June update from the Waitemata Local Board
Shale Chambers, Chair, Waitemata Local Board It is only a few months until this first term of the first ‘supercity’ draws to a close. It has been a rollercoaster ride with the car speeding up as all the projects that the Waitemata Local Board has championed...
Public Health is about putting people first
The City Vision Health team on the Auckland District Health Board has contributed to real successes for Aucklanders over the years. Since 2001 they have: Provided more health care for Aucklanders even with a fixed budget. Delivered nine state-of-the-art dental hubs...
City Vision announces our candidates for the 2013 local body elections
City Vision Candidates Selected and Campaigning City Vision is the first team to select candidates and start campaigning across the Waitemata and Albert-Eden-Roskill wards for this year’s Auckland Council elections. Over the past three years our elected members on the...
Lazy owners send dogs to their deaths
Opinion piece of City Vision Councillor for Albert-Eden- Roskill, Cathy Casey. Published in the NZ Herald, 5 June 2013 Hundreds of unwanted animals end their lives in a sterile room awaiting destruction, writes Cathy Casey. Cath Casey demonstrates the way impounded...
Pt Resolution Bridge
The Mayor and the Shale Chambers. Chair of the Waitemata Local Board opened the Pt Resolution/Tauarua footbridge and headland stairway to the public on 21 May 2013. It was is a co-operative project between the whole of Council, Iwi and the local community, conceived...
Getting parking right for Auckland
Opinion piece Pippa Coom, Deputy Chair, Waitemata Local Board A version of this post was originally published on Auckland Council’s Unitary Plan website – Shape Auckland – in response to the draft Unitary Plan proposals for minimum parking...
May update from the Waitemata Local Board
Standing aloft the almost completed new Point Resolution Bridge with my fellow Waitemata Local Board members, I marvelled at how this project had so quickly come together and been completed to such a high standard of design and workmanship within a tight timeframe.
Ponsonby News Column May 2013
Exciting innovations in the Albert- Eden Local Board area
Margi Watson, Deputy Chair of the Albert Eden Local Board reports on three exciting innovations in the local board area. Improving Community and Recreation Facilities is one of the Board’s key priorities as identified in the Local Board Plan. Kuaka – our newest...