Ka nui te pōuri. E te rangatira, e moe.
E rere nei te aroha ki te whānau pani. Devastating news this morning.
Green MP Efeso Collins dies after collapsing at Auckland charity event
https://t.co/BclzYY8ZxT
"When it comes to tricky areas such as infrastructure and climate resilience, councils should be the ones leading the decision making," says LGNZ CE Susan Freeman-Greene. "That’s localism."
Read more at the link.
https://t.co/L7zG0R5DuC
Wellington doesn't make the cut of best places to drink a cup of java. It should definitely have made top three at least, says one barista. #SHOOK https://t.co/Odo9llgzjD
@publicaddress Actually he was playing, or attempting to play, the ukelele, and it wasn’t the Lgnz conference. It was the 2017 community board conference which is organised by the community board executive committee, with minimal support from Lgnz
Our membership fee goes to running of LGNZ as an org, the fee is based on population so of course ours is largest. $350,000 a year. Plus $20,000 for conference. Conference is a tiny part of the years work, advocacy & policy work with LGNZ. We also lose $1m in benefits for AKL.
We’re launching a campaign to support our neighbours in need - community to community. We’ve matched up councils of cyclone-affected areas with councils eager to help out, with mayors driving local fundraising efforts for the community they’ve adopted.
#AdoptACommunity