I pledge to maintain Christchurch’s key strategic assets in public ownership and control and to utilise the ownership to build a community development strategy for Ōtautahi/Christchurch looking decades into the future.
Notes:
A community development strategy means to utilise the assets in ways which would include:
- Maximising the training of apprentices across all trades associated with the assets
- Provision of retraining opportunities in cases of private sector business failure
- Provide leading models of good employment practices for the private sector to aspire to
- Provide opportunities to expand housing initiatives for tenants and families on low incomes
- Future proofing the assets so infrastructure development is maintained through the long term rather than providing short term profits
- Foster community pride through owning the assets rather than “renting” them from the private sector
- Develop the assets to invest in public transport initiatives with their economic, social and environmental benefits
- Maintain the ability to react immediately in times of crisis (e.g. our airport and port would be our lifelines to the outside world in times of crisis)
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the greatest extent possible in order to contribute to the goal of keeping global temperature increases well below +2 degrees C.
Murray Horton
Convenor
Keep Our Assets-Canterbury
Box 2258, Christchurch 8140
koa@chch.planet.org.nz