Selwyn Times: May 08, 2019
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4 Wednesday <strong>May</strong> 8 <strong>2019</strong><br />
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SELWYN TIMES<br />
News<br />
<strong>May</strong>or says no to funding new stadium<br />
•From page 1<br />
Mr Broughton revealed his<br />
U-turn on funding the stadium<br />
after he was put on the spot about<br />
the topic last week.<br />
He was asked by city councillor<br />
Yani Johanson about the issue at<br />
an Annual Plan submission in<br />
Christchurch.<br />
Cr Johanson<br />
asked if both<br />
councils should<br />
work together<br />
on the proposed<br />
stadium.<br />
“So you’re<br />
Bruce<br />
Russell<br />
happy for us<br />
[Christchurch] to<br />
pay for the whole<br />
stadium?” Cr Johanson asked.<br />
In response, Mr Broughton<br />
said he could not answer the<br />
question as the district hasn’t<br />
been asked to pay.<br />
Said Mr Broughton: “At the<br />
moment Christchurch and the<br />
[central] Government can pay<br />
for what they are wanting to<br />
build, so there’s no need for extra<br />
discussion.”<br />
He said his viewpoint was<br />
based on a number of factors.<br />
“It’s based on discussions<br />
with ratepayers and also on the<br />
idea that while many things are<br />
better done locally by a town or<br />
a district, other things can be<br />
achieved better by working as a<br />
region,” Mr Broughton said.<br />
“I think the multi-use stadium<br />
has the interest of the region<br />
and is of the scale that a regional<br />
discussion should have been<br />
had.”<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> canvassed<br />
residents’ group members from<br />
across the district about the<br />
stadium debate.<br />
West Melton Residents’<br />
Association member Bruce<br />
Russell welcomed Mr<br />
Broughton’s new direction.<br />
“I believe we should have a<br />
stadium, there’s no question<br />
about that,” he said.<br />
“I would have some<br />
reservations, though, if we as a<br />
council should be levied a rate<br />
for it. I think that it’s individual.<br />
If they [Christchurch] want it<br />
desperately, they should be the<br />
ones who are contributing.”<br />
NO GO:<br />
<strong>May</strong>or Sam<br />
Broughton<br />
no longer<br />
believes<br />
the district<br />
should help<br />
fund a new<br />
stadium in<br />
Christchurch.<br />
Rolleston Residents’<br />
Association chairwoman Leonie<br />
MacLachlan said, in her opinion,<br />
the district should not pay for the<br />
stadium.<br />
“I don’t want to pay for a<br />
stadium in Christchurch out<br />
of anything from the district<br />
council. I believe if it was the<br />
other way around, Christchurch<br />
City Council would not help us<br />
in anyway,” she said.<br />
Leeston Community<br />
Committee chairman Lloyd<br />
Clausen said, in his personal<br />
view, he agreed with Mr<br />
Broughton’s change of tune.<br />
Mr Broughton hoped the<br />
stadium would meet whichever<br />
standards may be demanded by<br />
the rest of Canterbury.<br />
“If the region of Canterbury<br />
had been involved from the start,<br />
I think that would have been a<br />
better process,” he said.<br />
Environment Canterbury was<br />
the only local body that could<br />
set a regional rate to fund the<br />
stadium, Mr Broughton said.<br />
But ECan has previously stated<br />
it did not include the stadium in<br />
its 2018-2028 Long Term Plan as<br />
it was never asked for funding<br />
by the city council and central<br />
Government. Its next Long Term<br />
Plan review is in 2021.<br />
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