No issues on file for Steve Ashby.

No issues on file for Mary-Anne Benson-Cooper.

1. CONTINUITY: North Shore wastewater and water infrastructure and services need to be maintained at least to current standard. Corporate raid asset-stripping by Watercare threatens to undermine the service level that has been built up by Council over the past 10 years. Watercare needs to take the whole service, not just cherry-pick the bits that are profitable. Residents expect quality service to continue and improve.
   
2. PLANNING: Governance changes mean there will be a Spatial Plan for Auckland. This needs to prioritise housing affordability and community development. It needs to ensure that the new Local Boards of Devonport-Takapuna and Kaipatiki can develop place-making and town-centre plans with grassroots communities and be delegated budgets for local implementation.
3. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: The North Shore natural environment, trees, parks, harbour edge, streams, estuaries, beaches and inshore waters need to be guarded as regional treasures. I support protection of property and coastline from erosion, extreme weather and climate change, and will advocate for practical assistance to reduce energy use and energy cost in buildings & transport.
   
4. TRANSPORT: The CBD Britomart rail loop project and three stations needs to be the top public transport priority. It will free up congested roads for freight movements and car traffic across the region - as it will increase rail carrying capacity, speed and attractiveness. We also need to keep the integrated ticketing project on track. Expansion of ferry and bus services is called for. We need also to finalise long term planning for the next Waitemata Harbour Crossing and Airport Rail. Regional development levies need to be established to fund regional infrastructure - not rates.
   
5. WATERFRONT: This needs to to emphasise public attractions & maritime heritage. Our waterfront is a precious public destination and meeting place - ahead of being just a place for economic growth projects like apartments and offices. Cruise ship industry requirements need to be met, but not at the expense of developing a public and people's waterfront.
   

1. Transport for Everyone
   
   Auckland’s transport system makes it slow and expensive to get around. Roads are clogged with traffic, buses are infrequent, ferries are expensive and the trains run late.
   Shore Voice believes public transport should be reliable, affordable and frequent, and provide real travel choices, making it easier for people to leave their cars at home.
   
   We will support:
   
   - Introducing a smartcard integrated ticket system
   - Extending the Northern Busway to Orewa
   - New ferry terminals for Bayswater, Beach Haven and Hobsonville
   - Advancing third-crossing tunnel option, future-
   proofed for rail
   - Improving school bus service
   - Safer walking and cycling option
   - Completing Auckland’s motorways
   - Developing a high occupancy vehicle (HOV) network
   
2. Community First
   
   North Shore's natural assets, community values and quality of life are the reasons so many of us choose to live here.
   
   Under the new system, the challenge for elected representatives is to protect the 'jewels' in our communities and all those things that make this a special place to work, rest and play.
   
   We pledge to:
   
   - Preserve our unique community partnership model for the delivery of community services
   - Protect and enhance our natural assets: open space, bush reserves and pristine beaches
   - Promote sporting activities for all ages as an essential feature of healthy communities
   - Preserve our libraries as valued centres for learning and inspiration
   
3. Environment
   
   Economic and social forces have driven the formation of the new Super City. But the quality of Auckland as a place to live, and to invest, is largely due to the quality of its environment.
   
   So it’s vital that we protect our most valuable asset, and put it at the heart of our decision-making.
   
   Shore Voice will:
   
   - Ensure a partnership exists between development and conservation
   - Improve water quality in our streams and coastal waters through effective stormwater management.
   - Ensure our beaches, bush and open spaces remain a priority in future planning.
   - Listen to our communities in developing the guiding documents for regional development.
   - Create genuine transport options, and ensure people can work close to where they live
   
4. Financial Management
   
   Above all, financial management in local government is about the care of other people’s money.
   
   The careful stewardship of council funds is paramount to the Shore Voice candidates. We take that duty seriously.
   
   After all, the local government dollar can only be spent once.
   
   We will:
   
   - Ensure fairness and equity in rating, now and in the future
   - Explore non-rates sources of revenue
   - Make sure funding decisions are based on community benefit and value for money
   - ShoreVoice pledges to act with these interests in mind to protect ratepayers from the potential aggressive effects of generalizing the rating base.
   
   

No issues on file for Harry Fong.

1. This term has been on of fiscal constraint for Council because of hard economic times for our ratepayers and this must continue under the new Auckland Council.
   
