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Our July meeting was packed out as usual. Our pre meeting meal continues to gain popularity. This is our only time available for informal socialising and networking.
We had the Mayor Paul Matheson and long serving councillor Mike Cotton talking to us. With the upcoming local body elections it was a great time to let our members meet two of the candidates. It is always a good strategy for local associations to be on good terms with their local councillors. What better way to achieve this than feeding them a great meal and listening respectfully to what they have to say?
Nelson city is bursting at the seams. Our population continues to grow and the flat land available to build on is nearly exhausted. Whilst housing can always spread to the foothills, industry needs the flat land. Recent demographic trends towards an ageing population, fuel price hikes, clogged roads and changing attitudes towards higher density housing is leading to our own apartment building boom. The Nelson City Council has been concentrating on building infrastructure. Mega sized pipes have been buried to stop floods and sewage spills. At long last the water we drink will not have sediment and high chlorine content after the controversial $26M water filtration plant gets turned on this month. The city and Transit are trying to grapple with the roading mess we have been dropped into by Government funded greenie nutters who have managed to scuttle the inner city bypass. Some of these extremists suggest bicycles, tunnels, and railways, little realising that the costs, social upheavals, and safety issues of their drug induced euphoric dreams are best left to the world of Middle-Earth and their Hobbit citizens.
Our next meeting in September will have the boffin experts behind www.propertytalk.co.nz talking to us. Find out more at [email protected]
We had the Mayor Paul Matheson and long serving councillor Mike Cotton talking to us. With the upcoming local body elections it was a great time to let our members meet two of the candidates. It is always a good strategy for local associations to be on good terms with their local councillors. What better way to achieve this than feeding them a great meal and listening respectfully to what they have to say?
Nelson city is bursting at the seams. Our population continues to grow and the flat land available to build on is nearly exhausted. Whilst housing can always spread to the foothills, industry needs the flat land. Recent demographic trends towards an ageing population, fuel price hikes, clogged roads and changing attitudes towards higher density housing is leading to our own apartment building boom. The Nelson City Council has been concentrating on building infrastructure. Mega sized pipes have been buried to stop floods and sewage spills. At long last the water we drink will not have sediment and high chlorine content after the controversial $26M water filtration plant gets turned on this month. The city and Transit are trying to grapple with the roading mess we have been dropped into by Government funded greenie nutters who have managed to scuttle the inner city bypass. Some of these extremists suggest bicycles, tunnels, and railways, little realising that the costs, social upheavals, and safety issues of their drug induced euphoric dreams are best left to the world of Middle-Earth and their Hobbit citizens.
Our next meeting in September will have the boffin experts behind www.propertytalk.co.nz talking to us. Find out more at [email protected]
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