Newly-elected Hurunui District councillor calls for child support to attend meetings
A newly-elected district councillor plans to take her baby to meetings because the available subsidies exclude childcare. Hurunui District councillor Julia McLean said juggling council responsibilities with caring for a 6-month-old, 4-year-old and 7-year-old put her “on the back foot from the start”. She wrote to the Remuneration Authority asking for council expense policies to be brought into “modern times”. As well as councillors’ salaries,… Read More »Newly-elected Hurunui District councillor calls for child support to attend meetings