Category: libraries
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Auckland Council’s emergency budget
The Emergency Budget consultation is now under way. Auckland Council’s budget consultation documents suggest there is no business as usual option for Auckland Council. And they are correct. But I am worried that the draft focusses entirely on financial matters and ignores the community and environmental repercussions of what is clearly an austerity budget. The…
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Chair’s report May 2020 – Vision West’s food bank, Council’s emergency budget and Titirangi chickens redux
Vision West and food parcels It has been good to get out of lockdown. While I enjoyed the slower pace of life, the quietness of our streets and the cleanliness of our skies it could not last forever. Although I hope that we do not lose what we have learned during that time, including that…
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Chair’s report – Corvid-19 is changing everything
I am sure I have no need to tell you that we are living in a difficult time. So far locally we have been shielded from the direct effects of the Covid-19 virus but throughout the world we are seeing the effects that the virus is having on health systems and communities. And the economic…
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Chair’s report December 2017 – Auckland Council’s Kauri dieback decision
Kauri Dieback Tiakina te wao nui a Tiriwa hei oranga mou (Treasure the great forest of Tiriwa and you in turn shall prosper) Te Kawerau A Maki’s declaration of a rāhui over the Waitakere Ranges has attracted a great deal of attention. I am glad to say that the overall response to the rāhui that…
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Leave our libraries alone
When I was on Waitakere City Council it was my pleasure to have been involved in the opening of four new libraries out west. Admittedly the Massey library had been given the go ahead by the previous Council but the Henderson, Glen Eden and New Lynn libraries were all results of decisions that the Council that…