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Governing Body
29 June 2023
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Political Working Groups arising out of
Annual Budget 2023/24 Decision-Making
File No.: CP2023/08451
Te take mō te
pūrongo
Purpose of the report
1. To endorse the proposed approach to establishing political
working groups to carry out work to inform the next draft long-term plan (the
proposed 10-year Budget 2024-2034).
Whakarāpopototanga matua
Executive summary
2. It
is a statutory role of the mayor to lead the development of the long-term plan
and to establish committees of the governing body.
3. As
part of decisions on the annual plan 2023/24, the governing body agreed to the
mayor’s proposal to establish political working or oversight groups to
inform the draft long-term plan (2024-34), including one to consider Auckland
Council investments.
4. Creating
a limited number of these groups could enhance political participation and
oversight of key matters that must be considered in preparing the long-term
plan, which was an objective expressed by several members of the governing
body.
5. To
be effective, the groups should be convened soon given the timeframe for
development of the plan.
6. The following approach is proposed to establish these groups:
o Members
of the governing body submit suggestions for proposed topics for working
groups, as well as their expressions of interest for participating in the
groups by 5pm Monday 3 July. These should be a maximum of one page.
o The
mayor and deputy mayor will consider these expressions of interest and decide
on the working groups and membership. Each working group will have a short term
of reference setting out its scope.
o The
IMSB will be invited to appoint a member to each working group.
o In
some cases, external membership of working groups may be considered, for
example from central government.
o The
working groups can start meeting immediately.
o The
mayor will report back to the next governing body meeting on the decisions in a
separate paper.
7. Working
groups are not formal committees, so will have no decision-making powers and
will not have the same level of officer support.
8. The
mayor will consider budget requests from political
working groups for support from the mayor’s office to engage independent experts to provide advice to complement advice
from staff.
9. Likely
topics that have already been raised with me for these groups include:
o Auckland
Council Investments – regarding which there has already been a decision.
o Stadium
venues – which could consider recommendations to address the current lack
of an affordable, credible plan for our stadia. For this working group, the
government and Tātaki Auckland Unlimited have both expressed an interest
in appointing a member.
o Legislative
change being sought for regional organisations and Auckland Transport
Ngā tūtohunga
Recommendation/s
That the Governing Body:
a) endorse
the proposed approach to establishing the political working groups to inform
the development of the long-term plan.
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this report.
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Signatories
