What is a community board?

Overview | Purpose of community boards | Delegations of community boards | Principles of delegations to community boards | Community board members' contact details

Overview

Community boards are elected to ensure that local people have a voice on local issues and to provide a direct link between their community and the Auckland City Council. They make decisions on local issues that are in the best interests of the community as a whole. They monitor the facilities and services provided by the council in your area.

They can also act as a sounding board for the council on community matters. There are ten community boards in the city:

Waiheke
Great Barrier
Western Bays
Hobson
Eastern Bays
Maungakiekie
Tamaki
Eden/Albert
Avondale
Roskill.

Each board consists of five or six elected board members and appointed ward councillors to represent your community. You can view the contact details for community board members on this website.

Specific responsibilities of a community board are:

to consider and report to the council on matters of interest or concern to the community
to overview service levels relating to road works, water supply, parks, recreation facilities, community activities and traffic management in the community
to identify community needs and make submissions to the council's budgetary processes for spending in the community
to keep in contact with community groups, special interest groups, residents and businesses in the community.

Community boards are established under Section 101ZP of the Local Government Act 1974 to perform such functions and duties and exercise such powers as are delegated to them by the council (Section 101ZZ). They are not committees of the council. (Section 101ZX Local Government Act 1974).

Community boards cannot set rates, raise funds, enter into contracts, deal in property, pass bylaws or appoint staff.

Get more information on the funding that is available from community boards.

Updated January 2009