Crux brings you: The 2024 QLDC Performance Survey (Unauthorised)

The Queenstown Lakes District Council today announced that they had removed the council performance section of their 2024 Quality of Life Survey.

This may be related to a steady decline in results from the community in recent years, producing only a 15 percent result for the 2023 survey in terms of satisfaction with both elected members and council's overall performance, as well as three other performance measures.

The 2023 council performance results compared with the previous four years.

Crux has decided to publish exactly the same questions as in 2023 for a survey that will produce community results for 2024.

QLDC collected 1,767 responses - please help us get the same or higher response rate this year.

Here's an exact copy of the QLDC 2023 questions - Please complete

The 2023 results may be the worst in New Zealand but it is hard to measure survey against survey due to the different survey methodologies used by different councils.

Here's the most comprehensive multi-council comparison available - from 2022.

Only Tauranga (2022) has come close to a 15% rating (16%) - and in that case commissioners were put in control by the Government due to chronic council dysfunction.

Mayor Glyn Lewers said in response to the 2023 results that while it’s heartening the community has a high level of pride in the district and is positive about QLDC’s community facilities such as parks, libraries and sports and recreation venues, the lower levels of satisfaction are something the council is taking very seriously.