Meet City Vision’s candidate Simon Mitchell

7 October, 2018 | Entrust18, Featured Post, News

Freeman’s Bay resident and barrister Simon Mitchell is standing to be an Entrust Trustee. He explains why. 320,000 electricity account holders in Auckland have the opportunity to vote in the upcoming Entrust election. Entrust holds a majority shareholding in Vector....

Improving Ponsonby; Getting on with the Job

17 June, 2016 | News, Our Projects, Waitemata Local Board, Waitemata Local Board

Ponsonby News column for Waitemata Local Board Chair June 2016 Local Boards are effectively bulk-funded based on residential population by the Governing Body of Council from your hard-earned rates for their discretionary spend to undertake priority local services and...

Update on Waitemata projects

6 April, 2016 | Featured Post, News, Our Projects, Waitemata Local Board

Chair, Waitemata Local Board, Shale Chambers’ April Ponsonby News column Whilst speculation on who may be contesting the upcoming local elections continues, and a declared local candidate is left to make stuff up with wild non-factual populist statements about...

Moving the city forward

3 February, 2016 | Featured Post, News

Ponsonby News column for Waitemata Local Board Chair February 2016 This year is local body election year, and the issues for you, the voter to decide to see our city move forward under the right stewardship remain many and complex. The main challenges remain...

Game on!

7 December, 2015 | Featured Post, News

Final update of the year from the Chair of the Waitemata Local Board Ponsonby News column December 2015 So it’s game on for the Auckland mayoralty next year. Inaugural Mayor of Auckland, Len Brown has achieved much despite the occasional but noticeable misstep, a too...