Author Archives: Lee Vandervis

My concern is for the reputational harm done by Dunedin City Council staff with the unprecedented misuse of the Councillor Code of Conduct process which was leaked smearing the likely candidate for the 2019 Council Mayoral election. I actually went … Continue reading →

TROLLs are what is wrong with social media, keyboard activists who delight in smearing, lying about, and misrepresenting people that aren’t extreme leftie or woke like they are.Oscar Francis is special kind of keyboard activist still employed as a ‘reporter’ … Continue reading →

The DCC Code of Conduct has become a Kangaroo Court, with no effective balance or Natural Justice rights for the accused. Clause 12 of the Code of Conduct says that “only members and the chief executive may make a complaint”, … Continue reading →

Showing more respect to MP Mahuta is not something I intend to do, since she has lost my respect over her 3 waters asset grab, first by promising Councils they could opt-in or opt-out, and when 60 of 67 opted … Continue reading →

I intend to make myself available for election again for both Council and for Mayor in the hope of being able to affect a positive DCC course-correction that will bring back Democracy instead of party political agendas that threaten the … Continue reading →

Push to remove Melbourne’s bike lanes https://www.3aw.com.au/push-to-remove-melbournes-bike-lanes-to-return-city-to-its-former-glory/?fbclid=IwAR1wFhgeRuhf4jajFuDK1BQ_uMjbBE_Vw8SmmaTsZJKjKC99S_IlYJBdsSM

The ODT have printed my letter to the editor in full! Dear Editor, We need to keep the One-Way system as one way obviously, as NZTA/Waka Kotahi have explained, but to suggest that our One-Way works perfectly well as Cr. … Continue reading →

$2.5 million per year just to avoid making an inevitable decision? It is my unpopular duty to let Dunedin people know how far gone options are for the Middlemarch track. Can anybody suggest where the first $20 million might come … Continue reading →

This from ex-Southland Regional CEO Ciaran Keogh: abridged to meet FB word limit. Sent: Thursday, 21 April 2022 3:14 p.m. To: morgan.godfrey@otago.ac.nz Cc: j.ardern@ministers.govt.nz; opinion@stuff.co.nz; rebecca.ryan@oamarumail.co.nz; Christopher.Luxon@parliament.govt.nz : re your 3 waters article in Stuff 21 April Kia ora Morgan … Continue reading →

Sammy’s should never have been purchased without a clear intended use, especially since Council does not own the land under it and Council seems not to have explored earthquake, asbestos and other issues with the building prior to purchase.It is … Continue reading →

Good that Dunedin residents feel their quality of Life to be good, second only to Wellington. But look at the real data – Export Revenue and Business Growth – and we are bottom of the list. Dunedin needs to face … Continue reading →

We have lost Local Democracy and look like having control of our multi-billion$ 3 Waters Infrastructure taken from us as well. MP Mahuta’s promise of us having the ability to opt out of her 3 Waters asset grab was shamelessly … Continue reading →

The issues began with a DCC customer services employee refusing to record the Identification Number of a faulty parking machine that I went to get sorted [it soon was], then my complaint to DCC Management of the employee not doing … Continue reading →

From: Lee Vandervis <lee@vandervision.co.nz>Date: Monday, 7 March 2022 at 7:25 PMTo: Grant Miller <grant.miller@odt.co.nz>Subject: FW: Great King/SH1 from Pine Hill intersection grade separation Hi Grant, Not wishing in any way to have pre-empted Cr. O’Malley’s $400 million plus massive multi-lane … Continue reading →

Check my difficulties getting my doctor’s Ivermectin prescription supplied in my FB post of 12th October 2021. And note that the ODT again smeared me with false claims that I was promoting a horse medicine.

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