Gisborne District Council

Ensure that Trust Tairāwhiti's workforce development strategy is being optimally resourced and working best for local businesses and workers.

Ensure that Trust Tairāwhiti's tourism strategy is being optimally resourced, fit for purpose and working best for local tourism businesses.

Enable council's council-controlled trading organisation (CCTO) to sell low performing investments and reinvest in a range of community and investment assets.

Communicate with local business to understand their challenges and look to remove any council barriers to their success.

Support programmes and initiatives such as Mayors Taskforce for jobs to firstly identify those needing direction and then assisting them.

Continue to develop our tourist offering so our offering is improved and we are seen as a place worthy of a visit for multiple reasons.

Work with local grassroots businesses, landlords and not-for-profit to revitalize the CBD by offering reduced rent for vacant spaces

Work with local organisations to help up-skill youth, helping them to transition into a field that they're interested in.

Support the Arts, and pre-existing organisations so they can provide programming and encourage tourism in our region.

Provide infrastructure to enable businesses to establish, thrive and create new employment opportunities.

Support and monitor our economic development provider Trust Tairāwhiti to achieve better results.

Continue to utilise central government stimulus and provide infrastructure for our primary industries.

Committed to not selling community and rural assets. Encouraging a genesis of moving environmentally friendly businesses – rural fringes

Committed to encouraging more apprenticeships in urban and rural endeavours. Researching workable incentives for that.

Committed to exploring council engagement with boarding hostels to house apprentices centrally at low cost to those offering apprenticeships

Provide support for local retailers to be able to operate a flourishing retail business in Gisborne CBD.

Work collaboratively with all of the region's entities who are providing employment and growing the local economy.

Engage local businesses for council contracts if competitive and able to meet the required standard.

Maintain rural roads and infrastructure.

Work with local businesses to encourage implementation of our spatial plans.

Continue to use the Mayoral Taskforce for Jobs to encourage young people into meaningful employment.

Commit to investing into key infrastructure by considering a range of funding models.

Support the people who provide local jobs.

Encourage youth to get jobs.

Provide infrastructure that is needed to run an economy.

Promote and use Te Tairāwhiti work brokers more actively to secure employment options for employees and employers, offer council driven employment forums

Establish a Tairāwhiti apprenticeship program for NEETS targeting 15 to 24 year olds

Allocate funding to the Mayors Taskforce for preparation of young people for work. Addressing their health issues, license and training needs

Encourage business establishment, eg rates remissions.

Continue support/shop local. Continue good work such as Trust Tairāwhiti in helping to establish and support local business ventures.

Emphasis in continual up skilling of our rangatahi. Push to getting youth into the workforce and giving them confidence and purpose.

Greater diversification of industries so as we are more resilient and not reliant on sole industry, ie forestry.