That was an 'interesting' move on Eke Panuku’s part at last week's Waitematā Local Body meeting.
Luckily, Gael Baldock was onto it and informed all the WLB, so members Greg Moyle and Sarah Trotman spoke up. It seems Panuku thought that following the rules (Standing Orders) was only for other people and not them as a Council Controlled Organisation.
The Chair should have shut them down at the beginning of the meeting before she left. Sorry Eke Panuku, following the rules is for everyone. When an issue is before the courts, it’s forbidden territory. Leave the Downtown Carpark and the adjacent flyover alone.
On another matter:
Our thrones are not that classy
Has anyone else noticed the state of the public toilets in the central city?
They are littered, the walls are covered in graffiti and they smell horrendous. They no longer have signs in them to tell you when they were last cleaned. It certainly isn’t as often as they used to be.
Having to use them is nightmare enough, but worse is that quite a few of them are no longer lockable (or even open).
We have so many visitors in the city nowadays and they will certainly be noticing our public toilet shame.
It’s no use spending a fortune on beautifying Queen Street if our sanitary standards are in the bucket.
Kathryn Avenell
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Published: April 2024