CoveragePost
June 13, 2023
Local Democracy reporter Kim Meredith reflects on her observations from Auckland Council’s two-day annual budget meeting last week. Following drawn out debate and Mayor Wayne Brown compromising on a number of his original proposals — including agreeing to only sell around 40 percent of the council’s Auckland Airport shares — the budget passed 14 votes ... <a title="Pacific councillors offer passionate defence of Auckland city’s assets in budget dilemma" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/pacific-councillors-offer-passionate-defence-of-auckland-citys-assets-in-budget-dilemma/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific councillors offer passionate defence of Auckland city’s assets in budget dilemma">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 9, 2023
By RNZ News reporters Felix Walton and Finn Blackwell Auckland Council ended its meeting yesterday without a decision on the annual budget. The long-debated budget will attempt to close a $325 million deficit, exacerbated by a further $40 million in storm-related costs. Councillors arrived in good cheer, cracking jokes about the lengthy session ahead of ... <a title="Auckland Council fails to decide over controversial budget – reconvening today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/09/auckland-council-fails-to-decide-over-controversial-budget-reconvening-today/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland Council fails to decide over controversial budget – reconvening today">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 2, 2023
RNZ News New Zealand’s Media Freedom Council has called Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s exclusion of some media outlets from his budget speech today “unacceptable”. In an appearance at Auckland Transport’s Viaduct headquarters, Brown took time out of pitching his plan to sell the city’s holdings in Auckland Airport to complain about road cones, his “not ... <a title="NZ’s Media Freedom Council slams mayor Brown’s ban attempt as ‘insult to voters’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/02/nzs-media-freedom-council-slams-mayor-browns-ban-attempt-as-insult-to-voters/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Media Freedom Council slams mayor Brown’s ban attempt as ‘insult to voters’">Read more</a>
