YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER |AUGUST 2020 | No.218
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Coatesville UFB Within Reach!
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o Coatesville! A massive “Thank You Coatesville” for your UFB pledges – we are a huge 70% of the way towards our fundraising goal. What a community effort in such a short amount of time! It's now truly a case of “Pledge it or lose it” for Coatesville to be included in the Chorus/Crown UFB roll-out to approximately 640 properties. The community has responded VERY positively. Pledges from private households plus contributions from local and not-so-local businesses have helped us close in on our community contribution goal of $300,000! You've been incredible, but do not stop now! The CRRA has set-up a UFB committee which is dedicated to making sure all the households in the allocated UFB map from Chorus are notified and can join this initiative. To that end we have been active on social media via our Facebook posts; have a dedicated tab on our website with FAQ and have completed two mailbox drops. We have also gone old-fashioned and done a lot of doorknocking. We have representatives from the Chinese community working alongside us to make sure the message reaches all who are eligible. Further to that, we have cast a wider net by approaching local businesses and beyond for added contributions. Despite all of the above, around half of the homes and businesses in the zone map are yet to pledge – but we are working hard to get in touch with them all. We ask that anyone who has pledged reach out to neighbours or friends in the community to make sure they JOIN us and PLEDGE so we do not lose this opportunity. The end of August is also the end of the time frame allocated by Chorus. We are working on putting a case for an extension given the short “call-
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WHAT’S IN IT FOR US? Remember, this all about ensuring your families, businesses and friends throughout the community can access fast and reliable fibre internet – something we've all been crying out for! Time is fast running out on the Crown/Chorus Coatesville fibre offer. If we don’t take up this offer now, we are unlikely to see fibre rolled out to our community for many years to come. Although the zone inclusion map is confirmed for stage one, once the fundraising is achieved for this offer and UFB fibre roll-out is confirmed for Coatesville, the CRRA will continue to work with Chorus and Crown to expand the coverage area. THANK YOU ALL! We will do everything we can to make this happen for our Coatesville community. From The CRRA CRRA – working for a better community
There's still time. PLEDGE your support TODAY! to-action” time frame and the added complication of returning to Alert Level 3. We have also taken the steps of establishing a trust account via Davenports Harbour Lawyers who are kindly doing this work pro-bono for us. People who have pledged will be asked to pay the money into this account shortly after pledging. We have a lot of households who are down shared laneways or long driveways. Please view the zone inclusion map and our FAQ section on the CRRA website at www.coatesville. org.nz for all the details, including how Chorus will work with us to keep fibre install costs low and in many cases free. For any other questions, please email: coatesvilleufb@outlook.com.
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