They debated it for an hour and a-half and, even though some of them did not understand what it was, in the end most of them voted to ask ratepayers if they wanted to spend $22,000 on it.
The Dunedin City Council has sent a signal to the Mosgiel community.
The Dunedin City Council is being asked to commit another $70,000 a year to the Otago Theatre Trust so it can meet the extra costs it faces since the redevelopment of the Regent Theatre.
Its preference is not to have a permanent representative on the board of the trust that runs the Regent Theatre, but instead make provisions to have someone sit on the board at the council's discretion, the Dunedin City Council has decided.
Ensuring the level of service from council contractors is maintained has emerged as a general concern from Dunedin community boards as the city council continues putting the screws on spending.
A three-year freeze on Dunedin City Council levy contributions to the Otago Museum could be nearing an end.
It would take about $15,000 a year and a person working one day a week to enable a more co-ordinated approach to ensuring the adaptability of Dunedin's food supply, Dunedin City Council staff say.
There was no way Moo Moo was coming down on her own.
Dunedin city councillors will consider the option of installing a weighbridge at the Green Island landfill to more accurately charge each person for the amount of rubbish they want to dump.
An ''iconic projects fund'' to provide large injections of council funding to a ''top-10'' list of large-scale heritage projects in Dunedin has been mooted by Dunedin City Council staff.
Negotiations are continuing over the purchase of a small corridor of land that would connect Dunedin's west harbour cycle/pedestrian track with the city.
Feedback over the past year has prompted the Dunedin City Council to review in what order it widens sections of Otago Peninsula roads to fix sea walls and add shared paths for cyclists and pedestrians.
The New Zealand Transport Agency is keeping an eye on a section of Cumberland St, in Dunedin, where old lane markings mix with the new, potentially confusing motorists.
A rotating digital camera taking photos at regular intervals will be set up in the central part of the Dunedin Botanic Garden this week as an interim security measure until closed-circuit television can be installed.
Closed-curcuit television is to be installed at the Dunedin Botanic Garden after vandals damaged the city's latest piece of public art.
The maximum time period on the 13 pay-and-display parks outside Dunedin Hospital on Cumberland St between Hanover and Frederick Sts, is to be increased from four hours to all day in an attempt to make the area safer for cyclists.
A new rule allowing freedom camping for non self-contained vehicles at three sites around Dunedin is proving so popular the Dunedin City Council might alter its servicing arrangements for toilets and rubbish bins to cope with demand.
A taxi driver feels lucky to have escaped death after his taxi was swept away by the swollen Silver Stream, near Dunedin.
A brief deluge yesterday had central Dunedin on standby again as the mop-up continues from a storm on Monday that overwhelmed the city's stormwater system.
The vast majority of the 2000 submissions on Dunedin's State Highway 1 separated cycle-lane proposal favour a one-direction lane on both one-way streets.