Meetings / events attended

13 July Parnell Heritage Meeting
16 July Grey Lynn Community Resilience Forum

23 July KBA MeetingMet with Ngati Whatua Orakei
City Centre Network meeting
Moko Foundation Launch 2020

29 July Waitemata Local Board Community Hearing event
30 July Represented the WLB at the independent hearing for 44 St George’s Bay
Road. The WLB supports density done well but this development proposal
has a number of unitary plan breaches that cause concern.

31 July Glen Innes to Tamaki Drive Shared Path – St John’s Road to Orakei Basin
sod turning event.

WLB consultation – Newton Central School

1 August Consult on the Local Board Plan in Parnell with Sarah Trotman

Auckland Library of Tools visit

And visit MODAL the new Occam development with Margi Watson and Peter
Malcouronne to see some density done well. Occam buildings always have a
big shared space and this is no exception. We are on the rooftop deck. There
is also a moss wall, a creative space and lots of bike storage. Rental only, but
secure tenure. A very fun alternative to flatting (well it sort of is literally
flatting) but a general sense that probably not for families.

3 August Met Herne Bay Residents Association (see above)

Conferences / member development
8 July “Outside In” Speaker series. Laura Armstrong, Barbara Holloway and Bridget Vercoe:
“The magic of microgrants, business resilience training and planning for business continuity”
22 July “Outside In” Speaker series. Rebecca Mills: “Build back better”
25 July Organic Gardening Basics – Healthy Soil. Course at Kelmarna Gardens.
31 July “Outside In” Speaker series. Tania Loveridge and Margaret Lewis: “Initiatives to
support the city centre street community.”

Disclosures
I am doing a phD in the Dance Department of the University of Auckland, studying the
potential roles of playful arts practices in coproducing the Playful City. I am a member of
Women in Urbanism, an occasional walking tour guide with Auckland Free Walking Tours
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.