Author Archives: Lee Vandervis

Not content with wasting $60 million turning George st/Exchange into a cycleway and wasting a further $53 million on ‘park-and-ride’, ‘way-finding’ and ‘traffic diversion’ projects to empty our city centre, our DCC Chair of Infrastructure now wants to throw a … Continue reading →

Organised resistance to the forced takeover of Dunedin’s $2.5 BILLION water assets by a self-selected 50% Iwi elite is ‘futile’ according to our Mayor. Not surprising when Mayor Hawkins unsuccessfully tried to get Council approval for his letter to MP … Continue reading →

Thursday, 9 December 2021 Paper Vandervis used often misrepresented: MoH By Grant Miller91468 News Dunedin Lee Vandervis. PHOTO: ODT FILESA document Dunedin city councillor Lee Vandervis relied on to argue against Covid-19 vaccine passes was revised by the Ministry of Health because … Continue reading →

From: Lee Vandervis <lee@vandervision.co.nz>Date: Friday, 10 December 2021 at 8:03 AMTo: EditorODT <editor@odt.co.nz>, “Nicholas. Smith” <nicholas.smith@xtra.co.nz>, Grant McKenzie <grant@alliedpress.co.nz>, Grant Miller <grant.miller@odt.co.nz>Subject: Out of the room on zoom? Letter to the Editor 129 words Letter to the Editor Out of … Continue reading →

Further CEO Graham claims include that an Elected Representative could adequately perform staff-interface, representative and debating round the Council table functions by remote zoom having been singularly excluded from Council Offices. The wholly unsatisfactory business of conducting just Council meetings … Continue reading →

I am not irate about being excluded from Council buildings as falsely claimed in today’s ODT, but I am deeply saddened. I am saddened for exclusion of ratepayers and especially the misery and strain being caused for DCC employees who … Continue reading →

The DCC CEO is proposing to exclude unvaccinated people including Elected Representatives from all Council buildings in a draft proposal, and has asked for feedback which I have provided as below. Unless other Elected representatives have provided anonymous feedback, I … Continue reading →

What has Dunedin got to show for its ballooning debt, other than ballooning rates increases always many times the rate of inflation? Ballooning DCC staff numbers? and what else? https://www.odt.co.nz/…/council-set-hoist-borrowing&#8230; We should promote local businesses, stop the ludicrous spending, stop … Continue reading →

Reasons outside of my control include being unable to confirm an adjudicator or get responses today from the convenor. I still think the Debate is a really good idea and hope that it still proceeds without me.

Showing ‘support and solidarity’ by using public funds to fly politicised flags just advertises and reinforces divisions in my view. That is why opposing armies fly different flags as they go into battle, to reinforce slight cultural differences rather than … Continue reading →

I do not know who Melissa O’Hagan is, but when she wrote this by God she got it right: “It probably doesn’t matter what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern does from here on in. Her legacy, in many minds, is already … Continue reading →

I had a doctor’s prescription for the Borody Covid Treatment Protocol of which my pharmacist was unable to supply the Ivermectin component, because NZ was “out of stock”. My pharmacist told me that NZ’s stock of human dosage Ivermectin had … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →