Local body elections - October 2010

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Local body elections / October 2010

Local body elections

November 2010 | September 2010

- Bits and pieces…
  - 31 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Dom Post ran with a front page story on Lonely Planet rating Wellington the 4th coolest capital in the world.
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- New councillor says: bike to the future
  - 31 Oct 2010
  - Hutt Chick
  - Hutt City’s new Councillor, Lisa Bridson puts her bike where her mouth is.
  - Submitted by tonytw1
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  - cycling
- Its IT stupid
  - 28 Oct 2010
  - Mark Greening
  - 100 billion pounds. Roughly 300 billion NZ dollars. That’s what the IT sector is worth in the UK. It is nearly rivaling the UK’s financial sector. Will those in central and local government realise they need to be fostering a similar industry in Wellington? http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/28/net-worth-100bn-uk
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- On the increase
  - 28 Oct 2010
  - Mark Greening
  - Library fines at Wellington library are going up from 1 November.
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- Slash and burn: Dom Post talks up councillor pay cuts
  - 28 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Dom Post reports that Mayor Celia Wade-Brown may cut councillors pay but also give each councillor at least one portfolio.
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- Wade-Brown makes her mark
  - 28 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - I find it somewhat frustrating that much of the reporting on the new council structure will focus on councillor’s remuneration, but I guess given the modern political environment of expense scandal after expense scandal, we should hardly be surprised.
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- Fran Wilde re-elected as GW chair
  - 27 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - While they haven’t updated their website yet (the new councillors are yet to be added), Greater Wellington Regional Council have just announced that Fran Wilde has been re-elected as the council’s chair for the coming triennium. I doubt anyone will be surprised.
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- Government Minister goes troppo over council’s poison plans
  - 27 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Government Minister and United Future leader Peter Dunne has attacked the Wellington City Council and Kaori Wildlife Sanctury’s plan to poison Zealandia’s upper lake and streams with Rotenone.
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- Dom Post wait until swearing in day to rain on new mayor’s parade
  - 27 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Today we posted on the Wellington City Council’s plans to cut 10% from its budget to pay down debt.
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- An orderly handover of power
  - 27 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - In a democracy the handover of power can be fast and brutal.
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- Jackson will never make the Hobbit on my watch
  - 26 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Who said that? a) Simon Whipp; b) Robyn Macdonald; c) Arthur Scargill; d) The Chairman of NewLine cinema The answer is d).
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- Big cuts coming at Wellington City Council
  - 26 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - It looks like Chief Executive Garry Poole is taking a leaf out of George Osborne’s (British Chancellor of the Exchequer) book rather than compatriot Bill English and is seeking 10% cuts at the council to fund a growing debt balance, projected to be $360 million next year.
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- A mouse calls Mayor Celia a dragon
  - 22 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
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- Deputy Mayor elect Ian McKinnon prepares to cane Ray
  - 22 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Dom Post reports that Celia Wade-Brown has nominated Holden Astra fan Ian McKinnon as Deputy Mayor.
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- Roads not light rail looks set to dominate short-term agenda
  - 21 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Troops in mud – not unlike a visit to the Buckle Street war memorial on a rainy day.
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- Ms Wade-Brown goes to Parliament
  - 21 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Something Kerry Prendergast would never do but new Mayor Celia Wade-Brown went down to Parliament on Wednesday to join the 22,000 protesters showing their distain for National’s pro-employer industrial relations policies.
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- What If; The council elections had been FPP
  - 20 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Dom Post today reports that businessman Graham Bloxham wants “to start a conversation” about the single transferable voting system.
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- A leading Wellington artist Barry Thomas is being evicted by WCC for his art
  - 20 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Barry Thomas has been on the Wellington art scene since the 1970s.
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- Litigation mad WCC fights 758 tenancy cases in less than 4 years
  - 20 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Government report Bigcities showed that 10 of New Zealand’s 12 largest cities have council supplied social housing.
