This week Dawn Baxendale announced her long promised restructure of the CCC executive. Next week I will analyse this but one thing worried me during the week. Chris Lynch posted his thoughts on the announcement, as he should. However, the venomous comments under his posting were disgusting. It … [Read more...]
People are thinking hard about the CDHB:
I have had numerous conversations about the CDHB over the past disastrous week. The week when brilliant leadership was sent up the road. Last night I received these thoughts from Bruce White about a subsection of the complex issue of public health: I don’t know much about the inner workings of … [Read more...]
Garry’s musings 14 July 2020
It was really rewarding last week to be inspired by the enthusiasm of people at the Tuesday Club. People are responding to the chance to get involved, which was exactly why we started the Tuesday Club. We will never go fast enough to keep everybody happy, but the challenge is to enable people to … [Read more...]
Proposed Government reforms potentially make our water assets vulnerable to privatisation
This week water policy moved back into the middle of public debates. At least it tried to. However, the National Party did its best to grab the public policy platform; but that was about “own goals”. While the media were focused on who had the biggest “Boag-ey”, the Government made a … [Read more...]
This Week: Nick Lovett and Brendon Harre on Urban Planning…
In recent years, gravel carparks have become a particularly pervasive presence within the central city. Land that was previously used for homes, offices, restaurants, schools and shops is now used to store vehicles. If you have ever wondered why this is the case, or if the … [Read more...]
The Red Zone meeting last week worried me:
There was a public meeting about the Red Zone on Wednesday evening at the Tannery. On the way in I got tempted to buy a pint of the wonderful Cassell’s milk stout to take to the meeting. After a warning that we were breaching their liquor licence we were forced to miss a couple of the … [Read more...]
A response from Pauline Cotter on the Edgeware Plan:
I received this from Pauline Cotter, the Councillor for the Innes Ward. It is really impressive when a busy City Councillor is taking the time to watch the debates at the Tuesday Club on line and I thank her for her response. Here it is clarifying what was talked about a couple of weeks … [Read more...]
Hot water cylinder failure CCC accepts role:
In the Press this week there was this article https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/121765215/possibly-12000-christchurch-homeowners-have-hot-water-cylinders-fail It was the first time that CCC has admitted that chlorine contributed to the corrosion which has wrecked so many hot water … [Read more...]
Garry writes 2 June 2020
Each year since the early 2000’s there has been a survey by CCC of how the community is feeling about itself. When I sat at the Council table, we used it as the best independent review of the Council performance and how people were feeling about the City, other than elections. So, it was sad to read … [Read more...]
Generation Zero challenges CCC’s response to Post-Covid 19
Thanks to Cam Bradley who sent to me what Generation Zero recently wrote to CCC with the following suggestions for their actions post Covid 19. It is a very well thought through submission and I hope it doesn’t disappear into a hole at CCC, and be ignored. My advice to Generation Zero is to hassle … [Read more...]
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