Sunday 19 September 2010
The ballot papers are rolling into the letter boxes. There are 22 days until ‘D’ day decision day on 09th October.
I had a great day today. Following a hui with two TV Industry colleagues and friends I went to work knocking on doors in Western Springs, Kingsland and Sandringham. I got to meet quite a few residents in Rocky Nook. It’s the area at the back of Fowlds Park. It’s an unusual place in the sense that the old Auckland Regional Authority (ARA) brought a lot of the properties that backed onto St Lukes Rd with a view that they could disappear, forfeited to the widening of the motorway. But oddly enough the homes survived and the streets flourished and it’s become an enclave. As I walked around knocking on the doors the same comment kept cropping up: ‘…you’re the only one that’s been to see us.’ It seems the incumbent councillors have taken their positions for granted, that they don’t need to go out and meet the people again or perhaps the 
incumbents are hoping the citizens and residents are too complacent to vote for change. If there’s one thing I’ve found as I’ve been going around the streets is that the people of Auckland are extremely interested in their city. The people are 
concerned about inheriting debt from other regions, they’re worried about their burms. The Owairaka C&R team is unencumbered by bureaucratic baggage all we know is that we can-do it and we will-do what ever it takes to get the job done. This doesn’t mean we’ll go naively or blindly into the local board role, on the contrary. We’re business owners in our own right and understand systems and processes, what I’m saying is we won’t let the red tape trip us up, we’ll make sure we see the trees past the wood and we’ll set realistic measureable outcomes for ourselves based n community goals and aspirations.
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