InterAktive LTP issue_Feb 2024

SPECIAL EDITION
February 2024 | Long-term Plan 2024-2034
InterAktive

Message from Aktive
Kia ora
Welcome to our special edition of InterAktive focused on
the Long-term Plan 2024-2034 and how you can have your say
When you hear the old phrase ‘roads, rates, rubbish’, it can be hard
to get excited about what your council does. Coverage on social
media, in our newspapers and even the 6pm news also fails to paint
a glowing picture. Then there are the woeful engagement levels in
local body elections.
JENNAH
WOOTTEN
Chief Executive
Aktive
The reality is our rates enable a lot of the things we enjoy as residents
– many things we probably take for granted, like parks, beaches, forests,
pathways, cycleways and even footpaths. We are so used to them
surrounding us in Auckland, we forget what it takes to deliver, maintain
and support these amazing places we use for relaxation, socialising and
recreation.
What about the sport and recreation facilities you use today or have
used in the past, and those that might be enjoyed by your children or
grandchildren? All these facilities require revenue to maintain and
sustain – a lot more revenue than required a few years back.
And with inflation as it is, don’t get me started on the cost of building
new and refurbishing existing facilities. Let’s take Kariaotahi Surf Club
as an example. Originally, they were looking at a $3.5m build. It is now
looking likely to cost them double the original amount. Even with some
exceptional fundraising capability, that is a massive mountain to climb.
Auckland Council has put its Long-term Plan 2024-2034 out for
consultation and, if you care about community sport and recreation
in Auckland, this is something you need to get behind. It’s quick. It’s
painless. Most importantly, the significance of your voice and support
of community sport and recreation being counted as part of this process
will go a long way.
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Message from Aktive
At Aktive we have a number of important points we would like Auckland
Council to hear and support to assist community sport and recreation
in Auckland, including:
1. Retaining the Sport and Recreation Facilities Investment Fund and the
epic proposal to add a further $35 million into the pot.
2. Retaining the Sport and Recreation Facilities Operating Grant and
asking that the council even considers increasing it.
3. Reviewing the costs and contractual structure for maintenance on
parks and open spaces, specifically for sports fields, and ensuring
contractors provide quality services.
Why should you care? Here is my perspective for you to contemplate:
This draft Long-term Plan proposes $35m of additional funding for
community sport and recreation facility development which is a massive
opportunity. This will mean more existing facilities can be upgraded,
and new facilities can be built. This could be resurfacing tennis courts,
improving the quality of changing rooms or even larger projects like
a new multi-purpose indoor court facility at Albany Tennis Park that
services basketball, badminton, pickle ball and tennis. We have a shortfall
of community sport and recreation facilities across Auckland and this
additional funding will make a difference to delivering much-needed
projects.
Point 2 is important because facilities are costly to run and maintain.
Auckland has a range of great regional and sub-regional facilities that
provide a platform for community sport and activity to run from or in.
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Message from Aktive
These facilities having access to the Sport and Recreation Facilities
Operating Grant will ensure community access is maintained into the
future. Because we know the need is so great for this type of funding
support, any increase Auckland Council could make to the fund would
be well utilised with excellent social return on investment.
Now, let me bring Point 3 to life. Ever shown up at your local sports field
and been frustrated because the grass isn’t mowed ready for your sport,
line markings have been done incorrectly, or holes in the field have caused
twisted ankles? This one isn’t about spending more money (hooray). It’s
about ensuring Council contractors can better maintain parks and open
spaces, particularly our fields.
Paying my rates bill each month doesn’t spark joy and I’m sure you’re
the same. But being able to enjoy community sport and recreation
right across the region does – and I know it does for many other
Aucklanders too.
What’s in this Long-term Plan for community sport and recreation is
significant and it’s critical there is a large volume of feedback coming
through the public consultation process supporting this. We need to
ensure key decision makers at Auckland Council hear what our sector
has to say.
