Mayor of Auckland
Mayor of Auckland
Recreation and culture
Tricia Cheel
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Adopt police recommendations for liquor licensing and remove all advertising from public spaces.
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Value historic sites and buildings, but upgrade public facilities to the organic blueprint where possible eg salt water pools, non-toxic.
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Remove all commercial advertising from public facilities because eg junk food advertised is sending mixed messages to kids and all users.
Susanna Kruger
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Negotiate reduced prices for entry to local educational facilities such as the zoo to make it affordable for all.
Craig Lord
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Stop sports and recreational groups from losing their facilities and ensure they remain protected in public ownership.
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Give more attention to maintenance of facilities.
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Help communities find corporate funding to run events and festivals.
Brendan Bruce Maddern
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While the America's Cup does attract international attention, I'd cap Auckland's contribution at that which has already been promised.
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Marijuana liberalisation seems likely next year. Is the council prepared? Or will we see a repeat of brothels next to schools? Plan ahead.
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Learning to swim is an essential skill in a city surrounded by beaches. Lessons for young and old should be available at our pools.
Thanh Binh Nguyen
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Design, planning and invest for national significant sporting installation shall follow our strategic superfast monorail corridor.
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We continue to strengthen our local sport facilities.
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Elevate safety and utilities of our parks, recreation centres.
Glen Snelgar
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Transfer libraries and CAB branches to Auckland Council Democracy Services department to maintain service levels.
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Devolve responsibility for local issues to Local Boards.
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Allow Local Boards to raise targeted rates to deliver services that local communities want and need.
Tadhg Tim Stopford
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Introduce a 15% health tax on alcohol. All funds to benefit health and education.
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Launch an open art competition for multiple ages and in multiple categories (eg. visual, performance) as an Auckland Art festival.
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Design a cohesive Arts strategy for Auckland (it's currently a mess). Define goals and values.
John Tamihere
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Community events particularly supporting our large ethnic community must be supported.
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Sporting facilities are important but the ratepayer must demand access to school facilities as they have already paid for them.
Peter Vaughan
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Improve the community parks, walkways and communal areas with improved security and lighting.
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Develop existing and build additional multiplex community halls so that shared time slots can be accommodated.
Annalucia Vermunt
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Full citizenship rights for all immigrants in New Zealand, is a life-and-death question for the unions to unite workers.
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Public works to build the facilities working people need employing people at union scale wages.
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Set the minimum wage to enable all workers to afford a home and support a family. This enables working people to be part of cultural life.
David John Feist
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Stop sale of golf courses for development of apartment slums.
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Stop Council closing all soccer fields whenever it rains. Kids like mud and grass is tough.
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Stop any future sale of Eden Park.
Genevieve Forde
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Return the Ak Art Gallery to free entry for all and give more funding so that it can have more and better quality exhibitions.
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Make sure all ethnic groups are represented in council arts funding.
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Make sure no public drunkenness can happen as much as possible.
Phil Goff
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Continue to support local and regional community events like Diwali, the Lantern Festival and Pasifika.
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Maintain support for local communities through Council grants and funding.
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Develop and expand parks, recreational facilities and community venues to cater for population growth.
Alezix Heneti
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Give communities what they want. Aucklanders are family. Family first. Make it happen. Do what you got to do to make it happen. For Auckland.
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Give sporting groups what they want. Give Community events full support. Make it happen. Put Aucklanders first. Encourage more local events.
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Give licensing what they want. Make it happen. Allow businesses to progress by encouraging them to brand themselves to financial success.
John Hong
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Maintain and improve current and future ethnic community events.
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Promote more internationally connected sports.
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Maximize existing public facilities and services by maintaining highest standard.
Ted Johnston
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Resources where they are most needed. More youth sporting facilities especially in the poorer suburbs.
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Build up festivals for earning money and as tourist events. No massive tree and wildlife destruction like at Western Springs.
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Cut down the number of liquor licenses and pokie machines especially in the poorer areas.
Climate change and resilience
Tricia Cheel
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Integrate funding streams for civil defence and homelessness, to create caring hubs that operate 24/7 rather then just in times of disaster.
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Develop a comprehensive, ecologically-sound blueprint for an organic Auckland, which is healthier, kinder, and happier for people and animals.
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Replace 'sustainable' with 'regenerative' in all policies to claw back the damage to the microbiome and strengthen the web of life.
Susanna Kruger
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Ask zero tax for solar, wind and other renewable energy practices.
Craig Lord
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Reduce emissions by having CBD staff utilise public transport more and have contractors change their own engine usage procedures.
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Keep a strong focus on power usage by all council operations, this includes all office equipment and lighting.
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Work more with civil defence to teach citizens about being more self-sufficient during natural disasters and emergencies.
Brendan Bruce Maddern
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Replace all of Auckland's tar sealed roads with plastic. Cheaper, no potholes, longer lasting, and practically maintenance free.
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Reduce congestion by redesigning the roading system during the upgrade. Directly reducing emissions by reducing the time cars burn petrol.
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Encourage public transport use by make fare rises, fair. Linked to inflation, not AT's burgeoning budget.
Thanh Binh Nguyen
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Develop and maintain a way of looking at our changeable climates and environments as a permanent and respectable working partners.
