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The WorkBoot has taken his trusty shovel and dug his own grave - 29 August 2012 The Mayor Kaipara District Council Hokianga Rd Dargaville Dear Mayor Tiller Over the past two years, I have in my role as Councillor, taken many steps to seek action on the Council’s financial, legal and democracy performance. My views and actions are well known to you and my fellow Councillors and are a mat...
I have had a very interesting email from John Dickie.John has been a tireless contributor through his own efforts to the campaign for openness and honesty.As usual his thoughts brought a perspective that I had not considered - namely we, in making history, need to record the lessons learnt.Now is the time for us to document what has been done and record that so that there is an authoritative ...
The dire and sorry state of the Kaipara District Council is nothing new. Shortly after being elected my suspicions that the KDC was not solvent were confirmed. You need look no further than this article in the Kaipara Lifestyler “Councillor fears a default” here. The alarm bells were ringing – and I started to blow the whistle. Of course the claims of the WorkBoot were vigorously...
With the resignation of Councillor Andrew Wade, the question could properly be asked of the WorkBoot – why not also resign? Andrew resigned citing his frustration. I know that frustration, and it is a timely reminder of the undemocratic censorship that continues with this Council. When a Councillor is shut down and prevented from speaking his mind during open session, it is clear that the pol...
It was truly carnival season at the Kaipara District Circus on Wednesday. An understandably concerned group of ratepayers responded to an anonymous tip-off that their rating structures might be debated during the 10am session, by filling the gallery of the Circus Chambers to capacity – possibly the first full house in the Circus’s history. Following an extensive period of clarification a...
A late item is to be submitted to be included on the agenda for tomorrow's Council meeting. It relates to the setting of an interim rate. You can read the item here. The meeting starts at 10am tomorrow (Wednesday) in the Council chambers, Dargaville. You can post your comments in the Long Term Plan forum here.
The events of earlier this week have to some extent been overtaken by the announcement of the review team yesterday here. To recap, Council spent the first three days of the week delberating on the submissions on the Long Term Plan aka. rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. At the start of the first day Councillor Wade addressed the meeting about his concerns with the process and moved a m...
The Council press release is here The Q and A sheet is here Post your comments here
The Review team has been appointed - see here Post you comments here More from the WorkBoot later.
Last week WorkBoot spent four days at the LTP hearings. The 'deliberations' are being held in Dargaville tomorrow. Having witnessed the genuine horror expressed by ratepayers at being presented with a quite possibly unlawful and largely untenable proposal, I was surprised to receive the staff recommendations on submissions here. The report seems to present a very different message to what I had g...