We know investment into community sport and recreation is an important
ingredient to create safer, more cohesive, connected and engaged
communities across Auckland. It’s about belonging and participation and
fostering an inclusive Auckland that enhances the wellbeing of people.
Something we should all care about.
You can also find all the resources included in this issue of
InterAktive and more on our website here >
Now is the time for the community sport and recreation sector in
Auckland to mobilise. Whether you are a volunteer, an administrator, a
parent, a participant or someone who gets the benefits sport brings
- let your voice be heard.
JENNAH WOOTTEN
Chief Executive
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Long-term Plan Toolkit February 2024
Toolkit
This toolkit aims to make it easy
for you to make a submission.
Investing
in the Future
of Sport
Have Your Say
Please download it, share
with others and use as needed
to support submissions.
Visit our website here
and download the toolkit >
What is the
Long-term Plan?
The Long-term Plan (LTP) is Auckland
Council’s 10-year budget, setting out
the activities, services and investments
Council is planning or proposing for
the next decade. Essentially, it’s the
mechanism by which Council sets
rates and determines how ratepayer
money will be spent.
The LTP is reviewed every three years,
with public consultation for the next LTP
currently underway.
Auckland Council is facing some big fiscal
challenges and competition for funding is high.
The consultation period offers individuals and
organisations an opportunity to have their say on
Council’s plans – including funding for the
sport and recreation sector.
Public consultation on the draft LTP opened
on 28 February 2024, and closes on 28 March
2024. The Mayor and Councillors will then
consider all feedback received through the
consultation process, with the final LTP taking
effect from 1 July 2024.
If we’re to succeed in making Auckland the
world’s most active city, we need to have
sustainable and dedicated funding available
from Auckland Council for sport and
recreation.
To make this funding a reality, it’s vital that
we, as a sector, speak loudly and clearly and let
the Mayor and Councillors know why funding
sport and recreation is so important, and the
difference it makes in our communities.
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Case Studies
These facility funding case studies illustrate the reality and challenges
of developing large facilities and highlight the importance of funding.
Case study
Orewa Surf Club
Case study
Eastern Suburbs Gymnastics Club
Case study
Auckland Hockey
Building a New Home for a
Regional Recreation Destination
The northern beaches of Auckland
are a beacon for visitors from across
our region, with Orewa Beach being
one of the most popular destinations
for people taking part in sport and
While the hot summer months are
always popular, John says the beach
is a year-round drawcard now. The
club’s aging facilities can’t keep up
with demand, though.
Proposed new club house
Club House
Redevelopment,
Orewa Surf Club:
Gymnastics Club
Seeking Flexibility
Children enjoying gymnastics at ESGC
Eastern Suburbs
Gymnastics Club
Facility Development
Aerial view of Colin Maiden Park
“Facilities and funding
need increased flexibility”
- James Sutherland, General Manager, Auckland Hockey
Two Hockey Turfs,
Colin Maiden Park
Close to fully-funded first stage
– looking to commence work
this summer
Auckland Council Sport
and Recreation Facilities
Investment Fund contribution
- $4.5m; total funding circa
$9.5m
recreation.
“Orewa Beach is a
regional destination,
it’s not just a local
destination now,” says
John Chapman of Orewa Surf Club,
a club his father helped start in 1950.
“90% of the people we’ve rescued
in the last seven years don’t live
locally. It’s an iconic destination in
Auckland these days.”
Orewa Surf Club 2000
“We’re an urban beach, and it’s on
24/7, 365 days a year now. We have
an official season between Labour
Weekend and Easter but get called
out all year round. In fact, most of
our serious incidents are outside the
normal patrolling hours.”
