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    • The $5million mystery
      • 16 May 2013
      • Wellington Scoop
      • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 1 day ago by feedreader
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      • This newsitem has 3 comments.

        • ‘Isn’t this just a case of people talking at cross purposes? One person is saying there isn’t a “subsidy” and another person is saying there is a “fee”? A fee for services rendered is a very different thing to a subsidy. ’
        • ‘As Joe Public, I have to say: $5.4 million in revenue from the city council seems a very large amount to be ignorant of – especially if you signed off the accounts. I always presume (or at least hope) that “sign off” from a senior executive comes with proper knowledge and scrutiny. ’
        • ‘Love it Lindsay. There’s obviously muck at the bottom of the barrel, so keep digging. The truth will come out. ’

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    • Pink-stickered and off the road: the safety faults, and cancelled bus services
      • 15 May 2013
      • Wellington Scoop
      • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 3 days ago by feedreader
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      • This newsitem has 4 comments.

        • ‘Just to correct the record, the Regional Council and NZ Bus did make a public apology and explanation on Wednesday 8 May, at the beginning of the service disruptions. Daily interviews with various radio stations and the Dom Post have taken place since then to let people know where they can find out what services are affected, and we issued another media release last Tuesday evening. Both media releases are at http://www.gw.govt.nz ’
        • ‘Nerve wracking; Infratil can’t run a bus fleet competently and safely even with huge subsidy, and they are big players in the airport!!!!! ’
        • ‘The present contracts are inadequate and don’t cover the items the Police were checking. I am hoping that we will get a proper briefing at the Committee meeting next week. Our new Public Transport Plan includes new measures and standards which will be included in new contracts to be negotiated from late this year. There are also new requirements in the new PTOM (public transport operating model) which is meant to be passed in parliament this year… keeps on getting delayed. We have been briefed on the PTOM, but there are some details that are still not clear, possibly because it is a changing feast, related to accountability and what form of gross/net system is used. [Paul Bruce is a Regional Councillor] ’

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    • The cost of a convention centre
      • 13 May 2013
      • Wellington Scoop
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      • This newsitem has 5 comments.

        • ‘I remember that the Karori Sanctuary Trust signed a sponsorship contract with Casinos Austria Int. in 1997. It’s interesting that the Greens now seem to be opposed to casinos…… How would they have spun the “value” of casinos to the environment if the project had come to fruition? ’
        • ‘Wellington lost the opportunity for a Conference and Cultural Centre when they allowed the Overseas Passenger Terminal to be bulldozed down for the elite millionaires’ apartments. ’
        • ‘Yes to a convention and cultural centre – looking at whether they are one or separate projects. No to a casino – from what I’ve heard – can suck out money from the local theatre, cinema and hospitality industries, as well as problem gambling issues. ’

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    • Which way on the flyover?
      • 10 May 2013
      • Wellington Scoop
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      • This newsitem has 7 comments.

        • ‘No, some of us have definitely not given up on stopping the flyover. Agree that mitigation is an impossibility Lindsay. Even The Dominion Post, an ardent supporter of the project, calls it “ugly”. ’
        • ‘You can’t blame the city council any more. It has given up its efforts to get a better result than the flyover. It’s no longer opposing it. All it’s doing is asking, politely, for some “mitigation.” Which is, as I have written several times, an impossibility. ’
        • ‘An interesting point, I was under the illusion it was West East for some reason… Given this Council’s dislike of the car, we’re not going to see anything happen for years anyway. ’

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    • $260,000 a year to run bookings for six council-owned venues
      • 7 May 2013
      • Wellington Scoop
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      • This newsitem has 10 comments.

