Thanks to three ECan Councillors Lan Pham, Vicky Southworth and Craig Pauling who gave an extra presentation last week at 7.30 about the ECan annual plan, with a view to encouraging you to make submissions. This session was co-hosted by Tuesday Club, Aoraki Greens and Sustainable Ōtautahi … [Read more...]
7.30 Session – make a submission to ECan
At 7.30 Tuesday we have three ECan Councillors Lan Pham, Vicky Southworth and Craig Pauling give a presentation about the ECan annual plan, with a view to encouraging you to make submissions. This session is co-hosted by Tuesday Club, Aoraki Greens and Sustainable Ōtautahi Christchurch. Link … [Read more...]
Christchurch City Council Annual Plan submissions called for…
We received this from the Christchurch City Council requesting submissions on the Annual Plan: We’re getting in touch again to let you know that consultation is now open on the Draft Annual Plan 2022/23, and that you can now have your say ( Draft Annual Plan 2022/23 : Christchurch City Council … [Read more...]
A great decision by CCC on not selling to Wilsons Car Park company:
The Christchurch City Council made an excellent decision this week in deciding not to sell the site alongside the Court Theatre to Wilsons Car Park company. My antipathy towards Wilson’s has no bounds. In the opinion of many local residents they looted this city mercilessly by leasing empty … [Read more...]
This Week on Zoom – Celeste Donovan
This week we have asked the newest City Councillor, Celeste Donovan, who replaced James Daniels when he resigned from Christchurch City Council. It was an interesting election, and the people of the East elected a strong woman with environmental skills to lead the very part of this city which will … [Read more...]
Christchurch City Council sets its annual plan
I received in my email box before the council meeting this memo: I’m getting in touch to let you know that on Thursday 24 February, the Mayor and Councillors will consider Christchurch City Council’s Draft Annual Plan 2022/23 our annual budget and work programme. The plan outlines what the … [Read more...]
Last week’s speaker: Jean Drage
Jean gave us a comprehensive summary of where the government appears to be heading with local government reform. At the end of the talk, it became obvious that we must go into great depth on this topic this year. We had a good discussion on “anticipatory governance” which could also be something … [Read more...]
An interview with Lianne Dalziel on the broken relationship between Local and Central govt
In an in depth interview by Oli Lewis in BusinessDesk (to whom I am grateful to have these quotes) Lianne Dalziel reported her thoughts on the relationships between central and local government Yes, minister: Lianne Dalziel on the 'terrible' central-local govt relationship | BusinessDesk Speaking … [Read more...]
This Week on Zoom – Dr Jean Drage on Future of Local Government
Jean is based in Christchurch and has been keeping a close eye on the politics around NZ’s local government for about three decades now, as a teacher and a researcher. She is interested in the issues of political representation and participation. It is a busy time for reform right now and … [Read more...]
ChristchurchNZ’s new Letter of Expectation
ChristchurchNZ (CNZ) as a PR agency for the city has performed what was required of it from Christchurch City Council (CCC). In my opinion it has not been a fully operational economic development agency for years. Let us consider the genesis of CNZ. Every city of Christchurch’s size needs an … [Read more...]
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