A podcast discussion with Chris Bishop, RMA Reform Minister, on the government's fast-track plan to amalgamate local councils, driven by fiscal pressures, public demand, and momentum across regional areas.
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Now genuinely it's a response to feedback. So what happened in November was we put a bit of a start at 10 out. We said, okay, we're going to get rid of the regional council laws, have these combined territories with the mayors, get them to get on with regional reorganisation. What we were quite surprised by, to be honest with you, Mike, was a lot of people wrote back in and said, not really sure about this mayoral thing. We just want to get on with it. It's been really interesting over the last few months, the number of councillors and mayors. and people in local government land who've just come up to me and said look we agree with you we want to reorganise we want to amalgamate just get on with us just get on with it let us do it and so that's what today was yesterday was about which is saying to the councils okay you say you're up for it we are too there's a window here there's a there's a window of time in which you know you can shape your own destiny and um you know if you're up for it we'll facilitate it and we'll legislate for it
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growing grassroots support for reorganisation
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