Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 13, 2019 3:57:21 GMT 12
WAIKATO DISTRICT COUNCIL APPROVES MĀNGAI MĀORI REPRESENTATION
Waikato District Council has approved Māngai Māori representation on three council committees.
Māngai Māori (voice of Māori) representatives will have voting and speaking rights on the Policy and Regulatory Committee, Strategy and Finance and Infrastructure Committees.
This comes after the previous council gave 'in principle' support for the representatives in July 2019.
All councillors voted for the representation, apart from Eureka ward councillor Rob McGuire......
www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/117349881/waikato-district-council-approves-mngai-mori-representation
CALLS FOR ELECTORAL LAW CHANGE AFTER GALATEA-MURUPARA WARD RECOUNT
Whakatāne District Council is seeking a meeting with Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta to discuss what it says are flaws in the local electoral legislation.
These flaws were exposed in the process that had to be followed for the tie and recount in last month's Galatea-Murupara Ward election, according to a written statement from the council.
This saw candidate Hinerangi Goodman declared the winner by ballot, inaugurated to the council, then declared unsuccessful following a recount.
"As far as my people were concerned, once the pōwhiri and swearing-in ceremony was done, the deal was sealed. To take it away again goes against tikanga and it also tramples on the mana and the mauri people had placed in me to be their representative," Goodman told the Post......
www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503438&objectid=12284587
Waikato District Council has approved Māngai Māori representation on three council committees.
Māngai Māori (voice of Māori) representatives will have voting and speaking rights on the Policy and Regulatory Committee, Strategy and Finance and Infrastructure Committees.
This comes after the previous council gave 'in principle' support for the representatives in July 2019.
All councillors voted for the representation, apart from Eureka ward councillor Rob McGuire......
www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/117349881/waikato-district-council-approves-mngai-mori-representation
CALLS FOR ELECTORAL LAW CHANGE AFTER GALATEA-MURUPARA WARD RECOUNT
Whakatāne District Council is seeking a meeting with Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta to discuss what it says are flaws in the local electoral legislation.
These flaws were exposed in the process that had to be followed for the tie and recount in last month's Galatea-Murupara Ward election, according to a written statement from the council.
This saw candidate Hinerangi Goodman declared the winner by ballot, inaugurated to the council, then declared unsuccessful following a recount.
"As far as my people were concerned, once the pōwhiri and swearing-in ceremony was done, the deal was sealed. To take it away again goes against tikanga and it also tramples on the mana and the mauri people had placed in me to be their representative," Goodman told the Post......
www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503438&objectid=12284587