Dunedin City Council

Provide the level of support in grants funding on a multi-year basis to ensure key festivals and events continue to grow.

Review the LAP with urgency in the new triennium.

Support the arts as key to the unique qualities of our city.

Ensure the ongoing viability of all parks, pools, museums, libraries and community halls and sporting facilities for the community.

Ensure a vibrant city that supports the arts, music and cultural diversity.

Maintain bylaws around liquor licensing and events to reduce potential harm in more vulnerable communities.

Facilitate council-community partnerships across the maintenance and upgrades of recreational assets, recognising donations, grants and bequests as invaluable.

Look for ways to enable communities to host local festivals and events, ensuring it is not cost-prohibitive to hold an ANZAC parade.

Look for ways to increase the cross-purpose utilisation of recreational and sporting assets.

Advocate for local venue owners to ensure that music venues are secure and sustainable in order to restore the city's live music scene.

Advocate for local venue owners to ensure that music venues are secure and sustainable in order to restore the city's live music scene.

Ensure museums, libraries and galleries are receiving sufficient support and resist efforts to cut funding.

Ensure museums, libraries and galleries are receiving sufficient support and resist efforts to cut funding.

Explore the development of an indoor public playground for tamariki and their parents in the winter months.

Explore the development of an indoor public playground for tamariki and their parents in the winter months.

Actively fund and support innovation within the arts and cultural space to become an internationally vibrant and exciting city.

Co-design safe play spaces and youth hubs with tamariki and rangatahi.

Push to retain the four wellbeings to ensure maintenance of parks, pools, libraries, sporting facilities and more.

Instigate a music festival "Dunedin Sounds" which will attract people from around New Zealand and further afield to perform and attend.

Reroof the Edgar Centre which is Dunedin's most used sports facility.

Work towards creating a community green space at Forbury Park with playing fields and garden which will contain stormwater in a downpour.

Appropriately dispose of Sammys, as it is a burden and cost while sitting empty with no current plan.

Focus spending on community facilities to ensure that projects benefit the maximum number of people.

Look after well-utilised facilities before attempting to invest in new ones or rejuvenate others.

Start an annual heritage festival that grows bigger for Dunedin each year and brings in outside visitors similar to the wearable arts.

Work with Health NZ to reinstate the physiotherapy pool in Dunedin.

Work with OUSA to ensure new venues for students, such as pubs in North Dunedin, to prevent Canterbury University taking our students.

Advocate in particular for thriving arts culture and development of venues.

Encourage any changes which allow increased utilisation of the stadium for the benefit of the community.

Support sensible liquor licensing policies which are evidence based.

Invest in a vibrant festival and arts programme and calendar to ensure events all year for residents and visitors to enjoy.

Safeguard our venues and continue to drive actions in the live music plan for musicians to thrive in Ōtepoti, including planning for noise.

Support the performing arts community with the vision for a purpose-built performance centre with utilities for all arts communities to use.

Continue to invest in excellent sporting facilities ensuring that Dunedin continues to excel on the national and international stage.

Ensure that public facilities are well maintained but also kept up to date, fresh, welcoming and accessible for all.

Investigate ways of having more community events and festivals that allow full use of things like the local stadium.

Attract large sporting events and concerts to Forsyth Barr stadium and give more focus to festivals, celebrations, conferences and trade events.

Be upfront about the ongoing costs and prospects and disclose plans for the future improvement of this area.

Derive social amenity from the stadium and utilise the facility to promote sport and recreation with indoor competitions and open days.

Invest in the Otepoti Live Music Action Plan.

Set up a trust to refurbish the disused Sammy's and Fortune Theatre buildings.

Support the existing local arts scene, prioritising funding over larger international acts.

Maintain public facilities as vital to a healthy community. Recognise that alcohol causes multiple societal costs with more licensing increasing those ills.

Build a professional theatre complex to enhance Dunedin’s status as a Unesco listed City of Literature.

Align recreational and creative budgets to boost well-being while providing useful employment.

Champion inclusive facilities so disabled people, parents, the elderly and those with temporary injuries are never left behind.

Derive value from Forsyth Barr Stadium by increasing community use.

Continue support for public museums and gardens at the current level.

Provide no support for professional sport (Go Highlanders, I don't care where). and no support for public events or festivals. Provide no stimulus payments.

Restrict support for amateur sport, recreation and culture, requiring these organisations to relearn how to pay their own bills.

Properly maintain all recreation assets.

