The council’s facilities rebuild team is consulting residents around the city about community facilities at a series of meetings in June and July.
Although no meetings are planned in St Albans, there are several dinner hour meetings planned for venues in Parklands, Woolston and Akaroa in June and July
The council has more than 1600 buildings to check over and repair after the quakes. Some of these are community facilities and include those closed indefinitely. They survived the quakes, provided a useful resource for the community in the days after the February quake only to find themselves shut down later because they failed to meet new building code standards. This has resulted in a shortage of community facilities in the city.
St Albans has a temporary centre, which may be with us for three or five years, but after that what? An additional building had nearly finished with the consultation process in 2010 when the earthquakes irreparably damaged the old centre. A permanent replacement will need to be looked at eventually by a council that has, naturally, a lot of infrastructure issues on its plate.
These forums could become a quarterly event.
