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Peter Davis: Lessons from the Auckland Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak
Very unfortunate and troubling though it has been for all concerned, in retrospect the Auckland outbreak has been a salutary experience from which everyone can learn something. Our first wave seemed to involve - for the most part - youngish and healthy middle-aged,...
Peter Davis: Simpson report presents an opportunity for Auckland
The Health and Disability System Review (known as the Simpson Report after the chair, Heather Simpson) was recently published. It draws substantially on submissions from the sector and has been a couple of the years in the making. It is the most substantial review of...
3.5 per cent rates increase: Key to Auckland’s COVID-19 recovery says City Vision
Have your say on Auckland Council’s Emergency Budget 2020/2021 (feedback form) Auckland Council has produced an Emergency Budget to address the $525m shortfall in revenue due to COVID-19 and in so doing has to make some tough decisions about where to find...
Transforming How We Deal With Waste
NZ has one of the developed world’s lowest waste minimisation levies – $10 per tonne to landfill. MBIE plan to raise that to $50 but an independent study recommends a levy of $140 per tonne!
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CityVisionNZ As a local govt coalition of @nzlabour @NZGreens (and community independents) we're absolutely delighted with the… https://t.co/Zi9TFLAScY
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CityVisionNZ Welcome to Twitter @juliejiuli ! Here's Julie, @MissBonhomie , and a box of tissues to let you know what's going on i… https://t.co/ZQ7IZahFkL
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CityVisionNZ RT @pippacoom : The meeting has been adjourned until 25 Nov to allow more time to discuss who is going to be Chair and how the Chamberlain P…
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CityVisionNZ RT @DawaYeshe : Albert-Eden local board swearing in of elected members. Very proud of our successful Owairaka teammates 🌟@cjr_robertson , Mar…
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CityVisionNZ RT @CityAklccrg : Congrats to the Local Board successful candidates @MissBonhomie @AChristie4WLB @SarahTrotmannz Richard Northey @KerrinL …
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CityVisionNZ RT @BikeAKL : LAST day of feedback to the new City Centre Masterplan. The last plan helped us get Lightpath, Westhaven Promenade and the Q…
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CityVisionNZ RT @MetroMagNZ : “I’d allow opposing candidates to speak and think ‘ok, this person will obviously give me a chance to speak as well’, and i…
Mike Lee’s gerrymandering claim rejected
The serious allegations of electoral irregularities and gerrymandering made by Mike Lee (in Gulf News and Ponsonby News) to explain his defeat cannot go unanswered. His arguments set out to undermine a number of important democratic principles. Under the Local...
Final election results 2019
A positive Local Elections 2019 campaign has resulted in a strong result for City Vision. 37 candidates stood across Waitematā and Gulf ward, Albert- Eden-Puketāpapa ward, Maungakiekie subdivision, Auckland DHB and Portage Licensing Trust (ward 1). The final result,...
No plans to sell Kindergarten
City Vision has been disturbed to hear that a rumour is spreading that it plans to sell the site of the Learning at the Point Kindergarten in Point Chevalier. This is completely false. “City Vision and the current Local Board have absolutely no plans to sell this...