by Ron Scott | Jun 18, 2024 | News, Regional Council
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-fffb_CAU_U%3Fsi%3DCCEiibGe58oEiang Reading: 206 pages Hours in meetings: 7 hours Two meaty meetings this week. Monitoring and Operations Committee is the...
by Ron Scott | Jun 15, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Reading: 623 pages Hours in meetings: 7 hours A short week following Kings Birthday on Monday. Tuesday was busy with a Public Excluded Strategy and Policy Committee meeting In the...
by Ron Scott | Jun 10, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Reading: 859 pages Hours in meetings: 15 hours The first main reading was mainly about the SmartGrowth Strategy which is designed to provide planning direction for the next 50 years....
by Ron Scott | Jun 9, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Reading: 1033 pages Hours in meetings: 7 hours The meetings this week were a Strategy and policy workshop and a meeting of the Regional Transport Committee. There were some interesting presentations in the workshop. We noted that the Regional Council has...
by Ron Scott | May 17, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Reading: Several hundred (thousands?) pages Hours in meetings: 26 hours Long Term Plan Hearings Week this week. After the day at Huria Marae on Friday we met in Whakatane on Tuesday,...
by Ron Scott | May 14, 2024 | News
Reading: 2064 pages Hours in meetings: 16 hours Wow! That’s a bit of reading. The vast majority of it is the submissions that people have made to the Long term Plan. The first day of...
by Ron Scott | May 13, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Reading: 935 pages Hours in meetings: 16 hours Three full days of meetings this week. Komiti Maori involved travelling to Lake Okataina where we met at Nga Pumanawa e Waru o Te Arawa Marae. Komiti Maori is the most travelled of committees and usually...
by Ron Scott | May 12, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Reading: 114 pages Hours in meetings: 10 hours A light reading load this week and only the one formal meeting which discussed just a couple of items before going into ”closed”...
by Ron Scott | Apr 23, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Reading: 606 pages Hours in meetings: 1 hour Just an informal meeting of the council this week to catch up. Most councillors have been on a road trip to the far east of the Region....
by Ron Scott | Apr 22, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Reading: 1109 pages Hours in meetings: 19 hours Hours in meetings: 19 hours A big week this week with several meaty issues. For three days we travelled around the region hearing submissions on the regional land transport Plan. This plan shows the...
