Local Board Plans and Agreements

Local Board Plans

Your local board takes its guidance from you, the community. An important way it does this is through the development of a local board plan.

Local board plans are important planning documents. They inform and influence the development of the Auckland Council's Long Term Plan (2012 to 2022)

Your local board plan sets out the aspirations and priorities for your community for the next three years and beyond, and provides your local board with a framework to undertake activities on your behalf. The plans include:

• The values, priorities and vision identified by the communities in the local area
• Key projects and programmes that the local board is proposing
• Advocacy that the local board will undertake on behalf of the community
• How the local board proposes to set local service levels to meet community aspirations
• How the local board proposes to fund these service levels
• Who the local board will work with to implement the local board plan.

You will find more information about your local board, including copies of the local board plans, at the local board plans page.

Local Board Agreements

Each local board will negotiate and agree an annual local board agreement with the governing body (council). The first local board agreements will be for the 2011/2012 financial year and form part of the Auckland Council's annual plan for 2011/2012.

The local board agreement determines a local board's budget and funding for local activities for each financial year. It sets out:

• The levels of service for each local activity, including performance targets and measures
• The budget for operational and capital expenditure for the local board for that financial year
• The sources of funding for that budget.

Each local board agreement will be based on the priorities and preferences contained in the relevant local board's plan. As the first local board plans won't be adopted until 30 October 2011, the first local board agreements will be informed by the Auckland Council's Long Term Plan for 2010-2019 which contains local board budgets for 2011/2012 (which are based on previous councils' long term plans). The agreements and their budgets will undergo consultation as part of the 2011/2012 Annual Plan process.