The 1200-member club, which
includes 150 senior rostered life
guards, requires a “military operation”
to function, John continues. While the
Auckland Council Sport
and Recreation Facilities
Investment Fund funding:
$2m; Local Board:
$100,000-plus; total funding
required: ~ $8.5M
A development is underway to
replace outdated clubrooms
at one of Auckland’s most
popular beaches
“It’s taken 10 years to get to
the point where we are able to
go to people in our community
and say ‘we’ve got Council
backing, we’ve got this money
and we need another million
dollars,’ or whatever it might
be.”– John Chapman, Building
Chairperson, Orewa Surf Club
Eastern Suburbs Gymnastics Club
(ESGC) strives to create a fun,
inspiring environment where people
of all ages can develop confidence,
and a lifelong love of sport.
The club’s efforts are working,
too: so much so, in fact, that it’s
outgrown its current premises and
is well along the path towards
developing a new facility.
Exterior of ESGC
“We can really only service up to
600 members in our existing facility
[which is a former factory in Glen
Innes],” says Katelyn Orton, an
ESGC Board Member who is
leading the club’s project to build a
new facility.
“Before COVID we had waiting
lists for our membership – and it’s
getting back there again. But we’re
competing now for space; we’re
limited in what we can do, and we
know there’s a great amount of
demand to meet.”
As well as catering to a growing
number of members, including
new circus and boys’ programmes,
the ESGC also has aspirations to
introduce programmes for people
living with disabilities and expand
programmes for senior citizens and
with local marae as well.
Proposed 1,500m 2 purposebuilt
gymnastics facility
Auckland Council funding
via the Sport and Recreation
Facilities Investment Fund -
$2.5m; potential club funding
from sale of currently premises
– c$6m; total funding required
- $12.4m
Will add much-needed capacity
for community programmes
and competitive gymnastics
programmes
“We’re bringing $6 million to
the party… If Council [was able
to match that] then we’d be
on the way” – Katelyn Orton,
Eastern Suburbs Gym Club
The popularity of hockey is on
the rise in Auckland, but there’s a
pressing need for additional facilities
– and increased flexibility in how
they’re funded and developed – to
keep up with demand.
Lloyd Elsmore Park has been the
home of Auckland Hockey since
1991, but with more players picking
up a stick in our region, pitch
time is at a premium – something
that’s compounded by the current
number of facilities available and the
growing costs of maintaining and
renewing expensive hockey turfs,
floodlights and facilities.
James Sutherland, General
Manager, Auckland Hockey, says
playing numbers across most
demographics are increasing.
“Our numbers across adults,
including masters, youth and
juniors all continue to grow, and
while numbers playing in high
schools dropped around the
pandemic, they’re starting to go
back up again too.”
“We currently have teams training or
playing midweek at facilities across
Auckland from 3pm up to 10pm each
night. The sheer demand for training
and playing space means that these
night-time sessions are the only time
venues can fit some teams.”
Co-locating at Colin
Maiden Park
To meet current and future demand,
as well as address a regional balance
of community hockey turfs, Auckland
Hockey has undertaken a project
to build two new state-of-the-art
hockey turfs at Colin Maiden Park
Will provide two ‘waterfree’
turfs which have lower
environmental impact than
traditional water based wetdressed
turfs
Having the flexibility to use
a portion of the Auckland
Council funding, alongside over
$3 million in other confirmed
funding, to enable the first
phase of work – earthworks
– would limit any further
cost escalations, maximise
the earthworks season, and
progress the construction
quicker, ultimately getting
people out playing on the turfs
sooner.”– James Sutherland,
General Manager, Auckland
Hockey
Case study
Karioitahi Surf Club
Case study
Counties Tennis Association (CTA)
Case study
Michaels Avenue Community Centre
Proposed club rooms
Helping Life Savers
at Karioitahi Surf Club
Auckland’s West Coast beaches are
known for their stunning beauty and
rugged landscapes. But their strong
currents and large waves can make
swimming hazardous, especially for
inexperienced swimmers.
While surf lifesaving is a sport in its
own right, the role that surf lifesavers
play in keeping swimmers from harm
in locations like Karioitahi makes them
vital volunteers for our region.
