Early exits at the top of QLDC could transform the 2025 local elections

Analysis.

The three people in our feature image above are the architects of all aspects of culture, communications and change (or lack of it) at the Queenstown Lakes District Council.

If all or some of them resigned before the October local body elections it could change everything.

A new mayor, and a new set of councillors, could then get on with fixing the basics (budget, infrastructure and transparency) rather than entering a potentially protracted battle of wills, time and money engineering fundamental cultural and financial change.