The Star: May 09, 2019

The Star Thursday May 9 2019
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community boards?
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“I think the level of pay for the
Banks Peninsula Community
Board is not adequate and
is certainly out of line when
compared to other city boards,”
he said.
City councillor Sara Templeton
said she would also be open to
city councillor salaries
being used to better
remunerate the community
boards.
She said she is concerned the
current model was preventing
people from running for
community boards.
“We need to enable a wide
range of people to stand for our
community boards, not just
in Banks Peninsula but across
the city, part of that is better
remuneration,” Cr Templeton
said.
City councillor Aaron
Keown felt the current level of
remuneration going to the Banks
Peninsula Community Board
needed to change.
“It’s like mum and dad saying
they love you and your sister
equally but when they die your
sister gets 70 per cent of the
house and you get 30 per cent,”
he said.
City councillors Jimmy Chen,
Anne Galloway, Vicki Buck,
Glenn Livingstone, Pauline
Cotter, Raf Manji, Deon Swiggs
and Phil Clearwater also
Andrew Turner Sara Templeton Ali Jones
said they would be open to a
discussion after the elections
about sacrificing a portion
of their salary to supplement
community boards.
City councillor Yani Johanson
did not respond to calls from The
Star.
Ms Dalziel was unavailable for
comment.
However, city councillor Mike
Davidson said the remuneration
of community board chairs as
well as city councillor salaries
needed to be looked at.
“What I always think is
potentially the chairs may be over
remunerated when you see
that they get double what
community board members get,”
he said.
Papanui-Innes Community
Board chairwoman Ali Jones
earns $46,310 a year, while board
members are paid $23,155.
But Ms Jones said she would
completely reject a reduction in
her remuneration.
“I feel that what I’m paid is
appropriate for the number
of hours, the accessibility, the
knowledge and experience
that I bring to the role,” she
said.
However, Ms Jones believed
community board members
did deserve to be better
remunerated.
“You can’t rob Peter to pay
Paul, you need to remunerate
people correctly in the first place
and you should not be cutting
wages of city councillors who are
already doing a huge job for the
money they are paid,” Ms Jones
said.
ALERT: Additional security measures have been
implemented at Christchurch Hospital.
More security put
in place at hospital
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Mr Khan said the woman
told him she had been “working
on her own for a long time”
and every time she went to
the hospital, someone would
ask her what organisation she
represented.
“She seemed very disappointed.
I told her our work hadn’t been
that organised, so we took her as
part of our volunteer team and
then later we found out she was a
bit of a problem.”
Mr Khan said because of the
enormity of the March 15 attack,
many people were needed to
provide support.
“There were a lot of people
helping us in this time of panic
and chaos and we were just coordinating
with them.”
The woman is no longer
volunteering for the association
since they were alerted she
“wasn’t behaving properly,” Mr
Khan said.
He wasn’t sure about the
specifics of what the problems or
her behaviour was.
“It is a very sensitive time,
victim support can’t keep up.
Because the sensitivity is so high,
any small thing can hurt the
families . . . we do sometimes
have people get upset over small
things and we do apologise for
that, we didn’t intend to mean any
harm,” he said.
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