Monday, June 26, 2006
About Me

- Name: Grant Gillon 4 Shore
- Location: North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand
Grant Gillon, currently a member of the Kaipatiki Local Board and Birkenhead Licensing Trust, works for you. Grant's experience and skills as a North Shore City Councillor (2007-2010), former Director of a State Owned Enterprise, CEO, local businessman, and a former two-term Member of Parliament (1996-2002), gives him a deep understanding of our local communities and how to effectively represent them. Grant is standing for the Auckland Council, re-election to the Kaipatiki Local Board, and to the Devonport/Takapuna Local Board. Grant Gillon took a strong leadership role on the North Shore City council. Amongst many achievements, As Chair of the Strategy & Finance Committee, Grant slashed the previous council's planned 8.4% rates rise, championed opposition to water privatisation, secured the future for our community groups in the transition period, opposed 'shoe-box' apartments in our neighbourhoods, initiated increased powers to community boards, and introduced several heritage protection measures, secured the civic square at Beach Haven, refurbishment of Highbury mainstreet and the Glenfield town centre scoping plan.
Links
- Birkenhead Residents Association
- Beach Haven Birkdale Residents and Ratepayers Association
- Devonport Business Association
- Milford Residents Assoc
- Takapuna Beach Assoc
- Government Decisions in Response to the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance
- home page of the Auckland Transition Agency (ATA)
- Auckland Council
- North Shore City Council
- NZPSA Conference
- Government Decisions in Response to the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance
- home page of the Auckland Transition Agency (ATA)
- APSA Conference 2006
- ASPG Conference, Wellington
- NZ Parliament, Wellington
Previous Posts
- Elderly Targetted as Elected Members Enter Campaig...
- Biased Articles that no one reads anyway really
- Our residents started to receive their rate notice...
- Nasties were out in force last night. I lost two b...
- Chatswood Finally gets Smooth
- Milford Plans are over the Top: Down with Up!
- Takapuna Campground
- Narrow Neck land update
- Interesting Article in Stuff today about Takapuna ...
- Apartment Sizes and Intensificatio Dialogue Article
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