Municipal decision from June 2012

About a week ago, a new set of board meeting transcripts were uploaded, sadly again as PDF files so a bit more work to work them into my data. But that is done now, the detailed summary of each meeting with municipal decisions is available on the ThesabanUpdates blog. The summary of the summaries is below - as usual it was mostly Board 2 which had discussed municipal changes.

• Meeting 39 on June 6 [Transcript, Details]. 3 TAO get upgraded to subdistrict municipalities, one to a town municipality, and one subdistrict municipality to a town municipality.
• Meeting 40 on June 12 [Transcript, Details]. 6 TAO get upgraded to subdistrict municipalities.
• Meeting 42 on June 19 [Transcript, Details]. 6 TAO get upgraded to subdistrict municipalities.
• Meeting 43 on June 20 [Transcript, Details]. 4 TAO get upgraded to subdistrict municipalities.
• Meeting 41 of Board 1 on June 25 [Transcript, Details]. 2 TAO get upgraded to subdistrict municipalities.
• Meeting 44 on June 26 [Transcript, Details]. 9 TAO get upgraded to subdistrict municipalities.
• Meeting 45 on June 27 [Transcript, Details]. 8 TAO get upgraded, seven to subdistrict municipalities and one to a town municipality.

An interesting observation while working through all those updates - in most cases, the upgrade will be done effective the day after the term of the TAO council ends,thus exactly four years after the last council elections. However, there are a few cases where the upgrade is effective on the final day of the term, or a few days before the term finishes. I am not sure if these are mistakes in the transcript or if these are intentional - in past I noticed that the dates given in the board meeting transcripts sometimes differ from the dates given in the Royal Gazette announcements or the Excel sheets from the Department of Local Administration.