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Current Community Board delegations confirmed while new powers are considered

Thursday 4 November 2010, 9:33AM

By Thames Coromandel District Council

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COROMANDEL

Mayor wants robust process to define new role for community Boards

Thames-Coromandel District Council is committed to expanding the role of the five community boards on the Coromandel Peninsula but wants to make haste slowly in order to get the process right.

The Council has adopted the current delegations in the meantime to ensure the new boards have at least the same powers as the previous ones but the Council has given clear signals to staff that it wants to see the community boards given extra powers.

Mayor Glenn Leach said he did not want to see the process rushed, however, and it would be impossible to get the budgets required to resource the increased delegations into the 2010-2011 Annual Plan.

Over the coming months it is planned to work closely with the community boards to identify what delegations they believe are necessary for them to better fulfil their role, with the revised delegations to be adopted and funding incorporated into the 2012-2022 Ten Year Plan.