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Provision for permanent service to our environments without regression against our economic, technological and cultural development.
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Strengthen legislation for protection and service of our air and water and marine coastlines environments.
Glen Snelgar
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Establish a new green-focused agency called 'Environment Auckland' which will incorporate Civil Defence and manage the water catchment area.
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Commission research to ensure Auckland is prepared for climate change and the effects of inclement weather on our coastal areas.
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Ensure all staff vehicles and the new buses on BRT lines are electric or hybrid.
Tadhg Tim Stopford
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Establish a Scandinavian (profitable) recycling system. Phase out single use plastics.
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Stop carpet bombing suburbs like Pokeno and encourage quality medium density housing in park-like grounds and village environments.
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Reduce rate rises for infrastructure by issuing municipal bonds to interested citizens and institutional investors.
John Tamihere
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Make sure that there are multiple smart activities that overtime meet our carbon neutral targets.
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Particularly refer to my total waste policy that will drop landfill requirements by over 70% over the next 9 years.
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Increase public transport opportunities that are electrified.
Peter Vaughan
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Stop toxic landfill activities as climate change gasses emit from these 100 times more so than cows do.
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Introduce waste to energy furnaces making electricity for the city from household rubbish with zero waste to the air or landfills.
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Introduce new technology that alerts Civil Defence of potential disaster that we have created.
Annalucia Vermunt
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Capitalism's profit drive is the despoiler of nature and cause of unsafe working conditions.
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Workers and our unions must fight for workers' control over production and safety in all workplaces to protect our communities.
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For workers' control over production to prevent disasters like the Pike River coal mine, and the deaths in forestry and construction.
David John Feist
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Abolish the Rural Urban Boundary to encourage the building of houses that are greener than apartments as they are made of wood not concrete.
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Abolish the RUB as it causes densification which increases traffic congestion. GHG production rises from slower vehicles.
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Abolish the RUB as densification has not increased public transport use as only 13% of jobs are in the CBD and 97% of trips are by car.
Genevieve Forde
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Convert all buses to electric power.
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Convert all council fleet to electric power.
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Create uninterrupted and safe lanes for public transport and bicycles all over the city.
Phil Goff
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Accelerate the conversion of public transport to non-carbon fuels.
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Convert Council passenger fleet to electric or hybrid.
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Develop a climate change action plan that keeps temperature rises to less than 1.5 degrees and addresses the impacts of our changing climate.
Alezix Heneti
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Reduce Auckland's carbon footprint to the acceptable level by the desired allocated time with council leading the way. Leaders lead first.
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Convert public transport to electric and hydrogen with no costs to the public and adapt climate change with council, mayor (me) first leads.
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Improve earthquake strengthening and civil defence with full council support, aid and help. Assist in prevention, safety of Auckland family.
John Hong
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Implement more renewable energy such as solar and LED lighting system.
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Make Civil defense more accessible.
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Increase awareness and education regarding natural disasters.
Ted Johnston
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Civil defence. In case of disease, disaster eg tsunami, power cuts. Water shortages. Council preparedness. Protection of facilities.
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Control all pollution, not just the trendy CO2 issues. Higher penalties for corporate abuse.
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A proper functioning sewage system. It is completely unacceptable in 2019 for sewage overflows after floods like in the eastern suburbs.
Housing and planning
Tricia Cheel
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Explore ways to utilise the 1,000s of empty houses, and any other means necessary, to eliminate forced homelessness.
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Strengthen heritage protection and maintain quality public spaces and housing.
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Protect prime, fertile agricultural or horticultural land through zoning to ensure they are not built over.
Susanna Kruger
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Roll out a do-it-yourself eco-friendly low-cost housing scheme on life-long leased land.
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Power-balance tenancy agreements and rental agent policies to respect the homes of occupants, not only landlords' houses.
Craig Lord
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Create more green belts to stop urban development encroachments and protect farmlands and lifestyles.
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Change the consent process to be less about revenue gathering and more about actual operations.
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Work with government to provide low cost kitset housing for homeless and low income purchasers.
Brendan Bruce Maddern
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While this may put me offside with some voters, I'm an 'Up not Out' kinda guy. Medium density doesn't mean ugly. Europe shows the way.
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On homelessness I like the idea clusters of tiny homes. Cheap, dignified and secure. Many homeless just need a period of stability.
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Buildings that are classed as 'residential' must be used for purpose, not land banked. Otherwise it's a business and should be taxed as such.
Thanh Binh Nguyen
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Must continually elevate and strengthen their architectural design and planning for the City.
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Keep on refining and adapting Unitary plan for our annual goals and strategic goals.
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Implement quality management in build, inspection and documentation of building and construction by council departments.
Glen Snelgar
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Staff KPIs will be adjusted to ensure that all building and resource consents are delivered within proper time frames.
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Clean up the homeless and move them out of the CBD. Fakers and trouble makers will be charged with public nuisance.
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Lobby central government to give Panuku new HUDA powers to ensure that major housing developments are completed.
Tadhg Tim Stopford
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Encourage self sufficiency in citizen energy and water supply.
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Ensure green belt/urban forest spaces in future high density zones.