Jim Coe knows this better than most.
Existing club rooms
A stalwart of Counties rugby and a
former Māori All Black, Jim has been
part of Karioitahi Surf Life Saving
Club since before he picked up a
rugby ball.
“My father helped set up the club,
and I have been in and around it since
I was a kid,” he says. “I was around
when the current club rooms were built
50 years ago, for a sum
of $28,000.”
The club patrols an area of 35km,
from the Waikato River up to the
Manukau Heads. The beach where the
clubrooms are located is exposed to
the West Coast and the Tasman Sea.
“Our surf lifesavers work in very
dangerous conditions,” says Jim.
“Karioitahi is one of the top ten most
dangerous beaches in New Zealand.
Club House
Redevelopment,
Karioitahi Surf Club
Auckland Council Sport
and Recreation Facilities
Investment Fund funding:
$1.88m; Franklin Local Board:
$30,000; total revised funding
required: ~ $6.5m
A scaled-back plan aims
to deliver much-needed
clubrooms for one of New
Zealand’s most dangerous
stretches of coastline
“The closer we got to building,
the further away it seemed.
Costs keep rising… But
ultimately, if we don’t have
a surf patrol at Karioitahi,
people’s lives are at risk.” –
Jim Coe, Co-Chair, Karioitahi
Surf Life Saving Club building
committee
Funding Match Point for
All-Weather Tennis Facility
The Counties Tennis Association
(CTA) is close to securing a big
win for local tennis players and the
wider community, with year-round
play on the horizon – thanks in part
to substantial investment from
Auckland Council.
CTA secured an Auckland Council
Sport and Recreation Facilities
Investment Fund grant in
September 2023.
This has helped the Association
move a step closer to its vision of
Young CTA members enjoying some indoor training
CTA members enjoying their facility
Indoor Tennis Arena,
Counties Tennis Centre
80% funded, close to securing
remaining funding to start
construction
Auckland Council funding
via the Sport and Recreation
Facilities Investment Fund -
$990,000; Franklin Local Board
– $60,000; Total Project Cost –
$ 3.98 Million
Will span over 3,000 square
meters and provide five
covered tennis courts
“I’ve heard informally that the
projects approved by Auckland
Council’s Sport and Recreation
Facilities Investment Fund have
greater support with other
big funders” – Sharon Nelson,
President, Counties Tennis
Association (CTA)
Building a Community
Hub in Ellerslie
Situated in Tāmaki Makaurau’s
eastern suburbs, Michaels Avenue
Reserve has been home to the
Ellerslie Association Football Club
(Ellerslie AFC) since the 1950s.
This multi-sport ground has
undergone a remarkable
transformation in recent years
though, thanks to some strategic
investment from Auckland Council, a
robust masterplan, and some sheer
determination to create a thriving
community hub.
Artist impression of facility
Mark Weipers, President of Ellerslie
AFC which is based at the Reserve
alongside Ellerslie Cricket, has been
a driving force behind his club’s
journey towards fit-for-purpose
facilities for 21 years now.
He remembers the Reserve’s
facilities back when he first got
involved as being “outdated and
inadequate.”
A staged redevelopment plan
delivered by Auckland Council –
which initially focussed on improving
field capacity by providing artificial
playing surfaces, resurfaced fields
and better lighting over two stages –
started the process to change that,
though.
“Auckland Council’s investment in
field capacity created more demand
Exterior view of facility
Michaels Avenue
Community Centre
Completed in 2023
following a 5-year planning
and building process
Auckland Council
funding - $3.425m;
total funding - $7.2m
Developed for the wider
community, not just for
sporting codes that led the
development, with Auckland
Council support
Mark Weipers, Ellerslie
AFC President: “People
are attracted to modern
facilities that are easily
accessible, they can feel a
part of, and be proud of.”
