The Royal Commission on Auckland Governance delivered a report to government to state the future of Auckland, in March 2009. The report recommended that Auckland should change another way to run which would provide better outcomes to both government and citizens.
Eventually, the government accepted the Royal Commission’s report. Then the Auckland Transition Agency (ATA) was set up in May 2009, to deal with all the transition process. The main task of Auckland Transition Agency is to combine all the local councils across Auckland Regional into a single, unified, government entity. To be exact, the old Auckland governing structure was 1 Auckland Regional Council, 3 district councils, 4 city councils and 30 community boards. Now it is replaced by a single Auckland Council and 21 elected local boards.
In October 2010, the ATA is already completing all the groundwork. On 1st of November 2010, Auckland’s eight existing local bodies merged into a single new local governance structure which now we call it Auckland Super City.
The new Auckland Council will have one mayor and 20 councilors elected from 13 wards from Franklin to Rodney. This replaces 7 city mayors and a regional council chair, 13 regional councilors and 96 territorial authority councilors.
Under the new scheme the single mayor and the 20 councilors will focus on the “big picture” and make decisions that affect the Auckland region.
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