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Hey ho. The upmarket smart perfectly groomed stars of class society winning positions on councils are withdrawing from advice and attempts at controls on Council behaviour and decisions. We must be free to indulge our perfect, monetarist desires they demand. The term to aim for is to have..dahdahdah..
‘NO CHECKS AND BALANCES’. The image reminds me of how Eva Peron might have looked, leading to the song ‘Don’t cry for me [Aotearoa].’
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/545267/council-quits-local-government-new-zealand-calling-it-far-left…
Western Bay of Plenty District Council [area around Tauranga] is the latest council to leave national advocacy body Local Government New Zealand.
There were claims LGNZ had become“extremely political”,had swung “far left” and lacked professionalism.
Those in support of staying said LGNZ advocated for the sector and provided professional development and mental health support for councillors.
Other councils that have left LGNZ include: Christchurch City, Auckland, West Coast Regional, Grey, Kaipara and Westland District.
Western Bay councillors debated the decision to resign for more than an hour at a meeting on Tuesday.
The decision to end the council’s LGNZ membership passed by majority vote, six to five….
I think we need to know more about LGNZ to see what they actually do. They might be resisting the turn away from serving citizens and the nation to genuflecting to big-business-first.??
Would someone read this dire climate report for me? I can’t stand this regular dose of poison that today’s movers and shakers dish out, which we are supposed to respond to if we want a functioning and good world. But does anyone? It would cut out disaster tourism, shock and horror and life would be so good it wouldn’t be interesting any more but maybe there would be less distress, with just some stress left, and help when needed, and more smiles and some joy. But hey that’s silly.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/545309/dire-climate-report-lays-out-records-for-ocean-heat-shrinking-ice-cover
As one council story fades, another replaces it.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/545355/botched-rates-and-uncertain-valuations-flagged-by-council-auditors
…Mistakes in setting rates and a best-guess system for valuing assets have earned the West Coast Regional Council [office location information – Paroa, Greymouth, South Island] a do-better warning from its auditor.
The council’s Risk and Assurance committee held a marathon three-hour meeting on Tuesday with newly-appointed independent chair Graeme McGlinn at the helm.
The experienced accountant who performs the same service for several other councils, spent Monday with council staff to discuss West Coast Regional Council’s [WCRC] systems and finances.
At the top of Tuesday’s agenda was the 2023-24 audit report.
Ernst and Young auditor Stuart Mutch flagged 16 areas where the council needed to improve, two of them coded red – or high risk….
One notices a global management system is in on this matter, which once we would have managed ourselves with twice the noise and half the cost. Is this connected with what Local Government NZ would usually help with? Is this privatisation or colonialisation by global mega companies of our nation’s affairs previously handled by us and our own natives, of any colour? I think we should be aware of how quietly every aspect of our lives and affairs is suffering encroachment from these Dr Who’s who maybe in a small office near you but are part of an unknowingly large and widespread global mega business.
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