### Otago Community Trust 2009 Annual Report (page 2)
Forsyth Barr Stadium at the University Plaza overlooking the Otago harbour, will be New Zealand’s largest indoor arena.
The Otago Community Trust has continued its long-held tradition of underpinning major community assets in Otago, and will provide $7 million towards the cost of construction of this new Stadium [...]
Channel 9 news reports the Regional Transport Committee of the Otago Regional Council has a $520 million programme to cover all roading projects in Otago, including major projects and maintenance, for the next three years.
The programme will be lodged with the New Zealand Transport Agency and assessed with those from around the country.
The NZTA board [...]
### Channel 9 News May 13, 2009
Tomorrow’s ODT carries news that Waitaki District Council has asked for its contribution to the stadium to be reduced by $2 million.
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“Major deficiencies” in the Otago Regional Council’s calculations…
### ODT Online Thu, 14 May 2009
Waitaki disputes levy for stadium
By Allison Rudd
Waitaki ratepayers had been asked to pay $3.9 million [...]
### ODT Friday, May 8, 2009 (page 10)
Stadium Funding processes ‘confusing’
By Rebecca Fox
The processes the Otago Regional Council has had to follow to part-fund the Awatea St stadium are confusing to many, director corporate services Wayne Scott says.
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See ORC chief executive Graeme Martin’s report to Extraordinary Council Meeting 11/2/2009 which provides a précis of [...]
It’s a long-term investment…
### ODT Online Mon, 27 Apr 2009
Waipori Fund takes another beating
By Dene Mackenzie
Investments in the Dunedin City Council’s Waipori Fund took another hammering in the three months ended March, although indications are that it was a better result than recorded in December.
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Finance and Strategy Committee Meeting
Monday 27 April 2009, Edinburgh Room, [...]
### D Scene March 25, 2009 (page 4)
Town Hall project showdown
The proposed stadium will come under scrutiny from six Dunedin identities and councillors at a last-minute town hall meeting this Sunday. The meeting is organised by Stop The Stadium.
WHAT: Stadium meeting – what you should have been told!
WHERE: Dunedin Town Hall
WHEN: this Sunday, 7pm
MC: Dougal [...]
ORC funding for the Forsyth Barr Stadium at University Plaza is conditional on assurances of a $15 million contribution from Government, or other sources, by the close of business on 2 March 2009.
It’s Friday with mondayitis upon us, a flatness on the way to unleavened dread. Will Council come right and true, realising the past months, years, of stadium investigation and planning have been a complete unnecessary evil in the life and times of many many residents and ratepayers – amongst them, not a few rugby stalwarts [...]
