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Community Boards Executive Committee (CBEC)
What is CBEC?
The Community Boards Executive Committee (CBEC) represents all the community boards in New Zealand.
CBEC is an advisory committee to Local Government New Zealand's (LGNZ) National Council. It advocates for community boards and promotes best practice.
CBEC has one member from each of LGNZ’s six geographical zones.
Elections for CBEC representatives are held after the local government elections each triennium. Each community board has one vote for their zone representative.
CBEC meets three times a year in Wellington. As well as these meetings, each zone representative run regular zone forums to update community board members and discuss topical issues.
- Zone 1 representatives: Jessie McVeagh and John Stewart (Kaikohe-Hokianga Community Board, Te Hiku Community Board)
- Zone 2 representative: Carolyn Hamill (Whakatane-Ohope Community Board)
- Zone 3 representative: Sarah Lucas (Inglewood Community Board)
- Zone 4 representative: Jackie Elliot (Otaki Community Board)
- Zone 5 representative: Simon Britten (Waipapa Papanui-Innes-Central)
- Zone 6 representative: Regan Horrell (Mosgiel Taieri Community Board)