Friday, April 05, 2013

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From: Bryan Pepperell
Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2012 8:36 p.m.
To: 'Sally Dossor'
Subject: Report 4 Amendment S& P 8 November 2012

REPORT 4

Amendment:

• Delete 2 – 11
• New 2 and 3 as below

2. Recommend to Council that the activities of the following Council CCO’s are brought in-house:

a) Basin Reserve Trust
b) Partnership Wellington Trust
c) Positively Wellington Venues Limited
d) Capacity Infrastructure Services Limited
e) Wellington Cable Car Limited
f) Wellington Museums Trust
g) Wellington Zoo Trust
h) Wellington Waterfront Limited


3. Recommend to Council to instruct the Chief Executive to agree a transition process with the Board of each CCO to give effect to recommendation 2 and report back to the Strategy and Policy Committee on the transition plan for agreement by SPC by 31 March 2013.

Moved.
Cr Pepperell

Seconded Justin Lester

Voting for were: Stephany Cook, Iona Pannett, Bryan Pepperell, Helene Ritchie

Voting against were: Mayor Celia Wade-Brown
Councillors Ahipene Mercer, Ngaire Best, Jo Coughlan, Paul Eagle, Leonie Gill, Justin Lester, Ian McKinnon, John Morrison
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More than 150 council jobs axed in Wellington while half the elected councillors oblivious.
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Thursday, April 04, 2013

THE CITYOPS MEN SIT QUIETLY WITH GREAT DIGNITY WAITING FOR THE AXE TO FALL

Photo: The CityOps workers at Council.

HOW THE COUNCIL VOTED ON A CRITICAL ISSUE 4 April 2013

A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD
Those voting to keep City Operations in house were Councillors Cook, Eagle, Gill, Morrison, Pannett, Pepperell, Ritchie. (7)

Voting to Outsource Councillors Best, Coughlan, Foster, Lester, McKinnon, Marsh, Mayor Wade-Brown. (7) Mayor Wade-Brown ( Chair has a casting vote) so with her second vote the outsourcing is supported. Now casting vote usually supports status-quo, so what happened there?

Absent Councillor Ahipene-Mercer.
CityOps is gone with the casting vote of Mayor Celia Wade-Brown.