Raglan Politics

We talk to Lisa Thomson in her first interview since winning a fourth term as our local Councillor and catch up about the local issues that council is working on including bad behavior from campers on James St, the Beaches by-law, Wainui Reserve 30 year plan, CCTV cameras - and we also look back at the election results including the Maori Ward referendum.

Waikato District Council's new Mayor Aksel Bech joins us following his big win at the weekend's local body election. We talk about his plans for the next three years and how he'll keep those election promises.

With just days left till the local body election closes we look at the stats to see if there will be a bigger turn out this year and talk about some issues that have come up during the campaign.

One of our candidates for Plan Change 1 at the Waikato Regional Council has described this plan as being something that will cost the Regional economy billions of dollars. We've got Craig Mitchell in the studio to see if we can get behind the hyperbole and slogans and find our what the Plan means and whether the council can stop it - if they decide the want to.

Did the Regional Council staff make decisions on the public transport without all the information from a survey? It would appear that the full results of a region-wide survey were not put in front of the council when they had to make key decisions about the upcoming bus contract which is due to be negotiated with a private contractor. John Lawson has been asking questions and has a few answers, bu...

John and Aaron check out the voter returns to date and review the Meet the Candidates event that was run by Raglan Community Radio and discuss the state of play at the moment.

There was a lot of news from the recent Community Board meeting so we've bought Chairperson Dennis Amoore into the studio to find out what happened.

We meet Eloise Deller and learn a little bit about her background and why she chose to run for the Raglan Community Board.

With the Maori ward Referendum coming up we talk to our local Maori Ward Councillor about her experience over the last three years and find out in, practical terms, what a Maori Ward Councillor does. Tilly Turner is the first, and returning Councillor for the Tai Runga Takiwaa Maori Ward within Waikato District Council.

Chris joins us in the studio to tell us why he's running for a third term on the Raglan Community Board and we talk about what he feels he's achieved and what else he wants to do.

He's not running for council but he has a lot to say about the process. We cover a couple of things that have come up on the election trail plus we take a look at the upcoming community board meeting this week - which will be the last before the election.

Satnam joins us in the studio to talk about his last three years on the community board and what he feels he has to offer for the next three.

Jacqui joins us on the line to talk about her bid for a second term as Waikato District Mayor

Aksel joins us in the studio to talk about his campaign for Waikato District Council Mayor

We catch up with Gary McGuire to see what we can learn about him and the issues he cares about ahead of voting in the local body election.

We talk to our sitting councilor Lisa Thomson about her bid to return for a 4th term with Waikato District Councillor.

We talk to Ross Wallis who is running for a position on the Raglan Community Board for a second time.

We talk to current Councillor Noel Smith about his decision to return for a second term on the Regional Council and discuss things like Plan Change One, rates and community engagement.

We talk to current Councillor and Chairperson Pamela Storey who is running for a third term on the council.

Jasmine is well known for work at the local Environment Centre so we find out a few other things about her background before she started there and talk about what she would like to do on the Community Board.

We talk to Dennis about his decision to come back for a third term on the board, what he feels he achieve in the last few years, what he would like to do and we also have a chat about what the work of a board members actually consists of.

We Nick Pearce to learn a bit about him as well as his plans for the Raglan Community Board.

We talk to Nicola Laboyrie about her background, what she hopes to achieve in council and her experience taking legal action against the council about the right to ride horses on the beach.

Despite the election Council is still doing some of it's normal business and John has been digging to find a few nuggets of useful info for us. We also talk about the Waikato Times controversy about plastic in the water and debate the issue of rates that is rearing it's head at this election.

We get to know a bit about Peter Hampton, talk about his aims should be get on to the board and what he thinks needs to be improved about council and the community board