Western News: October 09, 2018

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Parade funding questioned
• By Julia Evans
WHY THE city’s events agency
is not helping fund the Santa
Parade has been questioned by a
city councillor.
The event isn’t considered
major enough for
ChristchurchNZ to be involved.
It comes as
an additional
$20,000 of
funding to
go towards
the parade’s
rent, rates and
insurance was
approved at the
Loren
Heaphy
city council
meeting on
Thursday.
It is the second time the city
council has given funding to the
parade this financial year – the
first time $65,000 was granted.
However, city councillor Yani
Johanson questioned why it was
footing the bill without input
from ChristchurchNZ.
Last year, the city council’s
events unit was merged with
Christchurch and Canterbury
Tourism and Canterbury Development
Corporation to create
the tourism, events and economic
development agency ChristchurchNZ.
“I just wondered if we’ve actually
approached ChristchurchNZ
which is very keen on attracting
sponsorship to events and are
they providing support? They’ve
got a lot of funding now,” Cr
Johanson said.
City council chief executive
Karleen Edwards said granting
funding was up to the city
council.
“This is more of a community
event, rather than a major
event,” Dr Edwards said.
“We’ve asked ChristchurchNZ
to focus on major events in their
statement of intent and this is
not a major event so it falls with
council.”
City council manager events
and arts Karena Finnie said that
falls in line with the new events
policy framework and major
events strategy.
“The Santa Parade is classified
as a regional event which is the
responsibility of Christchurch
City Council,” she said.
Cr Johanson said: “So cricket
POPULAR:
The annual
Christchurch
Santa Parade
draws in
around
100,000
people.
playing rugby guys with about
10,000 people, if they’re lucky,
is in the mandate but this isn’t,
with about 100,000 people. That
seems very odd.”
ChristchurchNZ general manager
destination Loren Heaphy
and attraction said it has not been
approached to support the Santa
Parade.
“If we were approached, we
would consider it alongside all
other events that are looking for
support.”
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