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The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication.
The Press compiled its first Christchurch Power List in 2005, and it was decided that Mayor Garry Moore was the city’s most powerful person, followed closely by city council chief executive Lesley McTurk. “The list, compiled and voted on by a
Press panel, also uncovers the sway of commercial giant Ngāi Tahu, with three members of iwi management making the top 11, including chairman Mark Solomon placed third.
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The Press editor Paul Thompson takes fourth place and police district commander Sandra Manderson is fifth. Real estate entrepreneur Stephen Collins takes the top place for business (at seventh overall).”
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The comments were made today by the chair of the Christchurch Foundation when he fronted up, along with his chief executive, to a grilling from Christchurch City councillors.
Christchurch Foundation was set up in 2017 to attract donations for worthy causes in the city.
To start, the council promised $600,000 a year to cover operating costs, like wages for its three staff and chief executive.
Wanting to check it was getting good value for money, the council ordered a review by Deloitte.
Today at a council meeting, the foundation s chair and rich lister Humphry Rolleston described the council s brief to Deloitte as strange.