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From: sts-bounces@taniwha.com [mailto:sts-bounces@taniwha.com] On Behalf Of Stop the Stadium Announcement list
Sent: Thursday, 12 November 2009 8:44 p.m.
To: sts@taniwha.com
Subject: [sts] STS Meeting reminder
To all STS members.
Notice of Special meeting, to be held at Pioneer Women’s Hall, 362, Moray Place. (near Dick Smith’s), on Sunday, 15th November, at 3:00pm.
Dear Members,
Sunday’s meeting (a rescheduling of [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘DCC’
November 14, 2009
STS Notice of Special Meeting
November 14, 2009
From the log books of a twenty-year distress
Dunedin City Council has over committed to a stadium. Because of this we lose some sweet, uniting, smaller projects for the city.
The plan for a new 800-seat theatre in Dunedin is rejected in report.
Report – CDC – 17/11/2009 (PDF, 67.2 kb, new window)
Performing Arts in Dunedin – Options for the future
Report – CDC – 17/11/2009 [...]
November 12, 2009
Octagon: When no grand plan exists
UPDATED
Some try to be opportunistic, not in a good way.
### ODT Online Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Car-free Octagon plan hits snag
By David Loughrey
Lower Octagon businesses pushing for the area to be closed to traffic during summer have been told to put more work into their idea if they want it to go ahead.
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And these are [...]
November 10, 2009
Dunedin public library services
UPDATED
### ODT Online Tue, 10 Nov 2009
Post office plans revealed
By Mark Price
Dunedin City Council staff and consultants have done “most of the homework” required to convert three floors of the former chief post office, in Princes St, into a new library. Project management company Octa Associates was employed midway through the year to develop the [...]
November 4, 2009
D Scene – entrepreneurship skirts the stadium
### D Scene 4-11-09
Feast for workers (page 15)
By Michelle Sutton
A feast of burgers, bacon sandwiches, jobs and business opportunities are being served up and devoured at Dunedin’s stadium.
Otago Chamber of Commerce president John Christie said the stadium was a catalyst for private sector innovation, and people had seized entrepreneurial opportunities around its development.
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Council to talk [...]
November 4, 2009
Buses in Dunedin CBD
UPDATED
### ODT Online Fri, 6 Nov 2009
Electric buses, transfer stations mooted for central city
By David Loughrey
Dunedin’s bus system could be in for some major changes as the focus moves from parking to the public transport system.
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### ODT Online Wed, 4 Nov 2009
DCC considers bus station in Octagon
By Mark Price
Turning the central carriageway of the [...]
November 4, 2009
Councillors! BMX track needed, south
David says @ http://dunedinstadium.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/city-parking-issues-not-abating/#comment-8931
“A BMX track is needed out south. Kids in St Clair have to cycle a 28km return trip through the centre of the city if they want to go to Forrester Park BMX track. Not a particularly appropriate commute for kids on bikes. Otematata has a population of just 200 and they [...]
November 3, 2009
Latest on PARKING +OMG tinkering with options for buses
Channel 9 News tonight indicates the council’s working party to address parking woes has settled into a self-congratulatory funk.
Deputy mayor Syd Brown, chair of the working party, says: “We have done our best to untangle the mess that was the city’s parking system.”
At Thursday’s extraordinary meeting of the council it is likely the recommended [...]
October 28, 2009
D Scene – Game on, stadium
Carisbrook Stadium Trust is 15 months out from the 31 July 2011 deadline.
### D Scene 28-10-09
Stadium – game on (page 10)
Dunedin’s stadium is not yet built, but it is already hosting a fiercely contested, high-stakes game. This game is a race against the clock, spurred on by the 2011 Rugby World Cup, with millions of [...]
October 27, 2009
Bad news: school mural at stadium defaced
UPDATED
Anti stadium sentiments have been sprayed on a school mural recently added to the stadium wall, upsetting the pupils.
Ravensbourne School pupils were the first group to paint a mural on the wall after an invitation by Keep Dunedin Beautiful.
### ODT Online Wed, 28 Oct 2009
Pupils devastated by mural defacing
By John Lewis
Anti-stadium sentiments spray-painted over [...]
October 24, 2009
Dr Rodney Wilson urges DCC to explore special status for Dunedin as a national heritage city
“Pride in the beauty and the buildings endures while enthusiasm for rugby teams rises and falls on the rankings.”
### ODT Online Sat, 24 Oct 2009
Editorial: Astonishing heritage
When senior museum consultant Rodney Wilson was commissioned by the Dunedin City Council to help review management structures at the city’s museums and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, he [...]
October 23, 2009
Weekend ODT looks at The Exchange
UPDATED
Alert from Channel 9:
Barry Stewart says tomorrow’s ODT magazine section looks at The Exchange area and “what they’re doing there”.
Who is ‘they’ we ask. Like Scenic Circle and Dunedin Casino shouldn’t be building a god-awful one-level carpark to replace the former Bank of Australasia and the former Butterworth building in High Street…when good stewards like [...]
