More than two-thirds of submitters want redevelopment or refurbishment of the city library, with the council's $44 million plan the most popular of those options.
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“Currently, [the] council has out for submission the regional land transport plan. Now, to be notified of this plan and to actually find it requires quite some skill, as it is buried not in the submissions section of the council website, where you d expect to find it, but in the Shape Nelson section with no links from either. You can’t find by going to one place without fossicking around.” As well as being difficult to find, the proposals were based on community feedback which also appeared to suffer from lack of engagement. “The survey that this document based on for the region has a total sample of 490 people. Now I know this was done during Covid in 2020, however, one would think that because you’d done a survey and only got 490 people from the 100,000 people in the bay, that you might actually start trying to engage some more.”
Stuff visual journalist witnessed the alleged assault, describing it as a “shoulder charge”. He said Skinner approached a set of side-doors which the protester was chained to, one which requires a key-card to access, and “deliberately” pushed the woman, before making apologies and saying he had not seen her.
Extinction Rebellion Whakatū protesters Yasmeen Jones-Chollet, left and a fellow protester with Nelson City Councillor Tim Skinner. Extinction Rebellion member Jynette Parker, who was at the protest, described the incident as “aggressive pushing”. “A member of the Nelson council pushed one of our elderly protesters,” she said. “It was quite nasty, actually. We have been to the police about it . She was very shaken up, if she hadn t been tied on [to the doors] she would have been hurt, he would have pushed her onto the ground.”