Election 2017 - Party Policies - Government - Local Government
27th May 17, 9:43am
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- Develop national policy statements and national environmental standards under the Resource Management Act to provide better policy guidance to local government, promote national consistency and help reduce plan preparation costs.
- Ensure that amalgamation of councils is decided by a referendum and require the majority support of voters in each affected local authority area before an amalgamation may proceed.
- Make the process by which territorial authorities and regional councils can establish Māori wards and Māori constituencies the same as the process by which territorial authorities and regional councils can establish general wards and constituencies.
- Require every local body not using a ranked list system to hold a poll on introducing such a system. Such polls are to be binding for three electoral cycles.
- Investigate bringing the governance of all publicly-owned entities (e.g. Stateowned enterprises and Council-controlled Organisations) under a single Act.
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- Repeal local government laws regarding the Māori wards referendum threshold and legislate for Māori representation on local wards.
- Read more here.
- Partner with local government and the private sector, and use all available financing and funding mechanisms to get more infrastructure projects done, rather than get hung up on who does it.
- Making $1b available to assist high-growth councils to advance infrastructure projects that will significantly increase the development of new housing.
- Making sure ratepayers can get clear information about their council’s finances and performance.
- Requiring councils to oversee and ensure land supply for housing keeps pace with growth, and making it easier to get houses consented and built.
- Helping with tourism infrastructure in regions with lots of visitors but few ratepayers through our $100m Tourism Infrastructure Fund.
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- Reduce the rates burden and boost service provision by giving local government all the GST from foreign tourism ($1.5 billion p.a.) and a 25 percent share of royalties from water bottled for export and from Crown Minerals.
- Ensure that when governmental functions are devolved to local government the financial resources needed to implement the devolution are also provided.
- Require the Local Government Commission to cease its operating model of forcing local authority amalgamations and reinstate into the Local Government Act, a requirement for proposed amalgamations to consider the social and economic imperatives of affected communities.
- Restore road Funding Assistance Rate levels (FARs) and regionally distributed funding.
- Initiate a public inquiry “A decade after Shand” to examine the drivers of local government expenditure, the mechanisms for raising funds for local body councils and community boards.
- Read more here.
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