Case study
Waitematā Table Tennis Club
Case study
Upper Waitematā Marine Centre
Case study
Warkworth Showground
Multi-Sport Project
Entry perspective
A new home for the
Waitematā Table Tennis Club
In 2012, long-time Tāmaki Makaurau
table tennis volunteer Andrew Palmer
moved to Waitematā Table Tennis
Club. Little did he know that this
move would be the start of a journey
that would result in a much-needed
facility for our region.
After five years of planning and
construction, the Waitematā Table
Tennis Stadium re-opened its doors
in Sunnyvale in December 2021,
leading to an almost-immediate
rise in the number of players using
the facility.
The replacement stadium is a far cry
from the one Andrew inherited.
“We had a small, volunteer-built,
1970s facility, which didn’t have
enough tables,” he recalls. “The
building was falling down and was
full of asbestos. We couldn’t play
while it was raining because the
water just came straight through
the ceiling.”
Previous efforts by the club to
build a new stadium hadn’t been
successful, with what Andrew
describes as “gold standard”
building plans drawn up 15 years ago
costed at $4-5 million, which “would
be $10 million at present.”
Andrew set about assembling a team
and securing funding for a scaleddown
but fit-for-purpose facility.
“We figured you couldn’t [build a
stadium] by committee, so we had a
team of three – the key being Simon
Fenwick, a Christchurch-based
player with design and construction
skills.
Artist impression of Waitematā Table Tennis Club
Waitematā Table
Tennis Stadium
• Completed in 2021 following
a five-year process
• Auckland Council funding
- $780,000; total funding -
$1.9m
• Waitemata Table Tennis Club
can now cater for 10 times
the participants it could in its
last stadium, while member
numbers have risen 200%
• “[Other grant funders]
wouldn’t give us money
unless they thought the
project would be successful,
and Council’s support
provided some validation
of this” – Andrew Palmer,
President, Waitematā Table
Tennis Club
New Marine Centre to
open up and protect the
upper Waitematā
Auckland’s Hobsonville area has
a long-standing connection to the
waters of the upper Waitematā
harbour, spanning Māori settlement
and Defence Force activity through to
more recent urban development.
Now, volunteers are hoping to
strengthen that connection even
further through the proposed Upper
Waitematā Marine Centre, improving
access to sport and recreation facilities
and encouraging environmental
stewardship along the way.
Jetty perspective
The Centre is a multi-sport facility and
community venue set to be built at
Catalina Bay on Hobsonville Point. It
aims to improve community access
to the water in a fast-growing part of
Auckland.
A facility for everyone
Mike Stanley has both rowed and
trained rowers in the waters of the
upper Waitematā harbour for more
than 50 years. The former Olympic
rower and Westlake Boys Rowing
Club coach – and current Chief
Executive of the AUT Millennium highperformance
sport facility – is working
as part of a volunteer team developing
the Upper Waitematā Marine Centre.
The Hobsonville Point Marine Sports
Recreation Centre Charitable Trust, of
which Mike is the chair, was formed
by members of the Westlake Rowing
Club, the Hobsonville Yacht Club,
Kainga Ora and the Hobsonville Point
Residents Society.
Upper Harbour
Marine Centre:
Auckland Council Sport
and Recreation Facilities
Investment Fund funding:
$4.12m; Local Board: $20,000
Two-stage project (stage one
– design and consent, stage
two – construction) to develop
a new multi-sport facility and
community hub in Hobsonville;
stage two construction cost
$6.24m
“We would have found it
incredibly hard to get this off
the ground [without the Sport
and Recreation Facilities
Investment Fund.”– Mike
Stanley, Trustee, Hobsonville
Point Marine Sports Recreation
Centre Charitable Trust
“We got together to see that we had
a home in amongst [the Hobsonville
Land Company’s] developments that
were going in [at Hobsonville Point],
and that lead to the formation of the
Trust in 2017.”
