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Catherine Chu was criticised for keeping her six-figure councillor salary while campaigning to become an MP for National in last year s election. Most other councillors have attended more than 60, the next lowest attendance being from fourth term councillor James Gough, who went to 54 – almost twice that of Chu. Her attendance rate has fallen in the past six months – in September,
Stuff revealed that, at that time, she had missed 17 of the 33 briefings. Briefings, closed to the public, are intended to give councillors an in-depth knowledge of issues before they make decisions at council meetings. They are not compulsory.
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Town Will Look to Upgrade Academy Tuesday, 9th Apr 2013 14:03
Academy director Bryan Klug has confirmed that the Blues will be looking to upgrade to a Category One youth set-up from the current Category Two.
“The owner is keen on applying for Category One and we will be doing that as soon as we can,” Klug said. “But there is a lot of expense involved and we have to find ways of funding that.”
Speaking in February, shortly after Category Two status was confirmed by an independent audit, academy operations manager Helen Broughton told TWTD that such an upgrade is not a huge leap: “What we’ve put in place to get to Category Two is massive in terms of facilities and staffing and the next step up isn’t that massive.
see her back but it looks like all the guys have had a lot more work done then the girls which i kind of enjoy. all right donna, bring us home. great flames, and the best barbecue but for 27 years, this former schoolteacher helen broughton has been organizing shoe drives. she gives away tennis shoes to kids to help them get back to school, and the great st. andrews ame church helps to organize this. over 1,000 people stood in line to get their free good pair of shoes. greg, i want to offer up a couple of your tennis shoes. i have plenty on my shoes could probably fit their feet. i think the kids would send them back. they would be very fashionable. those are kids. know these are bands. but they are the primary