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JULY/AUGUST VOLUME 27: ISSUE 7 2019 WWW.WBN.CO.NZ FACEBOOK.COM/WAIKATOBUSINESSNEWS Let the campaigning begin By RICHARD WALKER Hamilton City Council chief executive Richard Briggs is asking some big questions as this year’s local body elections loom. Questions like, “What role should Hamilton City Council have (if any) in affordable housing?” And: “What position should our council have on climate change?” And, really pushing it: “What’s your vision for Hamilton?” This is just a sample of posers for potential candidates included in a pre-election report called Shape your City, launched in July. The reports are required by law; the difference this time round for Briggs rests in the focusing of attention through his questions. My goal is that we get as many individuals with as many diverse views as possible standing so that we can have the community engaged. They are grouped under five challenges he sees for the city, including identity and managing growth. He talks of an ecosystem, in which a tweak to one element will inevitably affect others; the key for candidates is to understand that. “Candidates can have a position on anything; they can stand for anything; they can make as many promises as they like to the community; that's entirely on them,” he says. Briggs says that might, for example, see a candidate saying they want to make Hamilton the tech hub city of New Zealand, to invest with subsidies for tech companies, to reduce their development contributions and cut their rates. That of course carries a financial impact. “All I want them to say is, well, this is how I think we can fund it. And that way the community can understand that there are compromises.” Part of the purpose of the report is to engage, not only with candidates but with voters. Hamilton voter turnout during local body elections has been poor, and the report is not only concerned with sharpening thinking around the election but is also part of a new approach to fostering community engagement more generally. “My goal is that we get as many individuals with as many diverse views as possible standing so that we can have the community engaged, have some opportunity to really test whether or not these individuals are going to stand up and actually shape the city in the way they are doing it.” The question about the vision for Hamilton comes in the identity section, which Hamilton City Council chief executive Richard Briggs has some questions on his mind. Briggs says is relevant given the number of people migrating to the city - to the tune of about 40 a week. A large chunk of those come from Auckland, he says, and another chunk from smaller towns, while he is seeing a slight drop in migration from overseas. “One of the things that's interesting though is we have a population of about 170,000 but there are a significant number of people that move in and out every day as well. They don't get a chance to vote unless they live here but we would still like them to be informed, because the debate we're trying to create involves everyone.” Wherever the people are coming from, it pushes growth towards the top of the agenda for the city. Growth was a big part of the 10-year plan discussions which the pre-election report is, by law, based on. Growth means cost. That saw the city council pass a $2 billion capital programme to support the existing city as well as growth infrastructure, Briggs says. “We know that we’ve got to build out for the 10 year period, so that’s quite expensive. It’s step changes, so we’ve got to build ahead of the curve.” To that end, one of the possibly more provocative questions in the report is: “Are you comfortable with annual rate increases of 3.8 percent through to 2028?” Importantly for Briggs, that is immediately followed by “If not, what do you propose?” The 3.8 percent is to ensure the council has the capacity to fund growth. “And the outlook is for longer than the 10 year plan. We want to make sure that we don't end up in a position where we are constrained in year 11 by the stuff that we haven't considered, so we do a 30 year infrastructure plan to cover that off as well.” When the 10 year plan was being finalised last year, there was some well publicised disgruntlement on the part of developers over the contributions they were facing. It’s questionable, however, just how many developers carried out a threat that was in the air to quit the city, and Briggs describes council relations with developers as good. None of that is to say solutions are simple. Even if development can be taken off a council’s books via special purpose vehicles, someone has to pay. And who should that be? That is where the conversation needs to change in the community, Briggs says. “The developers are saying the costs are too high. Well, the costs are what they are; the challenge is, Continued on page 3 THE ALL-NEW BMW X RANGE. From the rebel to the athlete, the boss to the beast; there’s a BMW X to suit every lifestyle. Choose your world then find the vehicle that reflects its needs. Do you prefer the extra space? Or something that breaks away from the crowd? Now it’s even harder to turn your back on the BMW X range, with a 0% finance offer and payment across three years.* Visit Coombes Johnston BMW Hamilton and choose your X today. 1/3 1/3 1/3 NOW 2020 2021 0% INTEREST CHOOSE YOUR X. 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