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Mayor Barbara Arnott: Napier … A Pretty Good Year Ahead

February 15, 2010

2010 heralds sixty years since Napier gained city status. It is tempting to take a look back at the history and heritage that we today are privileged to continue building on, but this article is about this year and this time. No indulgences. For our community, affordability still is a major area of concern. A [...]

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Barbara Arnott – Good Governance

August 31, 2009

The question is not “Amalgamation: Yes or No? The question more properly put is what results do we want for our communities, our cities and our region?  What sort of place do we want to live in? What environment?  What service delivery, what amenity and facilities do we need, what financial sustainability, what representation?  In [...]

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Barbara Arnott – What Others Say

June 28, 2009

Barbara Arnott Mayor, Napier I expect the Study to achieve: • Identification of needs associated with growth in the area; • Surety of a framework to work within for the whole community; • Protection of identified special feature areas (rural, historic, agricultural, high density etc); • Create a consistent data set that can be used across the Heretaunga Plains [...]

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Guest Buzzmaker: Mayor Barbara Arnott – “A Tale of Two Cities”

December 10, 2008

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it [...]

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