Submissions on the representation review are open and the Mosgiel Taieri Community Board wants everyone in the ward to make a submission.
Board member Sarah Nitis said it was the board's role to ''raise awareness'' and encourage people to make a submission.
''People need to speak up now.
''People need to have their say and it's easy,'' she said.
There was concern among members of the board that if the Mosgiel Taieri Community Board was ''dissolved'', residents in that ward would be left without a ''voice''.
''People need this board to have someone to relate to,'' board member Blackie Catlow said.
''The people of Mosgiel, all 16,000 of them, need us ...''
Board member Mark Willis said the boards were important for all communities.
''We want all communities to have a voice,'' he said.
Last week the board decided on recommendations for a submission on behalf of the board.
It decided in a majority vote that the number of community boards should stay at six; that ward boundaries should stay the same (unless specific boards wanted a change to the current boundary); and that the number of members per board should remain at six.
The board was unanimous in its decision that boards should have a council representative.
At the Saddle Hill Community Board meeting last Thursday, the general consensus among its members was that ward boundaries should stay the same and the number of members on a board should not be cut.
It was moved that a separate meeting take place to discuss its submission next week.
Dunedin City Council corporate services group manager Sandy Graham attended both meetings to answer specific questions and hear concerns about the boards' representation review.
''If people want to put submissions in, they should follow the procedures,'' she said.
''Use the online form.
''The more submissions, the better.''
Forms for making a submission on the issue would be distributed around local businesses in Mosgiel and were also available from the Dunedin City Council.
Submissions close on July 27.
