I attended the CCHL AGM on Friday. Several times the chair referred to their commitment to openness and the fact that this was the first time that CCHL had had a public meeting to announce their performance in the past year. That is another example of “without a knowledge of history you are … [Read more...]
Garry’s thoughts 21 November 2023
The elected reps will be debating the future of CCHL as part of the upcoming Long-Term Plan (LTP). There have been several attempts over the years to sell the city’s trading assets. Everyone unsuccessful. I am sure this will continue with the current council. When central government sold its … [Read more...]
Garry writes on CCHL for The Star
In our front room’s a trunk. It carried my grandfather’s life possessions across the world to NZ. A reminder of the risks he took for us to have a better life than he experienced in Ireland. He stayed here and our family flourished. Every family has the same story with reminders of where they came … [Read more...]
Phil Gets things done Column
Rates: Some years ago there was a City Councillor called Oscar Alpers. At one of the numerous meetings on setting the rates Oscar came up with an observation. He referred to councillors bulldozing costs into another year by putting off addressing costs and therefore being able o set low rates. It … [Read more...]
Council owned businesses: it’s time elected reps and Board members started to perform and to behave properly
This might make me sound like the old geezer in the back garden, but it’s time for a lecture to both the elected reps on CCC and the Board and staff of CCHL CCHL was created at a time when neo-liberal economics was top of the heap. The Business Roundtable was sweeping through NZ gobbling up … [Read more...]