This week we are to hear an address from Tom Logan Tom is the product of two quake cities. He was born in Napier. He moved from one quake city to the other for his undergrad studies. Tom achieved a degree in civil engineering and another in math but still had questions that needed answering … [Read more...]
What I expect to hear from Mayoral, Council and Ecan candidates over the next three weeks:
Now that people will be receiving their voting papers it is important that we hear what the candidates standing for office want to achieve if they are elected. It’s time to hear their dreams and what they think they could achieve as a Mayor, or CCC or Ecan Councillor, or Community board … [Read more...]
What $100m of CCC expenditure decrease, and a zero-rates promise, would mean:
Last week I said that I would try to show what zero rates over the next three years would mean. Firstly, a lesson on what makes up rates. A City Council spends money with operating costs and capital expenditure. Operating costs include mowing lawns, running libraries, swimming pools etc. … [Read more...]
It’s not every week I agree with Mike Yardley:
I have put aside a small portion of Tuesday mornings, prior to the Local Body elections, to read Mike Yardley’s current focus the Mayoral election campaign. This paragraph caught my attention last week: There is unquestionably a whiff of Trump-style disruption to Park's campaign platform, with … [Read more...]
The Otakaro Avon River Corridor and the election campaign
Why we have to think hard about this: Evan Smith sent this to me. It’s interviews with election campaign candidates about the river corridor. Here’s the link http://tiny.cc/19elec This City has a lot to thank those, like Evan and Peter Beck, who have focused on this amazing part of our City. … [Read more...]
Housing is our Challenge
The Resource Management Act has had a perverse impact on our planning as a country. Too often it is used by those who have the resources to be able to afford a lawyer to stop genuine initiatives which would improve our society. Often the battle has justification and the Act works just as … [Read more...]
Citizen Juries
I found this article this week really enlightening... https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/09/20/818021/building-bridges-over-troubled-water. Essentially the writers were saying that it is important that we struggle to find new ways of engaging at a deeper level on fundamental topics like water. … [Read more...]
In Conclusion
Not so long ago, within living memory, this was the situation which many families found themselves in, and, unfortunately some still do. A society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members: … [Read more...]
Garry Writes…
I have been viewing the Mayoral election campaign with great interest. I know Darryl Park. It mystified me why he was standing for Mayor. He has shown little interest in local politics in the past. I served on the Board of Canterbury Tourism and he was the CEO. That’s the closest I have seen him to … [Read more...]
Last Week…
Last week we had a superb presentation by Glen Koorey about transportation. It was wonderful to hear from somebody who used transport statistics properly. Here is a video on the event, thanks to Aaron Campbell https://youtu.be/RFJ6GUJzchA. This was a presentation which was brimming with data. … [Read more...]
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