Propose a festival where every ethnic group showcases their culture as diversity is our strength.

Strengthen and support sports training, for example the model of Kings High School running an international rugby academy and applying the same model to other sports; use the stadium.

Recognise that parks, libraries and similar amenities are essential to the vibrancy of the city and provide low-cost benefits for ratepayers by offering more support.

Stop increasing sport field charges that drive low-income families away from sport, ensuring children's sport is accessible to all.

Work with promoters to encourage sustainable events and make greater use of the stadium for community events and festivals.

Implement an audit process for liquor licensing to ensure venue management and managers are accountable for the health and wellbeing of customers.

Keep the beaches safe for the public and wildlife, ensuring dogs are kept on a leash.

Make sporting facilities affordable for people to use.

Create an events calendar to grow successes including Fringe and Arts Fest, Midwinter Carnival and add new events in South Dunedin, Mosgiel and Peninsula.

Reinvigorate DPAG, Chinese Garden and Toitū by making them free for locals and charging fees for internationals, promoting to residents and providing interactive exhibitions for young people.

Support the transformation of unused council-owned buildings into creative spaces, artist studios, youth hubs, places to work and collaborate.

Increase arts grant funding from $55,000 per year to $100,000 per year to support local creative events.

Observe Otago Anniversary Day 2028 on 22 July for the total solar eclipse and host a street festival on the day.

Work alongside campus watch to improve night-time safety around parks and recreation areas in North Dunedin.

End the war on cars and carparks so families can access shops, sports, community activities and local events.

Make it easier for responsible bar owners to obtain and keep licences without red tape.

Protect public access to coasts, reserves and Crown land so communities can enjoy them.

Ensure more accountability from the University in regard to the student area and encourage more mixed living to manage student behaviour.

Open up the stadium of Otepoti for uses of all kinds to support its viability.

Support the retention and development of music venues in Otepoti of all sizes.

Improve amenities and safety in existing parks and recreational areas.

Maintain and upgrade sports facilities for wider community access.

Support local arts and cultural events through targeted grants.

Encourage active participation in the arts, music and sports for the people of Ōtepoti.

Maintain all our public facilities.

Reduce the number of licensed premises and hours of sale of alcohol as a harm reduction strategy.

Foster events and festivals that celebrate the many cultures making up the population of Dunedin.

Investigate ways to ensure hospitality venues keep the city's vibrancy, while managing risks of alcohol and drugs.

Encourage a more collaborative approach with all sporting codes and facilitate all codes at the same discussion table rather than individually.

Enhance spaces for play and leisurely activities with innovative designs and consultation of youth and local communities.

Ensure public facilities such as museums, sports grounds, pools and libraries are well maintained and funded.

Revive famous music scene through arts funding, creating events such as music festivals, and planning for noise in CBD around venues.

Act on the sports facility review to ensure excellent modern facilities for locals and to attract sporting events.

Refresh all the culture, recreation and environment strategies to get cohesive plans and action to create New Zealand's best city to live in.

Review the events budget to support locally created events to thrive and become our point of difference.

Increase place-based funding so communities can lead their own events, cultural projects and facility improvements.

Support council facilities by prioritising investment in libraries, swimming pools and community centres.

Support local festivals and cultural events that bring the community together.

Increase low maintenance artificial turf surfaces on sports fields as grass surfaces are not coping and artificial turf is very well used and successful.

Make the Stadium a community facility with an artificial surface to allow far more use. Do not replace the roof at the end of its life.

Repair, strengthen and maintain existing community facilities as required. Build no new ones.

Double the $6.6 million funding for community groups because every dollar invested delivers a massive social return.

Ensure public facilities remain affordable for all families by creating new non-rates revenue streams to fund them.

Restore pride in the city by getting the basics right: cleaning, weeding and rapid maintenance of public spaces.

Empower community organisations to celebrate and affirm communities within the city and conduct events and festivals that promote Dunedin.

Preserve Te Whare o Rukutia and the Dunedin Community Gallery to ensure that the arts, Fringe Festival, Pride Month and other events continue to thrive.

Protect live music venues in zoning by putting the obligation for soundproofing on new builds neighbouring venues, not on the pre-existing venue.

Advocate for increased funding for festivals and events, which are the lifeblood of Ōtepoti and mostly run by volunteers.

Support the development of a new professional theatre in Dunedin and other infrastructure vital to the creative sector.

Support the Ōtepoti live music action plan designed to back live music infrastructure in Dunedin, including practice space and noise management.