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- DomPost reports on WCC 2040 report
  - 20 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Following on from our comprehensive coverage of the report on Tuesday, the mainstream media have picked up on the report today, Thursday.
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- Screaming Jets play Wellington, Sept/Oct 2011
  - 19 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - No, this is not a post on the Aussie hard rock band Screaming Jets.
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  - rugby-world-cup
- Kerry’s $46 million swansong causing blinding rage
  - 19 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The DomPost reports that Kilbirnie’s half-built indoor sports centre has a roof producing dangerous levels of glare for nearby residents, and potentially pilots at the nearby international airport.
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- Looking at Wellington with 2040 vision
  - 19 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Feedback on the Council’s 2040 project has been released this week.
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- The man in the pub
  - 19 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Have I mentioned that the 14 foot poster guy Adam Cunningham got 380 first preference votes in Lambton Ward, 15 more than the bottom ranked guy Kris Price who didn’t campaign at all. No. Well I just did.
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- It’s the final countdown
  - 18 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Wellington City Council announce that it’s only six weeks until Manners Mall is no more and the buses will be zapping back and forth under their shiny new wires.
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- Who owns the heritage Norfolk Pine at high risk of extinction?
  - 18 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - On October 21, we posted a story about a rare public notification process for a resource consent being sought to chop down a heritage tree in Khandallah.
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  - consultation
- Gordon Campbell’s take on local body politics
  - 18 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Veteran journalist Gorden Campbell’s analysis of the local government election results is well worth a read.
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- Lone ranger shoots back
  - 18 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Dom Post reports that Prime Minister John Key told TVNZ’s Breakfast programme the suggestion he was becoming a lone ranger was “a load of rubbish”.
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- Wellington’s super secret super city report set for release in November
  - 18 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - In the leadup to the recent local body elections, the regions’ mayors met in secret in October to consider a report on amalgamation.
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- Attack of the greenie hordes
  - 17 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Celia Wade-Brown’s campaign adviser Kent Duston has made a big impact this year and last.
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- Getting off parking tickets – ask your council how
  - 17 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - This year’s Ombudsmen annual report to Parliament, tabled last week, had an interesting discussion on the disclosure requirements around the rules governing parking ticket waivers (page 39).
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  - parking
- Parliamentary inquiry into 2010 local government elections
  - 17 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - On Thursday, 14 October the Justice and Electoral Select Committee resolved to initiate an inquiry into the 2010 local authority elections, a regular inquiry it undertake every three years.
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- Metropolitan city council polls are becoming our ‘mid-term’ elections
  - 16 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The people have spoken and the last two years may not have been the easy ride polls have indicated.
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- Paul Eagle tells the truth about DomPost howler
  - 16 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - In response to our post on the “six rebel” councillors story, Cllr Eagle has replied and put a bomb under the entire Dompost article on Friday, which I see has been repeated again on Saturday.
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- WCC’s angry communications
  - 16 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Now that we have a new, inclusive and some say “cuddly” Mayor, can we expect to get more friendly and inclusive communications from the Wellington City Council itself.
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- Garry Poole is our dear leader, for now
  - 16 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Weekend Dom Post ran a story about the outgoing Mayor’s final day, farewell tour of council offices, and drinks with staff.
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- Tory paper smear campaign or inexperienced new Mayor
  - 15 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - This morning the Dom Post reported that Mayor elect Celia Wade-Brown had not contacted a substantial number of councillors, despite having plenty of time to cycle round Civic Square on her push bike.
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- WCC Wifi: Restricted, censored, limited
  - 15 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Back at the start of the election campaign, to much fanfare, the then Mayor Kerry Prendergast and Trade Me announced in September an initiative to bring free Wifi to the waterfront.
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  - internet-services
- Statement to WCC Watch from the Office of the Mayor
  - 15 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - It appears the Dom Post’s story on candidate profiles was not entirely accurate.
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  - transport
  - wellington-city-council
- Wellington City parking supremo dies in Sydney
  - 14 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The founder of Tenix, Carlo Salteri, died on Tuesday night in Sydney, aged 89 according to a Sydney Morning Herald report.
