The local gov­ern­ment com­mis­sion has pro­posed a reor­gan­i­sa­tion of the Welling­ton region, which you can read more about over on the local gov­ern­ment com­mis­sion site.

The region­al coun­cil is split over the pro­pos­al. Per­haps more impor­tant­ly, accord­ing to Stuff, only 26% of Welling­to­ni­ans are in favour of the pro­pos­al.

We’re not tak­ing a side here at the Welling­ton­ista, but we do want you to make sure you have your say. There is a word doc­u­ment tem­plate you can down­load and fill in (but you don’t have to use that tem­plate espe­cial­ly if you don’t have word) or you can email submissions@lgc.govt.nz (or post to Local Gov­ern­ment Com­mis­sion, PO Box 5362, Welling­ton 6145 if you’re paper-mind­ed). Sub­mis­sions close at 4pm on March 2, so hop to it. Or  we cob­bled togeth­er a super easy sub­mis­sion guide (after the jump), based around yes or no answers to ques­tions in the word doc, a sub­mis­sion does not have to take hours. you can just say I want or I do not want.  Sub­mis­sions are made pub­lic but your per­son­al infor­ma­tion is removed.

Also, we had an inter­est­ing exchange on Twit­ter with a group that fol­lowed us called “Future Welling­ton” who claim to be a youth-led  diverse group, but if you look at Ted Thomas, Bren­dan King and Tony Crewd­son, what do you see they have in com­mon?  Oh, and eight days ago, the site was basi­cal­ly dri­ving peo­ple to Bet­ter Welling­ton which they seem to have removed links to now. The domain for “Future Welling­ton” is owned by the for­mer Project Man­ag­er for the failed INCIS project which was esti­mat­ed to cost NZD$110,000,000 and by NZ we mean you.

Okay sure, that’s belie­ve­able.

On his Legal Bea­gle blog at Pub­lic Address Graeme Edgel­er raised anoth­er issue that has noth­ing to do with the mer­its for or against amal­ga­ma­tion

Impor­tant to note here: you know who the Welling­ton­ista are  and I’m only employed by myself , but I’d like to make it very clear that views here nev­er rep­re­sent those of my fel­low Welling­ton­ista’s employ­ers, nev­er have nev­er will.

After the jump, we make it easy for you to sub­mit.…

Local government submissions the easy way

Sub­mis­sions are made pub­lic but your per­son­al infor­ma­tion is removed, unless you choose to speak at hear­ings

Sub­mis­sions close at 4pm on March 2

email submissions@lgc.govt.nz

Sub­ject: Welling­ton reor­gan­i­sa­tion

Your name

Your con­tact details , phone num­ber, email, postal address

  • Which council(s) is most rel­e­vant to your home or busi­ness? Do you wish to appear before  the Com­mis­sion at pub­lic hear­ings?
  • In gen­er­al, do you sup­port the draft pro­pos­al?
  • In gen­er­al, do you sup­port the draft pro­pos­al but want an alter­na­tive mod­el for change?
  • What do you sup­port and why?
  • In gen­er­al, do you oppose the draft pro­pos­al?
  • In gen­er­al, do you oppose the draft pro­pos­al but want an alter­na­tive mod­el for change?
  • What do you oppose and why?
  • If you want changes of some sort, can you sug­gest new word­ing?
  • What do you think good local gov­ern­ment would look like in the Welling­ton region?