Public housing appears to be on the slide: … [Read more...]
Huihui Mai – submissions please
Last week James and Tracy shared about future Transport options for Great Christchurch - You can make a submission here Find out more about HuiHui Mai here … [Read more...]
Replacing the ‘Big NO’ with an ‘institutional YES’ – the case for community participation in water structures.
Bruce White made this submission to the Water Entities Bill: I submit that the Water Services Entities Bill should be withdrawn and that all current Three Waters ‘Reform’ processes pause. The issues of Water Infrastructure should then be considered in a collaborative manner within the bounds of … [Read more...]
Submissions please
Bruce White on Local Government – are we willing to learn?
Bruce has done a great submission on The Future of Local Government, and the need to learn from our actions - the good and the bad.Proposed Recommendation; – ‘Learnings Reviews and Reports’: I submit that the Local Government Reform Proposals should include a Recommendation that the Local … [Read more...]
Auckland City leaves LGNZ
I served on LGNZ for, I think, 9 years. It seemed longer. I chaired the Metro Mayors. As a member of LGNZ board a group of 7 mayors started the “Mayors Taskforce for Jobs” which was a social goal of having no young person under 25 doing nothing. We wanted them to be either in training or at … [Read more...]
There’s no such thing as “too old” Alan Mark speaks up
I was inspired by an article in Newsroom this week about a well-retired scientist signing a petition objecting to the government’s backing down on environmental issues. The scientist is Sir Alan Mark and he is 90 years old. However, he wasn’t the oldest signatory. That was one of my big heroes Sir … [Read more...]
Health, Subsidiarity and learnings from Canterbury
One aspect of becoming older is that you start visiting the health system more frequently. I’ve just had some pre-cancer cut out of my face. It’s a by-product of having Celtic ancestry. I am disappointed with the number of people I speak to within what was the highly functioning CDHB who are … [Read more...]
Simon Britten on Water Charges
In last week’s Tuesday Club newsletter I read “Many houses aren’t being sent water charges because they have no water meters. This is just poor public policy and unfair.” I swiftly protested what I thought to be an incorrect statement and found myself invited by Garry to write further on the … [Read more...]
Garry writes on changes at CCC
There was the inevitable clean out when Dawn Baxendale arrived from the UK to become CEO. That happens when a governing board, in this case the City Council, selects a change manager to turn around an organisation. CCC had become a bit like a cruise liner drifting in the high seas without power … [Read more...]
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