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  - parking
- New and Re-elected councillor profiles
  - 14 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The DomPost today published mini profiles of all the new and re-elected Wellington City Councillors.
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- Freedom of information – WCC is the worst city council in the country
  - 14 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Wellington City Council is the worst city council in New Zealand accounting for 17% of all Local Government and Official Information Act complaints to the Ombudsman.
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- Green MPs jump on the bandwagon, late
  - 14 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - It’s amazing how people love success.
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- All hail our new Green mayor
  - 13 Oct 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Earlier this afternoon, final results for the Wellington mayoral election were released.
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- Celebrate a green Wellington with a green weekend
  - 13 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Admission to Wellington’s Kaori wildlife sanctuary, known by ad executives at the top end of town as Zealandia, is free for all locals this weekend. See your rates being spent and enjoy a breath of fresh air at the same time.
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- Greens Win Wellington Mayoralty
  - 13 Oct 2010
  - Auckland Trains
  - Another public transport advocate has taken one of the top metropolitan mayoralties.
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- Red-head Green Wade-Brown gets Gold
  - 13 Oct 2010
  - Eye of the Fish
  - Well that was a surprise! Here in Fish City we get little in the way of advertising blurb from candidates, and so I was pleasantly surprised to see the result come through on the wire that we have a new Mayor.
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- Congratulations Celia
  - 13 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Wellington has a new mayor in Celia Wade-Brown, ending Kerry Prendergast’s three term run. In the end she pulled through with a majority of 176 votes, which will hopefully be enough to starve off a recount – Wellington does not need that right now.
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- Reports coming in that Celia has won
  - 13 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Details to follow.
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- Mayor Kerry’s last words
  - 13 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Statement from Mayor Kerry Prendergast “It has been a fantastic honour to be Mayor of Wellington for the past nine years.
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- What’s up between Onslow candidates Mike and Andy
  - 12 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - What’s up between Mike Flemming and Andy Foster and why do some candidates feel the need to mass email the rest of the candidates post election with their gripes (see Thomas Morgan below)? Is it a case of sour grapes? And when will some tell Mike not to put the message in the title space? Mike contested the Onslow-Western Ward and obtained 567 votes.
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- A poor politician blames the electoral system
  - 12 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Following on from comments in yesterday’s Dom Post, they have followed up today with a front page story with Kerry blaming STV, not Celia, for any impending defeat (and her language seems to suggest she sees defeat as inveitable).
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- 775 heart beats to go
  - 12 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Radio NZ reports that election officials are checking 775 special votes to ensure they qualify for the counting stage, due to start on Wednesday afternoon. Some 963 special vote ballots were sent out, but 188 have been disqualified because they were not returned on time. It’s getting close to the end. Is your heart fluttering?
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- Heritage tree to be axed in Khandallah
  - 12 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - It’s time to stand up and be counted.
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- Too crazy for words: Bly could toss Celia to victory
  - 11 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The DomPost is reporting Wellington’s mayoral race could be decided by a coin toss.
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- Big Wednesday it is
  - 11 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Herald reports that Wellington City Council spokesman Richard Maclean, a regular blogger on this site, said tonight counting the special votes was a “very complicated and extensive sort of process”.
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- Celia’s overtures to Labour
  - 11 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Radio New Zealand has provided outstanding coverage of the local body elections, and have provided extensive coverage of the results.
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- Poll mayhem has Kerry reaching for worry balls
  - 11 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - At last coverage of the Wellington City Council elections is starting to heat up, two days after polls closed.
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- Testicles in her pocket?
  - 11 Oct 2010
  - Wellington Scoop
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- Complain, complain, complain
  - 11 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Today unsuccessful, serial candidate Thomas Morgan, who received 96 votes in Southern Ward, emailed all councillors and candidates asking them to complain or raise issues about the election if they had any.
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- Too close to call?
