Services include:

• rubbish and recycling
• water
• sewage systems
• cemeteries
• parks, swimming pools and sports grounds
• walkways, footpaths and streetlights
• roads
• halls, airfields and libraries
• local community grants
• dog and noise control
• food safety
• wharves and boat ramps
• public toilets
• building and resource consents
• civil defence
• funding district events
• stormwater management
• natural event risk management eg floods.