Elected South Waikato + 001 Local Territorial Authority 2016-2019

The Home Show, over the weekend (Thursday 6 October - Sunday 9th October 2016) has a Tokora South Waikato celebrate Blacksmithing. (Video -> http://youtu.be/HkaERkpkLoI )

The results of the South Waikato Local Territorial Election are in.

Let's hit while the iron is hot.

Who were the winners and losers on the day of the election.

And remember the lessons learned.

New person from each of the wards Tokoroa, Putaruru and Tirau in Marama, Gray and Peter.

The Mayoral race still has to be called as a cloud hangs over the appeal process with regards to the Mayor Sinclair endorsement of the deputy. If this happens under the new rules and is permitted by the Local Government Commission then we have New Zealand facing an a systemic disaster as freakish as the Tangiwai disaster when the bridge of democracy is washed out by the larha of expedience. The public will see the full power of the council being put behind the deputy when the mayor decides to retire from standing. This support will put undue pressure on the deputy in a way that is unhealthy and will also cause apathy in any other candidates standing. The apathy is the worst as the brightest and best will be reticent from elected office and standards will decline. 

Congratulations to the three new elected members. In some ways all three are towering figures and will cast long shadows over the sitting relocated members as the scales are reset. 

Having two laywers on council new will smarten up the rule of law side of the council and the Regional Council prosecution of South Waikato district council for cutting trees out of a stream "was a shoddy job all round" according to Cr William Machen.

The Trinity Farms LTD link of Gray will be a big support of Herman Van Rooijen pro farm stance in the district.

And Peter from Tirau will ensure that the coffee at the break times in full council meetings goes to the community who visits and participates and not the staff eating the elected members food as it is only the CEO the need interact with elected members and community at break times. The staff have a large staff room down stairs and are paid well to feed themselves and need not elbow out the community tentatively coming to participate on their own time. Seeing food fall from staff mouths as they stumble out of break times and cough all over the public who sit without even a glass of water is a disgrace perpetuated for 12 years under Mayor Sinclair. Let's get to some policy making by resolution from council vote and not from the mayor talking to staff behind the CEO back to have things moved. Yes one pissed off resident at the cowboy policy planning under Mayor Sinclair retired. For a mouth full of food in staff mouths he got little consultation done. Take for example the BP station in Tirau and the closing off of Logan Street as an example of poor consultation. Shall I list 12 years worth of issues of just look to the new council to send staff down stairs to eat?

Elected

Peter Schulte, Gray Baldwin, Herman van Rooijen, Adrienne Bell, William Machen, Jeff Gash, Arama Ngapo-Lipscombe, Thomas Lee, Marin Jame Glucina, Wendy Cook

Last day

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The CEO said at a full council meeting that the motel "should go back to their insurer" over the flooding of all unites up the wall with a foot of water. You can see here in this photo the water pushing out into State Highway one. Council usually spends $20,000 per year and this year was up around $250,000 outside budget on damage to roads and drains.

The engineer Ted Anderson was away for last council meeting and had Gordon Nado stand in for him to answer questions of staff by full council. The bridge into Tokoroa blocks the water into the stream  and this backs up into the Motel. Council problem or transient New Zealand problem. If I was on council I would put a person under the bridge with a hammer and coal chisel to knock a colvet concrete lip of one foot and free the water. I say the flood is council issue and not transit New Zealand. You have your say in a letter to the editor of south waikato news. We need guests not being turned out into the street at 3am when a light rain floods 25% of Tokoroa guest night accomodation.

You can see the rain drops. And already this is super saturated and threatening to choak state high way one if more rain falls

Lucky we have a 60 Km/HR speed restriction on hydroplane potential.

I agree this blockage is transit New Zealand responsibility but councilman could also stop and clean the enterence of with a person with a letter back and fish this stick out of the water way.

When a flash flood off the hills backs up behind this twig or pushes it down to the bridge area water backs up into the motel

Is council able to spray all this area dead? Or transit New Zealand because the water needs a clean flow so the motels don't flood.