  - 10 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Dom Post have finally decided to take a proper interest in the race to be the next Mayor of Wellington.
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- District Health Board
  - 10 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - It was good to see an article this morning discussing the Capital & Coast District Health Board results.
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- Its a numbers game
  - 10 Oct 2010
  - Mark Greening
  - As a campaigner, there were some interesting lessons.
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- Another Pro-Rail Brown Mayor
  - 9 Oct 2010
  - Auckland Trains
  - Lost in the Auckland north with all the attention to the Len Brown win is the fact Wellington may have a very pro-public transport Greenie mayor within days. The Greens’ Celia Wade-Brown is only 40 votes away from winning with 960 specials to be counted. Celia Wade-Brown, like her northern namesake, Len Brown, campaigned on a transport policy -and being a Greenie, it was all about choices such as walking and cycling. But central to her campaign was a promise of light rail for the capital.
  - Submitted by tonytw1
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- Regional Council Results
  - 9 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Let’s not forget that the regional council results also came out yesterday.
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- The Wellington mayoralty – a remarkable result, but a full recount is necessary
  - 9 Oct 2010
  - Wellington Scoop
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- Results are coming in…
  - 9 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The council will be announcing the preliminary result at 6pm. Any last minute predictions? Over the next few days we’ll be trying to do a few email interviews with new (and possibly re-elected) councillors. Does anyone have suggestions for questions?
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- The campaign is over
  - 9 Oct 2010
  - Mark Greening
  - This post is to notify readers that the campaign is over. Thank you for following the local body election campaign on his blog. I hope to post results as soon as I am aware. Other results are being posted on NewsWire. http://www.newswire.co.nz/
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- Reflection on the results
  - 9 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Well after a very long wait the WCC have announced the preliminary results.
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- Voting returns update #5 – last minute surge
  - 8 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The council have updated their voting returns page with the figures for Thursday.
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- Heros and villians, winners and losers
  - 8 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - We are now in the very final stretch, less than 24 hours until polls close, and we may have some preliminary results by this time tomorrow. Feel free to use the comments thread on this post to discuss who you think will win and lose. Even better if you can back your predicions up with a logic! We will attempt to do live blogging tomorrow, no promises though.
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- Code of conduct complaint?
  - 8 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - We’ve had a few emails regarding Rob Goulden’s behaviour over the last few days. In particular, a few people have asked if his masquerading as other people is a breach of the council’s Code of Conduct. One way to find out would be to lay a complaint with CE Garry Poole. Anyone want to test the water? Has anyone done so already?
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- Johnny: Back from top level meetings
  - 8 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Sorry everyone for missing all the excitement last night and today.
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- Dom Post on Rob/James/Kerry Goulden
  - 8 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Dom Post have published a story on the news that Rob Goulden has been making up fake identities to push his own agenda… Wellington city councillor Rob Goulden used fake internet identities to issue a homophobic insult, personal attacks, and push his message that he’s a good, hard-working bloke.
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- The Mayor finally discusses her ‘big picture’
  - 7 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - A new story.
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- WCC website survey
  - 7 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - We had some interesting discussions about open democracy the other day, flowing on from some policy ideas from Marcus Ganley.
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- Bishop and Ganley reflect residents serious concerns about city parking
  - 7 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - One of the worst statistics in the WCC’s 2009/10 annual report is residents satisfaction with the availability of car parks.
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- Who to vote for – a hard left femisist view
  - 7 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Maia at The Hand Mirror, a left wing feminist blog, has written a great post on who she’s chosen to vote for in the WCC elections (living in the Lambton Ward).
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- The many faces of Goulden
  - 7 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - As readers of this blog will have noticed, there have been many times where councillors, council staff and members of the public have left comments voicing their own opinion, adding additional facts or to simply point or errors or omissions where we get things wrong.
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- Capital Times Best of Wellington 2010
  - 6 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Capital Times have released the results of their annual Best of Wellington survey for 2010.
