A really neat part of the media are the local stories produced by Frank Films. This week Gerard Smyth and team at Frank Films produced a story on a wonderful housing solution called the Peterborough Housing Coop. I have written about it before. In the film the Frank Film crew focused in on those … [Read more...]
Review of Local Government
The Government has done its best to garrot Local Government and has now announced that they intend reviewing the role and function of Local Government. This review is not before time as the last time a review was undertaken was in 2002, again by a Labour Government. The Terms of Reference are … [Read more...]
In conclusion 4 May 2021
This Week – Tuesday submission on Climate Change to CCC
This week Tony Moore from CCC is coming again to help us as we work on a submission for the Tuesday Club on the Draft Climate Change Strategy for the Christchurch City Council. We will not be recording this session. … [Read more...]
Last week – Rod Carr
Dr Rod Carr, the chairperson of the Climate Change Commission, is obviously a busy man right now, having to deal with 15,500 submissions. Despite that, he took the time last week to address the Tuesday Club. It was a hugely popular talk and those who arrived after 5:20 pm could not fit into the … [Read more...]
Garry writes 20 April 2021
In the report on last week’s Tuesday Club meeting there was an excellent example of how important it is that Council staff are able to sit and play with ideas with a group which is only about sharing them. Tony Moore, who is an amazingly enthusiastic public servant, had just presented on the … [Read more...]
Last Week – CCC on Climate Change and Representation Review
Last week we had a hummer of a session... Firstly, Tony Moore spoke about the CCC programme to address Global Warming. It was interesting to have Eric Pawson challenge the room to consider whether or not we as a City are being brave enough and embracing the Climate Commission’s goals. That led to … [Read more...]
This Week Rod Carr
This week Rod Carr will join us to talk about the work of the Climate Change Commission Dr Rod Carr thought he had retired. He quit full time work at the end of 2018, let his beard grow until he resembled a 19th century Russian novelist, ran a marathon in North Korea and planned to sit on a … [Read more...]
Let’s focus on Jaime Lerner, Mayor of Curitiba, and some things we can learn from him
Last week I said that I would write something about Jaime Lerner. Well Carl Davidson (who wanted to demonstrate that he reads the Tuesday Club notes) sent me the article below which was written about Jaime a few years ago. Here’s one of his quotes: If you want creativity, cut one zero from the … [Read more...]
An outstanding article analysing how the CDHB was undermined by Wellington bureaucracies
Ian Powell has written an extremely well researched article on CDHB. It is published by Victoria Universities “Democracy Project”. It summarises how CDHB has been completely done over by the Ministry of Health and its various sub agencies over the years. Our area has been a victim of incompetent … [Read more...]
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