Here is the drain that the motel rakes all the water off 25% of Collson hill where council has its main water supply tank. If council let is water out of the rising main on Collson hill in the direction of the motel this river would run red for the insurance company bottom line.

This is Tokoroa visitors and guests and council humms and harrs over a small drain clean. It's you transit New Zealand the council hids behind. 

This motel has done every thing correctly. The council has not bothered to clean up its act.

The motel pays its rates and asks council for help.

Lo let's look up the road 100m at what council feel is acceptable.

The distinct wide dump sign and 100km/HR speed limit off the 80km/HR speed limit of state high way one. Yes it's council water puddle 100% across the road submerging the give way sign written on the road just before state high way one.

See if you can read the sign mr Craig Hobbs and Ted Anderson and Gordon Nado. This is just up from the motels and nothing to do with Transit New Zealand. Next time the motel floods the south waikato district will get the repair bill and the $250,000 blow our will go to the next order of magnitude because the CEO said to full council responsible for this to send the motel back to the insurer. Gordon Nado did not give a list on bahalf of Ted Aderson of the 50 things council could lawfully do to correct water pooling above and below. Also the deputy mayor drives over this 100% occluded puddle road to get to council meetings. 

To hit that water puddle at 100km/HR because the puddle covers the give way sign on the road would leave CEO responsible and facing jail time for that vehicle going out into the full tragic of state high way one and turning over two passenger service busses full of 100 people.

Tell me foe a communications background is the CEO really putting his skills to got work with this signage? And the Deputy mayor really able to say the state highway one traffic is safe and the motel people can sleep soundly with her 3 terms as deputy? 

All it takes is a car to have an accident and these three signs taken out. 

Then the underwater give way sign is all it takes stop 100km/HR traffic hitting state highway one traffic

Back to the bridge end of this flooding matter below the Motel and CEO needs to get this puddle away.

This tree coverage is council responsibility and running a drain back into the tree area to double the run off drainage would stop the motel flooding then and again now.

is Ted Anderson up to engineering this correction. Is Gordon Nado. The new elected council mist ask 100% responsibility from CEO Criag Hobbs and if the motel floods again then all three need to look for new jobs in areas not related to water and signage. Mayor Sinclair why did you have a private function in the Sports and Event Centre (south waikato news 5 October 2016 p3). If it was private who paid for it? If it was public then council should pay. If a mistake has been made Mayor Sinclair please correct this flooding problem out of your own pocket to do the right thing for the district.

Mistakes happen. And at 76 years old your speed correcting this flooding problem Mayor Sinclair decides the outcome of the election. First item on the agenda after who knocked down love soup kitchens east bowling club and tendered the steel I beam for sale is to address the motel flooding and grave danger to state highway one. Hitting this puddle and crashing into the bridge I would say the CEO goes to jail for manslaughter at worst. Let's get the horror kilometre of flooding, that we enter Tokoroa from the north, cleaned up with a clear drain by the bridge. Who is a good deputy mayor of the 26 candidates to ensure the flooding never happens again. Who is the best mayor to clean this food up. It had been here for the past decade what would change?

The video of responsibility https://youtu.be/UwuBDTpjI28 where full council address the motel flooding.

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Public Gallary at last council meeting. Two candidates (Tokoroa ward foreground , Mayoral centre, and experienced local government staff member far side) take in the final historic meeting of a four term 12 year Mayor.

Letter to the editor. Election Advertising (south waikato news p.6 October 5th 2016)

Leighton Collins wrote, "Once again it does not look good when a Mayor favours one candidate over the others" and stated "This candidate should be barred from the election because of unfair advantage over the other Mayoral Candidates"

Seems to me an election spending issue. $1 per page going to 22,500 residents seems to put a candidate over the $19,000 limit if you add in the signs and car fuel. A John Banks and Kim Dot com moment in South Waikato post election. 

