The best preparation for being an Albany ward councillor is experience. Relevant experience. Local experience. The outset of the new Council is too important to be left to amateurs. Albany is too important to be left to unelected party decision-makers in other wards. What I bring to the table—your table—is a passionate commitment to serve you. I have done it before—as a deputy mayor, as a councillor, a professional firefighter and business manager. I’ll do it again, giving you a voice in Council that’ll be heard through Auckland. And it won’t be a part-time voice. I promise you an absolute commitment to work full-time on your behalf and be accessible when you need me to listen, to investigate and to act. Thank you.

 

Top 5 Issues

1. Representing our Albany Ward communities and curbing the politicisation of local government by standing as independants. Keeping the local in Local Government and not answering to a 'Political' machine. I promise you an absolute commitment to work full-time on your behalf and be accessible when you need me to listen, to investigate and to act.
2. Privitisation of those assetts that have been paid for, over many generations. Really concerned in regards to the escalating price of water, services and more importantly the change to a capital value rating system that may rate people out of their properties.
3. Intergrated ticketing for the region. Extending the Bus-way to Silverdale from Albany and promoting an extension of the same fare zone that exists (at Albany) to Silverdale. Advocating for a more efficient transport system that actually reduces congestion for motorists and offers a real transport alternative for communters.
   
   
4. Continuing to promote development that is sustainable. Great designed that creates communities with heart or enhances existing communities.Opposing inappropriate development with little amenity and out of character with their local community.
5. Opposing commercial flights to Whenuapai!
   
   

Personal Profile

It’s a privilege to serve the Hibiscus Coast, its  people and its villages and I will give that same undertaking as your Albany Ward Councillor.

This is a time of change that requires a pair of safe hands, relevant experience but perhaps more importantly an ability to work in a team, which is crucial. As Rodney District deputy mayor, commentators suggest, I am the district’s most effective councillor.

Now I am ready to give my strength, my voice and the presence you need in the new city council.

John