Building a New Home
for a Regional Recreation
Destination
Mahurangi in Auckland’s north is
booming. In just five years, the
population has surged by over 20,000
residents, sparking a rising demand
for sports and recreation facilities for
a widening range of codes.
To meet this demand, the Mahurangi
Sports & Recreation Collective – a
volunteer organisation comprised
of representatives from local sport
and recreation clubs – is planning an
ambitious multi-sport facility to cater
to the area’s expanding needs.
“While people see Warkworth’s growth,
they don’t consider the whole of
Mahurangi, which extends from Puhoi,
Snells Beach, Matakana, Omaha,
even to Wellsford,” says Graham
Buchs, Collective’s Chairperson. “The
catchment area is huge.”
The Warkworth Showgrounds are
currently home to the Mahurangi
Rugby Club rooms, which shares its
facilities with other clubs from across
the region under a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU).
Graham – who helped set up
Warkworth Hockey Turf in 2014 and
still plays for the Warkworth Hockey
Club – says the need for other sports
to have a shared, fit-for-purpose
facility has become very clear.
“This project has evolved from the
fact that a lot of our indoor codes
currently use courts at schools or
community facilities. As the schools
continue to grow in numbers, they’re
finding that they’re having less and
less ability to be able to use those
gymnasiums.”
Warkworth Showgrounds
Warkworth
Showground
Multi-sport Project:
Auckland Council Sport
and Recreation Facilities
Investment Fund funding:
$2.25m; Rodney Local
Board: funded two feasibility
studies and $150,000 for
Stage One; total funding
required: ~ $10-15m
Warkworth Showgrounds
land earmarked for a new
multi-sport facility
“That’s the dream as I see it.
Just continuing to respond
to changing times and offer
better facilities out there
at our Showgrounds.” –
Graham Buchs, Chairperson,
Mahurangi Sports &
Recreation Collective
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Open letter from the sector
This correspondence has significant sector support and features across
different media in Auckland, including the majority of suburban newspapers,
Stuff and the New Zealand Herald.
Shape the Future of Sport and Recreation in Auckland
Your Voice Matters
We Aucklanders love our sport and recreation.
Our sports grounds, parks, beaches, forests,
and pathways are a huge part of who we are,
and the active lifestyle we enjoy.
They cost money to be maintained and improved,
though: a lot more money than a few years back.
Auckland Council’s Long-term Plan (LTP) is
currently out for consultation which means all
Aucklanders can voice their support for community
sport and recreation facilities receiving the
necessary funding for the upcoming ten years.
The LTP is Auckland Council's blueprint for
the next decade. It provides vital funding for our
region's core services and amenities, from roads
and rubbish collection through to community sport
and recreation. The latter is what we are particularly
interested in.
Public consultation on the LTP is open from
28 February to 28 March 2024. We know that
the parts of the LTP that generate a large amount
of positive public engagement via the formal
consultation process are more likely to be locked in.
For community sport and recreation, a lot is on
the line. For example, the LTP proposes to increase
capital funding for community sport and recreation
by $35 million over the next three years. This will
see further critical investment available to support
community sport and recreation facilities, both
upgrades and new builds.
This alone is huge but there is more.
The LTP also proposes to retain the Sport
and Recreation Facilities Operating Fund. Without
this, many organisations will struggle to maintain their
facilities and keep them open for community use.
As anyone involved in community sport will attest to,
sausage sizzle fundraisers are not enough in 2024.
Community sport and recreation plays a vital part
in making Auckland a more active, connected, and
Open letter supporters
healthy place. The actions proposed in the LTP
will be key to unlocking these benefits, for current
and future generations of Aucklanders.
Now is the time for everyone involved in
community sport and recreation to have your say
– volunteers, administrators, parents, participants,
and sports enthusiasts alike. That is why you have
this group of Chief Executives coming together with
a united voice. And we need your help to amplify
our voices further to ensure we, as a sector and as
passionate Aucklanders, are heard.
