Waipapa Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board

Te Tiriti needs to be honoured throughout our communities, our policies. Collegial relations to be maintained with Rehua Marae: Ngai Tahu.

Involvement (in a respectful manner) with seniors and youth about together creating ongoing trust, understanding, a comfortable community.

Encouraging cutbacks on middle management. Channel savings to offset rates. Encourage call centre to be proactive, train properly.

Encourage community engagement with community boards. Many residents are unsure how it works and education and encouragement is required.

Limit the number of external consultants being contracted. Christchurch City Council already employees a lot of knowledgeable people. Use this expertise.

Hold more open, accessible meetings with a bigger focus on community engagement on issues of particular importance.

Lobby the city council for a higher degree of responsibility to take initiative on projects within our ward.

Work with iwi to better integrate te ao Māori into our practices and to ensure our projects have more equitable impacts across the board.

Ensure decision making is clear and involves wider communities including Tangata Whenua, ethnic minority and disability.

Improve councils performance and engagement to increase residents satisfaction.

Commit to 'digital democracy' that enables and empowers online participation in the decision making process.

Work to ensure representation builds social cohesion and unity and improves the current inequities in our communities.

Increase resident's participation in decision-making on local matters and spending, through early involvement and direct communication.

Make improvements to internal operations to expose and reduce wasteful spending and extravagance. Make the council more cost-effective.