Wellington City Council

Ensure council proactively engages with renters, migrants, students, and disabled people in a way that works for these communities.

Work with the Greater Wellington Regional Council and government to advance areas where interests and responsibilities overlap.

Ensure council voting records are publicly published online, and oppose closed council meetings where possible for greater transparency.

Engage communities in bi-monthly public meetings using their own language to hear submissions and feedback from council's developments.

Proactively encourage participation and representations of all ethnic communities in decision making.

Improve council's internal operations and governance.

Regular ward meetings to encourage engagement in local issues to provide feedback and input opportunities for community.

Take public participation and submission processes seriously. Give people the opportunity to be heard and listened to.

Encourage diversity in the city and strong participation by as many different groups as possible.

Have a one-stop page on our website for current and past engagements and consultations, so residents are clear about how they can be heard.

Welcome our second iwi representative to the table along with an elected representative from our newly created Māori Ward.

Continue to explore opportunities to work more closely with our regional partners, including more shared services if appropriate.

Prioritise a trial of participatory budgeting in all wards.

Ensure that community consultation is effective by making it binding. Wellington City Council should have to listen to the wishes of their constituents.

Reform city councillor wages to be significantly less.

Change the governance structure of council. Less than 20% of residents approve of council. Change is necessary.

Improve dialogue with the community over really critical decisions eg, Let's Get Wellington Moving, poll residents. Restructure consultation processes.

Much greater transparency, delegation, and accountability, of key infrastructure areas.

Require councillors to respond if/when a majority of the city is not satisfied and not ignore their will.

Stop secret workshops that prevent the public from engagement.

Remove right of Māori to have special committee consultation rights and replace with a multi-ethnic advisory group.

Ensure the community voice is heard. The consolation process needs to be followed and the community truly listened to.

Publish an online, publicly-accessible record of both council's decisions and voting records.

Remove closed council and committee meetings unless strictly necessary.

Empower mana whenua and Wellington Māori representatives as set out in Tākai Here to direct changes as seen fit.