Jon Turner – candidate for Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa

Category: Local boards

  • Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.

    The title of this page is a quote from James Frick, and a particularly relevant one for councils and Government. I thought it would be good to go into a bit of depth about how our budgets are set and how the money is divided up. For me, figuring out how money is allocated was…

  • OK – what do you do?

    The LGNZ guide for candidates says that “Local Board members spent on average 20 hours a week” in their role as a member. Interestingly, some people seem to think they can still hold a full time role as well as doing their duties as an elected member. In this post I will go over some…

  • How do Local Boards work?

    If I had to choose a question, this is the one that pops up most often. Its understandable – first of all, a lot of people don’t even know what a Local Board is, let alone what a Local Board does. The first step is understanding how Council works. Unfortunately, that’s something that a mere…