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Speaker 1: Together do for Sea Ellen.

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Speaker 2: Since the government announced it is scrapping regional counselors yesterday,

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Speaker 2: mayors have started piping up and largely complaining about the

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Speaker 2: extra work that they will have to do because they're

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Speaker 2: going to be asked to fill in the place of

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Speaker 2: those counselors. Anita Baker is the mayor of Portador. Hi, Anita, Hello,

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Speaker 2: are you complaining about the workload?

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Speaker 1: No, we do some of it already. I don't see

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Speaker 1: the problem. I think that the Wellington region need to

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Speaker 1: grab this opportunity and move forward and look at our amalgamation.

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Speaker 2: You want amalgamation. Do you think the start's of algamation?

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Speaker 1: I think it does start. I think we could do

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Speaker 1: it in the three years. I think you get rid

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Speaker 1: of regional Council and the four of us get together

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Speaker 1: with the five of the s get together and we've

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Speaker 1: become a tlc SO an authority. So I think it's

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Speaker 1: the right way to go.

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Speaker 2: I mean, your famous for famously obviously support the SUNA.

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Speaker 2: But what about the other mayors? Do you think they'll

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Speaker 2: be on board with them?

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Speaker 1: That's renew meors, So I'll catch up with them and

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Speaker 1: find out Hot city did the amalgamation question to the

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Speaker 1: residents like we did and they passed it. So I

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Speaker 1: know that the hot city's up for it. I've heard

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Speaker 1: Andrew be up for it online, you know, speaking to

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Speaker 1: the media. So I think we just need to get

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Speaker 1: in a room and sort it out.

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Speaker 2: Do you think it is a good idea when you

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Speaker 2: look at what is going on? This is so the

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Speaker 2: start of it being the scrapping of the council is

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Speaker 2: asking the mayors to step up, then presumably the amalgamation,

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Speaker 2: and then later on down the track the RMA reform

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Speaker 2: that makes everything work faster. Do you like what you're

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Speaker 2: seeing here?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 1: I do. I'm for it. I think change. It's good.

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Speaker 1: It's long over Gyman local government. We all double up,

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Speaker 1: do we do things? One finds the other one. We're

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Speaker 1: not working together, you know, we all do the same

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Speaker 1: thing and we have twenty minutes away from each other,

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Speaker 1: so it just seems silly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. I need to thank you very much,

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Speaker 2: always appreciate your time. That they need to bake it

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