October 23, 2009
DCC to lose general manager
Dunedin City Council
Media Release
23 October 2009
Styles Heading Home to Hutt
The DCC is to lose the services of one of its top managers with the resignation of Kate Styles, General Manager Strategy and Development.
Mrs Styles, who has been with the Council for three years admits to mixed feelings.”I’ve grown fond of Dunedin and have formed the [...]
October 22, 2009
DCHL chief executive replies to critics
In his letter to the editor, Bevan Dodds explains that DCHL was established to allow Dunedin City Council-owned companies to operate commercially at arm’s length from the council while returning a dividend which the council can then use to offset rates. Although in conclusion he asks, “Why would you not smile at payments of $19.8m [...]
October 22, 2009
Dunedin’s ungreen side…
Stuff to ponder from one of Paul’s favourite places:
### The Vancouver Sun October 20, 2009 11:36 PM
Mayor releases plan to make Vancouver the world’s greenest city by 2020
By Gerry Bellett
Mayor Gregor Robertson announced an ambitious 10-year plan Tuesday to make Vancouver the world’s greenest city by 2020. Robertson presented the plan to Gaining Ground-Resilient Cities [...]
October 21, 2009
CST report details subcontracts and more
### ODT Online Wed, 21 Oct 2009
Stadium bill $42m so far: trust
By David Loughrey
The Carisbrook Stadium Trust had spent $42 million of the $165.4 million cost of building the Forsyth Barr Stadium by the end of September.
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Post by Elizabeth Kerr
October 20, 2009
Stadium + Heritage? Or… Stadium because of Heritage?
What’s the fit, what is Dunedin really selling? A stadium, or everything else besides that offers a point of difference? Ask the residents who often positively remark on our heritage resources, because it’s ‘home’ and they’re proud of their surroundings. Not only this, private property owners are cumulatively responsible for maintaining the larger part of [...]
October 17, 2009
Stakeholders Group Report to DCC
The Dunedin City Council’s Finance and Strategy Committee meets on Monday 19 October 2009, Edinburgh Room, Municipal Chambers, at 2pm.
Agenda – FSC – 19/10/2009 (PDF, 15.1 kb, new window)
Report – FSC – 19/10/2009 (PDF, 4.2 mb, new window)
Stakeholders Group Report
Other reports to be tabled at the meeting include:
- Water and Waste Services Delivery Options
- Annual [...]
October 17, 2009
Stadium effects on vital infrastructural works?
The ‘favoured’ stadium project loads the council with debt and hampers divisional spending??
### ODT Online Sat, 17 Oct 2009
DCC staff warn against cutting water projects
By Chris Morris
Dunedin City Council staff have warned councillors against abandoning water infrastructure projects in an attempt to save money, as contamination of the city’s beaches again hits the headlines.
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October 16, 2009
DCC $764,000 in the red
Timing is everything. The audit didn’t consider some of the issues [including stadium budget issues] that had caused ratepayer concern, such as the level of debt the council was carrying.
### ODT Online Fri, 16 Oct 2009
Audit NZ gives DCC a tick of approval
By David Loughrey
The Dunedin City Council ended the 2008-09 financial year $764,000 in [...]
October 14, 2009
D Scene – Local body elections, David Davies & Port merger(?)
### D Scene 14-10-09
Cold deck (cover page)
Several hot issues face Dunedin in the years ahead, such as the stadium project, the future of the wharves, how to deal with the city’s waste and transport issues. But councillors are playing their cards close to their chests about whether they will stand in next year’s local body [...]
October 13, 2009
STS. What’s the point.
Pay up and shut up…
### ODT Online Tue, 13 Oct 2009
Lobby group’s president berates justice system
By David Loughrey
Stop the Stadium’s latest notice to members is heavy on invective, with the organisation’s new president taking the opportunity to attack the New Zealand justice system following recent defeats in the courtroom.
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### ODT Online Tue, 13 Oct [...]
October 12, 2009
DCC website upgrade for stadium project information
The city council has updated the stadium project information section on its website. http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/council-projects/stadium
The WIC/Our Stadium webcam is also available at the council website. http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/council-projects/stadium/stadium-cam
From the stadium webpage:
[excerpt] “The Forsyth Barr Stadium has generated a great deal of debate in recent months. It is important that we are clear about our role in this development, [...]
October 11, 2009
STS meanders to justify calling special meeting
Copy of Stop The Stadium group email as received:
From: Stop the Stadium Announcement list
Date: 11 October 2009 4:55:45 PM NZDT
To: sts mailout
Subject: [sts] Notice of special meeting, to be held at Pioneer Women’s Hall, 362, Moray Place. (near Dick Smith’s), on Sunday, 18th October, at 3:00 pm.
Reply-To: bevkiwi@hotmail.com
Notice of special meeting, to be held at [...]
October 11, 2009
Money for jam at local government
### ODT Online Mon, 5 Oct 2009
Local government expansion could be over
By Dene Mackenzie
The strong expansion in New Zealand’s local government sector looks to be over, according to BNZ Capital senior economist Craig Ebert. “Despite sustained strong growth in revenue, local councils have run themselves into sizeable deficits as expenditure has ballooned that much faster.”
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