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What’s going on in Council – Oct 17

This week in council are our committee meetings. Community Development has quite a lot on it’s plate this week. We have an awesome surf sculpture at Roberts Rd on the cards, and the Wainui Lions Junior Cycle Track looking like it was be completed by December, in time for the Christmas holidays. That’s a ‘famous ...

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What’s going on in Council – Aug 17

This week is going to be an amazing week for many reasons, but my most favourite reason is the epic showing of Beauty and the Beast at the War Memorial Theatre this week. I have seen some of the costumes and talked to some of the performers and I can assure you that the show ...

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What’s going on in Council – Jan 17

This week our council committees meet and there is a lot on! At Community Development a decision for Tikitiki to get a playground is on the cards. Our Tikitiki whanau have been waiting on our speedy bureaucracy to get itself sorted. It’s go time now. Let’s show the community we are action oriented and get ...

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What’s going on with Wastewater – Dec 16

Wastewater is back again on this council agenda. It’s that important I wanted to write something separate from the what’s going on in council piece. Our Wastewater Treatment Plant currently gets rid of 96% of sediment but there are still large amounts of bugs present in the final product. The 4% left over makes the ...

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What’s going on in Council – Dec 16

This week council has an extremely large agenda with some major decisions ahead. There are 19 decision papers and several public deputations to be made. Amalgamation of Activate Tairāwhiti and Tourism Eastland is on the cards. This has been in the works for over 18 months.  There is importance in having our Tourism and Regional ...