Waitematā Local Board

Promote local community markets to help support local communities and small businesses.

Ensure public amenities are adequately funded and kept open as essential community hubs.

Restore sensible liquor licensing regulations so that the council are working with businesses not against them and with more transparency.

Work to make parks, playgrounds, and public facilities inclusive and accessible for all.

Provide and sponsor a diverse range of community events and events on public open spaces.

Support the Auckland Council Local Alcohol Policy that limits the density of outlets and controls those causing harm.

Design and activate parks, libraries, community centres, sports facilities and arts centres to attract diverse groups of all ages.

Restore the Leys Library, bringing back its original features while making it fit for purpose for the 21st Century.

Fund small and mid scale events like the Grey Lynn Festival and the Parnell Festival of Roses for people to enjoy and to help them connect.

Strengthen our community by encouraging locals working together in community initiatives like community gardens, markets etc.

Resist any policies to segregate or divide our people. I am disgusted the council used pools etc as a weapon against the vax free.

Make it easy to have your say in how you want to be governed and be listened to. Governance should be bottom up and not centrally controlled.

Partner with and invest in Auckland's community and regional sports organisations and facilities to drive sport from the grassroots up.

Reactivate Notable Tree Register and improve tree protections across Auckland.

Retain Auckland's existing golf courses on publicly-owned land.

Reserve evidence-based proportionate amount of covered and outdoor community spaces in the face of densification. Is community-building.

Support community sports, eg wheelchair fencing, which allow lower-limb-impaired to compete fairly and meaningfully with able-bodied.

Facilitate use of temporarily-vacant spaces as community meeting spaces, for well-being and community-building, eg music, makers, gardens.

Continue to support arts and creative industries such as arts partnership with The Auckland Performing Arts Centre and build opportunities for marginalised groups.

Maintain urban public and green spaces and develop Heard and Basque Parks in consultation with their neighbouring communities.

Work to make parks, playgrounds, and public facilities inclusive and accessible for all – putting the needs of the most marginalised first.

Promote community market events to support community interaction.

Ensure local libraries remain open and funded as essential community hubs.

Oppose parkland being re-zoned for construction.

Advocate for the tighter regulation of liquor licensing and operating hours for bars, particularly in the city centre, to enhance safety.

Maintain and expand urban public and green spaces, including developing Heard and Basque Parks in consultation with their local communities.

Support local arts and creative programmes in Waitematā, particularly those, such as TAPAC, which focus on rangatahi (youth/young people).

I strongly support the provision of sporting and cultural facilities funded by local or central government.

I am a passionate advocate for the arts and have a strong track in this area from my time as an Auckland city councillor.

Invest in council support for year round cultural/sporting events that draw people into the Auckland CBD; and build the waterfront stadium.

Continue to work to ensure that our parks and facilities are accessible, safe, friendly and appropriate to our diverse communities.

Continue the arts partnership with The Auckland Performing Arts Centre, the arts spaces co-ordinator, the provision of Studio One and support arts/creative industries.

Develop Heard and Basque Parks in consultation with their neighbouring communities.

Work to fully restore Leys Institute as a quality public library and continue funding extra hours for the central and Grey Lynn libraries.

Develop and diversify Heard and Basque Parks in consultation with their neighbouring communities.

Continue the arts partnership with The Auckland Performing Arts Centre, the arts spaces coordinator role, the provision of Studio One and support for arts and creatives.

Ensure the Waitematā Local Board continues to support local festivals such as the Italian Festival in Newmarket.

Advocate for local community centres to have local resident-focussed KPIs attached to their delivery outcomes.

Support community groups who are concerned about the sale and distribution of liquor in their local areas.

Ensure adequate funding for public facilities and write a guarantee that ownership will not be taken from the people of Auckland.

Subsidise wages to young people in connection to working in public facilities and taking community initiatives.

Ensure fairness in liquor licensing that taking away a liquor license from a small business can only happen in a completely transparent way.