Your voice matters.
Visit akhaveyoursay.nz/ourplan to make
a submission and share your views, to
ensure Aucklanders have access to the
community sport and recreation facilities
we love and deserve. Now and for
generations to come.
AKTIVE
Jennah Wootten
Chief Executive
AUCKLAND
BADMINTON ASSOCIATION
John McGregor
General Manager
AUCKLAND
BASKETBALL SERVICES
Claire Hamilton
Chief Executive Officer
AUCKLAND
CRICKET
Iain Laxon
Chief Executive Officer
AUCKLAND
CURLING CLUB
Rhys Greensill
President
AUCKLAND HOCKEY
ASSOCIATION
James Sutherland
General Manager
AUCKLAND
RUGBY LEAGUE
Rebecca Russell
Chief Executive Officer
AUCKLAND
NETBALL
Dianne Lasenby
Chief Executive Officer
AUCKLAND
RUGBY UNION
Jarrod Bear
Chief Executive Officer
AUCKLAND
TABLE TENNIS
Shane Warbrooke
Chief Executive Officer
BADMINTON
NORTH HARBOUR
Glenn Cox
Chief Executive
BOWLS
AUCKLAND
Dean Bartlett
Chief Executive
BOWLS
NORTH HARBOUR
Robyne Walker
Chair
CLM
COMMUNITY SPORT
Craig Carter
Chief Executive Officer
COUNTIES MANUKAU
BADMINTON ASSOCIATION
Steele Mildwaters
Chief Executive
COUNTIES MANUKAU
RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION
Aaron Lawton
Chief Executive Officer
COUNTIES MANUKAU
RUGBY LEAGUE
Kasey King
General Manager
COUNTIES
MANUKAU SPORT
Greg Buckley
Chief Executive Officer
COUNTIES
TENNIS ASSOCIATION
Sharon Nelson
President
HARBOUR
BASKETBALL
John Hunt
Chief Executive Officer
HARBOUR
SPORT
Mike Bishop
Chief Executive Officer
HARBOUR VOLLEYBALL
Rob Tarr
Game Development
Manager
NETBALL
NORTHERN ZONE
Phil Vyver
Chief Executive Officer
NORTH HARBOUR
HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
Michelle Bentham
Chief Executive
NORTH HARBOUR
RUGBY UNION
Adrian Donald
Chief Executive Officer
NORTH HARBOUR
SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION
David Gillanders
Chief Executive Officer
NORTHERN
REGION FOOTBALL
Laura Menzies
Chief Executive Officer
SPORT AUCKLAND
Mike Elliott
Chief Executive
Officer
SPORT WAITĀKERE
David George
Chief Executive
Officer
SQUASH
AUCKLAND
Tim Marshall
Chairman
SURF LIFE SAVING
NORTHERN REGION
Zac Franich
General Manager
TENNIS AUCKLAND
Rohan West
Chief Executive
Officer
TENNIS NORTHERN
Chris Casey
Chief Executive
Officer
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Young Aucklanders’ Voice
Given we’re looking to the future, we think it’s important to hear
what young
Aucklanders
have to say
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Hear what they have to say here
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Sector Leaders
Hear from some of our sector leaders and keep an eye out here for more videos >
Dillon Boucher
MNZM, Chief Executive,
Basketball New Zealand
PLAY >
Laura Menzies
Chief Executive Officer,
Northern Region Football
PLAY >
Duane Mann
General Manager, Clubs & Partnerships,
Auckland Rugby League
PLAY >
Iain Laxon
Chief Executive Officer,
Auckland Cricket
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How do I make my submission?
Public consultation on Auckland Council’s 10-year Budget runs
from Wednesday 28 February to Thursday 28 March 2024, and
there are a number of ways you can make your voice heard.
Visit akhaveyoursay.nz/ourplan for more information
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