The potential for community boards in Napier has been floated, ahead of a review of how the City Council is made up.
The question of whether community boards are needed in Maraenui and Bay View will be put to residents as part of an online survey run by the Napier City Council. It started yesterday and closes on Monday, February 12.
The results of the survey will help inform a report on the council's representation arrangements.
A community board is a way to represent a "community of interest" within the city so that people can link with the council over and above what is currently in place.
In 2017, 30 per cent of people who took part in an overarching Representation Review survey about how communities are represented on the council said Napier should have one or more community boards, in particular, for Maraenui and Bay View.