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Local Government Forum media advisory, December 2001.

Local Government Minister Sandra Lee says local authority trading enterprises such as those set up to retail water or power are to become more accountable to their communities.

Local Government Minister Sandra Lee has congratulated the more than two dozen new Mayors of territorial local authorities elected in the 2001 local authority elections.

Local Government Minister Sandra Lee says she's concerned to learn that nominations are crawling in for local authority and DHB positions in some parts of the country, with only a week remaining for nominations to be submitted.

Local Government Minister Sandra Lee today urged the Wellington City Council and other local authorities with concerns about Crown rating exemptions to make submissions on the new Local Government (Rating) Bill.

A bill to modernise rating powers has been introduced in Parliament as the second part of a major overhaul of the laws under which local councils operate.

Local Government Minister Sandra Lee said today the news media would be free to report on this year’s local authority elections without any suggestion of a need to seek candidates’ approval for any reported comments about themselves.

Local Government Minister Sandra Lee today announced the appointment of three new members to the Local Government Commission.

Prime Minister Helen Clark and Minister of Local Government Sandra Lee today said that a review of the Local Government Act would allow local authorities to better serve their communities.

Local Government Minister Sandra Lee says the "complex question" of unlawfully collected rates estimated by Local Government New Zealand to affect about 12,000 multiple units like apartment blocks will be discussed by Government ministers next week.

Local Government Minister Sandra Lee says a Crown Law Office opinion has confirmed the view of her officials that the Local Electoral Act does not impose a media gag.

The Minister of Local Government , Hon Sandra Lee, says claims that the news media might be gagged under provisions in the new Local Electoral Act are "drawing a long bow".

Local Government Minister Sandra Lee has announced that a public consultation document on the Review of the Local Government Act will be launched next month.

Local Government Minister Sandra Lee says Parliament has approved important changes today to local authority electoral laws, so some of the provisions can take effect in time for this year's local body elections.

The Minister of Local Government Hon Sandra Lee has welcomed the election of a new Mayor and councillors for the Rodney District Council, almost a year after she replaced the previous councillors with a Commissioner.

The Minister of Local Government declined to comment other than to say if there had been a sin-bin when she was a councillor, she may well have ended up in it.

"I am aware of the issues involved with local authority Chief Executives’ fixed-term contracts, including the requirements for advertising such positions.