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Council staffer on climate trip to Kansas
NEWS RELEASE 25 August 2011
Council staffer on
climate trip to Kansas
Wellington City Council
Infrastructure Planning Engineer Nicci Wood has been
selected to represent New Zealand on an exchange fellowship
to the United States on climate change and community
sustainability.
The fellowship involves a four-week
exchange, starting in September, to the city of Mission -
within the metropolitan area of Kansas City. It is run
through the New Zealand Society of Local Government Managers
(SOLGM) and the International City/County Management
Association (ICMA) - the society's sister organisation in
the US.
Miss Wood will study the current introduction
of an enhanced bus service on main transit corridors to
better serve the communities of Mission - a city that has
earned a reputation for environmentally-sustainable
initiatives.
City Council Chief Executive Garry Poole
says Miss Wood's involvement in this programme is invaluable
to future decisions that Wellington City needs to make
around climate-change adaptation and risk
management.
Miss Wood is one of six New Zealanders
chosen for the exchange programme.
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