1. What should the council’s role be in cre­at­ing afford­able hous­ing?
WCC is the coun­try’s second largest land­lord. We’ve got dec­ades of exper­i­ence in provid­ing afford­able hous­ing.
I firmly believe there’s a role for WCC to…

2. What one pro­ject for Wel­ling­ton have you been most act­ive on so far?

Over the past 6 years I have worked on pro­jects to deliv­er $40m of com­munity pro­jects in my ward, includ­ing a new lib­rary, two learn-to-swim…
 
3. What pro­ject do you plan to cham­pi­on most if you win this pos­i­tion?
Build­ing more homes in Wel­ling­ton and address­ing home­less­ness.
 
4. What’s your opin­ion on the pro­posed new bus routes?
My gen­er­al approach is ‘if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it’. The cur­rent sys­tem serves Wel­ling­ton very well. If the changes can provide more reli­ab­il­ity…
 
5. What’s your opin­ion on cycle­ways?
I think cycle­ways and good cyc­ling infra­struc­ture is essen­tial in every mod­ern city . I’ve com­mit­ted to our urb­an cyc­ling frame­work and its imple­ment­a­tion.
I want…
6. What’s your opin­ion on the air­port exten­sion?
As we assess the infra­struc­ture needs of the city of the next 50 years, I think we need to con­sider the air­port exten­sion. I have…
7. Who is the biggest donat­or to your cam­paign?
Me!
I’ve fun­draised and had some dona­tions, but I have under­writ­ten the cam­paign myself because I think that’s import­ant.
 
8. Which NZ politi­cian do you most admire?
Helen Clark

9. What do you think needs to hap­pen to the Town Hall?

It needs to be strengthened as soon as pos­sible. We are close to con­firm­ing an agree­ment with the New Zea­l­and Sym­phony Orches­tra and Vic­tor­ia Uni­versity’s…
10. How long have you lived in the area you are stand­ing for?
13 years.
11. What’s one thing from the 2013–2016 Coun­cil term you think was really great and why?
I’ve got two things:
- High­light­ing social issues in Wel­ling­ton such as home­less­ness, upgrad­ing our social hous­ing units, the liv­ing wage and a smoke free Wel­ling­ton and…
12. What do you think of the Auck­land Unit­ary Plan and what can Wel­ling­ton learn from it?
I think it’s a sens­ible approach to address the cur­rent and future growth issues Auck­land faces. Wel­ling­ton is dif­fer­ent as we don’t have the same…
13. What’s the biggest risk Wel­ling­ton faces in the next ten years?
An earth­quake and being ready to respond to its impact..
14. How will you work with the rest of the coun­cil to achieve the things you’re set­ting out to do?
I’ll work with Coun­cil­lors as I have through­out my time on coun­cil. I’ll be pro­fes­sion­al, cour­teous, hard-work­ing and will lead by example.
I’m a strong…
15. Who do you nom­in­ate for Wel­ling­tonista Wel­ling­to­ni­an of the Year (assum­ing we run the TAWAs again)?
Stephanie McIntyre, Dir­ect­or at Down­town Com­munity Min­istry for her tire­less work on sup­port­ing Wel­ling­ton’s most vul­ner­able people.