John Tamihere
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Housing affordability can only be achieved by lifting the number of houses being built in the city.
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Ensure central government agencies overseeing homelessness actually carry out their job.
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Lift the present regimes cap on social housing on council land because you can not fix unless homelessness unless you do this.
Peter Vaughan
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Enable qualified contractors to approve building consents, reduce time/cost like qualified electricians who have their own authority.
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Instigate by-laws to force landbanked house owners to rent their investments reducing housing shortages.
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Address building standards to disenfranchise monopoly corporates from their control over others importing new improved building products.
Annalucia Vermunt
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Fight for a government-financed public works programme to put unemployed and underemployed workers to work at union-scale wages.
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Build and repair railways, roads, hospitals, childcare centres, public transport and other infrastructure that working people need.
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For a massive government and council programme to build and upgrade housing to provide quality, affordable rental homes for all.
David John Feist
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Reduce house prices in Auckland by 70% by abolition of RUB and rezoning rural land residential.
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All land zoned rural to be zoned residential.
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Any persons threatening violence in the CBD to be trespassed.
Genevieve Forde
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Organise homes and creativity/work advice for all of Auckland's homeless people.
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Green the centre of all Auckland's shopping centres; cars not allowed.
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Build—buy more social housing for lower income people.
Phil Goff
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Continue to facilitate housing construction, which is currently at a record high.
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Continue working with government to finance housing infrastructure and build more social houses.
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Continue our work through Housing First, which has housed over 1000 homeless people since 2017.
Alezix Heneti
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Stop homelessness in Auckland. Give the homeless families and children homes. Make council housing available for the homeless and the poor.
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Assist homeowners and new homeowners with affordable, weather-tight houses and design easier, achievable home loans. Give more versatility.
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Give building consents, land supply, zoning, heritage protection, urban spaces and streetscapes to Aucklanders how they want it tastefully.
John Hong
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Reduce the cost of resource and building consent.
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Increase the quality and longevity of all construction.
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Develop greater Auckland to increase the supply of affordable and accessible houses for all.
Ted Johnston
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Satellite cities based on fast rail links to Auckland. Fast rail Hamilton—Manukau—Auckland. Ring rail, airport link, harbour bridge.
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License landlords. Put very high rates on empty houses, and landbanked land. We must increase available housing land, but preserve farmland.
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Easy, fast high quality building approvals. Remove homeless from streets, provide free food, clothes, and warehousing with night security.
Transport
Tricia Cheel
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Car pooling encouraged and rewarded, through the caring Civil Defence hubs so people feel safe and confident to engage with others.
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Implement free public transport for the most congested areas to begin with, and for youth, unemployed, community carded, disabled, and sick.
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Ask the government to supply interest-free loans from the Reserve bank for vital infrastructure to be done immediately as in the 1930s.
Susanna Kruger
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Build shelters at bus and train stations that protect against the wind and rain while waiting.
Craig Lord
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Stop the purposeful traffic congestion created by Auckland Transport and the Council Design Champion.
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Start the Penlink project and place a focus on roading repairs in the regions.
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Push for urgent transport needs, such as a train from Huapai to Swanson, and bus focus on the northwestern.
Brendan Bruce Maddern
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Auckland's fares are the third highest in the world. We must apply the breaks. Link rises to inflation, not the farebox recovery rate.
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I propose nothing short of rebuilding our roads to combat congestion. Smart traffic lights to control a system designed from the ground up.
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Removing overhead power lines, if we use the 'cable conduit' upgrade, would free space for a dedicated cycle/escooter lane.
Thanh Binh Nguyen
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Strengthening land transport systems. Consolidate public transport services, planning and project management.
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Govern the biggest and fastest expanding transport installations in order to control the maximum transport demand.
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Gradually and totally demilitarize the harbour. Govern the Port of Auckland and reduce containers and auto shipping operations.
Glen Snelgar
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Stop Auckland Transport's 'War on Cars'—scrap the fuel tax and cancel speed limit reductions.
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Work with NZTA to create a PT solution (buses, trams or trains) from Manukau to New Lynn along the SW Motorway corridor.
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Replace ghost trams with BRT network along Dominion, Mt Eden, and Manukau Roads that connects with NZTA PT corridor.
Tadhg Tim Stopford
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Require ATEED to collaborate with communities and be accountable for recognised failures.
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Create a free/reduced cost public transport option for school age children, carers, and chronically ill patients.
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Create T2/bike lanes, supervise with traffic control, pedestrianise two lanes of Queen St.
John Tamihere
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E-scooters must be regulated and made to use bike lanes as well as head protection.
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Finishing the Auckland Transport network within the next nine years will be an essential.
Peter Vaughan
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Remove cycleways from main roads Incorporate them with improved footpaths for safety and restrict E-Scooter speeds to 12km/hr.
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Build multi storey, free car parks at Park-n-Ride depots to encourage greater use of public transport for hop card users.
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Instigate tried and tested road trains, reducing congestion and the need for additional heavy and light rail, saving money in Auckland.
Annalucia Vermunt
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Frequent public transport with no user charges.
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Fight for a government-financed public works programme to put unemployed and underemployed workers to work at union-scale wages.
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Build and repair railways, roads, bridges, hospitals, childcare centres, public transport and other infrastructure that working people need.
