Roger Booth, Paraparaumu-Raumati Community Board member and Vice President of Kāpiti Coast Grey Power has announced that he will be a district-wide candidate in the coming Kāpiti Coast District Council elections.
“In a community with 27% over 65 years, there is a need on council for people who are aware of the particular concerns of our senior community, and my involvement in Grey Power and on the committee of Kāpiti Age Concern demonstrates my commitment to this. But I believe that I can offer the council role a lot more than that,” says Mr Booth.
“As an ex-High School Deputy Principal and experienced teacher, I am also well-informed on the interests and needs of our young people. My recent involvement as the driving force behind Kāpiti Kids Motivation Trust, bringing sporting and cultural identities such as Christian Cullen, Danyon Loader, Sarah Walker, Debra Bustin, Tina Cross, Ray Woolf and Sir Jon Trimmer into all 17 of our primary schools to motivate and inspire our children, has kept me in touch with our children and their families across the district.”
Mr Booth is a very experienced sporting and arts event manager, with recent projects including the highly successful Sounds ‘n Nature outdoor concert at Nga Manu last year, featuring ‘The Lady Killers’, and the 2009 and 2010 North Island Secondary Schools Athletics Championships at Newtown Park in Wellington.
But he is also an experienced local body politician, having served three terms on the Havelock North Borough Council, before attending a large number of Kāpiti Coast council meetings, both in the role of local body spokesperson for Grey Power and more recently as a Community Board member.
“I am very keen to serve this community in a council role in a period when there is a good deal going on here. This council will need to make a number of significant decisions. But I have a special determination to assist the new council give greater respect to the democratic process and responsibility, and to work more as a team that, when it has made decisions, can put aside personal preferences to advance things in unity.’
