Credit to Watercare for communicating the boil water notice in Royal Oak/Hillsborough/Three Kings/Mt Roskill. Got both text & email notifications. www.watercare.co.nz/home/project... @juliefairey.bsky.social @jonturnernz.bsky.social

E Coli Alert! Boil water notice for parts of Hillsborough, Mt Roskill, Royal Oak + Three Kings by Watercare Watercare page w maps www.watercare.co.nz/home/project... RNZ www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... OR www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/... #ecoli #health #TāmakiMakaurau #Auckland #Aotearoa #NZ

Getting older seems to be sore body parts and complicated feelings about people dying.

Did you see this 👇 seems like a good move easily copied www.premier.vic.gov.au/labor-scrapp...

I was asked twice to write a support letter for (the same) sexual predator. It was v easy not to 🤷🏻‍♀️

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

Or on youtube ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMsh...

Mōrena folks, today's Keeping up with the Councillors is the Governing Body's March meeting - lots of big issues on the agenda, in particular a vote on the future of Western Springs Stadium which has drawn a large crowd in the gallery. I will be skeeting here as we go along. /1

Annual Plan feedback for Auckland closes tonight! Super quick and easy to do online! akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/annual-plan-...

Opinion: Physical activity has long been framed as a matter of personal responsibility. But anyone who has tried to walk or cycle Auckland roads knows that’s not the case, writes Erica Hinckson.

E-bike plus electric train Name a more iconic duo For getting around AKL 😎

This morning I'm at the Albert Eden Local Board meeting in their office on Dominion Road. I'll be speaking to my written report for February later on, in the meantime I'm observing while I deal with emails etc in the background. They have lots of public input today! 1/

Just a reminder the government total mobility subsidy of 75% on taxis for people who can’t drive or use public transport (disabled, elderly etc) is dropping to 50% in July. Most of these folk will not get that $50 weeky travel bonus

There are approximately 2.02M h/holds in NZ - just under 7% of NZ h/holds will receive an in work tax credit of $50/week to assist with rising fuel costs. Not our most impoverished h/holds tho, not h/holds without children, and not most two-income h/holds. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Today was a v rough experience for me in the Transport & Infrastructure Delivery Committee. I know I hid it well (because that’s what was necessary to keep functioning and do my job) but it comes at a cost, some before these mtgs, some in them and some later. I want to be upfront about that.

Putting this up separately - this is a really worrying precedent for local boards being able to present to AKL council's regional committees - the process _has_ been to just send an email at least 1 clear working day ahead, which happened in this case but chair says that's not the process.

We're in Transport & Infrastructure Delivery Committee today with at the start 11 committee members in the room - Chair Baker, Turner, Fuli, Gillon, Winiata, Tukerangi, Henare, Simpson, Fairey (me), Filipaina, Williamson, Sayers. Online are Newman, Bartley and Short. Henderson just arrived too. 1/

In Auckland Council's Annual Plan quasi-hearings process today until about 3.15pm-ish. Friday's session was for Māori organisations and had 4/21 councillors in person for the whole two hours with generally 7 online. There were a bunch of apologies on council business, but also some who gave none.

If an AI report on a big complicated thing is commissioned by someone who has repeatedly said they don’t understand the big complicated thing what are the chances the AI report will be useful? Asking for a colleague 🤦🏻‍♀️

Today Auckland Council's Budget & Performance Committee (all the councillors, mayor plus two Houkura members) are doing our quasi-hearing "Have Your Say" process with a focus on Māori organisations and stakeholders presenting on the draft Annual Plan for 2026/27 (next year's budget). 1/

Hey @connorsharp.bsky.social let’s use this example instead of yelling CRABS in a crowd next time 😂

Get your employer to sign up for this while there are still bikes in stock: www.workride.co.nz

Or put another way, the public commentary inspired by a mainstream politician shouldn't show this much similarity with the disinformation, and conspiracy laced, virulently anti-vaxx, & now ideologically far-right commentary inspired by Voices for Freedom.

Tonight I'm at the Auckland Conversations event with Alain Bertaud presenting on "Making Cities Work: Labour markets & housing affordability" - great intro from Simon Wilson giving the context of where we were last time he visited in 2014 and the "minefield" he is walking in to. 1/

Today I was in the Value for Money Committee for about four and a half hours and I totally forgot to tell you! We got some things done. Including receiving a bunch of recommendations to make resource consenting work better ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/media-centre...

