Waimea Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
Wednesday 10 June 2020
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Greening doesn’t show up - again Matt McCrorie Reporter
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Councillors and members of the community have questioned the poor attendance record of Richmond Ward Councillor Mark Greening, who has missed 50 per cent of council meetings this year. Greening, who has been on the council since 2013, has the lowest attendance record of any councillor. He attended just six of twelve full council meetings between February 13 and June 4 and has not attended the four full council meetings on Zoom since April 21, also missing a regulatory committee meeting in March. There is a marked gap between Greening’s attendance record and the rest of the members around the council table, with seven councillors at full attendance for council meetings, three councillors who have been absent from just one meeting, and two council-
lors who have missed two meetings. Greening ran for Wellington City Council in 2010 in the Lambton Ward before gaining a seat in Tasman in 2013. This isn’t the first time Greening’s attendance record has been questioned. In his first term, between being elected in 2013 and January 2015, Greening attending only 21 out of 53. Greening also holds a directorship for the Nelson Airport, of which TDC has a 50 per cent shareholding. As a director, Greening picked up $23,019 during the year 2018-19, on top of his base councillor salary of $38,262, meaning he was paid $61,281. This is more than anyone else around the council table, excluding the then-mayor and deputy mayor, Richard Kempthorne and Tim King. Greening only missed one meeting out of twelve for the Nelson Airport Board meetings in the year 2019.
Motocross back on the menu Page 26 Carl Babe and Jon leach, part of the Helirescue crew, stand in front of the Nelson Marlborough rescue Helicopter. Photo: Supplied.
Fundraising dries up Jacqui Rawson Fundraising is the lifeblood that keeps some organisations in our community up and running. The mechanisms that
generate those funds have been shut down during coronavirus. Think basic fundraising like the reliable sausage sizzle disappearing along with the fundraising they generate with them.
But it goes far beyond the humble sausage sizzle. Paula Muddle, General Manager of The Trust, Nelson
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