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As Mark Twain said "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."I am spending more time than I like at hospital, but I am a long way from visiting the morgue.Similarly any reports of the KDC being in the morgue are also an exaggeration.BUT the KDC is not in good health and is refusing medicine after seeing the doctor, claiming all will be right with the Long Term Plan. Does this s...
KDC's view of my Achilles tendon is that they don't need to answer any questions that I pose. In the meantime I've actually discovered my real Achilles tendon, which I busted this morning - so I'm a bit holed up at the moment. The Council meeting yesterday was full of excitement. The issues dealt with included the Larsen Gag and the Ecocare rates review. The candle vigil is now over - I have r...
The July agenda contains an item of business (presumably submitted by the Mayor) proposing that the Council’s standing orders regarding Councillors putting business on the agenda (Notices of Motion) be substantially changed. The recommendation proposes – That clause 3.9.15(b) be amended to read: "Such notice is to be given to the Chief Executive at least fifteen (15) clear working days be...
The good news is - The PJ and Associates report on the Financial Health and Sustainability of Kaipara District Council has now been released in the public section of the Council’s business papers. You can read the report here The other good news is – You don’t need to come to Dargaville I’d really like to get your comments on this report. What may be argued is, with the Report having...
It seems that Kaipara's Chief Censor may have struck again. I had earlier in the month submitted on notice, and in the correct form, six notices of motion for the July meeting. You can read the notices of motion here However on perusing the agenda, it seems all six motions, submitted in the ratepayers interests, have been excluded from the agenda - and this time no reason even provided for doing s...
The comment by Fox on my blog post on the weekend calls for other (named) Councillors to vote for freedom.This is unlikely to happen.The Mayor and Deputy Mayor are committed to their vision of autocracy.When other Councillors found the courage to engage me the Mayor in a terse, rare direct communication issued this order to stop communicating to me in the following sentence: "Since when do we...
Ken Dugdale posted a comment today on an important issue, namely who can step up to help our community - see hereWhile it would be good to have some focus on the affairs of KDC from central government, I am not sure that is going to happen. Why? The election, other more pressing issues deserving of attention and compassion - Christchurch in particular, and the need to avoid complicating existing...
The good news is that the Mayor has finally written a reply. The bad news is the reply was not to WorkBoot. The Mayor and Deputy Mayor are still too busy to grace WorkBoot with a reply. However in a bizarre twist, the Mayor has found the time to send an official Council media release about WorkBoot's letter to no less than 35 media agencies including the NZ Herald, TVNZ, TV3, Prime TV, Maori Telev...
At the dawning of the twelfth day I must pose the question to myself – “When is it polite to write a letter saying ‘Why, why, why have you forsaken me Neil?’” The candle budget is running out of control, more and more of my time is spent keeping the candles alight …
WorkBoot doesn’t know the meaning of the word. I want to thank the ratepayers who have encouraged me to continue to lodge notices of motion to represent the best interests of the ratepayers – you know who you are. In particular thank you to those that have raised subjects that they believe should be covered by notices of motion – I hope that these will provide you with the reassurances ...