I am a committed member of the Winton community, and have been involved in Central Western Cricket and  Limehills Indoor Bowls Club. I have played rugby and cricket for Southland at provincial level, and care passionately about our province.

To contribute I am seeking your vote for the community board. I want to help our community grow, and work to help make Winton a place where people feel they have a future. We can’t have all our young people moving to the cities.  

Spending other peoples money is something I am not comfortable with, and I believe ratepayers are best with money in their own pockets. I will not be advocating massive spending and I will be working to keep rates low.

As a Community Board Member I want to be known for always having time to talk to people, discuss their issues, and help solve their problems

Top 5 Issues

1. Keeping Money In Pockets!!
   
   The best way to do this is by cutting out the unnessessary spending that doesnt help growth or infrustructure. For Example a contract for lawn mowing at sports fields 3 times a week and it getting done once is unnessessary spending.
   
2. Making Winton a place where young people to want to stay.
   
   The age range of 18-35 makes up only 20% of the population of Winton. That number alone is the same percentage as the 65-75 age range.
3. Infrustructure.
   
   I Commend the Current Board on their achievements especially in relation to the new sport courts, I feel I could bring some more fresh ideas to this.
4. Listening to the people.
   
   It is important that the board listens to the community it is the face of, to get ideas from the community I have set up and account for people to email me through ideas and views so I get a better understanding of what Winton want.
   That email address is aaronharrison2010@gmail.com
5. The most important for residents of any town of course is rates.
   I will be doing my best to keep rate rises at a minimum by eliminating the unnessessary spending.

Personal Profile

Born and Raised in Southland. I attended Central Southland College, where I got NCEA level 3 and University Entrance and graduated in 2006.

After leaving High School I studied Bachelor of Teaching(Primary) through Otago University. After 3 years I decided  to return to the career that has endless opportunities. Dairy Farming.

Working on a farm milking 850 cows in Dunearn heading towards a goal of farm ownership which seems a hard task in today’s society. I have a goal in seeing our country become a brighter place for all people to live in and in some cases return too.

I enjoy sports in which I have played Rugby and Cricket for Southland at a provincial level, I have also started playing indoor bowls for Limehills as it is a great way to get amongst great people who also have a strong passion for the community.

I am the youngest candidate running for the board but I do so as I have a passion for my community and I believe I am in a good position to give back for the long term!