Our Council is planning for your future. We need your help to understand what our community values are, as are a stepping stone in our long term plan process. Let us know what matters to you

What do we do?

We look after the entire Gore District, all 1250km². This includes the two main towns - Gore and Mataura – and the townships of Pukerau, Waikaka and Mandeville.

Our mahi (work) includes

• Water supply
• Wastewater
• Stormwater
• Roads and footpaths (but not state highways, private roads or paths), including street lighting and parking
• Parks, reserves, swimming pools and other recreational facilities
• Cemeteries
• Rubbish and recycling
• Civil defence
• Libraries
• Arts and heritage
• Visitor centre
• Grants
• Events
• Building consents and resource consents
• Issuing licences to sell alcohol and food
• Animal and noise control
• Community development

Why do we do it?

The Local Government Act 2002 states that we, as a council, must promote the social, economic, environmental, and cultural wellbeing of communities in the present and for the future. These are the things that make a community a nice place to live.

We have six community outcomes.

1. We value our history and heritage
2. We live in a creative place
3. We have a choice of quality places to go and things to do
4. We have a quality infrastructure with potential for growth
5. We live in a compassionate caring community
6. We value and respect our environment

How do we do it?

We need your feedback!

We want to know what make our District liveable to you? We’ve picked seven of our services to get a feel for what our community feels are the most important. You can give us feedback by

• Using our online voting tool
• Fill out our ranking tool in the 16 October issue of the Ensign or download a copy here
• Chat to us in Person! We'll be taking our voting tubes around the District, you can see list list of locations on the right (more locations still to come) or email us at communications@goredc.govt.nz and request us to come to you!
• We also want to know, what back to basics means to you. Click here to let us know on our ideas board.