Mayor Andrew Williams is joining North Shore Community Radio for a weekly chat on political developments on the shore. This week he talks to David Tilson about the Leaky Buildings disaster and Super City concerns.

NSCC Controversy over recent claims by Local Government Minister  Rodney Hide that his reforms simply sail through Cabinet virtually unchallenged has turned the spotlight on the up-coming third Auckland Council bill, North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams said today. “Since the spectacle of Rodney Hide’s extraordinary claim that his papers to Cabinet sail through because his fellow ministers [...]

NSCC Friday November 6 A recent online survey of over 1,000 North Shore residents has shown that many are concerned about local representation and community identity in the light of the local government reforms in Auckland. And the survey results left no doubt that the reforms have ignited strong public interest in Auckland’s local government, [...]

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 [...]

By David Tilson In a frank interview with North Shore Community Radio, Mayor of North Shore City, Andrew Williams, says the ‘smoke and mirrors’ approach of Rodney Hide will be disastrous for Aucklanders and is merely a precursor to the privatisation agenda of the Act party. “Most of the decisions are being made behind ‘smoke [...]

Press Release: North Shore City Council The Minister of Local Government, Rodney Hide, has plans to spend $1 million on a Super City Show in Auckland Domain to trumpet the arrival of his new super city.” says North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams. “I was appalled when I heard last week that this amount of money [...]

Press Release: North Shore City Council In a press release from the North Shore City Council, North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams believes the ‘u-turn’ on local government reform vindicates North Shore common sense. The government’s spectacular U-turn in dropping Rodney Hide’s crazy plans to gut local government services and starve community programmes of funding vindicates [...]

By John Grant I was shocked to read the article in the North Shore Times Advertiser concerning the $400,000 spend on upgrading it’s web site. I had to have a double look at it to make sure it was for real. I then checked the date just to make sure it wasn’t April1. No it [...]