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10 Tuesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>30</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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WHAT HAS BEEN SPENT<br />
ON FOOD:<br />
• By Anan Zaki<br />
COMMUNITY board members<br />
have chomped through just<br />
over $49,000 of biscuits, candy<br />
and savouries since they were<br />
elected.<br />
The biggest spender was<br />
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board.<br />
The nine members have<br />
eaten food to the value of<br />
$10,000.<br />
That is the catering bill<br />
ratepayers have funded for<br />
community board meetings since<br />
the election in 2016.<br />
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board chairman<br />
Mike Mora defended the<br />
expenses.<br />
He said<br />
catering at<br />
meetings is a<br />
“necessity.”<br />
Community<br />
boards meet<br />
every two to<br />
three weeks,<br />
Mike Mora<br />
but take a<br />
recess from<br />
January to December.<br />
“I don’t think it’s right for<br />
people sitting for two or three<br />
hours with hunger pains,” Mr<br />
Mora said.<br />
Mr Mora said the food was<br />
also available to city council staff<br />
members and members of the<br />
public who attended meetings.<br />
“Personally, I think it’s for<br />
the wider benefit of everybody<br />
who attends the meeting to<br />
be able to have a sandwich, a<br />
savoury or a bit of fruit,” Mr<br />
Mora said.<br />
Board deputy chairwoman<br />
Helen<br />
Broughton<br />
was “shocked”<br />
to learn her<br />
board was the<br />
top spender.<br />
She said the<br />
Helen<br />
Broughton<br />
board will<br />
discuss the<br />
food expenses<br />
in two weeks.<br />
“We’re going to have to have<br />
a serious discussion – does it<br />
continue at all or does it continue<br />
at a lesser level?” Ms Broughton<br />
said. “It’s far too much to be<br />
spending,” she said.<br />
Ms Broughton also said the<br />
board never made it clear to<br />
members of the public attending<br />
meetings they could share in<br />
the food. Fendalton-Waimairi-<br />
Harewood<br />
Community<br />
Board spent<br />
the least on<br />
catering.<br />
The board<br />
only caters<br />
for meetings<br />
Sam<br />
MacDonald<br />
which have a<br />
“substantial”<br />
agenda or if<br />
it is combined with other<br />
boards.<br />
Chairman Sam MacDonald<br />
said the board decided early into<br />
its current term that catering<br />
meetings was not a good use of<br />
ratepayers’ money.<br />
“I think the reality is that in<br />
any workplace, [catering is] not<br />
something that’s readily available<br />
or readily offered.”<br />
Mr MacDonald said the food<br />
that’s usually provided are<br />
biscuits and lollies.<br />
“We were just cognisant of<br />
the fact that in the end, we<br />
represent the community and<br />
are outcomes focused<br />
and we need to be mindful<br />
with ratepayers’ funds,” Mr<br />
MacDonald said.<br />
A variety of caterers are used<br />
by the community boards, and<br />
sometimes the food is purchased<br />
from supermarkets, city council<br />
head of community support,<br />
governance and partnership John<br />
Filsell said.<br />
Banks Peninsula<br />
Community Board<br />
2016/17: $3399.56<br />
2017/18: $3709<br />
<strong>2018</strong>/19: $1092.98<br />
Total: $8201.54<br />
Coastal-Burwood<br />
Community Board<br />
2016/17: $3668.53<br />
2017/18: $3687.73<br />
<strong>2018</strong>/19: $1647.76<br />
Total: $9004.02<br />
Fendalton-Waimairi-<br />
Harewood Community<br />
Board<br />
2016/17: $1616.78<br />
2017/18: $742.57<br />
<strong>2018</strong>/19: $363.73<br />
Total: $2723.08<br />
Halswell-Hornby-<br />
Riccarton Community<br />
Board<br />
2016/17: $4495.46<br />
2017/18: $4515.04<br />
<strong>2018</strong>/19: $1061.75<br />
Total: $10,072.25<br />
Linwood-Central-<br />
Heathcote Community<br />
Board<br />
2016/17: $2634.90<br />
2017/18: $4574.60<br />
<strong>2018</strong>/19: $1429.64<br />
Total: $8639.14<br />
Papanui-Innes<br />
Community Board<br />
2016/17: $2371<br />
2017/18: $2606<br />
<strong>2018</strong>/19: $331<br />
Total: $5<strong>30</strong>8<br />
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Spreydon-Cashmere<br />
Community Board<br />
2016/17: $2328.83<br />
2017/18: $2484.44<br />
<strong>2018</strong>/19: $900<br />
Total: $5713.27<br />
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