Fast track concerns. 4000 homes. On rural land. With no planned infrastructure. A large part of it in a flood plain. Strong opposition from council. Still approved. Interview here: Papakura Chair Kelvin Hieatt speaks for the first half and me in the second half. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Ive stopped for ice cream on the way home from mahi. I do this often. Yesterday a new councillor colleague said to me that they had been reading my reports and noted I do a lot of evening work. Today that same colleague scoffed when I said I would need to leave a workshop early. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm putting together a post of indie and self-published SFF by trans and non-binary authors if anyone would like to be added! (If I miss you for the post, I can also add you to my LGBTQIA+ collection!)

Civic duty is sexy. The word consultation… is not. It’s time to have your say on Auckland Council’s Annual Plan 2026/2027 – and you can do it your way.

Now I've gone downstairs to watch Waitematā LB meeting and Member Trotman has created a big drama out of an admin error, including leaving the meeting and joining it online (possibly without permission from chair which is required?). Super weird behaviour. *waves* @connorsharp.bsky.social here too

We have Auckland Council's Budget & Performance Committee this morning - just started a little late due to a lack of quorum (ie not enough people in the room) but underway now. Lots of apologies for lateness! In person now: Sayers (chair), Mayor, Simpson, Bartley, Burns, Fairey (me), Williamson...

“Millionaires in Remuera”, you say? Interesting choice of example.🤔 Also: just because you have that one anecdote about that one friend doesn’t invalidate a policy that was working for a great number of other people, who also exist. #nzpol

Yes Mad Max is somewhat about petrol shortages but it is far far more about climate disaster and _water_ Why do you think its all a wasteland??

$10 at the dairy for a block of butter. #NZPols

Matthew Hooton's column should have been illustrated with this. He talked abt Sweden's death toll without mentioning it was NINE TIMES bigger than ours. He dismissed deaths in other countries as mainly being older people, so it would have been ok for us to have heaps of older folks die? Ghoul.

Get you some business association managers like Jamey from Karangahape Road, and Brent from Uptown 👏👏👏 And big shout out to the businesses behind them, who support doing what actually works to help those without homes rather than vice signalling. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Claims that _every_ Parnell, Ponsonby & Mt Eden resident can have a 15 storey building built on their boundary are incorrect. These are big suburbs &only parts of them are proposed for 15. Mt Eden is roughly the area inbthe red circle here, much smaller yellow circle is approx the 15 storey area.

Latest Plan Change 120 News - Council committee voted today to adopt a set of principles to assess how to amend things given changes central govt wants. Passed basically unanimously (w some quibbles) despite a weird amendment attempt. ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/media-centre...

Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol

While you may have heard Cr Fletcher blaming City Vision's Richard Northey for the postal voting system, there was a vote last term where we decided NOT to change from postal voting to booth voting. As the sole City Vision councillor I voted FOR booth voting, and Cr Fletcher voted AGAINST booths🤷‍♀️

Today's AKL Council COW (Committee of the Whole) is Policy, Planning & Development Committee and we are just starting at the town hall. In person are: Hills (chair), Simpson, Bartley, Fairey (me, deputy), Filipaina, Fletcher, Sayers, Henderson, Lee, Watson, Turner, Short, Paterson-Hamlin, Winiata...

On a mini public transport adventure with two junior associates this morning - one is my usual junior junior and the other is a special guest star. First bus is 25L from Waikōwhai city bound. Seats of love all full but enjoying the upper deck views anyway :) 1/ #BusLife

Went to Werewolf last night in the AKL Arts Festival - super fun and v much recommend especially for @brislen.nz I was in the city centre until about 11.30pm. Rode home along K Rd and Dominion after walking up Q St from Merchant Mezze. All ok. Here’s a nice pic I took just before I left :) #LoveAKL

Thank you, Bill

WATCH: This is STILL one of the toughest truths for some to accept, but one of the most IMPORTANT — car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtowns and urban areas! Watch this excellent video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible.

I am expected as an elected member to respond nicely and help efficiently people who are rude to me, include attacks on council staff in their messages, make up stuff about me on FB, but if a homeless person simply exists on the street that's anti-social behaviour, what is this nonsense.

Looking forward to widespread coverage of the Art Gallery restoration project coming in under budget - was supposed to be $31.4m and is going to be $30.2m instead, due to reusing scaffolding and access points. Council is constantly looking for savings like this, & often achieving them!

I think someone here asked if the Community Committee discussion on homelessness from last week was online - it has just gone up on YouTube - be aware it is pretty Full On (I nearly cried at one point). www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPtD...

Accessible Streets still lives? Excited these no brainer changes that have a high level of support have been revived! Includes kids riding on footpaths, e-scooters in bike lanes, let the bus go first etc. Consultation closes 25th March. HT to Tom James on GWRC (who may not be on here?)