERATION CONCERNS NOT BEST REPRESENTATION REVIEW DRIVER
Capping councillor numbers to ensure adequate remuneration is not the best way to approach a representation review the Local Government Commission has told Northland Regional Council.
NRC will have its first Māori constituency following the representation review, initiated after the council voted to bring in Māori seats in October 2020. This triggered the review, before the local government election in October this year.
The nine councillors will be elected from eight constituencies. Seven of the nine will be elected to represent the seven general constituencies (one from each) with two from the single region-wide Māori constituency......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/465088/local-government-commission-warns-remuneration-concerns-not-best-representation-review-driver
TAUPŌ DISTRICT COUNCIL FINALISES DRAFT MANA WHAKAHONO PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH NGĀTI TŪRANGITUKUA
After several years of working closely together, Taupō District Council has finalised a draft Mana Whakahono partnership agreement with Ngāti Tūrangitukua, who are a hapū of Ngāti Tuwharetoa and who hold mana whenua of the Tūrangi township and its surrounds.
The new co-governance framework will enable Ngāti Tūrangitukua to make joint decisions alongside council on various matters that affect their land and whanau for the benefit of the wider community.
An equal co-governance committee made up of both Ngāti Tūrangitukua and council appointees will be set up as the governing body to build on the fruits of the existing positive working partnership that are being reaped between the two in community planning and co-design of community projects, facilities and sustainable community outcomes.....
www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/taupo-district-council-finalises-draft-mana-whakahono-partnership-agreement-with-ngati-turangitukua/S7OHFTPKZ2S65MJCITV2QI4FEA/
Capping councillor numbers to ensure adequate remuneration is not the best way to approach a representation review the Local Government Commission has told Northland Regional Council.
NRC will have its first Māori constituency following the representation review, initiated after the council voted to bring in Māori seats in October 2020. This triggered the review, before the local government election in October this year.
The nine councillors will be elected from eight constituencies. Seven of the nine will be elected to represent the seven general constituencies (one from each) with two from the single region-wide Māori constituency......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/465088/local-government-commission-warns-remuneration-concerns-not-best-representation-review-driver
TAUPŌ DISTRICT COUNCIL FINALISES DRAFT MANA WHAKAHONO PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH NGĀTI TŪRANGITUKUA
After several years of working closely together, Taupō District Council has finalised a draft Mana Whakahono partnership agreement with Ngāti Tūrangitukua, who are a hapū of Ngāti Tuwharetoa and who hold mana whenua of the Tūrangi township and its surrounds.
The new co-governance framework will enable Ngāti Tūrangitukua to make joint decisions alongside council on various matters that affect their land and whanau for the benefit of the wider community.
An equal co-governance committee made up of both Ngāti Tūrangitukua and council appointees will be set up as the governing body to build on the fruits of the existing positive working partnership that are being reaped between the two in community planning and co-design of community projects, facilities and sustainable community outcomes.....
www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/taupo-district-council-finalises-draft-mana-whakahono-partnership-agreement-with-ngati-turangitukua/S7OHFTPKZ2S65MJCITV2QI4FEA/