Comments on: Wards and Boundaries Submission http://www.greylynn2030.co.nz/2009/12/11/670/ Positive Vision – Practical Action Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:10:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Geoff Houtman http://www.greylynn2030.co.nz/2009/12/11/670/comment-page-1/#comment-1491 Geoff Houtman Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:07:19 +0000 http://www.greylynn2030.co.nz/?p=670#comment-1491 I agree with almost all of your submission (having made a similar one), but the ons thing that gets me is the local board members. If Great Barrier gets 5 for a pop of 840 (168 per board member), Waiheke the same for 8000 people (roughly 1600 per member) why does the Maungawhau part get 5 for 80,000 pop (approx 16,000 per member) In what universe is that even partially fair? Surely Great Barrier would still be grossly over-represented with 3 board members, give the other two to the mainland where we;re supposed to represent 4 vastly different neighbourhoods with 5 board members. A difference in representation ratios of x100! (is that three orders of magnitude?) and all in the same ward.. Insanity. Excellent submission, and great bike-blender at the GL park fest. Cheers Geoff I agree with almost all of your submission (having made a similar one), but the ons thing that gets me is the local board members.

If Great Barrier gets 5 for a pop of 840 (168 per board member),
Waiheke the same for 8000 people (roughly 1600 per member) why does the Maungawhau part get 5 for 80,000 pop (approx 16,000 per member)

In what universe is that even partially fair? Surely Great Barrier would still be grossly over-represented with 3 board members, give the other two to the mainland where we;re supposed to represent 4 vastly different neighbourhoods with 5 board members.

A difference in representation ratios of x100! (is that three orders of magnitude?) and all in the same ward..

Insanity.

Excellent submission, and great bike-blender at the GL park fest.

Cheers

Geoff

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