Kay McKelvie
{{Short description|New Zealand chairwoman}}
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Kay Therese McKelvie{{Cite web |title=Appointments of Members and Chairpersons of District Health Boards - 2001-go8580 - New Zealand Gazette |url=https://gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2001-go8580 |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=gazette.govt.nz}} {{Postnom|country=NZL|QSO}} is a New Zealand chairwoman. She was previously chair of the Waitemata District Health Board and the New Zealand Tourism Board.
Career
At the 1998 local elections she stood for a seat on the Auckland City Council in the Balmoral ward as a City Vision candidate and was elected.{{cite news |title=Auckland City Council - Declaration of Results of Election |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=19 October 1998 |page=D8 }}
McKelvie was chairwoman of the Waitemata District Health Board starting from 2001 until 2009.{{Cite web |title=Minister names District Health Board chairs {{!}} Beehive.govt.nz |url=https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/minister-names-district-health-board-chairs |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=www.beehive.govt.nz |language=en}} She was appointed by Labour MP Annette King, and resigned in 2009, citing a lack of funding to the board from the National government. It was funded $1.074 billion, which she predicted would result in a $35 million deficit as a result of it not "tak[ing] into account the increase in population in the Waitemata district".{{Cite web |last=DONNELL |first=HAYDEN |date=2009-02-12 |title=New budget trigger for resignation |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/1398733/New-budget-trigger-for-resignation |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=Stuff |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=4 February 2009 |title=DHB chairwoman quits over funding |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dhb-chairwoman-quits-over-funding/TA3U7OEPOJGCXVKMM4JLQ7ZUIY/ |access-date=12 January 2024 |website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ}}
In 2007 McKelvie was appointed a director of the Crown Health Financing Agency for a three-year term.{{Cite web |date=5 February 2009 |title=DHB chair quits over 'short-change' |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dhb-chair-quits-over-short-change/VX26SE3AVUR625OJGCUXC356FM/ |access-date=12 January 2024 |website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ}}{{Cite web |title=Appointment to the Crown Health Financing Agency |url=https://gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2007-go2089 |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=gazette.govt.nz}} That year she was also appointed a member of the New Zealand Tourism Board for two years.{{Cite web |title=Appointments/reappointments to the New Zealand Tourism Board - 2007-go232 - New Zealand Gazette |url=https://gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2007-go232 |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=gazette.govt.nz}} {{As of|2008}} she is also chairwoman of Quotable Value, the Housing New Zealand Appeal Authority, a member of the National Capital Committee and Ministry of Health, and a director of Word Pictures Ltd.{{Cite web |date=2008 |title=Waitemata District Health Board Annual Report 2008 |url=https://www.waitematadhb.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Publish-OIA-response-Waitemata-DHB-Annual-Reports.pdf |website=Waitemata District Health Board}}
In the 2009 New Year Honours McKelvie was named a companion of the Queen's Service Order for services to business and health.{{Cite web |date=2008-12-31 |title=New Year Honours List 2009 {{!}} Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) |url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2009 |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=www.dpmc.govt.nz |language=en}}