denthepen's blog

Are we looking at the final days for the CHBDC's  Aramoana Woolshed  project?

Having been alerted by a letter to the editor of Hawke's Bay Today, that Graham Denby has taken the bull by the horns and visitted the woolshed site, armed with cameras and his undisputed ability to research issues,the answer may well be "YES"!!

If a picture is worth a thousand words, I suspect that Graham's snaps of the woolshed interior and the surrounding terrain could spawn a volume of biblical proportion.  Knowing his ability to ferret out the truth, I believe that council would be wise to get the monkey, that is the woolshed project, off their backs as soon as they can........or of course they could try and call his bluff which is something I would never do!

Is the 'meaning of life so elusive? It seems to me that modern man is happy to live half of his life in the physical and social enviroment of life, the breeze in the face, one on one interaction with the spoken word, sports, the nurturing of plants and watching the new buds unfold for the first time. Is it possible that our thoughts and machinations, our hidden emotions, what happens within both our conscious and subconscious minds are not really hidden and along with our life in the so-called' real world' are all part of a cosmic play? Perhaps it is all put 'out there' and forms a 'cosmic blog'

Life's a blog'

Life's a blog it can be said,

Blogged upon a cosmic web,

REVERSE THE POLICE AND TRANSPORT AMALGAMATION OF 1992.

It appears that we have been in danger of seeing only one tree (The Aramoana Woolshed) rather then the forest which surrounds it on this issue. As the mist is lifted by public awareness and factors which council has locked up in camera start to become revealed, we start to see that the woolshed may only be part of the equation. What connection if any, is there between some of the principle characters in this issue and the private subdivision of many building sections at Aramoana? Could the woolshed complex serve also as a community centre for the greatly extended Aramoana community? Who are the owners and developers of the subdivision and would not a ratepayer sponsored community hall and social facility add greatly to the saleability of that subdivision? I wonder if with a social facility in place,the new ratepayers will be lumbered with the same over-the-top rates as the more modest dwellings at Porangahau Beach?

WAS THERE A REAL COUNCIL CONFLICT OF INTEREST?

In revealing that it was ex-CHB District Councillor Rod Hansen who initiated the 'conflict of interest' complaint against two councillors who voted against the woolshed deal in principle, Councillor Story has, by accident I am sure, effectively shown that the rest of council has a possibly larger conflict of interest than alleged against councillors Story and Sally Butler.

The suggestion that councillors who voted against CHBDC's aquisition of the Aramoana Woolshed had a' conflict of interests' seems to have been somewhat of a damp squib in so far as the office of the Auditor-General is concerned. I am informed by the A-G's Office that they do not have a role in issuing opinions in such matters in so far as they refer to particular cases. It appears that only the law-courts can determine if such an alleged conflict would amount to a breach of the law I am sure, that most local ratepayers do not want further unproductive expenditure of rates in legal posturing and gambits to try and force through the very unpopular Aramoana Woolshed aquisition. In my opinion, there are only two democratic alternatives for Council to extricate itself from this undemocratic disaster it has created for itself.