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
Candidates Who Have Signed The KOA PLedge Or Emailed Acceptance Of It
The People’s Choice committed all of its candidates to it.
The below list is of candidates who either signed the pledge at a public meeting on September 16 or emailed their acceptance of it
Ben Alexander
Blair Anderson
Sophie Bond
Ross Boswell
Simon Britten
Taraia Brown
Fionna Chapman
Melanie Coker
Cody Cooper
Pauline Cotter
Mike Davidson
Joe Davies
Andrea Davis
Xavier Dickason
Celeste Donovan
Tyrone Fields
Jillian Frater
Joseph Fullerton
Dr Sunita Gautam
Sara Gerard
Ethan Gullery
Tyla Harrison-Hunt
Thomas Healey
Nathaniel Herz-Jardine
Alex Hewison
Yani Johanson
Roy Kenneally
Peter Langlands
Keir Leslie
Cathy Lum-Webb
Levaun Matetaka
Clare Marks
Harrison McEvoy
Jake McLellan
Paul McMahon
Dr Colin Meurk ONZM
Nigel Millar
John Miller
Debbie Mora
Jack Mould
Janice Munar
Marie Pollisco
Mananui Ramsden
Mace Reid
Genevieve Robinson
Philip Robinson
Tom Roud
Lee Sampson
Tim Scandrett
Jackie Simons
Jamie Small
Sara Templeton
Mihi-Rose Tipene
Emma Twaddell
Tom Unger