Mr Campbell was one of 53 people or organisations to present their submissions on the council's draft annual and long-term budgets to councillors on the second day of hearings at the municipal chambers in Dunedin yesterday.
So far, over two days, councillors have spent nearly 22 hours listening to submissions from 109 people.
As on the first day, yesterday's most common topic was the need for an arts and culture strategy to be developed and included in the council's long-term budget. Other topics raised varied, but included the stadium, council debt, the council's energy strategy, the cycle network, the proposed eco-housing retrofit targeted rate, fluoridation and the need to expand and fix skateboarding facilities.
Today will be the final day of public submission hearings. Councillors will also have to absorb another 850 submissions on the draft budgets, to which submitters did not want to speak, before they begin deliberating on the budgets next week.
