Starts With Picket Wednesday December 9th
A
Keep Our Assets Canterbury (KOA) protest outside Christchurch’s main City Care depot next Wednesday (December 9th) will kick off a
vigorous campaign to stop the Christchurch City Council selling City Care.
Earlier
this week the Mayor Lianne Dalziel announced the Council intends to sell City
Care as part of a “capital raising” programme.
Dalziel
and seven other councillors have voted to sell $750 million of our assets over
three years and City Care is the first one they want to flog off.
The
Mayor’s reasons for selling don’t stack up.
The
projected budget shortfall in future years would disappear if the Council insisted
the Government meet its share of the cost of fixing damaged infrastructure and
renegotiated the timeline for building the Government’s so-called anchor
projects (which Treasury has declared to be financially non-viable).
The
Mayor has frankly admitted she has not asked the Government to consider changes
in the building programme for the anchor projects.
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However
it’s clear the Mayor is working for a National government agenda for
Christchurch rather than for Christchurch citizens.
KOA
is appalled at this short-sighted stupidity.
Wednesday’s
picket will be from 4pm to 6pm outside City Care depot at 245 Milton Street,Sydenham.
We
will be taking our message direct to the public and the workers employed by
City Care whose jobs and/or conditions of employment are on the line.
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