September 5, 2024 • 15 mins
Could Shoalhaven City Council end up being greener on the other side of this weekend's local elections? Greens candidate Kay Gartner is standing as Mayor, and says her team is more than just recycling and zero emissions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I heart shol Haven. I'm standing up to continue to
provide leadership in this community and like Kamala Harrison, Jacinda o'dernan,
all of the strong women who've stood up in the
last ten years.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hello, I'm Pete Andrea. When you look back over the
last term of shoal Haven City Council, it's hardly a
gold star performance. A proposed forty four percent rate increase,
the bioelectric contract disaster and the forty five degree tree
rules saw political factions really have a serious go against
each other and for shal Haven residents, the council meeting
(00:36):
saw lockout, security guards posted, and even police intervention. The
social media fallout was brutal, especially against the Greens and
Labor over their voting bloc, and Meror Amanda Finley bore
the brunt of personal attacks that eventually led to her
decision not to stand again this term. So you wouldn't
blame anyone for suggesting we're really overdue for change. Former
(00:59):
Councilor Kay Gartner has taken up the challenge of leading
the Greens and she'll stand for mayor at the September
fourteen local elections. K is well aware it'll be a
tough task, returning with ambitions for the top job and
needing a plan to reduce the black hole of council
debt in the millions of dollars. Ka Gartner served for
five years on council up until twenty twenty one. Her
(01:21):
background is in healthcare and she's confident she can heal
a council racked with division.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Kay Gartner is me. I'm a retired Chinese medicine practitioner.
I ran a successful business in Sydney for many years
and retired to the shoal Haven, where my husband and
I had had a house for a few years, which
we tenanted to local people, and of course his family
was here. So we've retired about twenty years ago to
(01:48):
the shoal Haven. I continued with my small business for
a few years and then got elected to council in
twenty sixteen. At that time, I was concerned about the
destruction of the banks years alon Collingwood Beach that were
totally destroying the habitat for the black cockatoos and all
the other wildlife and BirdLife that I value and appreciating
(02:09):
the shoal Haven. So I'm running for mayor again as
the representative of the shoal Haven Greens because we want
to consolidate the extremely good work that this council has
done for the shoal Haven in just two years and
five months, so not even half as long as I
was on the council. We want to continue that work,
(02:31):
continue to bring solutions that are community focused, that address
the cost of living issues our people are facing, that
bring affordable housing and affordable rentals back to the shoal Haven.
Because this used to be a community, as you will know,
where people could come or people who grew up he
could stay because they could afford to live here. People
(02:52):
could come down and look for jobs at the hospital,
with Manildre and so on with the council to find
a reasonable quality of life because they could afford the rent,
they could afford a mortgage. And that's a big challenge
these days, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, well that's as a result of COVID and Sydney
and major metro cities basically where workforce disappearing and thinking well,
schol Haven's a great place to live.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, that's right. We have transitioned from a rural community
to a pery urban community. There's a lot of pressure
on us to build more houses, to open up land
for development, and to get houses for the people that
grow up and live here and want to continue to
live here in this beautiful neighborhood, surrounded by their family
and friends and have career opportunities right here.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The last term of council, though, has been marked by
division and community protests. Especially at council Amanda Finley was
the subject of much online criticism and harassment. Really, and
you're stepping into her shoes.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Why I'm standing up to continue to provide leadership in
this community, and like Kamala Harrison and Jacinda Adirn and
all the strong women who've stood up in the last
ten years to lead our communities out of strife and conflict.
That's partisan, that is directed, that comes basically from self interest,
(04:20):
back into the world that our grandparents understood, where what's
good for the whole community, the common good is what's
good for all of us. And that's what we'll be
seeking to continue to do in the Shoalhaven. Strive for
the common good so that the squeakiest will doesn't get
the most attention, but the real problems that real working
families need addressed. That is what gets our attention now.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Council has been dominated by the finance issue in the
last term. How are you going to set it straight?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That is correct and one of the best outcomes of
the AEC report that was introduced last October advised that
Shoal Heaven Council needed a significant rate rise like absolutely
many other councils in New South Wales. Let's be clear
about this. That report and the financial constraints that our
council is under in no way unique to the Shoal
(05:15):
Haven I've been working with councilors around the state in
the last six months and you know Batist had a
seventy percent rate crease proposed, Tamworth accepted a thirty eight
percent ipart rate increase, Quiambian Powering has had has actually
implemented eighteen percent last year, eighteen percent this year and
eighteen percent on top of that next year. So this
(05:36):
is a huge issue across the whole of New South Wales.
But what will I do about it in the shoal
Haven well? I will be first of all acknowledging the
work that the staff has done and the new CEO,
Robin Stevens in implementing cost cutting efficiencies. They've got an
asset sales program already in place happening, and Robin has
announced a restructuring of the senior staff. So significant savings
(05:59):
in progress and all of that is being monitored by
the Office of Local Government and council is regarded as
a model council for implementing these methods. However, once we've
got the organization down to the bare bones, we will
still face a revenue shortfall. And this is because the
shoal Haven has been underrated for the past twenty years.
(06:21):
Twenty years of refusing to match the asset building with
the rate revenue to maintain those assets. And we know
who's for two years and three months. We've had a
Greens Labor Progressive majority. For the previous whatever that is
seventeen years and a half, the shoal Haven Independence have
had a very big control of this council. So that's
(06:45):
what we're going to try and remove, get more rational
people involved, and then we're going to set up a
revenue task force to match that sustainability task force. A
revenue task force that we'll look at issues like campaigning
to reinstall the Federal assistant grants to what they were
under John Howard one percent of income tax. That alone
(07:06):
would increase council's general revenue by a couple of million
dollars every year going forward. And I've also campaigning on
the possibility of visitor paid parking. So this policy is
up on the Shoal Heaven Greens website. People can have
a look see what that means. It was recently implemented
in the Blue Mountains, where I pinched the idea from,
(07:29):
and within twelve months the rollout costs has already been
paid back, so the return on investment is very quick.
And so the Blue Mountains are expecting in the next
few years that their entire road network will be maintained
by the visitor paid parking. So that's serious river of
gold that we cannot afford to turn away from. We
(07:51):
get two million visitors a year in the Shoal Haven,
so you know, even five bucks each from every one
of them in a parking meter somewhere is a signific contribution.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
That's a logistical challenge though, to identify who's local and
who's not.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Well, you'd think so, wouldn't you. But these days there's
this wonderful thing called the Internet. There are QR codes,
and there are smartphones. So I can tell you that
ninety eight percent of Blue Mountains residents have applied for
and got their exemption ninety eight percent. So that tells
us that it's pretty easy to do that. People are
willing to do it and want to do it because
(08:27):
they want the revenue for their council and they also
want obviously their exemptions. Very easy to do with modern technology.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
More soon from my conversation with meyoral candidate k Gardner,
who's leading a new look Greens team in the upcoming
local government elections.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I heart shoal Haven. I heart shoal Haven.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Hey you there on Pete Andrea and wanna be chan
Haven Mayor. Kay Gardner has a few Green priorities on
her platform for the September fourteen local elections. She's pushing
for more affordable housing projects and a net zero energy
policy if she's elected, and Kay believes her Greens team
can be trusted to manage rate payer dollars responsibly, all
(09:14):
while maintaining essential services.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
We are campaigning on a cost of living policies. We
want to pursue the affordable housing projects that council has
in the pipeline and partner with Southern Cross Housing and
other organizations to bring more affordable housing into the Shoal Haven.
We're about to have six hundred employees turn up to
work in that new hospital. Where are they going to
(09:39):
be living? We are also wanting to maintain and restore
councils children's services so that family daycare and community childcare
are well and truly available in the Shoalhaven, so that
parents can work and earn the money to pay the
rent and put food on their table wherever I go.
The first two things I hear about the roads and
(10:00):
the lack of affordable childcare for working families. Of course
the roads need fixing, but we want the revenue to
fix the roads.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Now, Green's policy and housing development, how do they coexist?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, this is a really good question, isn't it. And
of course what we first of all want is to
be densifying around our urban centers. So we'd like to
see Naura and Bombaderry have more medium, medium scale developments. Yes,
so townhouses, low rise apartments with more variety of housing.
(10:35):
Because we know that families are reducing in size. There
are way more single person households these days, so we
need to have one bedroom apartments as well as big
houses on blocks of land. We also prefer to see
housing development take place on already cleared land, which is
what the whole of moss Vale Road urban area release
(10:56):
south and North. Already cleared land, degraded farming land, perfect
place for housing. So this is how the green Sea
development going forward. We absolutely understand and appreciate the need
for people to have homes and that's what we'll be
looking for. We also understand that real homes are not
achieved by knocking down bushland in coastal suburbs, where we
(11:19):
end up with more expensive holiday housing. Real homes for
people are around transport centers, employment centers and where the
variety of housing can be built that young people and
single older people as well can actually move into and enjoy.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Greens are very big on the climate change issue. How
do we change the climate within council?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Ah, Now that's a lovely turn of phrase, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
We are being on climate change because it's a big
risk to the well being of our communities. Last count
I think we were up to sixteen natural disasters if
we count the wind one sixteen in the last four
to five years. This is a significant impact in our
communit it creates anxiety, it creates damage, and it's certainly
the rain has absolutely undermined our road system. So one
(12:09):
of the ways, one of the things that we managed
to achieve, that I managed to achieve when I was
on council was a climate a renewable energy and climate
change adaptation policy and action plan that is already there
and it will actually drive benefits into our community, such
as more solar energy in households as well as on council,
(12:30):
et cetera, et cetera. And that bill has saved council
so much money. We reduce the cost of the street lighting,
We've reduced the cost of running the two civic centers
and the swimming pools and so on because we've put
up solar panels and driving down that cost of energy
to council. We'd like to be able to drive that
into the community next. The climate on council really depends
(12:54):
on the community. Electing people who understand collegiate work, collaboration
and that at the community, keeping the community's interests at heart.
And when I say the community, I mean the people
in the middle who want to earn a living, own
a home and build a life for themselves, not the
(13:14):
people who are disaffected, who have turned their anxiety about
their futures into anger and bitterness and are willing to
feel up screeds of Facebook posts just well frankly being vile,
often vile and really unpleasant and undermining, and when that
(13:36):
behavior comes into the council, you know, it's a real shame.
I really hope that we can offer people a pathway
forward like Kamala Harris is doing in the United States now,
where hope lives in people's hearts again and the bitterness
is resolved through action that looks after their needs and
well being, their real needs and well being, and not
(13:58):
inflaming their anxiety and their anger.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Is Kay Gartner a listener?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Kay Gartner is a listener. I've been a frontline healthcare practitioner.
The only way I was successful in that was that
I was able to hear, to understand, and to deeply
analyze problems and find the solution that led to well
being and not further dis upset and disease. And I
am able to bring that to the council.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
To fifteen minutes goes very quickly on a podcast, And
so we've got to wrap it up, but here's the
final what's kay Gartner, what would you like to say
to the people of the shoal Haven when they go
to the polls on September fourteen.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I'd like to say, vote for someone who works on clarity, wisdom,
compassion and social justice and will be there so that
you can build the life, a good life for yourselves
and your family going into the future.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And the Green's offer that we do. That's our conversation
with shoal Haven's Green Merrial candidate k Gardner, a firm
believer in collaboration and ending the political infighting. That's mard
shal Haven Council for its current term. So now it's
over to residence to determine if the grass could be
greener on the other sil on September fourteenth. I'm Pete Andrea.
