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Speaker 1: In Auckland, the mayor has confirmed that he is stripping

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Speaker 1: some embattled council controlled organizations of their powers. Now he

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Speaker 1: wants to get rid of Auckland Transport, but he can't

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Speaker 1: do that just yet, so instead he's planning to take

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Speaker 1: over the back office functions for now Igipanuku, which is

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Speaker 1: the Economic Development arm is gone. Under this proposal, Auckland

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Speaker 1: Unlimited will lose a lot of its work. Wayne Brown

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Speaker 1: is the mayor, of course, Hi Wayne.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Now Wayne?

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Speaker 1: Do you still I mean, these are just proposals. So

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Speaker 1: do you still need to convince the council?

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Speaker 2: Do you? I do, but I'm hopeful that I have

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Speaker 2: done so. When I stood for the mayor of one

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Speaker 2: of the two one of my five platforms, what it

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Speaker 2: was to get back control the council organizations because they

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Speaker 2: supposedly council controlled, but they're more council controlling and they've

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Speaker 2: become independent, too independent, and I'm set up with people

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Speaker 2: ringing up and complaining about things that I'm not in

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Speaker 2: control off fair enough?

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Speaker 1: So is the anseil on board with you? Do you reckon?

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Speaker 1: You'll get them over the line.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty hopeful.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, So what are the back office functions that

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Speaker 1: you are going to take over at Auckland Transport.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think we wanted to a bit more than

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Speaker 2: back office, but basically that we don't. We're the only

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Speaker 2: councilor that doesn't even write its own regional land transport

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Speaker 2: plan and they even trust Gores and trusted as doing

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Speaker 2: it down there, but we're not here. It's stupid. I

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Speaker 2: really want them just to focus on public transport. If

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Speaker 2: they focused on that and really concentrated and did it well,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that the people of Auckland would like them

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Speaker 2: a lot more than they do at the moment.

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Speaker 1: So does that mean that would you take over speed bump,

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Speaker 1: speed limits, roads all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, the government's taken over the speed limits just recently

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Speaker 2: as well, which may or may not be a good idea.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think that Auckland should be in control

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Speaker 2: of Auckland frankly, and that means I'd like to give

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Speaker 2: it less input from Wellington as well as from the

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Speaker 2: independent counselors. But it would mean that we would be

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Speaker 2: taking over all the transport planning and set the annual plan.

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Speaker 2: It's a very least well do and administrative agreed to

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Speaker 2: change the legislation or agreeing to traine the legislation so

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Speaker 2: that we least get that. But really a case can

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Speaker 2: be made that or can transport to just to public transport.

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Speaker 1: If they do If you get to that point and

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Speaker 1: they do it, well, do you leave them doing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Really, I think there is a place for independence

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Speaker 2: at some stage. But if you want to do that,

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Speaker 2: you've got to focus them on what it is you

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Speaker 2: want them to do. But they're not being focused to

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Speaker 2: being sort of they can do whatever they bloody like

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Speaker 2: at the moment, and they've wandered off with a whole

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Speaker 2: lot of things. When they do stuff in people's neighborhoods,

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Speaker 2: they managed to piss everybody off and that's not good.

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Speaker 2: And you know, we get voted for every three years

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Speaker 2: and they don't. And so if you're going to get

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Speaker 2: if you're going to be blamed for it, I want

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Speaker 2: to have the ability to influence it.

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Speaker 1: Why let Auckland Unlimited keep running the zoo and the

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Speaker 1: gallery and stuff. I mean, I realize you're going to

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Speaker 1: take all of that kind of like the event funding

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Speaker 1: off them, but why let them keep running those big organizations.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're not doing a bad job of that and

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Speaker 2: those have I mean owre mony fixing things that are wrong.

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Speaker 2: And we may or may not take all the events

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Speaker 2: off them, but what I do particularly want to take

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Speaker 2: off them and keep central is economic development. Because economic

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Speaker 2: development I mean the major cities in China, of which

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Speaker 2: are all booming and developed madly or not developed very

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Speaker 2: well but amazing. Right, it's all centrally planned with the

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Speaker 2: mayor leads it surrounded by elected officials and that that's

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Speaker 2: what they concentrate on thinking, and so when they do

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Speaker 2: something or other, it's not random. Like when we develop

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Speaker 2: an area, we would ensure that there's business things and

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Speaker 2: then we ensure as a transport plan that picks up

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Speaker 2: and so water is a plan and that the powers

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Speaker 2: on and everything. It's very piecemeal here. It's divided up

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Speaker 2: by starting and players, you know, and that doesn't work,

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Speaker 2: and we're not having great development economic development in New Zealand,

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Speaker 2: and aren't trying to have obviously in Ja overseas, trying

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Speaker 2: to reroute all of the passenger from between all the

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Speaker 2: stuff between Brazil and China via Auckland, and it'll be

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Speaker 2: a huge and put to Auckland's economic development. And in

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Speaker 2: some ways I don't know what it's fell to me

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Speaker 2: to do that, but wasn't happening. So I'm doing that.

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Speaker 2: But as me, you can have a real input on that.

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Speaker 2: But as it stands at the moment, I've known put

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Speaker 2: in economic development because I'm insulated away from it by

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Speaker 2: Tartak e Auckland.

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Speaker 1: Wayne, thank you very much and good luck, good luck

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Speaker 1: getting this across the line with the council. I hope

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Speaker 1: you actually have the numbers. That's Wayne Brown Auckland's meth.

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