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Draft Proposal for Reorganisation of Local Government in Wellington Volume 2 Technical Report: Evaluation of the Options and the Draft Proposal Draft Proposal for Reorganisation of Local Government in Wellington Volume 2 Technical report: Evaluation of the options and the draft proposal December 2014 © Crown Copyright This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence. You are free to copy, distribute and adapt the work as long as you attribute the work to the Local Government Commission and abide by the other licence terms. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/. Please note that no government emblem, logo or Coat of Arms may be used in any way which infringes any provision of the Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981. Attribution to the Local Government Commission needs to be in written form and not by reproduction of any emblem, logo or Coat of Arms. Draft Proposal for Reorganisation of Local Government in Wellington Volume 2 Technical Report: Evaluation of the options and the draft proposal Local Government Commission Mana Kāwanatanga ā Rohe Wellington December 2014 Page ii Nei rā te Kōmihana e mihi atu ana ki a koutou ngā mōrehu o ngā mātua tūpuna kua wehe atu kī te pō. Tēnā koutou e rau rangatira mā i tēnā marae kāinga i tēnā hapori, te mana whenua i te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui. Tēnā hoki koutou o ngā iwi e whai pānga ana ki te rohe nei. Ko te tūmanako, he kaupapa pūrangiaho, he kaupapa mārama ēnei kia taea ai koutou ki te whakahoki whakaaro mai ki a mātou te Kōmihana. Nau mai haere mai ki te whakarongo kōrero ki te whakaputa whakaaro! Nāku, Nā Basil Morrison Tumuaki, Mana Kāwanatanga-a-Rohe Page iii Contents Part 1: Executive Summary ................................................................................................ 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 1 Proposal .............................................................................................................................. 1 Background ......................................................................................................................... 2 Wellington Region ............................................................................................................... 2 The current system of local government ............................................................................ 4 Process overview ................................................................................................................ 5 The applications .................................................................................................................. 7 The “reasonably practicable options” ................................................................................ 9 Evaluation of the “reasonably practicable options” ......................................................... 13 The “preferred option” ..................................................................................................... 13 The proposed Greater Wellington Council ....................................................................... 16 Next Steps ......................................................................................................................... 21 Report structure ................................................................................................................ 22 Part 2: Wellington Region ................................................................................................ 23 Mana whenua ................................................................................................................... 27 The region’s natural and physical resources and issues ................................................... 28 The region’s economy ....................................................................................................... 32 The region’s people and communities .............................................................................. 34 Interdependency of Wellington communities .................................................................. 40 Connections with other parts of New Zealand ................................................................. 55 Features of Wellington Region most relevant to local government reorganisation ........ 55 Part 3: The current system of local government ............................................................... 57 Financial overview............................................................................................................. 58 Assets overview................................................................................................................. 65 Core services ..................................................................................................................... 69 Improving economic performance ................................................................................... 83 Representation .................................................................................................................. 87 Māori participation ........................................................................................................... 88 Shared services and collaborative arrangements ............................................................. 89 Conclusion ......................................................................................................................... 92 Part 4: The legislative requirements and the process ....................................................... 94 The purpose of local government reorganisation ............................................................ 94 What is local government reorganisation? ....................................................................... 94 Receipt of reorganisation applications ............................................................................. 95 Community support for reorganisation ............................................................................ 97 Seeking alternative applications ..................................................................................... 100 The alternative applications ............................................................................................ 100 Identifying the “reasonably practicable options” ........................................................... 106 Initial consideration of the “reasonably practicable options” ........................................ 108 Determining the “preferred option” ............................................................................... 109 Page iv Part 5: The “reasonably practicable options”.................................................................. 116 Types of “reasonably practicable option” ....................................................................... 116 Is a unitary authority for the Wairarapa a “reasonably practicable option”? ................ 118 Options with multiple unitary authorities ....................................................................... 135 The “reasonably practicable options” ............................................................................. 140 The Wairarapa – Tararua boundary ................................................................................ 146 Part 6: Evaluation of the “reasonably practicable options” ............................................. 148 The evaluation ................................................................................................................. 148 Communities and issues .................................................................................................. 149 Democratic decision-making ........................................................................................... 157 Improved provision of core services ............................................................................... 170 Achieving the objectives of other legislation .................................................................. 189 Improved economic performance ................................................................................... 196 Overall savings and cost of transition ............................................................................. 206 Impact on ratepayers....................................................................................................... 221 Overall conclusion – the “preferred option” ................................................................... 224 Part 7: Refinement of the “preferred option” ................................................................. 228 The name of the district and council ............................................................................... 228 Boundary with Tararua District and Manawatu-Wanganui Region ................................ 228 Representation arrangements ........................................................................................ 229 Local board arrangements ............................................................................................... 235 Māori participation .......................................................................................................... 246 Area offices and service centres ...................................................................................... 246 Council-controlled organisations ..................................................................................... 247 Assets and debt ..............................................................................................................
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