Auckland Council’s governance is shared across the governing body and local boards. Broadly speaking, the governing body focuses on the big picture and on region-wide strategic decisions. The 21 local boards represent their local communities and make decisions on local issues, activities and facilities.
Decisions made regionally will inevitably have local impacts, and local boards are legislatively mandated to have input into regional decisions, meaning that they take positions and comment on a broad range of regional issues.
Local boards were introduced to Auckland (and New Zealand) as...
This section provides an overview of the role of local boards...
In the first year after each election, the incoming local board...
The organisation plays a crucial role in supporting local boards to...
Local boards make their decisions at formal public business meetings...