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The Christchurch City Council (CCC) is the local government authority for Christchurch in New Zealand. It is a territorial authority elected to represent the 415,100 people of Christchurch. [ 1 ] Since October 2022, the Mayor of Christchurch is Phil Mauger , who succeeded after the retirement of Lianne Dalziel . [ 2 ]
One such group, the Ratepayers' Mutual Protection Association, challenged the right of the Christchurch City Council to exist. Wynn-Williams was active with the group and took the case to court. [7] Ratepayers started to withhold their rates, and in April 1866 the Council was forced to drastically cut expenditure in order to fend off bankruptcy ...
After the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes, Templeton was active in her Heathcote Valley community, and later co-authored a book about the community's efforts. She was awarded a Civic Earthquake Award for her community-building work. She chaired a community board for three years before standing for Christchurch City Council in 2016. She was the ...
On 14 July, the Christchurch City Council voted to sign a $683 million contract to build Te Kaha. [7] This will require the council to invest an extra $150 million, which they plan to do by increasing rates. The council received 30,000 submissions about the stadium, with 77% being in favour. [8]
In January 2024, Mauger suggested in a report to council that Christchurch could host the 2030 Commonwealth Games. Christchurch previously hosted the games in 1974 . The suggestion was met by protestors in the council chamber, and despite a lukewarm response from councillors they agreed to ask council staff to investigate the possibility.
The People's Choice was founded as Christchurch 2021 to contest the 1992 local body elections after the amalgamation of several smaller councils into a larger Christchurch City Council in 1989, and brought under one umbrella Labour local candidates with independent centre-left and left.
Each ward of the Christchurch City Council returned one councillor to the city council. The first-past-the-post system was used to elect the Mayor of Christchurch and city councillors for the 2022–2025 term. [2] Voter turnout was 43.31%. [3] The positions of mayor and sixteen city councillors were contested by the following candidates:
He was a Labour candidate for the Christchurch City Council in 1968, but was not elected. Mabel Howard and Trevor Davey also stood and were unsuccessful. [6] Courtney was an elected member of Nelson City Council for six years during the 1970s under mayor Roy McLennan; for some of that time, he was