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- Its Celia
  - 6 Oct 2010
  - Mark Greening
  - Having looked at the numbers – its pretty clear that Celia will win the mayoralty, unless Jack Yan gets more “No 1″ votes to beat Celia in the “challengers cup”.
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- Who’s working the hardest for you?
  - 6 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The table below shows the meeting attendance statistics for elected members of Wellington City Council for the 2009/10 financial year, as set out in the Council’s annual report governance section.
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- Cast your vote at the council offices or a library asap
  - 6 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - All voting documents must be in the hands of the Electoral Officer by 12 noon on Saturday, 9 October 2010.
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- WCC – Will the last one out turn off the lights
  - 5 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Staff turnover in the last four years has accumulated to a shocking 100% at the Council, according to this week’s annual report.
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- Get out of jail free card
  - 5 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Today it was announced by the Police that no offence has been disclosed regarding the free mayoral concert.
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- Pre-election information enables freedom of choice
  - 5 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - But does Wellington City Council think ignorance is bliss? The Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill is currently before Parliament’s Local Government and Environment Select Committee.
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- Voting returns update #4 – great leap forward
  - 5 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The council have now processed the votes that were sent in over the weekend, and it was a rather substantial number. From the council: “The latest batch of votes takes this year’s total higher than 2007 so far – when 23.6 percent of votes were returned.”
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- Mouse or lion? Time to speak up
  - 5 Oct 2010
  - Mark Greening
  - Its about listening.
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- Fowler endorses Yan
  - 4 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - 3 News (seriously) are reporting that Sir Michael Fowler has endorsed Jack Yan for the Mayoralty.
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- BBQ season and Garry Poole needs a grilling
  - 4 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - In August the DomPost ran an editorial calling for the Wellington CEO to get a grilling.
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- Marcus Ganley has a good idea
  - 4 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - I see that one of the Lambton Ward candidates is campaigning for more openess and transparency at Wellington City Council and has a poll running on the sorts of things that should be more open such as payments made to councillors and voting records. Might be worth a look and a vote. If he doesn’t make it, it would be good for someone to pick up these proposals.
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- Meet Wellington’s Chief Mr Bean Counter
  - 4 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - For most of this year the city’s chief financial officer Peter Garty has been in discussions behind closed doors about Terry Serepisos’ rates debt to the council.
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- Oi, have you voted yet?
  - 4 Oct 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Y'know, it's not often that I'd ever consider running a Wellington City Council press release in full, but I'm going to do it right now, cos BLOODY HELL, Wellington, get your act together! PS: this is how to work your STV vote, explained quite simply. Now hop to it. read more
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- Voting returns update #3
  - 4 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The latest voting returns are up on the council website.
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- Super Wellington Update: Super good or super bad
  - 3 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Today the regions mayors consider a PricewaterhouseCoopers report on amalgamtion.
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- Cronyism or considered response?
  - 3 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - This mornings Dom Post is reporting that WCC CEO Gary Poole has ‘cleared’ Kerry Prendergast over last week’s complain from Bryan Pepperell that she was abusing her power as mayor to secure her reelection.
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- Mayor Kerry wants a GG for Christmas
  - 3 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Sources close to WCC Watch have suggested that Prime Minister John Key wants to appoint a woman as next Governor-General, and Kerry Prendergast is high on his list.
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- Carry on abusing electoral law
  - 2 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Just after we posted on excessive numbers of press releases and launches by Wellington City Council during the election period, featuring the Mayor and other elected respresentatives like John Morrison, it appears the Mayor is at it again.
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- Business questions answered
  - 2 Oct 2010
  - Mark Greening
  - Another survey have been published.
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- Something lighthearted for a Sunday…
  - 2 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Wellington’s best dressed mayoral candidate.
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- Kerry and the Audits – Their Greatest Hits
  - 1 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Audit Office guidelines for the local government election period are quite clear.
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- Earthquake Weather in Wellington?
  - 1 Oct 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Cliffhanger is the only way to describe the mayoral vote in Wellington.
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