(15:16):
Thanks for listening to iheartshal Haven, proudly supported by the
New South Wales Government. Catchy next time, iheartshal Haven.
I heart shol Haven. I'm standing up to continue to
provide leadership in this community and like Kamala Harrison, Jacinda o'dernan,
all of the strong women who've stood up in the
last ten years.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hello, I'm Pete Andrea. When you look back over the
last term of shoal Haven City Council, it's hardly a
gold star performance. A proposed forty four percent rate increase,
the bioelectric contract disaster and the forty five degree tree
rules saw political factions really have a serious go against
each other and for shal Haven residents, the council meeting
(00:36):
saw lockout, security guards posted, and even police intervention. The
social media fallout was brutal, especially against the Greens and
Labor over their voting bloc, and Meror Amanda Finley bore
the brunt of personal attacks that eventually led to her
decision not to stand again this term. So you wouldn't
blame anyone for suggesting we're really overdue for change. Former
(00:59):
Councilor Kay Gartner has taken up the challenge of leading
the Greens and she'll stand for mayor at the September
fourteen local elections. K is well aware it'll be a
tough task, returning with ambitions for the top job and
needing a plan to reduce the black hole of council
debt in the millions of dollars. Ka Gartner served for
five years on council up until twenty twenty one. Her
(01:21):
background is in healthcare and she's confident she can heal
a council racked with division.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Kay Gartner is me. I'm a retired Chinese medicine practitioner.
I ran a successful business in Sydney for many years
and retired to the shoal Haven, where my husband and
I had had a house for a few years, which
we tenanted to local people, and of course his family
was here. So we've retired about twenty years ago to
(01:48):
the shoal Haven. I continued with my small business for
a few years and then got elected to council in
twenty sixteen. At that time, I was concerned about the
destruction of the banks years alon Collingwood Beach that were
totally destroying the habitat for the black cockatoos and all
the other wildlife and BirdLife that I value and appreciating
(02:09):
the shoal Haven. So I'm running for mayor again as
the representative of the shoal Haven Greens because we want
to consolidate the extremely good work that this council has
done for the shoal Haven in just two years and
five months, so not even half as long as I
was on the council. We want to continue that work,
(02:31):
continue to bring solutions that are community focused, that address
the cost of living issues our people are facing, that
bring affordable housing and affordable rentals back to the shoal Haven.
Because this used to be a community, as you will know,
where people could come or people who grew up he
could stay because they could afford to live here. People
(02:52):
could come down and look for jobs at the hospital,
with Manildre and so on with the council to find
a reasonable quality of life because they could afford the rent,
they could afford a mortgage. And that's a big challenge
these days, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, well that's as a result of COVID and Sydney
and major metro cities basically where workforce disappearing and thinking well,
schol Haven's a great place to live.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, that's right. We have transitioned from a rural community
to a pery urban community. There's a lot of pressure
on us to build more houses, to open up land
for development, and to get houses for the people that
grow up and live here and want to continue to
live here in this beautiful neighborhood, surrounded by their family
and friends and have career opportunities right here.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The last term of council, though, has been marked by
division and community protests. Especially at council Amanda Finley was
the subject of much online criticism and harassment. Really, and
you're stepping into her shoes.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Why I'm standing up to continue to provide leadership in
this community, and like Kamala Harrison and Jacinda Adirn and
all the strong women who've stood up in the last
ten years to lead our communities out of strife and conflict.
That's partisan, that is directed, that comes basically from self interest,
(04:20):
back into the world that our grandparents understood, where what's
good for the whole community, the common good is what's
good for all of us. And that's what we'll be
seeking to continue to do in the Shoalhaven. Strive for
the common good so that the squeakiest will doesn't get
the most attention, but the real problems that real working
families need addressed. That is what gets our attention now.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Council has been dominated by the finance issue in the
last term. How are you going to set it straight?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That is correct and one of the best outcomes of
the AEC report that was introduced last October advised that
Shoal Heaven Council needed a significant rate rise like absolutely
many other councils in New South Wales. Let's be clear
about this. That report and the financial constraints that our
council is under in no way unique to the Shoal
(05:15):
Haven I've been working with councilors around the state in
the last six months and you know Batist had a
seventy percent rate crease proposed, Tamworth accepted a thirty eight
percent ipart rate increase, Quiambian Powering has had has actually
implemented eighteen percent last year, eighteen percent this year and
eighteen percent on top of that next year. So this
(05:36):
is a huge issue across the whole of New South Wales.
