Co-ordinator begins work on Motueka 2030 project

March 2nd, 2015

Vision Motueka has begun its promised community-wide consultation and information gathering project, "Motueka 2030: A Stronger Future Together" with its paid co-ordinator on board.

Vicki Cowling (pictured right), a local artist and part of the Motueka Art Hub opposite the Caltex service station, has been appointed to the post, paid via a grant of $7000 from Canterbury Community Trust.

She will co-ordinate and organise the work of a six-person project team, who are preparing a large-scale programme of community events in May to get as many residents as possible engaged in thinking of ways to make Motueka a stronger town into the future. (See our earlier story.)

One of those events in May will be a follow-up to the very successful Motueka Economic Summit held last August.

Vicki and her family moved to Motueka about two years ago, having lived in Christchurch and for a while in the North Island. She has many happy memories of previously holidaying in the town.

An artist herself, she has been part of the team who set up the pop-up art gallery near the clock tower corner. She has also organised a large art exhibition at Eyebright, and in Christchurch was for a few years a real estate agent and a retail store supervisor.

The first task of Vicki and the team will take place through March, when a broad cross section of 50 to 60 business and community leaders will be surveyed and the subjects of one-on-one interviews.

The aim will be to get a starting cross-section of opinion, which will then be used to help frame the broader community consultation.

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