Mayoral candidate John Minto is calling on the outgoing mayor
and councillors to halt the process to sell the council’s works company City
Care.
“We are now less than three months from the local body
election and councils should not be making major decisions which tie the hands
of an incoming council.”
This is especially so in Christchurch because neither the
Mayor nor any of the seven councillors who voted to sell City Care had an
electoral mandate to do so. There was no proposal to sell assets and no public
debate at the time of the last election. Instead it was sprung on the city well
after votes were cast.
The sale of City Care was to have been completed by the end
of June but this deadline passed and a special general meeting of the council
to approve a sale late last month was cancelled.
“It’s time for Christchurch voters to have their say”
“Let’s put democracy ahead of repeating the failures of the
1980s and 90s when our national assets were privatised by successive Labour and
National governments.”
