Submissions

The Taituarā 2026 submission on 2025 local elections recommends shifting from postal voting, prioritising in-person voting, centralising election functions, boosting civic education, and improving voter engagement.

Taituarā supports planning reform but warns the Bills are complex, poorly sequenced, and underfunded, risking implementation. Calls for clearer design, realistic timelines, better alignment, and stronger Te Tiriti obligations.

Taituarā urges SLG reforms to ensure enduring, coordinated local government change, backed by consensus, sustainable funding, Māori partnership, clear criteria, and alignment with other ongoing reforms.

Taituarā supports the proposed development levies system to better fund growth-related infrastructure, reduce under-recovery, and align with housing objectives, while noting implementation timing, scope gaps, and Crown exemptions.

Taituarā submission warns rate-capping risks underfunding infrastructure, undermining reforms, local autonomy and financial sustainability, and urges a fair, flexible, cost-reflective model.

Taituarā supports the Bill’s tolling and RUC reforms to improve the sustainability of land transport funding, backing road pricing in principle while recommending fair cost indexing, safeguards for local roads, and careful transition planning.

Taituarā supports DZ 9202:2025 standing orders that are clear, culturally responsive, flexible, user-friendly, and regularly reviewed, enabling transparency, community engagement, and practical governance across diverse councils.

Taituarā thanks the Ministry for consulting on the Hospitality Sector review, offering member-driven insights to improve compliance, support small businesses, streamline processes, and enhance enforcement and training.

Taituarā supports current dog control laws, opposes mandatory bite scales, and urges wider consultation before legislative changes, prioritising victim support and community safety.

Taituarā supports economic regulation of water services and an information disclosure regime that is customer-focused, transparent, and practical, ensuring fair costs, sustainability, and service efficiency.

Taituarā supports a draft Code of Conduct focused on good governance, clear member behaviours, robust complaints processes, independent investigation, and professional development for elected members.

Taituarā supports raising LAMIA’s contracting limit to $100,000, highlights its outdated nature, and urges a first-principles review to ensure elected member conduct rules remain relevant.