The council webpage on it is here.
- You don’t need to live in the Waikanae ward, but your nomination must signed by two people who do. You need to pay a deposit of $200 which you get back if you win or get more than a quarter of the votes of the winner.
- Nominations close at noon on Friday 11 September
- If a ballot is needed because there is more than one nomination, voting documents will be delivered between 16–21 October
- The deadline for return of voting papers is noon Saturday 7 November 2020.
Geoffrey’s comments:
A knowledge of Waikanae will be an advantage, but not essential. If you take the job seriously, an average of 8-10 hours a week will be involved. This isn’t just in attending formal meetings, but informal ones, meetings with staff on matters within the board’s sphere of advocacy, an appointment on a council subcommittee or focus group and other activities as you chose within the community.
The pay will work out below the minimum wage.
Don’t expect glamour or official recognition — the coverage of Geoffrey’s resignation in the Kapiti News and Observer was probably the most newspaper coverage that any Kapiti Community Board has had in the last 5 years.
In Waikanae you’ll need to put up with a self-obsessed ward councillor who often doesn’t listen to what others have to say and is almost devoid of people skills.
More significantly, however, we have a Mayor and Chief Executive who regard community boards as a nuisance and would like to be rid of them.
But don’t let us put you off…
Hope your going to give it another go – By the way do you have any idea how the proposed changes to the rating system are going. I think this was mooted 6 or 9 years ago so the turkeys should have got some way down the track? Obviously the council staff don’t want it but we as ratepayers would welcome some action.
Geoffrey says he will likely contest the Waikanae ward council seat in 2022, but another 2 years on the community board with J. Prvanov there was untenable.