Amalgamating city and district staff and operations is going to become a regular feature of joint governance committee agendas in the future.
The Joint Governance Committee, an amalgamation of Tauranga City Council and Western Bay of Plenty District councillors, has decided to look at how the two councils can work together more closely and more efficiently.
Councillor Garry Webber says it doesn't make sense for the two council's working in the same regions to have separate policies on items like dog control.
He also suggested there are policy and planning areas where it is more efficient and practical to have one set of rules.
At a council meeting this week committee members showed support for the move and recommended the parent councils set up a staff taskforce to look at areas that can be combined for presentation to the joint governance committee.
As a joint sub-committee of the two councils, the Joint Governance Committee has to pass its recommendations back to its parent councils for ratification before there is any action.
5 comments
Set up a taskforce?
Posted on 09-08-2012 13:56 | By SpeakUp
...that's the way to do it...money for nothing...and the chicks for free.... Can we have numbers as by how many statists this bloated bureaucracy will be reduced?
TEAM TAG THE RATEPAYERS?
Posted on 09-08-2012 15:58 | By PLONKER
Speakup, this actually means that there will be more officials employed, more committees and yet another building to fill up with wanton waste and indulgence, the RORT of ratepayers continues but just in yet another new found means, i.e. the Auckland Super City concept has nto provided any respite for ratepayers there and will not provide anything here either.
And Pigs Might Fly Too
Posted on 09-08-2012 16:19 | By RORTSCAM
Probably working on the theory if you throw up an "amalgamation' smokescreen you can hide most of the dirty linen under the carpet and muddy the waters sufficiently to deflect the critics.A joint governance(TCC would not know the meaning of that word)committee now there is something to marvel at and chuck money at - wonder who came up with that concept ??????
Amalgamation of debt and broken promises
Posted on 10-08-2012 18:27 | By MINDER
Western Bay ratepayers will love to help bearing the burden of TCC ratepayers capital debt and we should welcome them.The ruralites won't put up with the crap the city slickers do !!
plorac
Posted on 15-08-2012 17:42 | By Plorac
Absolutely CORRECT re their debt Minder but we dont want ANY of TCC's capital debt so I hope your tougue is well in your cheek. Im not welcoming any of it, Im struggling to pay my own exorbitant rates now.
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