NEWS JUNE 2020 • ISSUE: 256 In This Edition: • On the Spot • Leslies Bookshop • Affordable Fruit and Veg Lyttelton Review June 2020 | Issue:256 1 NEWS Next Issue print date: Issue 257, 23th June 2020. Content Deadline: 5pm 19th June 2020. Here are some helpful numbers and websites: The cover photo this edition is from our own collection. We welcome your favorite shots. Please send them in. Alcohol and drug helpline 0800 787 797 The Review AVIVA Is a Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre initiative 0800 2848 2669 designed to keep our community informed with what is going on around the harbour. It’s also an opportunity to Christchurch City Council Contact Centre showcase the people and places that other wise would open 24/7 03 941 8999 go under the radar. 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Lyttelton Harbour is Church Bay were delighted with the the perfect place for a brisk winter walk up in the Port service provided by James, Laura and Hills, around our coastal tracks or over the Harbour their staff during the very interesting into the Banks Peninsula. Rod Donald trust have just period in recent history. released their walks brochures online which have Those over 70 who had no one to get their supplies found detailed routes over for Akaroa area, Diamond Harbour, the service was invaluable. An email or a phone call with Governors Bay and Lyttelton. Have a look on https://www. a list and in no time it was delivered with a smile and a bankspeninsulawalks.co.nz/ If you prefer a paper copy you chat to go with it. Some others compromised for other can purchase them for $2 through the Information centre reasons also benefited from this excellent service. and even though we are closed at the moment you can email me or call and I can sort out getting one to you. In fact, James has decided to continue delivering groceries to those who would like to use this service. If you fancy something a little more sedate and informative have a look at our Lyttelton Historic Walk on Deliveries peaked at around 12 per day down to 6 after https://lytteltoninfocentre.nz/listings/historic-walk this reaching Level 3. takes you around the central streets of our Port town with Deliveries were made from Teddington to Purau. photographs illustrating buildings of the past as you look at the current sites. A number of the photographs are James decided not to charge for deliveries but suggested from The Lyttelton Museum’s new digitalised collection to people they could donate money to the local Fire which they have kindly shared with us. If you want to Service which many did. look further into the history from the safety and warmth It did take some time to work out how to manage running of your armchair https://ehive.com/collections/5362/ the store and the first week was a form of controlled lyttelton-museum some amazing photographs of the chaos, but by the second week, a good routine had been changing face of the Port. worked out and working smoothly. Staff worked really At Level 2 we are seeing people returning to visit the hard which was appreciated by all. Port, Market Saturday is busier than ever and so many Shop hours were reduced as shelves had to be restocked businesses are benefiting from being able to get out and and with three or four fewer staff than usual, James and sell their wares, as much as visitors are happily coming to Laura had to put in long hours as well as look after their buy their fresh produce. daughter. Normal hours resumed once Level 2 was As the Winter is coming please ensure that you are reached. keeping yourselves warm and dry our imposed lock James spent hours out the front of the shop chatting to down saw many of us using wood earlier than expected people waiting in the queue for their turn to enter. It was or increasing our electricity bills, if you are struggling, do decided that children had to trust their parents to buy not go cold, in these times we need to keep our immune their treats for them as it was safer not to have children systems strong. Contact Lyttelton Community House 03- enter the building during Level 4 – an odd experience. No 741 1427. As always look after yourselves and do not be traffic was also an odd experience – very quiet. afraid to reach out for help there are a lot of great people in this Harbour who are there to help. Predictably, when people asked when was the quiet time to come to shop, the answer was 1pm during the daily Go well, Stay well, Be Kind. update by Jacinda and Ashleigh was being delivered. Solutions were found when favourite items could not be supplied and usually with excellent results. And maybe, not since war time has so much baking happened in our kitchens. As elsewhere in New Zealand, the wonderful experience of lots of people out walking, talking to each other and just generally being friendly is the lasting memory James will have - similar to the post earthquake experience. During Lockdown Level 4 and 3, On the Spot sold over 3000 loaves of bread, more than 850 bottles of cream, 2800 bottles of Pam’s 2l milk, over 1600kgs of bananas, 850 avocados and 1373 blocks of Whittakers chocolate. Appreciated by all who bought them. Karen Colyer Lyttelton Review June 2020 | Issue:256 3 NEWS The Draft Annual Plan 2020–21 proposes capping capital spending at $400 million, reducing the Council’s running costs by $23 million, and increasing borrowing by $102 million (includes $80 million for 2020–21 and $22 million for 2021–22). A total of $118 million is set aside for 2020– 21 for the Metro Sports Facility and Canterbury Multi-Use Arena. Other changes include: • Allowing the use of weed killers containing glyphosate in places where there is no direct contact with people (saving of $3.5 million) • Reducing grants to ChristchurchNZ and Heritage Council adopts new Draft (saving of $3.3 million) Annual Plan • Reducing salary and wages by not filling vacancies Christchurch City Council has approved a new draft (saving of $3.3 million) budget that takes into account the impact the COVID-19 • Reducing external consulting budgets (saving of pandemic has had on the organisation and on ratepayers. $3.3 million) The revised Draft Annual Plan 2020–21 proposes an average residential rate rise of 2.23 per cent, which is • Reducing maintenance to essential work only an overall average rate increase of 3.5 per cent. For an (saving of $2.6 million) average house valued at $508,608 that would mean paying an extra $1.19 a week, or $62.05 a year. • Stopping funding to Regenerate Christchurch (saving of $1 million) “The first 2020–21 budget we approved in February proposed a 4.65 per cent average rates increase which we • Additional revenue from charging for excess put out for submissions at the beginning of March. Today’s water use by the top 20 per cent of residential meeting acknowledges that the situation had changed customers ($2 million). A total of 20 per cent of dramatically,” says Mayor Lianne Dalziel. residential households use more than 50 per cent of the water supplied to residents. “Our Council staff have been busy reworking our entire budget from the ground up, reducing costs and identifying as many opportunities to save money as possible without The revised Draft Annual Plan 2020–21 replaces the triggering an amendment to the Long Term Plan.” version that was approved and consulted on earlier in the Those savings, combined with extra borrowing and a year.