Leighton Collins is calling for "...I consider that this is a blatant form of advertising." And "I consider that that particular member should be withdrawn from the Mayoral elections."

Wow strong stuff happening with two days of campaigning before all signs before come down Friday. 

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22,500 residents in South Waikato with 10,066 rateableproperties 

Will the new Mayor add 6,000 new 18-35 year old residents? (18-35 year olds Who are tax payers for the next 40 years and rate payers for life?)

Will the new Mayor preside over increasing to 28,500 residents and 28,066 rateable properties?

That is an increase of 18,000 new ratable properties.

You choose

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How will the new mayor open the meeting?

Here is a typical opening for the past 12 years http://youtu.be/C1hHNy8akc0

"... as we discuss all those..."

Be upstanding for the prayer.

What came out at the last meeting is the chambers is a public place and the risk and audit committee invited councilors to go into the special counsellors lounge to discuss private matters.

The staff have a staff room down stairs.

So let the submitters and the members of the public have the meeting room with the elected members and the CEO. It has become a feeding frenzy for staff members at the brakes as staff have become accustom to tucking into the members lunch allowance and crowding out the public.

This staff scrum of entitlement has led to a false sense of security by elected members. 

So I hope the prayer is updated the Prayer said in the House of Parliament in Wellington.

It seems the elected members and staff over lunch are "discussing all those..."

Well the ones that are public excluded.

Time for a change on this one. The CEO can decide to eat with his staff in a separate room or eat with the elected members and the community in a public room or join the concilors in the Councilor lounge. But not invite his staff to dine at the exclusion of the public.

That is where I think we get the mandate to destroy the building of the love soup kitchen. 

With that building now seeking atonement for its distraction the eating arrangements of the CEO must now change too so that we do not see a repeat of the destructive impatience because things are too much trouble. 

How will council conduct business under the new Mayor?

The last council and final meeting of the old concil on 29 September 2016 in Tokoroa Chambers was presented a Waikato Tourism summary. (I was asked how mush did our council pay to this group along with the other 12 or so council in the Waikato region. Under $100,000 perhaps?)

(Click here to see the summary of tourism in waikato region -->) http://youtu.be/F34W9ZuPcf8

And trade training awards recognised in full council on 29 September 2016

Video here --> http://youtu.be/YEIQ8b4hfbQ

One commentator has said that before the 12 persons would have taken apprenticeships with local business. Now a tertiary provider charges tuition fees and students go into debt with student loans for living costs and the course with not guarantee of a job at the end of it. The commentator also asked why $200,000 of council funds was benefiting outside the district organisations treasury organisation and also saving local businesses from paying wages to train 12 students per year in apprentiships in a 22,500 population distinct. ($10 per person in the district set up cost)

For similar money the swimming  pools could be $0.10 cents entry for all local residents with a library card and teaching learn to swim 24/7 classes. Learn to swim better would open up more job opportunities on the river and sea that surround New Zealand, and save lives in the process.

Teaching good reading and math skills in the library are far more core council business, in improving job opportunities,  than limiting access to alcohol and gambling. A drunk broke youth population who can't swim and are illiterate and enumerate are what the council has on its hands. Council by raising the pool prices 33% in 2010 and delaying the free internet at the library (and turning off wifi after hours at the library) and limiting the access to the Internet is in part having youth smash school Windows. 

Core business of council must be done well and leave it to the community to organising better training opportunities with central government help. Our rates and fees are paid to develop 18,000 new sections so that our 18-65 year olds can get on the property ladder, out of debt, and use the collateral of a house and land to fund business development. Council needs to front run the New Zealand housing crisis and make our district rich again. That is vision.

The New mayor and 26 possible deputy mayoral candidates what you say!

This blog is an example to each new council on what can be done. 

Councillors Start a blog day one to communicate with the community. It's free and it's fun. This is an example to you all on how to use the internet to improve local council. And the public can feed back to you like some of you have done with my invite to the Tirau Hall for a deputy mayor debate.