VOTE Richard Hills - I will be your voice for our area

Shore Voice

Richard, 24, lives in Glenfield and is passionate about the Shore.  He has worked locally for over ten years and holds a Bachelor of Communication Studies.

Richard is a proud ex-student of Glenfield College he maintains links with the school where his younger sister is a student.

He works as a restaurant/bar manager and part-time for Mediaworks Radio, he also volunteers yearly on youth education camps training young people to be peer support leaders within their schools.

Recently returned from overseas travels, Richard now wants to apply his skills and youthful perspective to ensure that your voice is heard in the newly structured council. 

Richard supports community based initiatives that effectively maintain safe, clean, well-lit and graffiti free public spaces.

He wants to increase promotion and use of public transport and improve accessibility to leisure, sporting facilities and events.

"I want to help create more positive change achieved evenly across the community, with less time wasted on division and disagreements"

Vote Richard Hills. So your Shore Voice is heard

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richardhills@shorevoice.org.nz

Top 5 Issues

1. I want to ensure that all people and their communities have their say and have involvement in council decisions, this will be an important responsibility of the local boards.
2. I will support promotion and continuation of accessible and affordable use of sports, leisure and cultural facilities, outdoor areas and events for people of all ages
3. I support current use, and continue to elevate use of public transport by ensuring costs and reliability are in touch with user expectations while continuing to be economically viable.
4. I want to continue making public areas, roads, walkways and reserves designed so they are attractive and can be used any time of day or night and in any weather where possible. Aim to keep the facilities such as toilets, rubbish bins and lighting work in harmony with the existing natural surroundings, so they maintain their beauty but are still user friendly to all members of the community.
5. I will reinforce realistic goals for people to impact positively on the environment, such as continued promotion of recycling waste, the use of car pool or cycle lanes, planting trees on private or commercial land as well as public land and around areas such as water ways and what we are putting down storm water drains and so on.

Personal Profile

Achievements

 

• Qualified with an AUT Bachelor of Communications
• Broad public speaking experience including hosting school ball, graduations, weddings, a radio station launch, have also performed stand up comedy in two Auckland Laugh Festivals, my first ever performance won the top award at the town hall.
• I am well travelled, and can use my firsthand experience of the ways many of the major cities operate in America, Europe and England, such as public transport, facilities, parks, beaches and events.
• Continued yearly volunteer work with young people, training them to become peer support people in their schools, helping to give them correct information to pass on and enable them to make positive choices for themselves and their peers and family groups, in turn creating a better community within their schools and beyond.
•  I appreciate the importance of maintaining our heritage and environment, and have had experience in planning and participating in schemes to do so, when I was a part of a youth initiative to protect historic huts and protect the environment around Scott Base and the Ross Sea region in a trip to Antarctica for this purpose in 2005.

 

Goals

• To continue to support community based programs that already maintain safe and clean streets and public areas in The Kaipatiki area
• Ensure our voice is heard and the issues of our people and community are represented in the newly structured council
• To make sure youth issues have an equal place on the council’s decision making as changes we make now will affect the futures of today’s young people on the Shore and in the Kaipatiki area.
•  To keep to budgets and spread the use of ratepayer funds equally across the area as much as possible so residents can actually see their rates are going to good use.
• Spend more time on creating positive change and less time wasted on divisions between members or community groups.