WHY THERE IS A CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE $UPERCITY!
CITIZENS HAVE BEEN DENIED OUR DEMOCRATIC RIGHT UNDER THE
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2002 TO A BINDING VOTE ON THE
$UPERCITY PROPOSAL!
[Local Government Act 2002, s24 “Reorganisation Proposal”,
Sch 3 s49 “Poll must be held”]
NATIONAL LIED ABOUT THE $UPERCITY!
National promised: “National will: Consult with Aucklanders once the findings of The Royal Commission are known.”
http://www.national.org.nz/files/2008/local_government_policy.pdf
NATIONAL HAVE NO MANDATE FOR THE $UPERCITY!
IT’S A CORRUPT CORPORATE COUP!
ACT got only 3.65% of the vote - but we are getting more ROGERNOMIC$
through railroaded legislation where citizens were denied our democratic right to a binding vote, and final say on whether or not WE wanted this corporate Auckland $28 BILLION A$$ET grab!
NATIONAL DELEGATES NEED TO SEE AND HEAR THAT INFORMED AUCKLANDERS HATE THE $UPERCITY!
NATIONAL DELEGATES NEED TO SEE AND HEAR THAT INFORMED AUCKLANDERS ARE DEMANDING THAT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (TAMAKI MAKAURAU) REORGANISATION ACT 2009 BE REPEALED FORTHWITH !
NATIONAL DELEGATES NEED TO SEE AND HEAR THAT MANY INFORMED AND ANGRY AUCKLANDERS ARE BACKING UP OUR DEMAND FOR THE REPEAL OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (TAMAKI MAKAURAU) REORGANISATION ACT 2009 WITH A RATES REVOLT!
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
NO SAY - NO PAY!!!!
"WHERE THE PEOPLE LEAD - THE POLITICIANS WILL FOLLOW!"
"WHEN INJUSTICE BECOMES LAW- RESISTANCE BECOMES DUTY!"
Please pass on this message to as many people/organisations as possible.
FOR NEWS AND FACTS YOU WON'T GET ANYWHERE ELSE ABOUT THE $UPERCITY! - www.stopthesupercity.org.nz <http://www.stopthesupercity.org.nz/>
ALSO ATTACHED IS THE NEW PETITION, CALLING FOR THE REPEAL, FORTHWITH,OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT(TAMAKI MAKAURAU) REORGANISATION ACT 2009!
This petition, to the House of Representatives:
"Respectfully requests that the House repeal the Local Government (Tamaki Makaurau) Reorganisation Act 2009 forthwith, and that the lawful due process, as currently outlined in the Local Government Act 2002, s24 "Reorganisation Proposal", Schedule 3, including a 'binding poll' through which the majority of citizens and ratepayers (as electors under the Local Electoral Act 2001) have the final say on any such 'reorganisation proposal', is upheld."
The RATE$ REVOLT, where people across the Auckland region PAY NOTHING will force the repealing of this 'corporate coup' legislation!
To Cheers!
Penny Bright
Media Spokesperson
Water Pressure Group
Judicially recognised 'Public Watchdog' on Metrowater, water and Auckland regional governance matters.
Ph (09) 846 9825
021 211 4 127
(Leaflet which was distributed on the hikoi - for more background information)
MAKE THE $UPERCITY UNWORKABLE!
IT’S RATE$ REVOLT TIME! PAY NOTHING!
www.stopthesupercity.org.nz <http://www.stopthesupercity.org.nz/>
NO SAY- NO PAY! NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
CITIZENS HAVE BEEN DENIED OUR DEMOCRATIC RIGHT UNDER THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2002 TO A BINDING VOTE ON THE $UPERCITY PROPOSAL!
[Local Government Act 2002, s24 “Reorganisation Proposal”, Sch 3 s49 “Poll must be held”]
IT’S A CORRUPT CORPORATE COUP!
NATIONAL LIED! National promised: “National will: Consult with Aucklanders once the findings of
The Royal Commission are known.” http://www.national.org.nz/files/2008/local_government_policy.pdf
THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT HAS NO DEMOCRATIC MANDATE FOR THIS $UPER RIP OFF!
ROGER DOUGLAS IS BACK – THIS IS ROGERNOMIC$ MARK II - AT LOCAL GOVT LEVEL!
ACT Party only got 3.65% of the vote but it’s ACT policies which are now being carried out.
John Key’s true blue colours are now showing – as PM - he’s in charge of this corporate raid on Auckland!
YOU DIDN’T VOTE FOR THIS UNDEMOCRATIC- $UPER RIPOFF!
1) You didn’t vote for this $UPERCITY model - a CORPORATE model to run the Auckland region,
LIKE a business, BY business FOR business!
2) You didn’t vote for this $UPERCITY - CORPORATE A$$ET GRAB of $28 BILLION worth
of public assets!
3) You didn’t vote for your Council being stripped of ALL public assets to be placed under the
$UPERCITY ‘Auckland’ Council - ‘local ‘councils’ left with no assets, staff, or funding !
4) You didn’t vote for the Local Government (Tamaki Makaurau) Reorganisation Act 2009 which
was railroaded through Parliament! WE should have voted on this ‘Reorganisation Proposal’!
5) You didn’t vote for the Transition Board which has the job of setting up the ‘$UPERCITY’
framework. The Transition Board was SELECTED – not ELECTED by Local Government
Minister Rodney Hide. The ‘Transition Board,’ which WE DID NOT ELECT - has the power to
control the spending of the same Councils which WE DID DEMOCRATICALLY ELECT! NO WAY!!
