Campaign Launch
Celia for Mayor Campaign
Media Release
Long-standing Councillor announces Mayoral campaign
1 July 2010 – Celia Wade-Brown announced her intention to run for the Wellington mayoralty in the 2010 local body elections at a campaign launch today. Her key platforms are transport, community development and clean technology. The current incumbent only received 35% of first preferences in 2007 so a strong campaign by Councillor Wade-Brown has great prospects.
Celia Wade-Brown is a long-standing Councillor with a significant track record of achievement. She is the Environment portfolio leader in the current Council, and has proven herself to be a pragmatic and principled leader, capable of building consensus amongst diverse groups and getting along well with her colleagues with different policy views.
“As a Councillor, I’m proud to have taken a leading part in the development and continuance of Wellington Community Net, Smart Newtown computer access, the pre-1930s demolition rule to protect the heritage of our oldest suburbs, the successful classification of a number of heritage areas, Sustainable Building Guidelines, oversight of the employment of a Council Energy Manager and the initiation of the Environmental grants.”
Celia Wade-Brown said that she has successfully fought for bus lanes, Safer Routes to School, significant improvements to cycling and walking plans and more walkways and signage in the city.
Celia Wade-Brown said that she stands on her record of achievement since first being elected to the Wellington City Council in 1994. “My track record shows I strongly support the upgrades to our social housing, retention of branch libraries, upgrades to community centres and sports facilities and community consultation on matters large and small.”
“I opposed the Hilton on the Outer T, fought for the retention in situ of historic buildings including Odlins, Herd Street Post Office, St Johns Ambulance Building and Shed 21”, said Ms Wade-Brown.
Prior to her election to Council. Celia enjoyed a successful career in the IT industry as a consultant and programmer in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. She has an enviable record in leadership roles, ranging from serving as a trustee of Wellington Zoo to being a member of Ethnic Council of Wellington and being President of Living Streets Aotearoa from 2002 – 2009.
Ms Wade-Brown grew up in a Council flat overlooking Paddington main line in London. She moved to Berkshire and attended girls’ grammar school, spent a gap year in Cape Coast, Ghana, as a laboratory assistant in a girls’ school, travelling in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo and Mali.
She moved to Wellington in 1983, and lives in Island Bay overlooking the wildness of Cook Strait with her New Zealand husband, two teenage sons and a black Labrador named Storm.
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