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 [...]

North Shore City planned to spend about $14 million before the new region-wide council takes over in November. The Auckland Transition Agency has intervened, giving the green light to $8.1 million worth of spending but saying no to five of the proposed projects, worth $4.7 million. North Shore mayor Andrew Williams says the council wanted [...]

Birkenhead’s new library opens

As Super City debate on CCOs and all things Super heats up – the absence of criticism  of Mayor Andrew Williams continuous “Wolf” cries last year – is conspicuous. It increasingly appears that the Mayor was dead right with emphasis on the “dead” for local body politicians to have a significant input into local matters. [...]

Mayor Williams supports the additional funding for Eden Park

Tasman Trespasser progress after 3 weeks at sea and Mayor Williams heaps praises on the Tasman rower

Auckland councils are currently making a last ditch effort to limit the power new unelected agencies will wield in the super city. The councils are finalizing their submissions to the Auckland governance select committee before Friday’s deadline. Many fear that the elected super city council will lose control of some of the most important aspects [...]

With a Xmas message to North Shore. Mayor Andrew Williams told North Shore Community Radio today that the Governement has it quite wrong on the record of his text messages to Government Ministers. The Mayor also outlines the latest developents in the Leaky Homes scandal and developments of the Rosedale Tunnel Project which has reached [...]

Herald commentator Brian Rudman has come out in heavy support of Mayor Andrew William’s stance on the leaky home scandal. Mr Rudman said Mr Williams reaction to the Government 10%  “take or leave it” offer “derisory” – and he’s dead right. “Mayor Williams says the [Mayoral Forum] talks broke down after he said the miserly [...]

North Shore Mayor, Andrew Williams, says raising the amount super-city mayoral candidates can spend on campaigning will create elitism in the race, he told Morning Report this morning Under proposed legislation, those seeking the job would be allowed to spend up to $580,000 during the official three-month campaign period. The current cap is $70,000. Mr [...]