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Margaret Goff with Nigel Muir of Sport Tasman. Muir nominated Goff in 2019 for an Eelco Boswijk Civic Award for her work in setting up and running a welfare centre distributing food and products to families disrupted by the Pigeon Valley Fire.
It was meant to be just making “a few sandwiches” for crews during the Pigeon Valley fires, but Margaret Goff’s initiative grew much bigger than she expected, and earned her an award she had never heard of. In 2019, Goff won the Eelco Boswijk Community Hero Award for her hard mahi (work) coordinating a welfare centre set up of her own volition. The centre catered to the needs of those affected by the wildfires and supported the people involved in them, including firefighters, frontline crew and families who had homes threatened by the blaze.
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Nelson City Council
Nelson City Council CCTV video of an incident involving Nelson City Councillor Tim Skinner and protester Anne Smith outside Civic House. After the police investigation, Reese said she would be initiating a code of conduct complaint over Skinner’s behaviour and issued a public apology to Smith. Dressed in pink at her protest site outside Civic House, Smith on Friday said she had subsequently received an invitation from Reese “for her to apologise, but she doesn t need to apologise – she just needs to act”. Smith said she had received no information directly about the code of conduct investigation “only what I’ve read in the paper”.
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The council proposed putting rates up by 5.7 per cent, but on the first of a three-day meeting to deliberate on submissions councillors were told this left council over its debt cap by the end of the 10 years.
The Covid-19 nil rates rise has left Nelson council in a “hole”, and the only room to wriggle out of it is to potentially increase rates in the first year of its 10-year plan to 5.9 per cent. The financial plan the Nelson City Council put out to the public for feedback in its Long Term Plan (LTP) consultation included increasing its debt to $291 million by the end of the 10-year plan in 2031, with every year bar the first having rates increases at the highest point possible.