Local council candidates are asking why staff aren’t developing a full range is options on issues. This article highlight was talking about the Deans Ave speed humps, and was highlighted by a local council candidate. But why wasn’t direction for this project sort years ago, when the funding became available? Deans Ave isn’t the only…
Local journalist Chris Lynch wrote an article about pollution in Lyttleton today. It reminded me that the council received a briefing on these issues just recently but I really think the boat has sailed. With almost $100 million dollars of investment haven’t been made in the area we’re now going to unfortunately have to accept…
Cr Andrei Moore has complained publicly about not getting timely answers to questions from CCC information staff. In the following clip from the mayor’s interview this morning with John MacDonald, Newstalk ZB, John just expresses frustration with the mayor not having knowledge of the topic despite questions being prepared yesterday.
Why are there only 4 staff to answer information requests from 400,000 people and 37 elected members? Many elected members have been complaining about the amount of time it takes to get information. Cr Tyla Harrison-Hunt asked some good questions in a recent finance and performance committee meeting. But why didn’t he bring a motion…
Right now we firstly need to just focus on “use” and the church is now clearly doing just that. The building is at 34% NBS but only rated at 20% NBS which means a special use limitation of 50 people in the building at once. Meanwhile we have Jetstar delivering us 63,875 more tourists a…
THE MESSAGE IS NO…The voting has been consistent for 19 hours. While the numbers have grown, 95% of responses are to say no.The problem is that this project needs a policy change. Actually reads the article written by Chris Lynch as he explains the issue well. A 40% reduction in accidents on the very low…
If you want to hear the mayor, Phil Mauger, sigh then tuning into Chris Lynch Media’s interviews is a good place to start. Asking about gold plating the next new speed humps, on Dean’s Ave, Phil just sighed as he went on the explain that this option will add congestion, slow down traffic and turn…
Less than 10% of our people use public transport so it makes sense to invest more money where our people want it, and that’s just what the government is doing in Christchurch. This week mayor Phil Mauger talked with Chris Lynch Media about the $90 million the has been secured for the city. In 2018…
The mayor agreed to Cr Mark Peters request to set up a meeting to talk about the future of the Christchurch Cathedral. Speaking with Peters later in the day he expressed this could be done quite quickly. Full presentation: https://youtu.be/vSRIw5U3HQw?si=-grtJVnqmg0b4aVe
When you give up your time to show up in council to speak on the annual plan you don’t expect the deputy mayor to write your presentation off as 5 minutes of bleat… but she did just that to Anthony Gough.