The Vincent Community Board has a new leader and deputy following Tamah Alley’s appointment as the Central Otago Mayor last week.

Deputy chair Jayden Cromb has moved into the hot seat with fellow board member Dr Roger Browne stepping up into his old role.

Following yesterday’s meeting, council staff held a delegations workshop to discuss with Vincent board members how they expect to proceed with districtisation of services now in place.

Governance manager Wayne McEnteer and group manager - business support Saskia Righarts were speaking to each of the community boards to get their opinion before presenting at a workshop with council on November 13.

The CODC will make a final decision on how the delegations process should work on December 18.

Council expects that, where practical, issues related to each ward have community board input prior to being considered by the council.

Community board chairs would also then have a chance to speak to the council each month.

VCB member and district councillor Martin McPherson highlighted the recent issue with the museum review policy, whereby the board wasn’t consulted prior to the report coming to council.

“There was some strong opposition toward the council direction and path it was taking,” he said.

Cr Martin suggested not having informal workshops affecting the wards but instead a paper presented to council, so as to make a recommendation on that.

Saskia said this was also the request of the Cromwell Community Board earlier this week.

“It’s basically so there are no surprises,’’ Cr Martin said.

‘’If anything has an impact on ratepayers there needs to be a paper trail so everyone has their arses covered basically, and a process in place that the boards know they are part of that.’’

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