Bay Harbour: June 22, 2016

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Wednesday June 22 2016
News
Agency up
for award
A FERRYMEAD creative
design agency has been named
a finalist for a national business
award.
Mint Design is the only finalist
with its headquarters in the
South Island in the 2016 AUT
Business School Excellence in
Business Support Awards.
The company has been recognised
in the sales and marketing
category.
It is a 2015 Deloitte Fast 500
company.
It has built websites for businesses
in Spain, the United
Kingdom and Australia.
“It’s also one of the very few
Google certified and trusted
agencies in Australasia, authorised
to create Google Street
View tours.
Mint Design director Alice
Moore said it was an honour to
have been a finalist.
“We’re just a local web-design
and digital marketing agency in
Christchurch going up against
some major players from Auckland
and Wellington. To have
made it this far through the
awards process is an achievement
in itself.”
Winners of the 10 category
awards and the supreme award
will be named on October 5.
Move forces resignation
• By Tom Doudney
HAGLEY-Ferrymead
Community Board deputy
chairwoman Islay McLeod has
resigned because she is moving
back to Dunedin.
Ms McLeod was critical of
the performance of her board
which she said suffered from
a lack of local government
experience.
Her departure will not trigger a
by-election this close to elections
in October and Ms McLeod said
she had checked to make sure
this was the case before resigning.
“A lot of people in good faith
voted for me and I would be
letting them down if I cost the
ratepayers anything or if there
was anything significant coming
up,” she said.
“There are not a lot of major
issues coming up. The Annual
Plan is all sorted, the Replacement
District Plan is pretty well
sorted.”
Asked if her second term
on the board had been a good
experience, Ms McLeod said “not
particularly.”
“My first term was good
because there were good steady
hands with very experienced and
practised people like Bob Todd,
who was the chair, and David
Cox,” she said.
“In this latest term, out of the
seven of us, four had no local
government experience at all.”
She said at times the board had
not been proactive enough when
it came to taking a stand on local
issues, such as the date for building
a Linwood-Woolston pool
continually being delayed.
“Just putting in a submission
like everybody else isn’t the way,”
she said.
“I think the board could have
and should have had a more
powerful and vocal say on what is
happening in our ward.”
Board chairwoman Sara Templeton
said she didn’t think that a
lack of experience was evident on
the board.
“I think this board has actually
been incredibly passionate and
vocal about a range of different
issues and has taken it to council
on many occasions and pushed
for things.”
Ms McLeod will also step
down from the Christchurch
West Melton Zone Committee.
She moved to Christchurch 12
years ago to be close to her mother
who had health problems. Her
mother passed away at the end of
last year.
MOVING ON: Islay McLeod has resigned from the Hagley-
Ferrymead Community Board. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
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