BayBuzz

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Everyone’s Organised . . . But the People

Many of you have heard the BayBuzz mantra … sunlight is the best disinfectant … when it comes to pressing accountability upon our elected officials. Transparency is indeed very powerful on its own. But often it’s not enough.

Nor is one voice. Nor are heaps of voices, when disorganised.

That’s why I’m appealing to you to join Baybuzz and transform it into a citizens’ organization. One that informs and educates its members – and many others – on the issues. One that happens to communicate a lot! One that stands up to Councils and Councillors when it needs to.

We’ll ‘settle’ for a few hundred members. Groups in the Bay that advocate private interests, certainly their right, like the Chamber of Commerce (with about 300 members) or HB Fruitgrowers (with about 200 members), have a fair bit of clout.

They’re organized, focused, persistent.

We citizens should learn from them. Think how much more effective we could be if hundreds of us – hey, why not a thousand — linked arms to advocate public interests!

So I say to you … Everybody’s organized but the people.

JOIN BAYBUZZ AND WE CAN FIX THAT!

What local issues trouble you most?

• Threatened environment
• Wasteful council spending
• Access to and quality of health care
• Neglect of basic public services and amenities
• Local government overlap & duplication
• Councils pursuing their priorities instead of yours
• No compelling and sustainable vision for Hawke’s Bay
• Too much secrecy, insider politics, meaningless consultation, and ‘done deals’

Join BayBuzz and get more than a Buzz!

BayBuzz involves hours and hours of digging for information, tracking the councils, meeting with decision-makers and community leaders, making presentations and submissions. Hours aimed at pressing for council transparency, accountability and public responsiveness, as opposed to protecting special interests and pet projects.

Let’s put all those hours of work behind a citizen’s organization that speaks for YOU!

JOIN BAYBUZZ FOR $45 AND YOU WILL GET …

• Week in and week out monitoring and reporting on the councils. Literally hundreds of hours of legwork on your behalf.
• The printed BayBuzz magazine posted to your door.
• A new monthly email-newsletter, reporting what BayBuzz has been doing on your behalf.
• Members-only invitations to quarterly BayBuzz-sponsored issue forums.
• Of course the BayBuzz website and, if you wish, our FREE weekday blog covering the hottest issues.
• Informed calls-to-action when you can make a difference, and participation in setting BayBuzz’s agenda.

Help BayBuzz do more than raise your blood pressure!
Help BayBuzz raise your voice! Join BayBuzz now.