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- Years of created parking problems just part of the Council anti-car crusade.
- More DCC car restrictions in favour of yet another underused cycleway
- Councillors Walker, Garey, & Ong oppose pay parity and my Co-Chair Finance and Performance and Portfolio Lead for Council Controlled Organisations
- Finally, I get some useful positions on Council.
- A decade too late, we have long needed to be free of the ORC, but better late that never! https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/579884/serious-shake-up-of-local-government-imminent
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Who knew that our Government is pushing through laws to allow forced: – detention, to be isolated or quarantined in any specified place or in any specified way – examination, to report for and undergo a medical examination or testing … Continue reading
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Prime Minister Ardern’s self-crowning as the ‘single source of Truth’ with regards to Covid science :
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Freedom of Choice speech at Queens Gardens Families Freedom Picnic event, Saturday 2/10/21.
My Name is Lee Vandervis. I am one of your elected representatives, a Councillor on the Dunedin City Council.Today I am not speaking on behalf of the City or the DCC, but giving a personal view of freedoms in New … Continue reading
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Our anti-car Council has become the anti-consultation Council as they ignored the vast majority of Annual Plan submitters including all but one of our Community Boards who opposed the changes to George street, ignored the George st retailers and landlords, and ignored the biggest public petition this century of 6,500 Dunedin people opposed to the $60 million plan to turn George street to the Exchange into a cycleway.
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Not a One Way, but a My Way George st. cycleway, with 10kph legally required emergency vehicle access.
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There never was any discussion as claimed in this ODT article during a meeting solely to discuss DCC feedback on the MP Mahuta 3 waters takeover proposal.
Mayor Hawkins shut down the meeting during question time when awkward questions kept coming over his proposed suck-up letter to Mahuta claiming ‘broad Council support’. A subsequent rewrite with around 30 changes still fell well short of Christchurch Councillors’ unanimous … Continue reading
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MP Mahuta’s 3 Waters $2.5 BILLION attempted asset grab of Dunedin’s drinking, drainage and waste water systems for $47 million plus promises of economies of scale has fallen at the first hurdle. Christchurch City Council has emphatically voted Mahuta’s 3 waters down, so there can be no economies of scale for the the South Island.
https://chrislynchmedia.com/newsitems/City%20councillors%20unite%20against%20%E2%80%9Cundemocratic%E2%80%9D%20Government%20water%20reforms?fbclid=IwAR3sO3O2Vq6knWIo4xJv8LNGKBprkEISOeZhOxQfYfktGDx_12J_kXEnkgs My questions of DCC staff regarding 3 Waters were non-answered as below: From: Simon Drew <Simon.Drew@dcc.govt.nz>Date: Monday, 27 September 2021 at 4:31 PMTo: Lee Vandervis <lee@vandervision.co.nz>, “Council 2019-2022 (Elected Members)” <council.2019-2022@dcc.govt.nz>, Sandy Graham <Sandy.Graham@dcc.govt.nz>Cc: “Executive Leadership Team (ELT)” <elt@dcc.govt.nz>, … Continue reading
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No scientific studies for Ivermectin?
https://ivmmeta.com/ Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 63 studies, which Professor Ussher seems to have missed, amongst others…
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We need real debate and some balance for the tax-funded onslaught of politics and economics currently pretending to be Public Health.
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FaceBook Group ‘Dunedin News Uncut’ have cut the following purely Informational Post, because of feared FaceBook repercussions. Ironic, given the second of the 2 Rights quoted that are enshrined in the Bill of Rights Act 1990.
“Not everyone knows that in NZ you are protected by the NZ Bill of Rights Act 1990 which amongst many other rights includes: 11 – Right to refuse to undergo medical treatment Everyone has the right to refuse to undergo … Continue reading
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It seems that ex Pfizer Vice President does not believe that the Pfizer vaccine is effective, necessary, or safe.
https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=6119a5c55f9bed525db38b7f I shared the above post on 3 Facebook groups late last night, Dunedin News, Otago News, and Dunedin News Uncut, and this morning they had all been cut right out, not just the mandatory automatically added ‘f COVID-19 vaccines … Continue reading
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Anti-Democratic DCC
Appointment today of unknown unelected representatives to have voting rights on two Council decision-making Standing Committees! Democracy denied by Deputy Mayor Garey saying that “Democracy came from a slave state – Greece”, Cr Laufiso saying that she was “a Communist”, … Continue reading
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Grateful that ODT printed entire opinion piece today.
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ODT mislead on non-parking issues again
The Court case and the Appeal have been necessary to challenge the DCC bureaucracy’s public attack on an elected representative during an election process, to get rulings on unprecedented uses/abuses of Code of Conduct provisions, and to preserve elected representatives’ … Continue reading
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How much personal abuse and abuse of process should I take?
Yesterday’s abusive accusations included Cr. Benson-Pope calling me “crass”, “boorish” and falsely claiming I told untruths with Mayor Hawkins again failing to keep order. By late afternoon there was no point in my subjecting myself to more. See for yourself. … Continue reading
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ANZAC DAY Brighton Address
ANZAC DAY MEMORIAL 2021 Brighton My name is Lee Vandervis and as one of your DUNEDIN CITY COUNCIL elected Councillors I am honoured to address you on this ANZAC DAY MEMORIAL 2021, organised by the Brighton Club Incorporated. My thanks … Continue reading
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MORE DAMAGING DCC SPEED HUMPS
Flagging away Brian Stewart’s immaculate Ford GT40 Replica which he built himself over many years, having been inspired at the age of 14 in 1966 when the GT40 trounced the Ferraris at Le Mans, using 3 NZ drivers – Denny … Continue reading
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Lee Vandervis - lee@vandervision.co.nz 