As a current board member of your Hibiscus and Bays Local Board, I have a proven track record of challenging council waste and fighting for our community's fair share. However, as a barrister and solicitor, Justice of the Peace, and proud Coastie, I still believe our local priorities are being ignored in favour of downtown vanity projects and South Auckland spend ups – and I want to change that. Now standing with ACT Local, I will continue to fight the Council’s wasteful spending, promote practical solutions for our community’s problems, focus our board back on our core services like improving roads, protecting our parks and beaches and ensuring our local facilities are well-maintained, and advocate strongly for an engineered seawall to prevent Orewa reserve being surrendered to the ocean. If you want to guarantee accountability and common sense on your local board, please give me one of your votes.