        • ‘It may be a Council report, but certainly not from wellington venues. Suggest you quiz the Councils CFO. I can assure you it is not a subsidy to Wellington Venues. ’
        • ‘Thanks for your comments Peter. Definitely not spin, just saying how I have voted on the issue of whether we have CCOs or not. I have been one of the few to oppose them. I know many of the staff working in them do a great job but suggest we could do some of this work inhouse. ’
        • ‘This article is in fact very poorly researched and inaccurate for the most part. For the record, Glenys Coughlan was married to Jo Coughlan’s cousin over 20 years ago. The only connection between them is that they both share a passion for improving Wellington. Glenys’ salary is no secret. At the time she agreed to take the position, the salary offered was less than she had been offered elsewhere. She is worth every penny of it. Prior to the formation of Wellington Venues, Council ran the organization at an annual loss approaching $2 million. In the first year of operation we reduced that to less than $500,000, and this year we have budgeted to break even. The Council does not pay $5.1 million to Wellington Venues, it pays nothing. (Perhaps you are confusing us with the Museums Trust or the Zoo?) Glenys did not advise Councillors that we expected to make a large loss. That was a newspaper report of of a confidential email circulated to the board of Wellington Venues, which was clearly leaked. It identified a possible outcome. One of the outcomes of leaking confidential material, is that it can come back and bite you in the nether regions. I remain confident that under Glenys’ leadership, we will in fact come close to meeting our budget. The independent members of my Board and myself have years of experience running successful businesses. Check us out on Google and see what we do. We don’t do this for the money. [The information about the management fee of $5.4million is included in note 8 on page 34 of the Notes to the Financial Statements in Positively Wellington Venue's annual report, which states: "The company charges WCC a management fee for venue management... The charge for the year was $5,444,776." The comparison with the previous year's fee of $1.1million is on the same page. We will, of course, be ready to publish any clarification which Mr Parkin wishes to make. - Wellington.Scoop] ’

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    • Cycling is booming, so why are we the most dangerous city for cycling?
      • 3 May 2013
      • Wellington Scoop
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      • This newsitem has 9 comments.

        • ‘Get cars out of the city, give it over to pedestrians, mobility scooters and cyclists and the death and injury rate will plummet and the health of the population will improve. Get a real public transport system. Simple – so why is it so hard to achieve, whose are the vested interests? Europe has just caned Britain for not protecting its population from pollution, mainly car induced. ’
        • ‘Heath – it’s not really clear what point you’re trying to make. Are you saying that because some cyclists wilfully ignore the road rules, no money should be spent on keeping them safe, or are you saying that they are merely criminals who deserve to die in crashes? As a pedestrian I’m also annoyed (and endangered) by some cyclists who think road rules are entirely optional. But to be blunt, I’m endangered much more and much more often by car drivers with exactly the same attitude. If a cyclist hits me whilst running a red light, I’m going to get hurt – and so is he, with any luck. But if I get hit by a car running a red light, odds are I’ll be killed, with nary a scratch on the moron of a driver. The fact of the matter is that Wellington has some shockingly incompetent drivers, as demonstrated by crash death rates that are 50% higher than in Australia, double the UK and triple the death rate in Germany. On the international standings, we’re better drivers than the Lithuanians but much worse than the Portugese, and not anywhere near the top ten for the incidence of crashes worldwide. The reasons for this are obvious. We’re prepared to give a license to anyone who can mist a mirror, our police force can’t be bothered enforcing the road rules in the CBD and our lawmakers treat bad driving and the resulting deaths as a mere misdemeanour. In my view the answer is simple; if you crash a car and it’s your fault, you lose your license for a year because you’ve failed to display the competence necessary to pilot two tonnes of metal at speed. Crash three times and your license is permanently revoked. Kill someone on the road and you get tried for manslaughter, and if guilty you get sentenced to prison for the same term as if you’d used any other kind of blunt instrument to bludgeon someone. I’m sure those changes would have a salutary effect on kiwi driving habits, and have the added effect of getting a lot of morons off the road. ’
        • ‘I take the train into work and walk through town, and the number of cyclists I see going through red lights, or cycling through a junction when the pedestrian phase of the lights is on, is staggering. The intersections near the railway station and Old Government House/Beehive are particularly bad for this. The presumption in this debate always seems to be to start from a point of view that the cyclists must be in the right and car drivers in the wrong, but whilst cyclists continue to ignore basic road rules, then crashes will still happen, no matter how many car parks are removed or how much the speed limit is reduced. ’

