Central & local government roles
The Policy Observatory at Auckland University of Technology has a series of publications on some local government governance issues, which diagnose problems and suggest solutions. In particular, the authors ask what the role for local government is and question how to get the central/local mix...
But what does that mean?
WHAT’S WRONG RIGHT NOW?
Central government’s getting a free lunch It passes duties and responsibilities to local government. Then gives it little or no extra funding to do all this extra stuff. Besides the ever-unpopular Resource Management Act (RMA), councils must contend with standards for constructing...
What would you change in local and central government if you had a magic wand and the power to use it? How would you realign the roles and responsibilities of both sectors on infrastructure and its funding?
Earlier this year Local Government Magazine posed a series of such questions. We know there are already a lot of initiatives...
