Monday, 6 June 2011

Governance—How to meet the challenges of Auckland Governance Reform

The governing body is the strategies, policies, and decision-maker in regional scale, so as the leader of the region the new Auckland Council is responsible for what it is going to do. Firstly, the governing body should constitute reasonable instruments at the first place in a big picture, efficient, reliable, and executable strategies determine the sustainability of development and well-beings (economic, social, environmental, and cultural). Secondly, relationships between governing body and local boards, as well as other communities and groups should be enhanced. Because only if these institutions execute, communicate, interrelate, and co-operate perfectly and there could be pleasurable sustainable development. Thirdly, the governing body has to always put people first, consider what people are thinking, concerns what people mostly need, make decisions on the behalf of its own people. Fourthly, figure out ways to balance the sustainable development and population growth, and meanwhile, protect environment. Fifthly, the governing body and local boards have to pursue a sustainable development approach, and apply it in the different levels. Sixthly, the governing body should try its best to ensure the equity and equality, and decrease the gap between the rich and the poor as well. Infrastructures of communities must be maintained and enhanced in terms of improving people’s living standard and quality of life.

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