Time for a change at community trust
We are seeking public feedback on the wind-up of the Porirua Community Trust and the development of a new charitable trust to meet the future needs of Porirua City.
Trustees have been reviewing the structure of the current trust, which was set up under quite different conditions as a licensing trust during the local authority elections of 1956.
The trust’s structure has evolved over the years to be quite complex, outdated and costly.
A more streamlined and modern trust structure would save significant funds and enable a new trust to distribute more funds back to the community and/or grow to the trust for the future benefit of the community. A new structure would also include a different way to appoint trustees.
Please go to the website at www.poriruacommunitytrust.org.nz for further details on the proposal, to look at potential trustee appointment options and to provide feedback.
A public meeting will be held at 10am on Wednesday, February 28, Meeting Room 1, Te Rauparaha Arena, to outline the proposal in more detail and to answer any questions the public may have.
All are welcome and please also send in your feedback to us at feedback@pct.org.nz
Henry Smith
Chair, Porirua Community Trust
TRANSPORT LINKS
A quick look on Trade Me will show you a grungy two-bedroom flat in Newtown for circa $680 or a three-bedroom stand-alone house in Tawa for $580.
It can take one 30 minutes to get to Newtown on a bus from the railway station at peak time, and on a train 15 minutes to Tawa at any time.
For someone studying at the law faculty, Victoria, or even making coffees on a minimum wage for the city folk, to live in the city is almost a necessity due to the very early last-train departures and the not-early firsttrain arrivals.
Eleven o’clock at night out of the capital to its northern suburbs is crazy; even the last buses out of the city to its eastern suburbs run later than that.
Transport and housing issues go hand in hand.
How about the regional council look further than the CBD when next looking at both deteriorating commodities. Suburban they may well be, but the people of Tawa are as much a part of Wellington as the people of Mt Cook. And their rent is much cheaper.
Terence P Conway
Pukerua Bay
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