Meetings / events attended

7 December Met with Puketapapa Board Chair Julie Fairey for lunch

Went on a bat walk in Western Springs (found no bats)

10 December CRL Mt Eden Site Visit and meeting

11 December helped set up the St Columba’s Christmas Dinner with Reverend Canon Brent Swann, fellow board member Sarah Trotman and the fab volunteers from the congregation.

13 December – First Innovating Streets project meeting for Ponsonby. Luke Krieg von Bellikon facilitates behind me (above)

14 December – went on a walk with Dirk and Don of the Herne Bay Residents Association.

16 December – raising of the flag with the Consular Core

Attended the Youth Wellbeing Hui at Tapac

17 December – met Jeremy Hansen of Britomart for lunch to share ideas of city enhancement

Met with representatives of the Citizens Advice Bureau of Auckland City

18 December – attended Dawn Ceremony for Te Komititanga

Meeting with MP David Seymour at the Waitemata Board offices.

Met with the RFA and Noelle Buckland of the CRG to talk about the future of the Aotea

Square precinct.

20 December – Attended Sunday Blessings and joined the Street Choir for a sing. Lots of visitors from all walks of life came along including Mark Laurent, Rohan MacMahon, Suzanne Kendrick, Councillor Coom and Mayor Goff.

23 December - Visited the lego exhibition at the Auckland Museum. Very popular with the smalls.

20 January – Spoke to Donna Govorko of Students Against Drink Driving (SADD) to discuss interventions to improve outcomes for youth.

27 January – Went on a walkabout of Motions Creek and the Westmere Weone walkway with Mike Battersby and Liz to talk about maintaining this great community asset.

Attended Holocaust Memorial Event at the Museum.

28 January – Visited Ellen Melville Hall to check out the Summer programme and return of volunteers.

Attended the monthly City Network Meeting at Ellen Melville Hall (all city residents welcome)

30 January – enjoyed the America’s Cup and Buskers Festival in the Wynyard (above)

31 January - went to the Auckland Folk Festival which is moving towards greater diversity of music – Troy Kingi, Te Ao, Reb Fountain and Eastern were highlights.

3 February Had a meeting with Chris Darby to talk about planning policies

7-9 February – Went to Waitangi with Kerrin Leoni, Christine Robertson (Albert Eden Board member) and Suzanne Kendrick. Hard conversations. Necessary.

10 February – Caught up with Irene King of the GLBA for a coffee

Attended CRL zoom meeting

11 February – Met with Peter Miles of Revive Our Gulf

12 February – Meeting with Arash, to discuss CRL development response in Karangahape Road.

14 February 2021 – Innovating Streets Project Ponsonby Workshop Three (including an early meeting with an academic and her son for a walk down Ponsonby Road noting the highs and lows from a child perspective).

Launch of the Auckland Fringe Festival

15 February 2021 – Attended Climate Political Reference Group meeting

Attended Domain Committee workshop

Conferences / member development

Disclosures

I am doing a phD in the Dance Department of the University of Auckland, studying the potential roles of playful arts practices in co-producing the Playful City. I am a member of Women in Urbanism, and a parent trustee on the Richmond Road School board. My husband is director of dog walking company Fetch.

Finally

I am on Facebook and I have set up a website alexbonham.co.nz in which I discuss some of the issues that are crossing our desks and give more information and links on engagement with council. Julie Sandilands and I are leading a pilot “local government TV on Facebook”, which aims to engage the community with issues that may matter to them! Anyone living in Waitemata is very welcome to get in touch with me by email alexandra.bonham@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz.