6.2.1 Overview

 

1. Local boards have a significant and wide-ranging role; they make decisions on local matters, provide local leadership and enable strong local communities. Local boards have a strong connection to their communities and play an important role in shaping the place that they have been elected to serve. There are three ways that legislation gives decision-making responsibilities to local boards:

   • directly by legislation

   • by allocation from the governing body, in the case of non-regulatory activities

   • by delegation from the governing body (in the case of regulatory activities) or Auckland Transport (in the case of transport activities).

2. Local boards are responsible for:

   • decisions on non-regulatory local activities as allocated by the governing body through the long-term plan or annual plan process, for which local boards are fully autonomous and accountable to their communities

   • adopting local board plans every three years in consultation with their communities and monitoring progress

   • negotiating annual local board agreements with the governing body and monitoring local board agreements

   • developing and monitoring annual work programmes

   • identifying community preferences and priorities, representing their communities and building strong local communities

   • engaging with their communities

   • identifying and communicating the interests and preferences of local people on the content of regional strategies, policies, plans and bylaws to the governing body

   • providing input to CCO plans and initiatives

   • identifying and developing bylaws for the local board area and proposing them to the governing body

   • collaborating with other local boards if their communities will be better served by doing so

   • undertaking any additional responsibilities delegated by the governing body or Auckland Transport

• making delegations to the Chief Executive that relate to the responsibilities of local boards.

3. Local boards are accountable to the community for their allocated and statutory decision-making. Their decisions are open for scrutiny throughout the term by the media, commentators and the public. The media play a major part in forming the community’s view of members’ performance and the local board’s performance as a whole.

 

 

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