Selwyn Times: October 14, 2020
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• By Matt Slaughter<br />
LABOUR’S SELWYN candidate<br />
Reuben Davidson believes the<br />
district council may have missed<br />
out on $13.5 million in funding<br />
for shovel-ready roading projects<br />
because it did not specify how<br />
many jobs it<br />
would create.<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong><br />
<strong>Times</strong> revealed<br />
last week<br />
the district<br />
council’s<br />
application<br />
to Crown<br />
Infrastructure<br />
Partners,<br />
which is<br />
managing the Government<br />
funding, was declined.<br />
THe application was for a<br />
roading package that would<br />
bring forward a range of<br />
pavement renewals that had been<br />
deferred as well as the upgrade<br />
of 125km of road in areas across<br />
the district.<br />
However, it did not state how<br />
many people would be employed<br />
as a result of the projects.<br />
Said Davidson: “Part of<br />
Labour’s five-point plan is<br />
investing in people and creating<br />
jobs, this will have been a major<br />
consideration in selecting which<br />
shovel-ready projects we were<br />
able to support.”<br />
National’s <strong>Selwyn</strong> candidate<br />
Nicola Grigg said the electorate<br />
missing out on $13.5 million of<br />
shovel-ready roading projects is<br />
a big blow.<br />
Grigg said the projects applied<br />
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for by the district council are<br />
crucial and would have created<br />
much-needed jobs lost because<br />
of Covid-19.<br />
“<strong>Selwyn</strong> itself, from what I<br />
understand, we’ve had 2000 job<br />
loses here already, we’ve had<br />
applicants for working benefits<br />
double.<br />
“I think that any opportunity<br />
NEWS 5<br />
Failing to specify jobs may have lost funding<br />
Reuben<br />
Davidson<br />
DISAPPOINTED: National’s <strong>Selwyn</strong> candidate Nicola Grigg says roading projects in the<br />
district that have been declined Government funding would have created much-needed<br />
jobs.<br />
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for a project that’s going to create<br />
jobs, particularly long-term jobs,<br />
is absolutely essential.<br />
“Any infrastructure<br />
investment opportunity here<br />
is absolutely essential for<br />
the continuation of stable<br />
employment,” she said.<br />
Grigg did not<br />
comment on<br />
if she thought<br />
the council<br />
not specifying<br />
how many<br />
jobs would be<br />
Nicola Grigg<br />
created was<br />
a reason the<br />
funding was<br />
declined.<br />
Davidson said the Government<br />
had a tough job when allocating<br />
the funds for shovel ready<br />
projects across New Zealand.<br />
“Ministers were faced with<br />
the challenge of whittling<br />
applications for $136 billion<br />
down to a $3 billion package.”<br />
He said in spite of the district<br />
council missing out on the<br />
funding it applied for, there are<br />
other roading projects that have<br />
been approved that will benefit<br />
the area.<br />
“I’m really pleased that we are<br />
funding $60m for the two-lane<br />
overbridge from Rolleston Drive<br />
to Hoskyns Rd and $34m for rural<br />
intersection improvements in the<br />
area including West Melton.”<br />
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