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Board feels ‘demoted’ Lauren Prebble
journalist@thewanakasun.co.nz
ocal body reorganisation plans have exposed an eroding relationship between. Wānaka Community Board and its parent body. Submissions on a proposal to scrap the board close tomorrow and its chairman Barry Bruce has already suggested it has not received enough support from Queenstown Lakes District Council. An independent representation review earlier this year concluded a proposed Wānaka-Hāwea Ward, with an additional councillor, would
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provide adequate representation. But board members this week echoed Bruce’s comments that the Wānaka community would not be adequately presented with a fourth councilor and two said they felt shut out of discussions concerning the community. “We were not included in the Wānaka Airport sale to QAC in 2016… or the proposed large Film Studio near Wānaka Airport that was signed off this year - the list goes on,” board member Jude Batton “This did not used to happen.” She believes the board has been strategically demoted and there is a need for training and support from the council staff. She has penned
a comment piece for The Wānaka Sun which appears on Page 8. Deputy Chairman Ed Tayor believes there is a lack of trust from council when it comes to making decisions on behalf of the rate payer. “If there is no change then I believe the Community Board will struggle to be as effective as it could be,” he said. But Deputy Mayor Calum MacLeod who has represented council on the Community Board for three terms believes delegation has not changed, “times have changed”. He thinks a capable councillor at full council meetings would be more effective in
terms of community representation than the Community Board. “It should go,” he said. The only board member not to express an opinion on the board's future is Niamh Shaw who wants to leave it to the public to have a say. Queenstown mayor Jim Boult said the board did a good job, but questioned whether the public would think they would be better served by having four “enthused” councillors. Submitters on the plan who asked to be heard will have their say, in public, in Queenstown on August 25 and Wānaka the following day. The council is scheduled to discuss the issue in mid September.
New terrain opens Lauren Prebble
journalist@thewanakasun.co.nz
Agnes Delereu and James McDonald get off the Willow Chairlift.
Skiers and Snowboarders on Cardrona Ski Resort can now explore a new line in the untouched Soho ski area Willow's Basin is on the southern face of Mt Cardrona and it is the first time in 10 years that the ski resort has introduced a new terrain to the public. The last recorded terrain opening was Valley View. The 63ha area of Soho basin is reached from the top of McDougalls via the Skyline Trail. The terrain is said to be suitable for intermediate and advanced skiers. James McDonald, who is holidaying from New Plymouth, lined up with 30 others at the bottom of the run to catch one of the first chair lifts back up. “I only came up today because of the opening. The piste just doesn't do it for me, I knew there would be more challenging stuff over here.” He liked the steepness of the bowl and that it was ungroomed and skiers had to find ‘the pow-pow’. Work on the project took a turn when native lizards and geckos were found to be in the area of Pringles terrain and the Department of Conservations declared the area nationally-significant site for alpine lizards. For the domestic travellers, like Aucklander Paul Carter, new terrain will keep them interested for years to come. “It’s my second year in a row we’ve been down in Cardrona. It’s a great thing that they keep adding to the mountain.”
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