Electing 3 Board Members

No issues on file for Jim Donald.

No issues on file for Jenny Foster.

  1. Counties Manukau District Health Board
    Increasing the range of services for aged care now

    Howick Local Board
    Protecting Howick's historic character

  2. Counties Manukau District Health Board

    Howick Local Board
    Ensuring local residents have the information they need to partcipate actively in their community.
    (1) What is being proposed;
    (2) Where it is going to take place;
    (3) What it will cost;
    (4) How long it will take;
    (5) Who is going to use it
    (6) How it will be funded
  3. Counties Manukau District Health Board
    Commitment to primary care

    Howick Local Board
    Keeping local decisions local
  4. Counties Manukau District Health Board
    Maximising value for money spent

    Howick Local Board
    Undergrounding all powerlines
  5. Counties Manukau District Health Board
    Less waiting time in emergency departments

    Howick Local Board
    Protecting Howick's historic character
  1. Mandate and funding: To negotiate with the new Super City to get the authority, and very importantly, the money needed to make ‘Howick the way you want it’.
  2. Howick local issues: To ensure Howickians can have their say, and see some resolution, on important local issues such as the wonderful Maud Nixon ‘Garden of Memories’ legacy and the placement of cellphone towers.
  3. Howick's Commercial success: build on the already impressive and well-patronised Howick Village shopping area, by encouraging further development and publicity of the Howick market, and through support for other local business initiatives.
  4. Transportation: To lobby effectively on transportation issues – including assessing the viability of a Howick wharf and ferry services generally.
  5. Co-operation: To ensure smooth co-operation between all three Howick subdivisions – Howick, Botany and Pakuranga - for the benefit of everyone.
  1. Ensuring Howick has a strong voice within the wider region to help preserve its unique atmosphere, history and quality of life for its citizens and ratepayers.
  2. I want to help the Howick business district remain competitive and vibrant to be able to compete effectively with the large alternative venues that vie for consumer dollars. This means retaining the targeted levy on commercial landlords, with the support of business tenants, to fund promotional activity and the village management team.
  3. I support fairness in charging methodoloy for rates, water and wastewater and believe that more emphasis on user pays for wastewater charging should be adopted. A small UAGC component would be appropriate and would take some of the burden off high volume users without penalising low volume users.
  4. I'm passionate about the opportunites for recreation in our local parks and reserves and will continue to support development of outstanding walkways such as are found in the Mangemangeroa Reserves. Volunteers working alongside council parks staff, local schools and 'Friends'groups will ensure the on-going success of these wonderful reserves.
  5. Our local area abounds in talented people,both young and old, and I hope to be able to support the provision and development of venues such as the Uxbridge Arts centre where artists from all disciplines can learn, prosper, and showcase their talents.
  1. Howick Local Board - Keeping rates under control and reduce debt. Do we really need to own Auckland airport shares?

    District Health Board - Keep emergency department waiting times down.
  2. Howick Local Board - Protecting Howick's heritage residential zones. We need to ensure that the new Auckland Spatial Plan does not bring a return of the intensification of Howick - Auckland is already more densley populated than Austlralain and US cities.

    District Health Board - Improved access to elective surgery.
  3. Howick Local Board - Improving road transport to and from East Auckland. At the last census only 33 Howick residents used train travel in getting to work.

    And why do we need an expensive train track to the airport when it would be used by so few travellers?

    District Health Board - Better aged care.
  4. Howick Local Board - Improve housing affordability through relaxing the Metropoliatn Urban Limit. Auckland house price are kept high by restrictions on land use.

    District Health Board - Greater research in to local health issues and facilities.

No issues on file for Sharon Stewart.

No issues on file for Adele White.

  1. Howick needs a strong voice within the new Super City!
  2. The formation of the new Super City will involve a number of complex logistical challenges to say the least, and what's needed is strong business acumen to ensure Howick doesn't get lost in chaos!
  3. Howick business needs to develop further and attract more people to visit and spend money in the local area. Ideas such as closing off part of Picton Street on a Saturday morning to extend the market need to be explored and encouraged.
  4. Even though Howick has it's own local board to address local opportunities and issues, it is still part of the greater Howick Ward and needs to promote stronger coordination between between the Howick, Pakuranga and Botany Local Boards for the benefit of the greater area.
  5. We very much need to resolve the issue of the proposed Marae in the Garden of Memories once and for all and move on, and move past this!