But what will I do about it in the shoal
Haven well? I will be first of all acknowledging the
work that the staff has done and the new CEO,
Robin Stevens in implementing cost cutting efficiencies. They've got an
asset sales program already in place happening, and Robin has
announced a restructuring of the senior staff. So significant savings
(05:59):
in progress and all of that is being monitored by
the Office of Local Government and council is regarded as
a model council for implementing these methods. However, once we've
got the organization down to the bare bones, we will
still face a revenue shortfall. And this is because the
shoal Haven has been underrated for the past twenty years.
(06:21):
Twenty years of refusing to match the asset building with
the rate revenue to maintain those assets. And we know
who's for two years and three months. We've had a
Greens Labor Progressive majority. For the previous whatever that is
seventeen years and a half, the shoal Haven Independence have
had a very big control of this council. So that's
(06:45):
what we're going to try and remove, get more rational
people involved, and then we're going to set up a
revenue task force to match that sustainability task force. A
revenue task force that we'll look at issues like campaigning
to reinstall the Federal assistant grants to what they were
under John Howard one percent of income tax. That alone
(07:06):
would increase council's general revenue by a couple of million
dollars every year going forward. And I've also campaigning on
the possibility of visitor paid parking. So this policy is
up on the Shoal Heaven Greens website. People can have
a look see what that means. It was recently implemented
in the Blue Mountains, where I pinched the idea from,
(07:29):
and within twelve months the rollout costs has already been
paid back, so the return on investment is very quick.
And so the Blue Mountains are expecting in the next
few years that their entire road network will be maintained
by the visitor paid parking. So that's serious river of
gold that we cannot afford to turn away from. We
(07:51):
get two million visitors a year in the Shoal Haven,
so you know, even five bucks each from every one
of them in a parking meter somewhere is a signific contribution.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
That's a logistical challenge though, to identify who's local and
who's not.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Well, you'd think so, wouldn't you. But these days there's
this wonderful thing called the Internet. There are QR codes,
and there are smartphones. So I can tell you that
ninety eight percent of Blue Mountains residents have applied for
and got their exemption ninety eight percent. So that tells
us that it's pretty easy to do that. People are
willing to do it and want to do it because
(08:27):
they want the revenue for their council and they also
want obviously their exemptions. Very easy to do with modern technology.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
More soon from my conversation with meyoral candidate k Gardner,
who's leading a new look Greens team in the upcoming
local government elections.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I heart shoal Haven. I heart shoal Haven.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Hey you there on Pete Andrea and wanna be chan
Haven Mayor. Kay Gardner has a few Green priorities on
her platform for the September fourteen local elections. She's pushing
for more affordable housing projects and a net zero energy
policy if she's elected, and Kay believes her Greens team
can be trusted to manage rate payer dollars responsibly, all
(09:14):
while maintaining essential services.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
We are campaigning on a cost of living policies. We
want to pursue the affordable housing projects that council has
in the pipeline and partner with Southern Cross Housing and
other organizations to bring more affordable housing into the Shoal Haven.
We're about to have six hundred employees turn up to
work in that new hospital. Where are they going to
(09:39):
be living? We are also wanting to maintain and restore
councils children's services so that family daycare and community childcare
are well and truly available in the Shoalhaven, so that
parents can work and earn the money to pay the
rent and put food on their table wherever I go.