   The transition costs are expected to be about $200million and yet the rates cannot increase to cover this amount. Therefore, we need to be on guard against reduced services and asset sales.
   
   But, interest rates and construction index stayed relatively high. Transit roading subsidies down $1.3m and so we had to reduce some unnecessary roading projects. The last Council had planned a 8-9% rates rise for this year and we slashed that. But even the current Rates increase 4.7% (or 5.5% incl Amenities funding) is too high for many of our residents. Even with cutting back on projects we were left with a legacy Debt of $438m by October 2010. Currently planned Capital Expenditure is lower over 10 years (than last Council had planned) but still $1.7b planned the next 10 years. The average rates bill for 2009/10 is $123 lower than the last Council planned and rates at 2015/16 will be $440 lower.
   
   Debt is slightly higher as there is a lower than usual rates income to pay off the principal even though capital projects cut (mainly transport. However, Wastewater projects have increased, to ensure early upgrading to protect beaches and stop overflows, that had been stretched out to past 2024 by the previous council. This essential work will prevent sewerage overflows onto our beaches.
   
2. The great danger under the super city is that those elected to Auckland Council will forget who elected them and get caught up in the corporate board of directors approach the new structure encourages. "While the regional perspectives are important to unlocking the enormous growth and prosperity potential of greater Auckland, the best interests of our local communities on the 'Shore have to come top of the list.
   
   I make no apology for putting the 'Shore first, second and third. That is what people all over the 'Shore have said they want from their new Auckland councillor, and that is exactly what they will get from me.
3. I will fight to keep our community assets in public hands, especially our precious water infrastructure; for cheaper and more regular public transport, for more investment in local roading and for an early start on the new harbour crossing; for a safer, cleaner environment, protecting our precious coastal pohutukawas, and for a strong, vibrant regional economy.
   I will fight to keep our rates and water charges under control, as the new Council moves to a new uniform rating system and toward volumetric water charging across the region, and to keep a close eye on the enormous debt the new Council will inherit.
   
   Above all, I will fight to maintain local services and make sure the real power stays in the hands of local people. Only our local boards and communities can prioritise local projects and needs and the boards must be given adequate budgets and resources to achieve our local communities' desires and ambitions.
4. Auckland must work harder to develop a sustainable community and sustainable city. This means more than a 'green' environment, but that is important.
   
   We must adopt a cohesive and integrated approach to sustainable living which includes our natural environment, public transport (and walking and cycling) as well as urban design taht encourages environmental and social sustainability. This all needs to be linked into the cultural wellbeing of all our communities.
   
   Our parks volunteer groups undertake a huge amount of work protecting our recreational areas and as a Councillor I will support this work and advocate for these groups on a regional basis.
   
   It is incredibly important that we link our town centres with adjacent parks and reserves as a way to ease our growing population pressures. I will support this happening in our town centres as a priority. Our sportsfields are a fantastic community asset and I support them being upgraded so that they can be used for a wider variety of activities. We need to develop artificial sports fields so that our young people and teams can play and practice in all-weather conditions.

No issues on file for Ann Hartley .

1. KEEPING THE RATES AFFORDABLE
   
   No extravagant spending, Fair spending of the rates, not all being spent in Auckland
2. NO PRIVATISATION OF WATER or Volumetric Charging for water.
   Volumetric Charging is paying for your waste water according to how much drinkable water you use. This has hiked the rates for residents in some parts of the Auckland Region. It particulary penalises large families. Why should you pay for water you used to wash the car when it doesn't end up leaving your property to get processed, the same with watering your garden, waterblasting etc.
3. KEEPING TRAFFIC MOVING - high priority for another harbour crossing. Improve Public transport and subsidise it more. If we get more vehicles off the road, less road building and maintenance will be required.
4. Give plenty of decision making power to the Local Boards, Scrap the CCO's and have Councillors make the decisions. Highly paid Directors are not in touch with the public, in any case, it is jobs for the boys, they will be unelected and not able to be accountable.
5. SCRAP THE REGIONAL GROWTH STRATEGY. Only Big Business thinks we need to add more and more people to Auckland, so they can milk that cash cow. We are unable to keep up with infrastructure improvements. Lobby central government to encourage people to establish themselves in areas that need expanding by offering incentives to them. We are running out of food providing areas near Auckland.