David John Feist
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Abolishing the RUB and building 8 lane motorways will eliminate congestion. Nothing else will work.
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Encourage a mobility target of 20 minute peak hour commute. The RUB has made it 40 minutes at present, one of the highest in the world.
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Public transport use worldwide is decreasing and is 3% of trips in NZ. It cannot work in Auckland as we are polycentric and dispersed.
Genevieve Forde
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Train from Britomart to the airport as quickly as possible.
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Private cars, vans and trucks restricted to 30 km slower; 5km near schools and hospitals; public transport to go at same speed as now.
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Get rid of lime scooters—a danger to pedestrians.
Phil Goff
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Use the record $28 billion investment to create more public transport, walking and cycling areas, and improved roads to reduce congestion.
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Reduce the cost of public transport travel for school children and those on community services cards.
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Improve the frequency, reliability and accessibility of public transport and ensure it is affordable.
Alezix Heneti
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Upgrade public transport, walking, cycling, transport infrastructure like roads, bridges, car parks and footpaths for Aucklanders for free.
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Reduce traffic congestion, increase road safety and support share bikes and e-scooters. Reduce all costs to Auckland family members. Us.
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Support airports and maritime transport, fully, completely and wholeheartedly for Aucklanders best interests. Innovate to achieve this.
John Hong
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Use minibus and increase frequency of trips to reduce big empty bus.
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Increase the access and frequency of maritime and all transport.
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Build a new bridge to connect airport to Southern Auckland connecting wider Karaka.
Ted Johnston
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Ring rail central city. Fast rail links, to satellite towns, airport, North Shore, Howick links etc to cut traffic congestion.
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Bikes off main roads, no cycle lanes in inner city. Less bus lanes to remove congestion. Rail not bus.
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Rail that is fast frequent, inexpensive and takes you where you want to go.
Environment and biodiversity
Tricia Cheel
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Lift the toxic burden off the living world by immediately ceasing all unnecessary toxic and polluting substances and practices.
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Successively implement integrated organic management modules based on a catchment being the minimum unit of organisation easily monitored.
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All procurement by council to be natural, non toxic, substances and practices, wherever possible, eg food, building, roading, cleaning.
Susanna Kruger
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Get retailers of compost causing the Legionnaires' disease to have their staff give people verbal warnings at checkout.
Craig Lord
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Start the process to build a Waste to Energy plant.
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Examine and correct our inept refuse and recycling systems so that we no longer require landfills.
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Stop mass removal of trees and bush for developments, private or corporate.
Brendan Bruce Maddern
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Rebuild our roads meets the challenges of the 21st century, and 18th. We can finally separate our sewerage and waste water systems.
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Use the waste plastic that Asia no longer wants to create a new roading system for Auckland.
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Plant new trees in our streets, not forestry's. Bring trees in to the city and suburbs, especially the South.
Thanh Binh Nguyen
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Get tough on pests and protect our bio ecological systems.
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Leading the quality management of our environments.
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Mayor must commit to quality system for environments.
Glen Snelgar
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Create a new green-focused agency to manage our natural and built environments.
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Ensure that material collected for recycling is actually recycled instead of being sent overseas to be incinerated.
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Manage Watercare IPO to list 49% of shares and raise capital for stormwater improvements.
Tadhg Tim Stopford
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Offer rates reduction for percentage of native urban forest cover on berms and properties.
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Reduce costs and pollution with appropriate water treatment facilities, through bond issues.
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Encourage PD to do riparian plantings/conservation to reduce runoff and educate/train offenders in life skills.
John Tamihere
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Environmental monitoring and the integrity behind it must be constantly assured.
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Enforcement and compliance can then be evidenced based and weigh in on meeting carbon neutral targets.
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A heightened capacity to respond to any major environmental incident will require resourcing.
Peter Vaughan
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Stop 1080 use as it kills unintentional target animals. Use other means of eradication of target pests.
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Bring back community rubbish bins to public places to reduce pollution at beaches, parks and community areas.
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Engage new bylaws that permits police to fine people who throw cigarette butts on the ground as the tar is extremely toxic and dirty.
Annalucia Vermunt
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Workers and our unions must fight for workers' control over production to prevent pollution of the earth, air, and waters.
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Farmers—workers' allies ont the land—to stop farm foreclosures and bankruptcies we demand nationalisation of the land.
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Nationalisation puts the land at the service of those who farm it, as opposed to control by the banks.
David John Feist
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Abolish the RUB as densification increases the percentage of land covered in concrete. This increases sewerage flooding in to the harbour.
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Abolish the RUB as densification decreases the amount of houses with trees and bird life. Biodiversity decreases as densification increases.
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Discourage density as this is literally destroying Auckland.
Genevieve Forde
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Stop the proposed concrete extension to Queens Wharf.
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Stop all dumping of Auckland marina and America"s Cup related sediment in the Hauraki Gulf immediately.
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Pass laws with heavy fines for anyone chopping down a native tree without a council inspection and approval.
Phil Goff
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Plant over 1.5 million native trees, protect our iconic kauri trees from dieback and increase predator control to protect native birds.
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Reduce wastewater overflows and plastic pollution of our beaches and harbours.
