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Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009

Auckland Council - Decision making

16: Decision-making responsibilities of local boards

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"What your local board can decide for your community"

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You are part of a community with a local board that makes decisions for your area. Your local board is responsible for making decisions about non-regulatory activities that affect your community, as outlined in section 17. They also identify what people in your area want and need, and communicate this to the Auckland Council.

Your local board helps create strategies, policies, and plans for your community, and makes sure these align with what people in your area want. They can also develop bylaws that are specific to your area and propose them to the governing body, as described in section 24. Your local board works with the governing body to agree on local activities for your area, which is recorded in the local board agreement.

When making decisions, your local board must follow the rules set out in sections 76 to 82 of the Local Government Act 2002, which guide how local authorities make decisions. Your local board may also work with other local boards to make decisions that benefit multiple communities.

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Part 2Auckland Council
Decision making

16Decision-making responsibilities of local boards

  1. Each local board is responsible and democratically accountable for—

  2. the decision making of the Auckland Council in relation to the non-regulatory activities of the Auckland Council that are allocated to the local board in accordance with section 17; and
    1. identifying and communicating the interests and preferences of the people in its local board area in relation to the content of the strategies, policies, plans, and bylaws of the Auckland Council; and
      1. identifying and developing bylaws specifically for its local board area, and proposing them to the governing body under section 24; and
        1. the agreement reached with the governing body (as set out in the local board agreement) in respect of local activities for its local board area.

          1. In carrying out the responsibilities described in this section, a local board must comply with the requirements of sections 76 to 82 of the Local Government Act 2002 as if every reference in those sections to a local authority were a reference to a local board.

          2. In carrying out the responsibilities described in this section, a local board should collaborate and co-operate with 1 or more other local boards in the situations where the interests and preferences of communities within each local board area will be better served by doing so.

          Notes
          • Section 16(3): added, on , by section 17 of the Local Government (Auckland Council) Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 36).