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2 The <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>August</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Boost for<br />
office<br />
revamp<br />
budget<br />
By DAVID HILL<br />
Arecent engineering report has forced a<br />
rethinkofthe budgetfor the Rangiora<br />
service centre’srefurbishment.<br />
Councillorsvoted last weektoadd<br />
$1 million to the budgetafter an<br />
engineeringreport foundparts of the<br />
building were at just 40 percent of the<br />
new building standard.This brings the<br />
project budget to $2.5m.<br />
The Waimakariri District Council<br />
planstostrengthen the building to 67% of<br />
code,aswell as upgrade the heating and<br />
ventilation systems and make the<br />
building more userfriendly for staff and<br />
the public.<br />
In areport presented to lastweek’s<br />
council meeting, staff saidthe structural<br />
review foundthe useof663 reinforcing<br />
mesh in concrete diaphragms meantthat<br />
the seismic performance of thewestern<br />
firstfloor of the building is at 40% of<br />
code,while the chambers were also 40%<br />
because of the roofring beam.<br />
The council originally approved a<br />
$4.6mbudget for acomplete<br />
redevelopmentofthe buildingbefore<br />
extending it to $6.75m last yearascosts<br />
begantoescalate.<br />
By the end of last year, projected costs<br />
were approaching $10m, before<br />
councillors decided to rein in the<br />
project, MayorDan Gordonsaid.<br />
‘‘At that point we decided it was time to<br />
go back and relook at it because it was<br />
getting beyond the realms of an<br />
affordablesolution.<br />
‘‘Andthen Covid19 hit, so we decided<br />
to focus on whatneeded to be done now<br />
and defer further plans for afull<br />
redevelopment. It’sbeenalong time<br />
sinceit’s been properly lookedatand we<br />
need to create abetter working<br />
environmentfor our staff.’’<br />
Mr Gordon saysthe council will seekto<br />
give preference to localtradespeople<br />
wherepossible.<br />
‘‘It’s really important to us that locals<br />
are given theopportunity to price and<br />
undertake the work.’’<br />
Meanwhile,the fullcouncil and<br />
committee meetings are being heldatthe<br />
Rangiora Town Halland other council<br />
venues,including the Kaiapoi Civic<br />
Centre and OxfordTown Hall.<br />
Tina takes hamper home<br />
Support Rangiora ... Tina Matthes, right,and <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong> sales consultant<br />
Kerryn Clark, with the hamper Tina won in aSupport Rangiora advertising campaignwhich<br />
ran in the paper in July. Twelve businesses tookpart, with customersable to postanentry<br />
whileshopping at participating stores. Tina lodged her entry at Boots nAll. The hamper<br />
featuredabout $1000 worth of products from stores taking part in the campaign.<br />
Entrepreneurs take plunge<br />
From Page 1<br />
Meanwhile, Dean and<br />
Samantha Sangster have<br />
transferred their business,<br />
Summit Garage Doors, from<br />
Sydney to Samantha’s home<br />
town of Cheviot.<br />
The couple returned to New<br />
Zealand in March and began<br />
operating in Cheviot in June.<br />
They now run their business<br />
maintaining, servicing and<br />
installing garage doors in <strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> from Samantha’s<br />
parents’ sheep and cattle farm,<br />
Black Rock,inthe Ethelton<br />
Valley.<br />
They are amonth away from<br />
having their first child.<br />
The Sangsters are enjoying<br />
the slower pace of life in<br />
Cheviot, and are ‘‘very happy to<br />
be in New Zealand’’, Dean said.<br />
‘‘It is lovely to be home,’’<br />
Samantha says.<br />
The new businesses also<br />
include achange of ownership<br />
for Rangiora’s Station Cafe,<br />
which is now owned by Steve<br />
and Vivienne King. The cafe,<br />
which now includes agift shop,<br />
reopened with afresh look<br />
under their ownership on<br />
Monday.<br />
New family venture ... Steve King and his wife<br />
Vivienne, the new owners of The Station Cafe and<br />
Shop in Rangiora, with their eldest daughter Evania,<br />
aged 19, during apreopening function at the cafe last<br />
Sunday. It opened for business under the new owners<br />
on Monday.<br />
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