No issues on file for Ken McKay.

1. Waste Minimization This a serious future issue for Auckland as the population grows. Rubbish bags, if replaced by wheelie our rates by $200.00. Currently our waste management charges on our rates are $23.90 (for the street rubbish bins) However Manukau charges $300.00 & gives out bags. Auckland charges $185.00 & a large wheelie.NSCC was the first Council to introduce pay as you go bags & initially decreased the land fill by 46%.
   
   
2. Public transport. It will grow if it is economical, frequent and well marketed. Currently users are turned off by obscure timetables, confusing services and lack of bus lanes. An efficient transport system will decrease our worst nightmare - traffic congestion. Jan has made many submissions to the Auckland Regional Transport Authority to this effect.As a daily bus commuter she petitioned council while on the Community Board to extend the Esmonde Road bus lane. For many years she gave submissions to Auckland City Council to endeavour to get better facilities in the city for North Shore bus commuters. This is ongoing as she believes both the Birkenhead and Takapuna/Bayswater terminals in the CBD need upgrading.
   Ferry tickets prices should include the price of the connection bus. This would lead to less cars being parked all day at terminals and help decongest the connecting roads. The introduction of integrated ticketing is urgently needed.
   
3. A new harbour crossing should be urgently implemented. The harbour bridge clip-ons have only 20 years life in them before major upgrading . The time for talking is well and truly over. Jan believes that tunnels are the only option.
4. The cost of the restructuring of the new city has never been fully explained. Taking into account the creation of a single rating system, one district plan, a common set of by-laws, the merging of computer & information systems, billing, payroll and redundancies the cost could rise as much as $300m.
5. New Auckland rates will be struck in 2012.
   
   They must be transparent. North Shore ratepayers are not mushrooms to be kept in the dark
   
   The incoming Council must cuts its coat to suit the cloth. Ratepayers must not be looked upon as not milch cows.

No issues on file for Christine Rankin.

1. Rates/Costs: Maintaining rates at an affordable level and controlling council costs is my highest priority. The new Auckland council will be presented with a substantial debt burden which needs to be carefully managed C&R have a long history of strong fiscal prudence. These are tough times and we need competent leadership to manage spending and prevent budget blowouts.
2. Local Boards: The new system of local government across the Auckland region needs well functioning and resourced local boards. It will be important that each of the 21 boards quickly gets down to work and develop a strong interface with their local communities. The new Auckland council must implement three-yearly governance agreements & local budgets. The boards also need to implement community action plans following wide dialogue with their
   communities.
3. Maintaining Current Levels of Council Service: Across the Auckland region there is currently huge differences in the levels of service that each of the councils deliver to their communities. With the advent of the one council we will see a number of Council controlled organisations (CCOs) taking over work that is currently done directly by the individual councils. It is therefore vital that the CCOs, especially in the areas of roading/public transport and water/wastewater are driven strongly to maintain current standards whilst at the same time providing quality standards and service that the local communities experience.
4. Roading/Public Transport: The Auckland region has meandered along with our transport services and infrastructure. Issues such as integrated ticketing for public transport has taken for ever to achieve. Compare Auckland to overseas cities where integrated ticketing was introduced long ago and is now taken for granted. Auckland's arterial roads are abysmal with traffic lights that are not organised to give a free flow of traffic. Huge improvements can be accrued to improve the capacity of our roading network.
5. Community Security/Promotion of Social Well-being:
   Areas of Auckland are in need of much work to improve community well-being. Some areas are boarding on being ghettos and require better coordination of the vast levels of Government spending they receive. The new Auckland council needs to play a leadership role to facilitate reurbanisation of some older residential and business/industrial areas. We have developed the new rapid metro rail system and the Northern busway. It is important that council introduces the right land use planning to enable development of land near the rail tracks for high density housing. The Government (Housing NZ) and private developers then need to mobilise.
   
   The next major issue is to see that a major initiative is taken to get an increased level of business growth. Auckland is feeling the impact of the global downturn in the economy. The new council MUST ensure that the impediments that currently exist in relation to seeing people invest in business are reduced in the area of resource consenting. Increased business development equates to more jobs which means increased wealth and prosperity for all.