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Reduce siltation of our harbours and restore the marine environment.
Alezix Heneti
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Aid support and assist biodiversity, pest management, environmental monitoring and reporting for the Auckland family, us. We are family.
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Urge enforcement and compliance in our Auckland Family, and sustain waste management and minimisation with Auckland Family support.
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Reduce, resolve and abate pollution and aid, assist and support environmental incident response for Aucklanders continued benefit, advantage.
John Hong
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Implement wider pest free areas.
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Recycle, reuse and to reform the refuge services.
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Utilize latest technology to monitor and prevent environmental incident.
Jobs and economy
Tricia Cheel
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Support local businesses through in-house contracting and employing local people for local services, minimising corruption.
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Support and develop youth employment through schemes run by the in-house contractors to give them a fair start.
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Provide necessary infrastructure immediately though no-interest loans from the government via the Reserve Bank of NZ as in 1930s.
Susanna Kruger
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Provide land for building an entrepreneur academy for the un-/under-employed.
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Provide land for building a skills-based micro-business incubator supporting self-employment.
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Provide land for building an inquisitorial McKenzie Friend Court without judges and lawyers.
Craig Lord
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Stop Auckland Transport's traffic congestion which is having a detrimental effect on business and economy.
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Work to create more tourism options for the city, the majority of tourists leave Auckland as quickly as possible.
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Work with businesses to setup in the outer districts, taking the workplaces to the people.
Brendan Bruce Maddern
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I hate to go on about it, but I am the roading candidate—reduce congestion and we increase productivity (and well being).
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Replacing our roads will create many new jobs, training our young in 21st century road laying skills.
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I propose that we bring back evening classes. Education frees potential, which in turn generates prosperity.
Thanh Binh Nguyen
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Liberate and develop the entire Auckland waterfronts.
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Invest, create and design for high speed transport complex for Auckland and North Island.
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Govern the international airport in order to restrict their expansion. Limit construction of new buildings and facilities.
Glen Snelgar
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Ensure that Auckland Council does not impede the free market with unnecessary compliance costs.
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Create a new Treasury department to recommend productivity and efficiency gains for Auckland Council.
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Reduce red-tape to underline the philosophy of 'Less Government, More Freedom.'
Tadhg Tim Stopford
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Stop funding infrastructure with rates. Issue municipal bonds instead. Capital is desperate for safe returns at this point in world affairs.
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Validate our brand by protecting our key food producing areas from subdivision.
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Validate our brand, and diversify our economy, by promoting/incentivising sustainable foods and industries (iHemp).
John Tamihere
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Local businesses must be given a preferential opportunity to build scale off the city's procurement and contracting.
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The Council's Youth Panel must be empowered to the extent that their policies are adopted by the Governing Board.
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We must assert our preference in purchasing from Auckland and then New Zealand domiciled businesses only.
Peter Vaughan
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Introduce available AI technology, assisting businesses with productivity projections and risk analysis.
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Create youth support programs to help them find suitable work fitting their personality and giving them direction.
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Improve the electrification of Auckland to assist the expanding population, new buildings, and support Electric Vehicle imports.
Annalucia Vermunt
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Fight for a government-financed public works programme to put unemployed and underemployed workers to work at union-scale wages.
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Set the minimum wage to enable all workers to afford a home and support a family.
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Building and repairing railways, roads, hospitals, childcare centres, public transport and other infrastructure that working people need.
David John Feist
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Metrowater and Ports of Auckland privatised.
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Differential rating abolished.
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Remover RUB to decrease price of land for business.
Genevieve Forde
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A new building at the waterfront replace the ugly 'Cloud' one with a new, modern, Māori marae or Māori history museum.
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Meet with local business people to listen to their concerns/suggestions.
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Encourage young people—and everyone—to concentrate on their creativity when thinking about what work to do,.
Phil Goff
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Promote Council's social procurement programme to create jobs for those not in employment, education or training.
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Promote economic development and employment growth through ATEED.
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Build the transport and housing infrastructure to sustain businesses and a growing economy and businesses.
Alezix Heneti
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Promote local business with full support, enthusiastically, outstandingly and awesomely. Our locals are us, we are Auckland, we are family.
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Get our youth, employment suited to their strengths with strong unlimited council support. Youth are our national treasure and foundation.
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Assist infrastructure, local industries, like tourism, export, local crafts, and more 100%, with all options available from council.
John Hong
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Create more jobs for youth by providing easy start up package and free mentoring program.
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Upgrade and build more infrastructure that is critical business development.
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Increase global tourism business network by utilizing 1/4th of Aucklanders born outside of New Zealand.
Ted Johnston
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Assist local people into businesses especially in poorer areas. And aid local businesses.
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Aid training and youth employment, to prevent crime, and to assist our youth especially in the poorest areas.
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Harbour bridge painted blue and a tourist attraction Azure arch, with restaurants, fast rail, also a Polynesian Cultural Centre.
Utilities and services
Tricia Cheel
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Inspire and vigorously encourage and reward residents and businesses for adopting non-toxic substances and practices.
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Knock fluoridation on the head and put savings from capital and maintenance costs to better use, like non-toxic weed control.
