\u201cBut if you\u2019re deeply attached to the problem, then you go, \u2018Gee, that\u2019s good insight. I haven\u2019t looked at it that way. Let\u2019s go back to the drawing board and see what else can be done\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
An example of this was the Grey St issue, which \u201cI almost dare not raise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Design changes to a section of Grey St aimed at slowing down traffic from near the skate park to Childers Rd have been controversial, resulting in a weekly protest against the changes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to love it… as it addresses underlying problems,\u201d Allan said. <\/p>\n
\u201cStreets that you want to spend more time in … restoring confidence in parents to let their children head out on their own.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could see what they were trying to touch on with Grey St, but they fell too much in love with their particular solution and got a bit too wedded to it. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it\u2019s come at the expense of practicalities for other people,\u201d he said, noting some changes had been made to resolve the issues.<\/p>\n
Allan said one of his campaign \u201cvision statements\u201d was Gisborne being: \u201cA place worth staying in, a place worth returning to\u201d.<\/p>\n
After finishing high school, Allan (Gisborne born-and-raised) did \u201cthe thing that young people still do\u201d and moved away to study.<\/p>\n
He gained a Bachelor of Honours in Computing and Mathematical Sciences from the University of Waikato. Then he moved to Auckland, where he lived for 20 years, gaining experience in designing technology solutions.<\/p>\n
In 2021, Allan returned to Gisborne with his wife and children to work as a computing lecturer at Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT).<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s funny, now I\u2019m at the EIT, I was like: \u2018Stop going off to university.\u2019 How can we figure out why you will leave and not study here? It\u2019s cheaper and you\u2019re closer to family\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
An idea Allan gave as an example for his vision was for the council to have a facilitator role in bringing together the different groups in the region – education, research, industry, business and public trusts.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s that issue of each of them on their own doing things, but not always … lining up in support of each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
The council should tell the region\u2019s stories about the pathways to useful work to help people understand how they could have a good life here, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just imagine a student at the w\u0101nanga who ends up at M\u0101tai Research [Institute] because they start lining things up and there\u2019s better connectivity.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd someone at EIT who ends up doing AI research for LeaderBrand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust really facilitating and ensuring that those things get joined up because that\u2019s how we will increase incomes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBut if you\u2019re deeply attached to the problem, then you go, \u2018Gee, that\u2019s good insight. I haven\u2019t looked…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[10610,931,14732,11125,745,6283,6279,16949,1238,107906,107910,4818,6566,13996,107909,8719,17291,107908,158,447,67,132,68,8720,1917,107907,107911],"class_list":{"0":"post-193345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-allan","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-candidate","11":"tag-candidates","12":"tag-computing","13":"tag-council","14":"tag-district","15":"tag-fall","16":"tag-find","17":"tag-gisborne","18":"tag-lecturer","19":"tag-love","20":"tag-place","21":"tag-problem","22":"tag-returning","23":"tag-says","24":"tag-solution","25":"tag-staying","26":"tag-technology","27":"tag-to","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-vision","32":"tag-with","33":"tag-worth","34":"tag-youve"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115133102501517583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}