6) You didn’t vote for MARK FORD (ex-CEO of Watercare Services) who was SELECTED – NOT
ELECTED to control the Transition Board - as predicted by the ‘Watercare Whistle-blower’.
HAS MARK FORD A SECRET PRIVATISATION AGENDA as the‘Watercare Whistleblower’ says?
7) You didn’t vote for the BIG BUSINESS TAKE OVER of the Auckland region through the
CORPORATE ‘CCO’ (Council Controlled Organisation) model!
CCOs are like State Owned Enterprises (SOE’s) – NOT under the direct control of elected
representatives- but set up to run as ‘successful (profit-making) businesses’ – not essential public services!
8) YOU DIDN’T VOTE FOR THIS CORPORATE CCO MODEL- WHICH MEANS:
· NO democracy for the public!
· NO SAY in the appointment of Directors who run the CCO Boards!
‘SELECTED’ not ELECTED business people.
· Working for WHO?
· The public cannot attend meetings of CCOs.
· The public have NO SAY IN THE ‘STATEMENT OF INTENT’ which governs the relationship between the ‘Council’ and each CCO.
THERE HAS NEVER, EVER been a ‘cost-benefit’ analysis of ANY CCO!
* GIANT CA$H COW! ALL PAY - NO SAY! That’s what the public majority become!
9) You didn’t vote for ROGERNOMIC$ at Auckland regional level!
COMMERCIALISE – CORPORATISE – PRIVATISE! That’s what happened last time!
10) You didn’t vote for future PRIVATISATION through long term contracts (Public Private
Partnerships – PPPs) to the private sector!
Under PPPs - profits from the operation and management contracts of OUR public assets flow to the
private contractors – USUALLY MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES!
EG: PAPAKURA’S WATER – PRIVATISED SINCE 1997 – A Public Private Partnership (PPP)
WITH THE WATER MULTINATIONAL UNITED WATER.
UNITED WATER WANTS THE CONTRACT TO MANAGE ALL OF AUCKLAND’S WATER!
11) You didn’t vote for MORE ‘USER’ CHARGES FOR THE POOR!
12) You didn’t vote for RATES REDUCTIONS FOR THE RICH!
13) You didn’t vote for a GIANT Metrowater for the WHOLE Auckland region!
14) You didn’t vote for ‘user-charges’ for wastewater spreading to Manukau, North Shore and Waitakere!
ON TOP OF RATES, families of 8 can expect water bills of over $2000 per year.
In these times of economic hardship - WHO WILL BE THE WINNER$?
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REPEAL THE $UPERCITY LEGISLATION!
‘ROGERNOMIC$’ WRECKED AUCKLAND!
In the days of the Borough Councils, we had more ‘local’ democracy.
A City Secretary, City Engineer and Council Works Department which directly employed Council workers.
Under the ARA (Auckland Regional Authority) – we had a proper functioning ‘regional’ body.
The ARA built roads, dams and bridges and ran the public transport. THIS MODEL WAS NOT BROKEN!
‘Rogernomic$’ ‘business model’ reforms made Auckland ‘dysfunctional’. For us - ‘PRIVATE’ isn’t better!
Thousands of private sector contractors now have their ‘piggy in the middle’ snouts in OUR public trough! Who is benefitting from OUR public monies? THEM or US?
(2008 -2009 Auckland City Council spent $145 million on staff, (less than 15% on the BEAUROCRACY’) and $855 million on private sector contractors- (over 85% on the ‘CONTRACTOCRACY’!)
WHERE’S THE TRANSPARENCY? We don’t know the names of these contractors; the value; terms or general scope of these contracts. WHO decides WHO gets these Council contract$$$$ ?
Where’s OUR public money? Contracting is ALWAYS fraught with potential corruption!
The Auditor- General does NOT check these contracts! Nobody’s checking where OUR money is going!
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN: ANY COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ‘CONTRACTING OUT MODEL!
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN : ANY COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF THE LAST COUNCIL AMALGAMATIONS IN 1989! HOW MUCH WILL THIS ‘AMALGAMATION’ COST???
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ALTERNATIVES to the $UPERCITY!
1) ROLLBACK ‘ROGERNOMIC$!’ TAKE BACK OUR CITIES, TAKE BACK OUR SERVICES!
RUN CORE COUNCIL SERVICES AS ESSENTIAL PUBLIC SERVICES – NOT PROFIT-MAKING BUSINESSES!
2) STOP USING THE PUBLIC MAJORITY AS A GIANT CA$H COW!
3) CUT OUT CONTRACTORS AND CONSULTANTS! SAVE MILLION$$$!
GET THOSE PRIVATE ‘PIGGY IN THE MIDDLE’ SNOUTS OUT OF OUR PUBLIC TROUGH!
4) BRING BACK ‘PUBLIC SERVANTS’ - CHANGE THE ‘PUBLIC SERVICE’ CULTURE!
DUMP THE ARROGANT SENIOR BEAUROCRATS AND CONSULTANTS WHO ARE RUNNING
OUR TOWNS AND CITIES AS IF THEY WERE THEIR OWN PRIVATE CORPORATIONS!
5) JOIN THE RATES REVOLT TO MAKE THE $UPERCITY & AUCKLAND REGIONAL
‘ROGERNOMIC$ UNWORKABLE!! RATES REVOLT LETTERS OF DISPUTE (similar to those used
in the 2003 ARC ‘RATES REVOLT’) WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE ON www.stopthesupercity.org.nz <http://www.stopthesupercity.org.nz/>
Penny Bright Media Spokesperson for the Water Pressure Group waterpressure@gmail.com <mailto:waterpressure@gmail.com> 23/5/2009