Devonport-Takapuna Local Board

Create a collaborative working environment between council staff and elected officials. Workshop issues with experts and public stakeholders.

Celebrate the diversity of all Aucklanders, ensuring engagement and collaboration of issues with all diverse communities.

Create better channels for community engagement on important issues, better use of online media and more statistic and data based decisions.

Repair relationships with iwi and mana whenua. We need to honour Te Tiriti and that looks like taking ownership for harm done.

Overhaul the way we engage with the community. There's too many barriers in the language used and how inaccessible it all is.

Our local board area has so many different cultures of which all have their own unique things they can contribute to our home that we share.

Get the influence of council bureaucrats reduced by ensuring the elected representatives take a more positive role in setting policy.

Work more closely with North Harbour local boards to get a better consensus around the major needs of this region of Auckland.

I will commit to working for all groups in our area not an interest group or put my personal ideals above the interests of the community.

Engage with established migrant groups.

Promote and support civics education in community centres.

Facilitate workshops around the barriers to voting and solutions to overcome these barriers.

Create a non-voting youth seat on the local board so young people can experience local decision making and participate in civics.

Build meaningful relationships with our Māori and local Asian community through in-person engagement.

Encourage media participation in local board meetings to ensure that decisions made are presented to the public.

Get the influence of council bureaucrats reduced by ensuring the elected representatives take a more positive role in setting policy.

Don't get over sensitive to Māori participation in council activities. They need to decide, among themselves, their wants from council.

Work more closely with North Harbour local boards to get a better consensus around the major needs of this region of Auckland.

Treat everyone in the community equally including zero tolerance for exclusion and co-governance.

Accountability on spending of public money.

Streamline processes and minimise political correctness.

Open meeting for all local boards. It is fundamental to be transparent, inclusive and gain trust with residents.

Reform the Have Your Say process. The process for residents to submit is confusing and complicated. The process acts as a barrier.

Continue to support ethnic community groups, support local board programmes that provide budgeting services, language learning, interests.

Create a non-voting youth seat on the local board so young people can experience local decision making and participation in civics.

Build meaningful relationships with our Māori and local Asian community through in-person engagement.

Advocate for a review of the local election voting process to move towards digital. To aid democracy and improve voter turnout.