Our new Community Board Chair Ross Wallis is in studio to talk about the new powers that the Mayor has delegated to Community Boards and about the Board's plans for the next three years.

Our Councillor Lisa Thomson has been appointed Chair of the new Community Voice and Choice Committee - one of the three main committees of council - so we talk with her about her hopes for this new role and what it means for the new Mayor to prioritise community engagement in such a significant way,

We also check in on local issues and how the new community board is coming together.

Mayor Aksel joins us to talk about changes he's making to the way council operates and to the new powers he's delegating to the Raglan Community Board. We also talk about his desire for transparency and for communities to have more of a say in how the council operates.

We talk about the efforts at the Regional Council to try to stop Plan Change 1 plus look at various projects and opportunities to give feed back to the District Council. We also look at how many times sewer lines have been incorrectly connected to the stormwater system - something that has caused very high E Coli. readings in our harbour.

Ross Wallis joins us in the studio fresh from being elected as Chair of the Raglan Community Board earlier in the week. We talk about the plans for the next three years and what it might mean if the new Mayor goes through with his plan of giving more power to the Community boards

John Lawson is in studio to look at the final election results and maybe predict what's going to happen over the next three years.

We also look at couple of consultations happening at the moment about activities on our beaches and also freedom camping on James St.

We talk to Lisa Thomson in her first interview since winning a fourth term as our local Councillor and catch up about the local issues that council is working on including bad behavior from campers on James St, the Beaches by-law, Wainui Reserve 30 year plan, CCTV cameras - and we also look back at the election results including the Maori Ward referendum.

Waikato District Council's new Mayor Aksel Bech joins us following his big win at the weekend's local body election.

We talk about his plans for the next three years and how he'll keep those election promises.

With just days left till the local body election closes we look at the stats to see if there will be a bigger turn out this year and talk about some issues that have come up during the campaign.

One of our candidates for Plan Change 1 at the Waikato Regional Council has described this plan as being something that will cost the Regional economy billions of dollars. We've got Craig Mitchell in the studio to see if we can get behind the hyperbole and slogans and find our what the Plan means and whether the council can stop it - if they decide the want to.