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Employ local people for local services, in-house contracting, friendly dog control, and all non-toxic weed control, cleaning, maintenance.
Susanna Kruger
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Run an awareness campaign to minimise household waste as a way of living greener.
Craig Lord
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Start the building of a Waste to Energy plant which will also assist the circle economy and recycling.
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Change the dog registration system to be fairer on the thousands of dog owners, stop it from being a revenue.
Brendan Bruce Maddern
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I would like to recycle the entirety of, not only Auckland's or even New Zealand's waste plastic, but that of the South Pacific's as well.
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We have thousands of KM of crumbling tarseal roads that need to be replaced. The volumes involved would allow us to recall our garbage.
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Separate the sewerage and waste water systems as we rebuild the road above. It's well overdue.
Thanh Binh Nguyen
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Working with communities and business to reduce harmful wastes.
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Design, study and plan for quality waste management.
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Enforce laws to keep our communities safe from animals.
Glen Snelgar
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Ensure that recycling actually gets recycled and not sent overseas to get incinerated.
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Ensure that utility providers are delivering their services at the true cost to consumers.
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Devolve responsibility for local issues to Local Boards and allow communities to choose what services they receive.
Tadhg Tim Stopford
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Import Scandinavian recycling technology and begin profitably recycling, funded via municipal bonds. Put cash return on bottles and cans.
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Identify biggest plastic polluters and encourage alternate material use via progressive taxation.
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Future proof wastewater and sewage ASAP via funding from municipal Bbnds.
John Tamihere
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Inorganic rubbish uplifting will be reinstated and waste to energy plants will be explored.
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A one off grant to all residents to collect roof water in a tank will be rolled out.
Peter Vaughan
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Introduce free 'phone and collect' inorganic rubbish collections for residents.
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Introduce new compact wastewater and sewage processing plants in new subdivisions for recycling and incineration.
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Introduce UV light for water filtering, remove chlorine and fluoride dosing unless emergency situations call for it.
Annalucia Vermunt
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Join working people confronting attacks on our living standards that are the capitalists' response to the crisis of their system.
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Workers need to organise and act independently of the capitalists and their political parties.
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No taxes on working people—including all council fees.
David John Feist
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Privatise rubbish supply completely.
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Encourage separation of wastewater and sewerage by limiting intensification. Digging up legacy pipes is expensive and causes pollution.
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LiftNZ will introduce a new land use Act to set clear and objective water standards.
Genevieve Forde
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Ban fireworks on private properties—a stress and danger to animals and children.
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Hold a rubbish revolution conference for anyone to attend; aim to reduce waste going to landfill to zero.
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Ban dangerous dogs from private ownership.
Phil Goff
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Improve and increase recycling facilities to reduce landfill.
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Improve the quality of our streetscapes and parks.
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Keep Watercare in Council control.
Alezix Heneti
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Add leafy suburbs free for Aucklanders to all suburbs and provide improved rubbish and recycling for free to all our Auckland family.
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Reduce wastewater and sewerage costs and improve drinking water supply for entire Auckland family with no added costs to us, family, for free.
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Control animal control and dog licensing and street cleaning and berm management for Aucklanders' benefit. Allow creativity involvement.
John Hong
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To bring back the service for mowing street berms.
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Reuse existing waste and turn it into reusable resources.
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Promote education for more responsible animal ownership.
Ted Johnston
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Preserve organic rubbish days and give extra bins/sacks where required, not just the same per house.
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Fix all drains, sewage overflow into the beaches is completely unacceptable and a top priority. Remove profit motive from Watercare.
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Recycling of plastic/rubber into new ways such as road use. Focus on innovative ways not landfill.
Freshwater
Tricia Cheel
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Immediately cease all unnecessary toxic and polluting practices since all waste is in transit to the sea, via the waterways.
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Retain water on the land as long as possible eg with rain collection tanks that can be used for washing, toilets and the garden.
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Incentivise the adoption of regenerative agriculture techniques, even domestically, to increase the capacity for carbon and water retention.
Susanna Kruger
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Run an awareness campaign to ensure that water is always being used wisely.
Brendan Bruce Maddern
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Auckland's beaches are our treasures, our taonga. Our first focus must been on keeping them clean and open.
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By trapping our waste plastic in to our roads we will ensure that none of it can ever reach the ocean ever again.
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Sewerage must be stopped from entering our harbours. Closing beaches are a sign that the system has failed.
Thanh Binh Nguyen
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Measure the quality of freshwater and elevate its quality.
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Conserve our freshwater and educate the public of its value.
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Watercare will be manage and own by local council.
Glen Snelgar
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Create a new green-focused agency to manage the water catchment area.
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Maintain targeted rate to clean up Auckland beaches for swimming.
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Ensure that bottled water collected in NZ can only be sold in NZ.
Tadhg Tim Stopford
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Set up a council owned water bottling plant for export revenues.
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Incentivise farmers to reduce nitrate runoff and reduce fertiliser loads with riparian hemp plantings. Win/win for farmer and water.
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Encourage wetland return by rebating farmers to retire appropriate land.
John Tamihere
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Polluters must carry the cost in remedying their acts of pollution and greater scrutiny and regulation will follow.
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A one off grant will be made to all houses to catch rainfall water from their roofs into holding tanks for residential use.