The first two things I hear about the roads and
(10:00):
the lack of affordable childcare for working families. Of course
the roads need fixing, but we want the revenue to
fix the roads.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Now, Green's policy and housing development, how do they coexist?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, this is a really good question, isn't it. And
of course what we first of all want is to
be densifying around our urban centers. So we'd like to
see Naura and Bombaderry have more medium, medium scale developments. Yes,
so townhouses, low rise apartments with more variety of housing.
(10:35):
Because we know that families are reducing in size. There
are way more single person households these days, so we
need to have one bedroom apartments as well as big
houses on blocks of land. We also prefer to see
housing development take place on already cleared land, which is
what the whole of moss Vale Road urban area release
(10:56):
south and North. Already cleared land, degraded farming land, perfect
place for housing. So this is how the green Sea
development going forward. We absolutely understand and appreciate the need
for people to have homes and that's what we'll be
looking for. We also understand that real homes are not
achieved by knocking down bushland in coastal suburbs, where we
(11:19):
end up with more expensive holiday housing. Real homes for
people are around transport centers, employment centers and where the
variety of housing can be built that young people and
single older people as well can actually move into and enjoy.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Greens are very big on the climate change issue. How
do we change the climate within council?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Ah, Now that's a lovely turn of phrase, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
We are being on climate change because it's a big
risk to the well being of our communities. Last count
I think we were up to sixteen natural disasters if
we count the wind one sixteen in the last four
to five years. This is a significant impact in our
communit it creates anxiety, it creates damage, and it's certainly
the rain has absolutely undermined our road system. So one
(12:09):
of the ways, one of the things that we managed
to achieve, that I managed to achieve when I was
on council was a climate a renewable energy and climate
change adaptation policy and action plan that is already there
and it will actually drive benefits into our community, such
as more solar energy in households as well as on council,
(12:30):
et cetera, et cetera. And that bill has saved council
so much money. We reduce the cost of the street lighting,
We've reduced the cost of running the two civic centers
and the swimming pools and so on because we've put
up solar panels and driving down that cost of energy
to council. We'd like to be able to drive that
into the community next. The climate on council really depends
(12:54):
on the community. Electing people who understand collegiate work, collaboration
and that at the community, keeping the community's interests at heart.
And when I say the community, I mean the people
in the middle who want to earn a living, own
a home and build a life for themselves, not the
(13:14):
people who are disaffected, who have turned their anxiety about
their futures into anger and bitterness and are willing to
feel up screeds of Facebook posts just well frankly being vile,
often vile and really unpleasant and undermining, and when that
(13:36):
behavior comes into the council, you know, it's a real shame.
I really hope that we can offer people a pathway
forward like Kamala Harris is doing in the United States now,
where hope lives in people's hearts again and the bitterness
is resolved through action that looks after their needs and
well being, their real needs and well being, and not
(13:58):
inflaming their anxiety and their anger.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Is Kay Gartner a listener?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Kay Gartner is a listener. I've been a frontline healthcare practitioner.
The only way I was successful in that was that
I was able to hear, to understand, and to deeply
analyze problems and find the solution that led to well
being and not further dis upset and disease. And I
am able to bring that to the council.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
To fifteen minutes goes very quickly on a podcast, And
so we've got to wrap it up, but here's the
final what's kay Gartner, what would you like to say
to the people of the shoal Haven when they go
to the polls on September fourteen.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I'd like to say, vote for someone who works on clarity, wisdom,
compassion and social justice and will be there so that
you can build the life, a good life for yourselves
and your family going into the future.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And the Green's offer that we do. That's our conversation
with shoal Haven's Green Merrial candidate k Gardner, a firm
believer in collaboration and ending the political infighting. That's mard
shal Haven Council for its current term. So now it's
over to residence to determine if the grass could be
greener on the other sil on September fourteenth. I'm Pete Andrea.
(15:16):
Thanks for listening to iheartshal Haven, proudly supported by the
New South Wales Government. Catchy next time, iheartshal Haven.
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An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.