Mayor of Invercargill

Encourage population increase through city development and our more affordable housing. We have a low 2.9% unemployment and many unfilled jobs.

Increase tourism. Enhance Bluff Oyster Festival capacity to match Burt Munro four day event.

Build and open a new museum in three years, current planning is too slow and resulted in a closed museum for ten years.

Make Invercargill the best small city in NZ to move to and raise families. Attract much needed professionals and fostering new businesses.

Sell Invercargill to the rest of NZ and the world, and build NZ's largest children's playground tied into the new museum.

Work with industry to maximise clean energy opportunities. These will create significant economic, social and environmental benefits.

Commit council to continue to enable collaboration and support aiming to uniting all local business, employment, and local industry sectors.

Commit council to continue collaborating with Southland councils to provide effective communication and co-ordination of council policies.

Commit council to collaboratively work with central government and Southland councils to effectively manage major infrastructure projects.

Assure local businesses that if I had been the mayor in 2020 I would have advocated against the unnecessary and unfair lock down.

Set the tone of the city and Bluff so that citizens feel free to run their lives.

Maintain infrastructures. This is the legitimate use of rates.

Promote social enterprise, the development of technology and micro-manufacturing businesses.

Build networks for accessing local resources; so products and services offered within own region will be accessible to people in the South.

Creates pathways for thousands of new small buildings to be created in Southland, to be owned by Southlanders.

Generate growth within our community by ensuring there are opportunities for local businesses to provide goods and services to the council.

Advocate for business and potential funding opportunities at a central government level.

Attract investment to the city that provides good jobs and better employment opportunities for our people.

Work alongside our high schools, territory training to ensure young people have opportunities to develop their careers here in our city.

Work with local businesses to create a newcomers workplace culture to attract and retain skilled workers in our city.

Work towards innovative education, science, and technology complex to keep our talent and knowledge in these areas growing and expanding.

Ensure rapid cost effective completion of the CBD rejuvenation and see what relief can be given to landlords upgrading existing empty spaces.

Work with Great South to encourage new industry to establish or expand, creating new jobs and preparing for the possible Tiwai closure.

Continue involvement with Mayors Taskforce for Jobs encouraging employment, driver licensing and youth/rangatahi development opportunities.