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I have announced the sale of 49% of Watercare to the NZ Super Fund to clean up our beaches and pollution from a filthy water.
Peter Vaughan
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Invite homeowners to install rainwater tanks to capture rain to lessen pressure on Water Care services.
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Install rubbish furnaces that extract fresh water from seawater for the City, further reducing pollution.
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Install forest woodchip and bark burners to eradicate black mold that leaches into waterways causing toxic black water.
Annalucia Vermunt
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Remove taxes on water.
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Unite workers and farmers to protect our incomes and the environment. The exploitation of land and labour go hand in glove with capitalism.
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Water as a necessity of life, not a commodity for profit.
David John Feist
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LiftNZ seeks to introduce a new Affordable Housing and Land Use Act to set clear measurable water standards on a nationwide basis.
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We seek the removal of mossy rivers caused by an excessively intensive dairy industry.
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Incentivise a dispersed—not compact—Auckland as this will result in less flooding and cleaner water.
Genevieve Forde
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Stop all untreated sewage going into any waterway—heavy fines for offenders.
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Stop all sediment from building sites getting into waterways—heavy fines for offenders.
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Consult with Māori advisory board regularly to make sure our water waterways are being protected.
Phil Goff
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Reduce the amount of litter, sediment and road pollutants entering waterways.
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Support urban and rural stream rehabilitation projects.
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Protect the resilience of water supplies from our dams and the Waikato river.
Alezix Heneti
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Allow all water-affecting resources and land use by the Auckland Family to profitably operate with full council support, includes irrigation.
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Aim, achieve, develop freshwater quality for Aucklanders by putting the Auckland Family first with what needs to be done to achieve this.
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Make Auckland water free of all harmful substances and removed to ensure, improve and sustain children and adults health and dentistry.
John Hong
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Keep the water source clean and green.
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Use facility to separate fresh water and storm water usage.
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Access water from natural sources.
Ted Johnston
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Maintain, high quality safe water, and ensure that plans, or new infrastructure is built to ensure no more drought in our water supply.
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A ban on foreign organisations making a fortune selling our water overseas. It must be as a partner to Auckland city to raise revenue.
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Ensure that there is limited leaching of dairy and industrial waste into our water system.
Rates and revenue
Tricia Cheel
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Central government to pay for reduced costs of healthcare, and other effects, from adopting a non-toxic blueprint for the city.
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Central government to pay for costs to city of laws they pass and provide interest free loans from the Reserve Bank.
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Fiscal decentralisation to reduce the amount spent by government compared to local bodies from 88% to the OECD average of 46% or less.
Susanna Kruger
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Identify wasteful spending and redirecting these savings to minimising rates, levies and tax increases.
Craig Lord
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Control council spending to dramatically reduce its debt, and stop the need for continual tax increases.
Brendan Bruce Maddern
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I can't promise that rates will never rise. I'm not a lolly scramble candidate.
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However, to pay from the roading project I'd recommend a profit making fund. Treasury is practically giving money away. An opportunity.
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Why rely on the wallets of ratepayers when Auckland is the financial capital of the South Pacific? Harness our strengths. Create a Fund.
Thanh Binh Nguyen
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No rates increase for the next three years.
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Aviation transport installation charges and aviation emission charges.
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Military transport installation charges and military emission and risks charges.
Glen Snelgar
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Cap rating levels and user charges for three years to ensure that Auckland Council can live within its means.
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Scrap the 11.5c fuel tax and review targeted rates introduced since 2010.
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Maintain investment in projects already started, and seek alternative funding for new big ticket items.
Tadhg Tim Stopford
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Fund essential infrastructure and quality medium density housing stock by issuing 10 year municipal investment bonds to investors.
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Incentivise staff to reduce costs and improve quality outcomes with bonuses pegged to KPI outcomes and citizen feedback.
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Introduce a $15 Tourist Koha, targeted for infrastructure, payable on arrival and departure at Auckland airport.
John Tamihere
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Rates freeze for three years so ratepayers can have a breather. I would also ask landlords to give tenants a rent freeze as well.
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A rates freeze assets fiscal discipline on out of control bureaucrats and allows us to reseize the city.
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Council debt is presently 265% out of control and places pressure on every decision. We must lower it.
Peter Vaughan
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Investigate Council debt and outgoings. Ascertain the need for external consultants and appoint inhouse decision making.
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Place a preliminary injunction on CRL to ascertain the continued destruction of SMEs as they are breaching the AT local government ACT.
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Provide the public with free rubbish collections, putting it to a use other than landfill pollution.
Annalucia Vermunt
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Oppose all taxation on working people.
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Join those fighting to defend or extend the social wage today.
David John Feist
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Avoid breaching Council debt limits by encouraging targeting rates to fund infrastructure.
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Keep rates increase to nil.
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Sell airport shares.
Genevieve Forde
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Allow enough revenue to make sure the climate revolution can happen quickly.
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Check for waste, mismanagement and make sure debt levels are not excessive.
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Make sure rates are equitable.
Phil Goff
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Keep rate rises lower than other NZ city while investing in better services and infrastructure.
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Broaden Council's revenue sources to reduce the burden on ratepayers.
