by Ron Scott | Nov 7, 2024 | News
The graph above shows numbers of popular votes in US Presidential elections over the last 50 years. In 2020 Biden got more votes than Reagan or Obama, two of the most popular presidents in the last 50 years. Democratic votes went up almost 15 million votes from just...
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....
