Waikato's District Mayor reckons camping out has cut her commute and means she can give more time to the job.
Jacqui Church now lives in a caravan in a paddock in Ngāruawahia just a few minutes from the council's headquarters.
It's a rambling district of more than 400 thousand hectares. And the Mayor had been commuting an hour each way from her port waikato home.
Jacqui Church is with us now.