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Push government to pay rates on government property and to return to Council the GST which they impose on rates.
Alezix Heneti
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Reduce fees and charges with shrewd management of all council investments and shrewd council financial management. Aucklanders first.
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Reduce council debt with shrewd, responsible determined financial management with innovative, creative solutions, free for Aucklanders.
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Reduce rates with better, improved and shrewd council financial management with determined focus for Aucklanders benefit Aucklanders first.
John Hong
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Reduce rates to 2.0%.
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Keep AC expenditures to a reasonable and sustainable level.
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Attract more global investment through international tendering and procurement process.
Ted Johnston
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Preferably no rates increase. Council to focus on prime responsibilities first. Prune unnecessary expenditure and wastage.
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Remove regional petrol tax. An amnesty on tickets. Stop money gouging profiteering, parking and lane tickets. Free inner city parking.
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Stop lavish overspending, and live within means. Accountability for spending, no more million dollar consultants unapproved.
Governance and engagement
Tricia Cheel
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Localisation to make council more accessible to everyone no matter how far away they are from the CBD.
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Foster community involvement and engagement with open forums, and workshops, where even dissenting views can be heard.
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Be a shining example of good employment relationships and fairness, and multi-cultural representation.
Susanna Kruger
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Enforce affirmative action to create a culture of diversity in the workforce and working groups.
Craig Lord
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Change the culture of engagement between council and public, away from just website releases and more personal communication.
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Analyse all internal departments for more efficiencies and less costs, this would include processes and positions.
Brendan Bruce Maddern
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As an IT professional with 20 years xp I would be taking a close look at the system that runs the Auckland machine.
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Split up Auckland Transport. It is a bureaucratic empire too large to succeed. Smaller agencies focused on a key responsibility.
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I fully support council workers and contractors receiving a living wage. The more people get, the more they spend, good for Auckland all round.
Thanh Binh Nguyen
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Commit and adhere to total, systemic quality management at all levels of the council.
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Maximising work satisfaction for all council employees and measurable reduction of harm against our environments.
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Demand for and open to judicial works on: (a) major council's construction and businesses projects, (b) all council controlled organisations.
Glen Snelgar
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Move all marketing, communications, and customer services operations into the Mayor's office to ensure engagement with the public.
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Get CCOs under control by restricting their budgets and requiring CCOs to apply to the governing body for big ticket items.
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Review all unelected personnel and procedures to ensure Auckland is getting value for money.
Tadhg Tim Stopford
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Set public key performance indicators and hold accountability to them. Eg. water, housing, cost of living, operational costs.
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Review COO independence. Empower local community boards and a locally connected Future Infrastructure Council.
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Use incentives to validate our national brand, increase business, and ensure a living wage. Citizens should ensure citizens survive.
John Tamihere
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Devolve decision making processes to local boards.
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Ensure the Independent Māori Statutory Board is elected off the Māori roll.
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Address massive disparity in salaries being paid within the city.
Peter Vaughan
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Organise meetings where the public express their concerns so the Mayor and council can action, logged for public viewing.
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Create a referendum APP so the public can participate on issues and become involved with Council decision making.
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Circulate among all employees gaining their views and concerns about their jobs and work with them to improve council efficiencies.
Annalucia Vermunt
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Full citizenship rights for all immigrants in New Zealand, including those on work visas or RSE-type contract schemes.
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Join working people confronting attacks on our rights and living standards that are the capitalists' response to the crisis of their system.
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Support workers' struggles to organise and strengthen unions and to use union power.
David John Feist
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Reduce Auckland City staff numbers by 25%. Amalgamation has not reduced staffing numbers.
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Abolish the living wage for Council staff as this discriminates against low income New Zealanders.
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Make local government voting compulsory as rich Aucklanders have effectively voted themselves higher house prices by reducing land supply.
Genevieve Forde
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Make all council bodies answerable to the elected council members—not independent.
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Make sure not only Pākehā get the attention of council—give all ethnic voices a respectful hearing.
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Make sure all council employees are paid a living wage and no bloated salaries for managers or consultants.
Phil Goff
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Ensure CCO accountability and responsiveness.
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Achieve our target of $1 billion in efficiency savings across Council.
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Ensure Aucklanders continue to have a say in the future of our city.
Alezix Heneti
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Increase all public engagement, even quadruple it, without any increase in mayoral salary, as Council supports increase in public engagement.
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Assist fully significant, major, and improved Māori and ethnic representation and engagement as are all part of our Auckland Family First.
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Give internal operations and all council employee wages and working conditions what they want with a care to fully support them work happy.
John Hong
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Engage with Māori and all ethnic groups inclusively.
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Increase efficiency and transparency.
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Review and reform all areas of AC.
Ted Johnston
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Sack AT board, close all CCOs down. Make all organisations of council responsible to the citizens via council.
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A complete revamp of council structure and services. Followed by removal of all CCOs and council made accountable.
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Halt on wastage of money on consultants, rebranding, sister cities, council overseas trips, excessive senior management pay etc.
These candidates did not respond.
Phil O'Connor
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No policies provided
Tom Sainsbury
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No policies provided
Michael Coote
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No policies provided
Wayne Young
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No policies provided
Jannaha Henry
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No policies provided
