Waitematā Local Board

Make the Local Board more effective by focusing on clear communication and decision-making and ensuring full accountability to residents.

Strengthen community engagement, involvement and interest by ensuring Local Board meetings are accessible, open and transparent.

Support inclusive engagement by working closely with communities so that Local Board decisions reflect their aspirations and perspectives.

Conduct more efficient meetings by keeping meetings brief and relevant and spending more time out in the community.

Support greater transparency by making decisions before the community, not behind closed doors.

Back strong communities by supporting locals, sharing decisions and making spaces where everyone belongs.

Put being treaty partners into practice by working with iwi to bring te ao Māori into decisions, public spaces and projects.

Engage in strategic, research-informed decision-making with transparency.

Explore digital initiatives to engage a wider range of residents.

Use technologies responsibly to improve council operations.

Promote transparency by ensuring decisions are made openly with the community, not privately.

Advocate for direct elected Māori representation and ensure Te Tiriti o Waitangi is upheld.

Increase accessibility of local board meetings by streaming online and sharing recordings and minutes promptly.

Take an intergenerational view in local decision-making and involve all voices and communities.

Create a streamlined process for collecting data on the needs and interests of residents to ensure decision-making is informed by evidence.

Increase the presence of the local board by striving to engage with residents everywhere, not just where it is convenient.

Invest in local communities because people are less likely to engage civically if they do not feel attached to where they live or to others.

Advocate for transparent, efficient council operations while ensuring fair wages and good working conditions for staff.

Promote public engagement by creating more opportunities for residents to share their views on local issues and decisions.

Support Māori and ethnic community representation to ensure their voices are heard in council decisions.

Broaden engagement by ensuring Māori at the table and using participatory democracy to ensure a range of people input into the development of policy.

Empower and properly fund local boards to deliver parks, libraries, facilities and programmes to meet the community's needs and aspirations.

Improve the council website and communications so information on facilities, services, programmes and resources is more easily accessible.

Foster greater representation and engagement with arts and support uptake of events with lesser-used buildings free of charge to artists.

Review local government voting systems with the possible inclusion of online and on the day voting to increase voter turnout.

Review shared access rules around council-owned land and grounds for greater sharing with congruent sports.

Stop wasteful spending as there is too much of it.

Advocate for more efficient use of elected members' and staff's time.

Advocate for governance education for, and performance reviews of, elected members.

Advocate for direct elected representation for Māori and actively work to ensure Te Tiriti o Waitangi is upheld in local decision making.

Increase accessibility of local board meetings by streaming meetings online and ensuring recordings and minutes are promptly available.

Take an intergenerational view in local decision making and use of public assets and involve all voices and communities.