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Council joins water rebellion by Andy Bryenton
After a spirited and multi-faceted debate in council chambers last week, the Kaipara District Council has voted by a split decision to join in with other councils opposing the Three Waters mandate.
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Mayor Dr Jason Smith cast the deciding vote, committing the KDC to a path of resistance. This decision will see the KDC participate in a media and lobbying campaign alongside a large number of other nationwide civic authorities. It came just hours after Auckland Council voted unanimously to reject the Three Waters ownership model and consult with their ratepayers on how to proceed. Mayor Smith was concise in his appraisal of the government’s Three Waters legislation. “I see the entire thing as wretched. It’s a hot mess,” Dr Smith said. He noted the councils behind the anti-mandate campaign are motivated as much by a lack of democratic process and the absence of choice as by infrastructural factors. “This is a very loaded issue for our council, and for every council in New Zealand,” said Councillor Peter Wethey. “It’s about democracy as much as it is about Three Waters.” Opposition to signing a memorandum of understanding and paying $5,000 to opt-in to the campaign against Three Waters centred on the lack of a concrete alternative, should the campaign succeed and abolish the forthcoming legislation. That, and the possible political motives behind the campaign’s organisation, saw fully half of Kaipara’s elected representatives to abstain from participation, voting against the proposal. Concerns were also raised that joining the ‘rebel’ councils in their campaign could
Troubled waters — the Kaipara District Council debated long and hard about whether to join the chorus of official opposition to the government’s Three Waters legislation
undermine the position of Mayor Smith as the sole Northland civic representative on the committee of Entity A. This proposed monolithic authority would administer all water services north of the Waikato under Three Waters. However, the argument for joining the voice of opposition won out, with councillor Victoria del la Varis-Woodcock opining that the Three Waters mandate breaches not only the second article of the Treaty of Waitangi, but also the Local Government Act.
This opposition Three Waters group is separate from a legal challenge to the mandated legislation, launched by a group of council entities in mid-November. Whangārei District Council, South Canterbury’s Timaru District Council, and Waimakariri District Council filed an application in court against Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta and Secretary for Internal Affairs Paul James, seeking a legal judgement over the meaning of the term ‘ownership’ in relation to the Three Waters legislation.
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