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Despite the council’s funding support agreement stipulating that a review be carried out within the first three years, Macdonald had to push to get it done. Deloitte issued its damning report to council last November. In early December, I applied to the council for the report to be publicly released, under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act. Late in January, the council’s official information team advised me that they were refusing to release it publicly, until March. As we now know, Deloitte’s independent review determined that the foundation operates very high cost structures, was not transparent and failed to fully co-operate with the review.
Through the project about 4500 students were surveyed across the 15 colleges in the region. “College sport has seen some of this data where it has become too competitive and on the whole, college students are telling us ‘we want to do more, but we don’t fit the mould’,” Muir said. “If you re a good athlete and you fit the mould you re okay, but if you’re making up the numbers or you re not so good and don’t have so much confidence – something we see in a lot of our teenage girls in particular – where do you go?”
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The decision was passed by the Nelson City Council by eight votes to four, at a meeting of the community and recreation committee on Thursday. While the initial proposal recommended the extension be subject to Natureland presenting a business case at the end of 2021, this was amended to say the council’s decision to extend the lease “does not indicate a commitment to future funding support by Council for the enhancement of Natureland”. Natureland Trust chairman Stephen Standley said the trust’s preference was for the lease to be granted without encumbrance, as it would allow them to begin fundraising as soon as they had completed their business case.