Author Archives: Lee Vandervis - lee@vandervision.co.nz

DCC should not spend millions and destroy an iconic playground when only playground maintenance is required. When asked, DCC staff confirmed that there were no reported injuries on their records from using the dinosaur slide in its 60 years. Cr. … Continue reading →

I am a bit miffed at not being included in the list of DCC Councillors – Galer, Lund and Simms accused of “publicly criticising the Council” as targeted by Orma Bradfield of Broad Bay in her letter to the Editor … Continue reading →

DCC purchase of Forbury Raceway for $13.5 million was justified by Cr. Benson-Pope and others as necessary to ‘have control’ over a very large piece of Dunedin real estate. Mayor Radich was keen on the purchase because he believed Forbury … Continue reading →

Thanks to Cr. Simms notice of motion today, all Dunedin voters will decide what voting system we will use, rather than the status quo of elected representatives deciding whether they get elected by STV or by FPP. Unfortunately we have … Continue reading →

The millions spent by DCC on reducing CO2 emissions under their Zero Carbon 2030 plans have been a complete waste of public money in my long experience. The claim by the DCC Zero Carbon team that Dunedin City CO2 emissions … Continue reading →

We, [Crs. Simms Galer Lund] agreed that the people of Dunedin should decide on whether elected representatives should vote using Dunedin’s current NZ-modified STV computer program system or the more commonly used FPP voting system where those with the most … Continue reading →

All the details in this picture helpfully summarise the issue

The NZ modified Single Transferable Vote system was confirmed by the DCC under urgency because DCC staff forgot the decision deadline, when this should have been an informed consulted on Dunedin Community decision. We need almost 5,000 signatures from confirmed … Continue reading →

My deepest gratitude to the Filleul Surgical Center Team that quickly sorted the paperwork, anesthetised my left eye, poked a 2mm hole in it with a sharp scalpel, pulverised my cloudy eye lens with ultrasound, sucked the resulting goo out … Continue reading →

A trial road closure in Dunedin’s Town Belt has been labelled “a completely useless exercise”.

In my view we do not have two population centers in Otago. We have 254,000 people in Otago with 133,000 of them in Dunedin – 52% of Otago’s population and the rest are spread around the region with a big … Continue reading →

Lee Vandervis   ·  This Otago/Southland Unitary Council replacing the ten current Councils where we will probably end up anyway, but doing it two steps rather than one will cost double and delay much bigger integration and development opportunities. Tom Campbell … Continue reading →

Lee Vandervis Draft Head Start Amalgamation Proposal – in my view this proposed dividing of Otago between Dunedin and Queenstown is just a self-serving attempt to delay the demise of the DCC. The DCC amalgamation proposal with QLDC proposes two … Continue reading →

Former Wanganui mayor Michael Laws, not one to withhold his views especially with matters pertaining to local government, has got straight on the front foot here with his views on LG since his announcement as candidate for the New Zealand … Continue reading →

Government has said that the new Local Unitary Councils must combine at least 2 existing Councils and have more than 200,000 people to get new efficiencies of scale. For Dunedin that means an Otago/Southland Super Council. Many Mayors and Councillors … Continue reading →

I have long supported Cr. Simms attempts to stall this massive possibly unnecessary expenditure by arguing that Dunedin may be better served by using existing landfills for problematic putrescent waste by using AB Lime’s facility in Winton and/or Taiko Landfill … Continue reading →

I have been trying to get ORC and DCC to specify larger Mosgiel culvert, driveway and drainage pipe sizes increased over many years, but been unsuccessful. Clearing mudtanks and pipe entrances has improved in South Dunedin but still been patchy … Continue reading →

Minister of Local Government Simon Watts has obviously been watching DCC climate alarmism used to railroad a shortlist of 3 similar South Dunedin Futures – all requiring the destruction of 1,100+ homes, Billion$+ cost to make room for wetlands and … Continue reading →

I issued the warning on the first day that my print copy was available, [see previous post photo] when there was time to split it up. CEO and Mayor said NO. This is just one way that important agendas with … Continue reading →