RAPHAEL THERKLESON LL.B., B.T.P., B.A.

INDEPENDENT

I have received feedback from residents and business owners in our area, all of whom are concerned their local community identity will be lost in the Auckland Super City. Having lived in this area for thirty years, I share their concerns and am also worried we will lose our local voice.

KEY POLICIES

If elected, I will

a. Maintain community identity and voice

b. Encourage informed and objective decision-making

c. Ensure that residents have a voice that is heard by Council in decisions that affect direct and indirect costs to them.

d. Bring new blood to the Local Board and provide leadership

e. Provide community, town planning and social planning input into the Auckland Super City Long Term Community Plan

MY BACKGROUND

• Qualified Town Planner, Social Planner, B A degree major in urban sociology and Lawyer

• Experience in Local Government, Town Planning, Environmental, and Property Laws

• Local Council Town Planning, overseas Town Planning, Social Planning experience, Council Property Lawyer, have also been in business and been Company Director

• Previous experience with local body amalgamations.

• Business experience as a Company Director.

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Top 5 Issues

1. Maintain our community character, identity and voice
2. Protect the heritage buildings in the CBD. Make the CBD streets more pedestrian friendly; not like onramps to motorways and develope small green spaces and community facilities for the increasing number of residents in the CBD
3. Maintain all community facilities and parks. Continue the environmental protection of the Board by a continual renewal of the old drainage system but at the same time keeping an eye on costs so that money is not overspent increasing rates.
4. I bring a unique set of skills and new blood to the Waitemata Local Board. I will provide Town Planning and Social Planning skills, buiness skills and Legal skills, plus a background of being on the Grey Lynn/Westmere Community Committee previously. I will also encourage informed, concise and objective decision making within the Board.
5. I will encourage open and transparent governance.

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