Nelson City Council
The Nelson City Council provides local services and facilities, such as public transport, rubbish and recycling, libraries, parks, and recreation facilities. It also passes local regulations and makes decisions about infrastructure, such as water supply and sewerage, and about the region’s resources, including water, soil and the coastline. The council is made up of 12 councillors and the mayor. This election is for the three councillors elected by all voters in the city. The other councillors will be elected to represent wards (areas in the city.) This is a single transferable vote (STV) election, so you vote by ranking the candidates on your ballot paper. Compare the candidates and their policies to decide who to vote for in the Nelson City Council election.
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Jeremy Matthews
Why I'm standing
Releasing this region's economic, lifestyle, natural and social potential is my driving passion. It has been crouching in my heart for decades, waiting. More than anywhere else in NZ, Nelson and Tasman are inordinately blessed on every level. We now desperately need the imagination to see it, then data-driven, level-headed focus to plan its realisation with fiscal rigour guiding it and best practice riding shotgun. That's how potential is released. That's how we fly.
About me
In public office my credo is: "The greatest good, for the most people, for the longest time." Every notion, proposal, project or suggestion will be passed across that credo. In professional life I have flourished in three distinctly separate businesses, united by my lifelong delight in and study of human motivation. I spend time researching, listening and consulting. Then, once committed, I am focused, impatient, tenacious and unbending. I do not speed-read.
My priorities
- Secure and sustain Nelson's transport infrastructure with a multi-modal Southern Arterial Link.
- Seek and secure secondary and tertiary Nelson City Council income streams to alleviate reliance on rates and levies.
- Re-centre the political balance within and between the working chambers inside Nelson's civic house.
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