Regional Parks Focus for Candidates
Press Release - For immediate release Monday 29 August 2016
Regional Parks Focus for Candidates
Auckland’s Friends of Regional Parks group has approached candidates standing for the Auckland Mayoralty and Council to find out their views on Regional Parks in order to inform voters in the upcoming election.
Auckland's parks are an essential infrastructure component to achieve the Council's aim of ensuring that the best conditions possible are created for the health, well-being, personal development and happiness of the residents. This has been confirmed by numerous comprehensive international studies that have clearly identified the physical, mental and emotional health benefits that people derive from parks. With Auckland’s rapid growth and intensification Auckland’s Regional Parks are particularly valuable as health promoting sanctuaries from the pressures and intensity of modern life.
Therefore in
conjunction with the Auckland Regional Parks 50 –Year
Vision and Values Plan (attached) the Friends of Regional
Parks are requesting candidates to show what commitment they
would specifically give as Mayor or Councillor to the survey
questions. All Mayoral and Council candidates are invited to
respond. Results will generate a "score card" for each
candidate which will be publicised. No response to any
question will result in a zero score for that question.
Candidates who do not complete the survey will be scored
with the lowest result in the scorecard.
The survey
questions (attached) can be found on the Friends of Regional
Parks website at http://www.forparks.org.nz/
All
Mayoral and Councillor candidates who provided an email
contact address with their nomination form will receive an
email invitation to complete the survey which will close on
Monday 12 September. Any candidates who have not yet
received an invitation can request one by emailing treasurer@forparks.org.nz
ENDS