Meeting livestreamed

Perhaps council’s staff advisers had little choice but to retrospectively make true the claim in their LWB response to my editorial that Long Term Plan deliberations are public. Hoisted by their own petard.

But due credit for also now agreeing to live stream, record and time stamp the proceedings for those of us who can’t spend the whole day watching.

Thank you - to both the executive leadership team, and to LWB for providing the public pressure platform required.

Whether the ELT’s also changed their advice on not needing to specifically protect council’s supermajority won’t be known ‘til the 28 August deliberations.

If not, we need just seven councillors to insist that those vital five words - 'QLDC’s supermajority shareholding of QAC' - are included in the LTP’s strategic asset register.

Preferably all 12 will. Because, surely, protecting this vital landholding and council‘s control of it is fundamental to their governance role. And to our community’s long term interests.

- Cath Gilmour, We Love Whakatipu Inc chair and three term QLDC councillor

Read more at: lwb.co.nz/content/editorial-airport-control-at-risk-responses/