It is great to see that the Otago Daily Times has added Otago University Marketing lecturer, Robert Hamlin, to it’s bloggers.
Robert has produced some of the best analysis of Stadium finances. In the first of his blog posts, he shows that “multipliers” can be applied to costs as well as income.
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The $100,000 Dunedin City Council MoveMe campaign to promote active lifestyles has turned out to be a flop with less than 400 people registering for the programme.
No more ratepayers money should be spent on this project. As Councillor Fliss Butcher says:
Everyone can go for a walk if they want to get fit. They don’t need to have some ratepayer-funded internet sign-up programme to do it.
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Great to see that Dunedin’s Pocketsmith has been selected as a finalist in the Webstock 2012 web technology conference BNZ Star-up Alley awards. Good luck to them in the final.
Pocketsmith provides online personal finance software, and is part of the The Distillery start-up cluster.
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The Dunedin City Council may be sprucing up South Dunedin, but it’s own bureaucrats are holding the area back.
The owners of an unsafe building have been waiting for 5 months for bureaucrats to give permission to demolish it so that they can replace it with a new building in a similar style. Over this time they have lost income from rent, and scaffolding has cost them $20,000 and they have also been billed $1,600 for an archaeological examination.
In a feature article in the ODT, a local businessman commented:
Lindsay Campbell, owner of Alex Campbell Menswear, … blames past councils for the decline of South Dunedin and believes that they have “actively dissuaded” development.
“I’ve heard there’s various chain stores that have tried to open up in South Dunedin, and needed to be slightly outside the zoning, and they were persuaded to go into more central area.
The Dunedin City Council has property interests to protect in the Central City.
If businessmen want to invest in South Dunedin, then their money should be welcomed.
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In a highly unusual move, the Otago Daily Times is not letting readers comment on it’s story about Malcolm Farry being made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year Honours. Mr Farry is known for his championing of the Stadium but the citation for the award includes mention his charitable work.
This is another example of the ODT restricting negative coverage of Stadium-related issues.
Farry’s award does seem premature as it is too early judge whether the Stadium will be a success, with considerable doubt hanging over it’s financial viability. Mr Farry himself may be disapointed with it as he may have been hoping for a Knighthood later.
Further comment can be found at What if? Dunedin…
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