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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.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/the-protestors-have-won

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.