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Council provides work and training Council park ranger services are responding enthusiastically to Mayor Garry Moore's call to provide more work opportunities. Park rangers manage the City's parks and enhancement projects and employ individuals and work skills development groups. In the last five years the New Brighton-based Coast Care programme alone has employed 59 people for periods of between six and 12 months. Most of these people had been out of work for long periods and were able to be employed using Task Force Green and the Council's own Adult Community Employment subsidy schemes. "We expect them to perform and most do very well," says area head ranger Rodney Chambers. "We offer training in things such as health and safety, first aid, driving, and work experience in environment restoration, landscaping and horticulture." As well as employing individuals, park ranger services employ organised teams of workers from community groups, such as Wai Ora Trust. These groups contract out teams of up to eight people with a supervisor. Their aims are to complete the work, teach basic work skills and encourage good work ethics. |
