>Community Update 27 May 2011
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Community meeting coming up soon
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Farmers Market
Mount Pleasant Farmers Market will open as usual at Mount Pleasant Community Centre, McCormacks Bay this weekend 28 May. Park on Causeway or Grass or McCormacks Bay Road near Soleares. Shuttle from Redcliffs at 10am.
See you there.
Need your car washed?
St Andrews College Students are required to complete community service to gain their school diploma. Sunday the 29th of May, from 11am-4pm. Six students will be holding a carwash in the club car park, and all proceeds will be donated to the Squash Club.
Get a clean car and support the Squash Club -$5.00 per wash.
Art Nomad Gallery 87 Main Road Redcliffs
Friday Night Wine Night – from 6.30pm Gallery Open 2pm to 9pm
Fri 27th Keith Morant
Fri 3rd June Don McAra
Friday 10th June Llew summers and Robyn Webster
Friday 17th June Karin Lange
Friday 24th June Mark Soltero and Kim Hennessey
Update from the Chief Executive, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority: 20 May 2011
Three months on from February 22, we’re continuing to make good progress pulling together very complex and technical information to make decisions on the worst affected suburbs. While I understand people want to know now about their homes and communities, we have to ensure the information and decisions made are robust.
Work at the moment is focused on merging technical information about land damage with property damage information from EQC and insurance companies. More than a dozen public and private groups are helping to build a single scientific picture with data collected since February’s earthquake. This data’s being compiled on a suburb-by-suburb basis, with the greatest urgency placed on the worst affected suburbs close to the Avon River.
Costs and benefits of remediating land must be weighed up alongside this data, meaning it simply may not be feasible to return some areas to pre-earthquake standards. The staff here at CERA, along with our Minister, remain committed to providing certainty as soon as we can. It’s been a top priority since day one.
This week the Government released Budget 2011. It includes significant funding across a range of areas to assist the recovery work in Canterbury that is being led and coordinated by CERA.
To the end of last month, the Government had already spent about $1.2 billion on earthquake costs.
In the budget, it committed a further $5.5 billion over six years to its new Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Fund.
The Minister Gerry Brownlee has explained the Government created the new fund to ensure transparency of the money spent in the rebuilding.
The Recovery Fund will cover:
- The Government’s share of repairing essential local infrastructure – mainly water and roading infrastructure
- Repairing state owned assets such as state highways, schools and hospitals
- Welfare support through job loss cover and wage subsidies, as well as costs relating to the immediate response to the emergency
- The Government’s financial support package for AMI Insurance.
The Recovery Fund also includes about $3.2 billion yet to be allocated. This will be used for any additional costs as well as for policy decisions yet to be made, such as temporary housing and any remediation of earthquake damaged land. You can read more about the budget announcements on our website.
John Ombler
Acting Chief Executive
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority
Share an Idea Community workshops
The thousands of ideas are now being read and analysed by the team who are developing the draft Central City Plan to identify common themes and trends to be explored further at a series of public workshops which start this weekend (28 and 29 May) and on our website – www.shareanidea.org.nz
Nine workshops have been finalised to date; others will follow in the next few days.
Public workshops to date are:
• Saturday 28 May, 2.30pm in North Beach
• Sunday 29 May, 2pm in Central Christchurch
• Wednesday 1 June, 6pm in Central Christchurch
• Saturday 4 June, 2.30pm in Wigram
• Sunday 5 June, 2pm in Central Christchurch
• Tuesday 7 June, 6pm in Central Christchurch
• Wednesday 8 June, 6pm in Cashmere
• Sunday 12 June, 2pm in Central Christchurch
• Sunday 12 June, 2.30pm in Burnside
The two and a half hour discussion groups are for anyone to attend but registration is essential as numbers are limited. To register click here or go online at www.shareanidea.org.nz, or call into your local Service Centre and staff will assist you with registering for the workshop in your area.
Share an idea online
Our website, shareanidea.org.nz, has been flooded with thousand of ideas. We’ve started to group these ideas under the four headings Life, Space, Move and Market.
The Life topic covers recreation, nightlife and heritage; Space includes parks, gardens and buildings; Move looks at all areas of transport, including walking and cycling; and Market covers anything that relates to business.
Keep checking the website for further updates and watch as your ideas get pieced together and themes start to emerge.
Group discussions
Get together with work colleagues, clubs and community groups that you belong to and discuss ideas for the Central City. Check our website for some ideas on how you can capture these conversations. Come back and post your group ideas here, or if you’ve already had some great conversations please add them now.
Find us on Facebook and Twitter
We’re also set up on Facebook and Twitter to keep you up to date on where and how to share an idea.
If you’re posting an idea on Facebook or Twitter – make sure you also load it to shareanidea.org.nz so it can be considered as the central city plan is developed.
You can also share your ideas by:
Sending a letter to PO Box 73001, Christchurch 8154
Phoning 941 7959 and leave a voice message
Sending an email to shareanidea@ccc.govt.nz
FORUM: RE-VISIONING THE GARDEN CITY – Wednesday 25 May, 7:30-9:30pm.
Canterbury Horticultural Society Hall. 57 Riccarton Avenue. This is a forum to give the gardening public of Christchurch food for thought as we make new plans for our Garden City. Speakers will have 12 minutes each to tell us from which organisation or perspective they speak and then give us a succinct summary of what they deem important in re-planning our city. Speakers will offer us history, experience, ideas. This is not a platform for politicising. It’s an opportunity for us, the city’s gardeners, to gather together and listen to interesting ideas to take home and ponder. That way, we are better equipped to be involved in the planning of the city. This is a 2-hour meeting followed by supper. Many thanks to the Canterbury Horticultural Society for making this possible. Parking available on site. Speakers:
Dr John Clemens, Curator of Christchurch Botanic Garden “Christchurch and the Shape of Water: A Tale of Two Botanic Gardens”
Steve Bush, Trees for Canterbury “Walking, Cycling, Native Plants and Me!”
Grant MacLeod, Christchurch City Council “Natural Play for All, Play Areas for Children”
Peggy Kelly, Packe Street Community Park “The Growing Need for Community Parks and Gardens in the City”
Neiel Drain, Former President Canterbury Horticultural Society “Christchurch, Garden City of the World. Dream or Reality?”
Coralie Winn, Gap Filler “Filling Empty Spaces: Movable Scenes for an Earthquake City”
Di Lucas, landscape architect, Lucas Associates “Re-Gardening our City – Renewing the World Model”
Diana Madgin, Press Garden Writer and Garden Guide “How Christchurch Became The Garden City”
Canterbury University is looking for people who have been feeling stressed and anxious post-earthquake interested in trialling micronutrients. If interested please go to: www.mentalhealthandnutrition.co.nz to find out more.
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