{"id":3491,"date":"2023-06-21T09:54:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T21:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onnaturesedge.co.nz\/tuatapere\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2023-08-22T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T00:38:25","slug":"community-outlook-20-06-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onnaturesedge.co.nz\/tuatapere\/community-outlook-20-06-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Outlook: 20-06-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Council Meeting: 06 June 2023<\/h3>\n<p><em>Brief points:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 Community Board members were absent from the meeting.<\/li>\n<li>The Hauroko Valley Primary School student leaders from year 8 (and Mrs Waikato, Principle) made wonderful presentations to the Board sharing details of what the students have been up to.<\/li>\n<li>The Board decided on funding for applications made to the Community Partnership Fund and allocated funds to the Tuatapere Pool from the Pool Rate Reserves.<\/li>\n<li>No other decisions were made at the meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Voting System for 2025 Local Government Elections was briefly discussed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next meeting: 3:30pm, Tuesday 8 August at Waiau Town and Country Club.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h3>Voting System (Local Government Elections)<\/h3>\n<p>Council will be asking for Community views on the Local Government Election voting system via the Council &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeitstick.nz\/you-decide-2025\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Make it Stick<\/a>&#8221; website.  No detail on how those without Internet access are to present their views at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The options are to stay with the current system, &#8220;First Past the Post&#8221; (FPP), or change to a &#8220;Single Transferable Vote&#8221; (STV) system for the election of the Mayor, Councillors, and Community Board members for the 2025 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve heard both Council Staff and Councillors describe the STV system incorrectly, and some detail provided on the Council &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeitstick.nz\/you-decide-2025\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Make it Stick<\/a>&#8221; website appears to be very poorly worded or incorrect.  As with most &#8216;new&#8217; things, it can take a little while to gain full understanding.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Government has a website that describes the STV system and provides a number of examples of how the STV system works, it can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stv.govt.nz\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.stv.govt.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a list of Councils that used the STV system in 2022:  Kaipara, Tauranga, Ruapehu, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Kapiti Coast, Porirua, Wellington, Greater Wellington, Marlborough, Dunedin, Far North, Gisborne, Hamilton, Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of Australia&#8217;s voting systems are based on preferential voting, many are a variation of the NZ STV system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why change?<\/strong>  The FPP system often does not result in what the majority of voters want, however it is a very simple system.  The STV system uses preferential voting, requiring voters to rank candidates in order of preference.  A quota system is used to distribute preferences, which can be difficult to understand, and is best determined using a computer system.  However, the STV system produces results that are representative of what voters want and tends to be a fairer system.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested, please take the time to read through the details on the Government website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stv.govt.nz\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.stv.govt.nz<\/a> to understand the STV system better and perhaps provide your views to Council via the Council &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeitstick.nz\/you-decide-2025\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Make it Stick<\/a>&#8221; website.  If you want further information, I&#8217;m happy to try to provide it, email me at <a href=\"mailto:info@onnaturesedge.co.nz\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">info@onnaturesedge.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council Meeting: 06 June 2023 Brief points: 2 Community Board members were absent from the meeting. The Hauroko Valley Primary School student leaders from year 8 (and Mrs Waikato, Principle) made wonderful presentations to the Board sharing details of what&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community_information","category-tuatapere"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Community Outlook: 20-06-23 &#187; On Natures Edge - Tuatapere<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Community Outlook: 20-06-23 - Tuatapere Te Waewae Community Board Meeting (06 June 2023) Summary - Voting System (Local Government Elections)\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onnaturesedge.co.nz\/tuatapere\/community-outlook-20-06-23\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Community Outlook: 20-06-23 &#187; 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