Tauranga City Council Activities
Council Purpose
The purpose of the Tauranga City Council is to enable democratic local decisionmaking to promote the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of Tauranga City in the present and for the future. In meeting its purpose, Council’s roles are to;- Facilitate solutions to local needs
- Advocate on behalf of the local community with central government, other local authorities and other agencies
- Sustainably develop and manage the community’s assets
- Plan for the future needs of the district
- Regulate various activities within the district
- Fund activities that provide benefit to the district’s community’s
- Ensure the reliable provision of those services that the community needs
- Monitor progress towards the achievement of the community’s outcomes and the performance of Council’s activities
- Ensure the community is well informed of issues affecting it
- Ensure that people have the opportunity to meaningfully participate in local decision making processes.
- Source
- Tauranga City Council Local Governance Statement, April 2005
Council Activities
During 2003/04 the Council advised its community that it undertook the following activities. N.B. There is no single agreed standard set of categories for councils to describe their activities.Council activities listed below are not necessarily in order of preference or priority.
- Customer Services
- Libraries
- Tauranga Museum
- Visitor Information Centre
- Active Recreation and Community Facilities
- Parks, Open Spaces and Coastal
- Venues, Community Events and Financial Assistance
- Animal Services
- Community Housing
- Strategic and Investment Property
- Economic Development
- Sister Cities
- Transportation
- Airport
- Solid Waste
- Stormwater
- Wastewater
- Water
- Environmental Compliance and Monitoring
- Environmental Consents and Engineering
- Environmental Policy
- Civil Defence and Emergency Management
- Source
- Tauranga City Council - Long Term Council Community Plan, 2004-2014
