Southern View: June 21, 2016

SOUTHERN VIEW Tuesday June 21 2016 3
News
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
In Brief
VOLUNTEER LIBRARY
An accessible ramp has been
installed at the Woolston
Volunteer Library’s temporary
premises. The ramp was
installed by Naylor Love
Construction, which
contributed labour and
materials in conjunction with
Carters building supplies.
The library is housed in a
relocatable shepherd’s hut built
by Ara Institute of Canterbury
students at the Woolston
Transitional Project site on
Ferry Rd. Tree planters and
artworks decorated by local
school children, bench seating,
a noticeboard, bike rack and
a new portaloo have also
been added to the area. The
voluntary library service will
be operating from its
temporary building four days
a week.
GRANT AWARDED
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Hours has been granted
$2770 from the Spreydon-
Heathcote Community Board’s
discretionary response fund to
go towards camps for children
and uniform replacement. City
council staff had recommended
that a grant of $2500 be made
but the board decided to fund
the full amount.
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