North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams has announced that he will be contesting the Mayoralty in the forthcoming Auckland Council local body elections. “In recent months an increasing number of people have been urging me to stand. This has intensified in the past week to the point where I have made a decision to run for [...]

By David Tilson Auckland MP Nikki Kaye assured the audience at a local Takapuna meeting on Auckland Governance, held yesterday, that the Super City will work. “Local boards will be powerful and responsive to local needs”  Ms Kaye said. “We will not get it completely right by October 2011, legislation must be phased in.” Today [...]

Controversial Mayor Andrew Williams will swap Supercity wrangling for handbrake turns next weekend. The North Shore leader will line up in a race to find New Zealand’s fastest personality at the Top Gear Live event at Auckland’s ASB Showgrounds. Williams will test his skills behind the wheel against fellow mayors Bob Harvey from Waitakere and [...]

By John Grant In the last few weeks we have seen front page headlines in the Herald, The North Shore Times Advertiser and we’ve seen him on TV news and Close Up. Why, because he been out spoken on issues around the Super City amalgamation. He has publicly criticised the people behind the amalgamation and [...]

Mayor Andrew Williams says that during Rodney Hide’s recent 12 day overseas Super City fact finding trip to the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States - Mr Hide spent less than 10 hours in  meetings on Auckland governance. “Aucklanders will be fascinated to learn that, according to the official trip diary, Rodney Hide spent around [...]

This week North Shore City Mayor Andrew Williams and Prime Minister John Key jointly opened the new Aberley Walking and Cycling Bridge in Albany. The bridge was built by North Shore City Council as part of a ‘TravelWise for Schools’ initiative to make walking and cycling to Albany Junior High School easier for students. It [...]

Mayor Williams has had a busy week. It has been filled with Supercity meeting , a “Passing Go” conference and leaky home issues as well as all the other dutues a Mayor has in the course of a week. He speaks to David Tilson on what he’s been up to over the last week and [...]

By David Tilson Mr Key said today people could continue to use the Weathertight Homes Resolution Service and the courts rather than take up the “short cut deal” but he said some leaky homes victims had paid more than won in legal fees. This follows reports last week that the government is going to put only 10% into the leaky [...]

NSCC: 2 November 2009 “The  Government needs to immediately make public its third Auckland Council Bill so that council staff and concerned residents can see the complete picture of the proposed new Auckland Council organisation .”  North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams said today. “The ATA today released their draft organisational structure for the new Auckland Council, which [...]

North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams says he is delighted with the recent announcement that North Shore City will host the 2013 Men’s World Softball Championships. The International Softball Federation (ISF) recently awarded the champs to North Harbour’s Rosedale ballpark at Albany. Mayor Andrew Williams says the news is fantastic for North Shore City businesses, with [...]