A Week in the Life of a Regional Councillor to April 19, 2024
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....
A Week in the Life of a Regional Councillor to April 12th, 2024
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...
A Week in the Life of a Regional Councillor to April 5th, 2024
Reading: 581 pages Hours in meetings: 6 hours Another light week for Council following Easter. The main meetings were on Friday when the Civil Defence Emergency Management Group met....
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A Week in the Life of a Regional Councillor to March 29, 2024
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”...
A Week in the Life of a Regional Councillor to March 22, 2024
Reading: 232 pages Hours in meetings: 9 hours Meetings this week included a review workshop on how you are represented. We have to do this every six years and the discussion centerd...
A Week in the Life of a Regional Councillor to March 15, 2024
Reading: 604 pages Hours in meetings: 9 hours A reasonably quiet week this week. The key meeting of the week was the Tauranga Public Transport Committee meeting. We heard there is...
A Week in the Life of a Regional Councillor to March 8 2024
Reading: 1422 pages Hours in meetings: 12 hours A lot of reading this week as the final draft of the Long-Term Plan was given to us to check before it goes on the website for feedback...
A Week in the Life of a Regional Councillor to March 1 2024
Reading: 356 pages Hours in meetings: 14 hours Council is gearing up for consultations and there are more meetings. Navigational by-laws has just ended consultation while the Regional...
Is social media your go-to for advice in an emergency?
This week I read about a plane that suffered bird strike, which damaged part of a wing and had to divert to a closer airport. Nothing particularly unusual about that. What really got me thinking was the passenger noticed the damage and was worried about its extent. He...
A Week in the Life of Council to Feb 23 2024
Reading: 495 pages Hours in meetings: 3 hours Just the one formal meeting this week. The reading was mostly in preparation for next week and a catchup on the Environment Court decision...
A week in the life of a Regional Councillor to Friday Feb 16th, 2024
This week we had Reading: 441 pages of Council documents and Hours in meetings: 7 hours This week was dominated by the monthly Council meeting followed by a workshop on how we time our Fresh Water Plan updates. I’ll do a separate blog on the water issues....