It’s hard to believe that three weeks have passed already, and we can feel a collective sense of pride in what we have achieved so far. However, the same collective effort needs to go into our recovery. One of the essential elements of our recovery is to get as many people back to work as soon as possible. This call hasn’t just gone to councils, it’s gone to our council companies and the private sector, who can establish public benefit. The most rewarding part of the process has been thinking about public benefit in this wider sense, enabling us to strengthen relationships with the private sector.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 14, 2020 21:22 UTC