Local Government Minister Paula Bennett has a new wheeze; to bring an end of regional councils.
Fresh from her two-year failure to amalgamate regions, she told the Local Government NZ conference that she now expected the Local Government Commission to look at winding up regional councils. Services they provided would be undertaken by Council Controlled Organisation (CCOs).
This is the model, give-or-take an acronym, that councils fighting off her lapdog LGC had suggested would be more efficient than forming supercities.
Look, we’re great fans of tipping the snoozers at the GWRC out of bed, but we’ll do it ourselves thanks very much Ms Bennett.
We console ourselves that Bennett would do the least damage by throttling GWRC and its brethren, but given the trail of the LGC’s incompetence,the LGC, we aren’t ordering an outfit for the wake.