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        • chelebele17 @kylepontifex “@wellynews: Wellington Scoop - Cycling is booming, so why are we the most dangerous city for cycling? http://t.co/98eoQHSUD1”
        • barbsarama RT @wellynews: Wellington Scoop - Cycling is booming, so why are we the most dangerous city for cycling? http://t.co/deZwMlHZOB

    • For and against Leonie Gill
      • 1 May 2013
      • Wellington Scoop
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      • This newsitem has 3 comments.

        • ‘Thanks for your kind words, Lindsay – I wish more Eastern Ward voters had appreciated that at the time! I’m not standing this time, but I sure would like to help candidates with the right ideas. One Labour candidate that you don’t mention is Daran Ponter, who has added to the welcome breath of fresh air that Paul Bruce brought to the regional council. ’
        • ‘At the eastern ward meeting, there were around 12 residents in attendance, 3 Councillors and the Mayor, and 3 – 4 Council staff. At the southern ward meeting, there were maybe 14 residents, the Mayor and one Councillor. There were about 4 Council staff in attendance. Pathetic. And we wonder why we keep getting crap ! ’
        • ‘Of greatest concern is the low turnout at local body elections, 40% of ratepayers with the “same old same old” candidates. I understand there has been a poor turnout at ward meetings, where supercity and the draft Annual Plan have been on the agenda. So Wellingtonians – it’s in your hands to stop the same OLD faces sitting around the table earning more than they would get in the private sector, not to mention all the perks, and very few of them appear to have actually read the agendas and most ignore the written and oral submissions . Cr Gill has sat writing letters and Christmas cards while debate is going on. It would be good to see the attendance records of a number of others. Fingers crossed for some new faces who will listen to their communities, not just the developers. ’

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    • Plenty of crashes, but where’s the enforcement?
      • 30 Apr 2013
      • Wellington Scoop
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      • This newsitem has 1 comment.

        • ‘As a Mount Victoria resident, I agree with Kent Duston. My daughter and I have had several near misses walking through central Wellington. The closest call which nudged her derriere was crossing, with the ‘little green man,’ at the bottom of Pirie Street and being almost bowled over by a wally in a hurry in an oversized wagon. Occasionally we see the police doing checks at 8.30 am in the morning but where are they the rest of the day. Isn’t this supposed to be a walkable city? ’

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    • Celia out of step with what Wellingtonians want?
      • 17 May 2013
      • WCC Watch
      • From the outset Celia Wade Brown has been against the idea of amalgamation and from all accounts had to be dragged to the Regional Working Party by her Council.
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        • ‘Daran, keen to hear what other options and structures you think the region should consider and what you think would be the best approach. ’
        • ‘Yes, indoubtedly Wellingtonians want change. And they are right. We continually need to be looking at ways in which we can improve how we govern, administer and provide community facilities and services. The community needs confidence that councils are as effective and efficient as possible in what they do. But for all the people who want change how many will plumb for a supercity when they are polled next year? My view is that this will be less than 50% for the simple reason that while many of us want change the majority of people don’t want the more extreme position of a single council to rule us all. Unfortunately a supercity is all that is on offer from the “consultation” recently undertaken by some councils. In a game of smoke and mirrors these councils, led by Fran Wilde, have sought to manipulate the debate to being about just two options – a single tier super city or a two tier super city! Wellingtonians deserve a more sophisticated and fulsome debate on the options for change. We don’t deserve to be railroaded into reform that will effectively take the “local” out of local government. ’

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