Meet Ron Scott JP

I have spent more than a decade promoting a healthy Tauranga through the DHB. I passionately believe that promoting healthy lifestyles is one big action we can take and where better to be active than in a healthy environment.

For me a healthy environment is not only one which is clean and unpolluted but importantly an environment which welcomes people in: to live, work and play.

A healthy environment helps us stay healthy by having great spaces to walk, swim, fish, ride, and generally enjoy the great outdoors. And that must include people who have less mobility such as older folk and people with disabilities.

A healthy environment means the air is free of pollutants, so we really need to get on top of that problem especially around the Port.

A healthy built environment is safe. Public transport should be safe to use and go to where people want to go. 

A healthy economic environment isn’t weighed down by burdensome regulations that don’t even achieve their stated objectives. We need to think about unintended consequences before lurching into band-aid rules that fix one problem and create another.

Our environment is a complex ecosystem. It includes the natural treasures of this region such as the parks, the rivers and the harbour and also the built environment including our roads, businesses and urban areas.

I have the skills to look across the system. Rather than single-mindedly focussing on just one niche, whether it be the natural environment, or city design or compliance, my strengths include understanding how they inter-relate. You don’t want unintended consequences because your council can’t see connections and side effects. We need to do it right!

I believe in seeking common sense solutions and looking for the unintended consequences.

Please vote for Ron Scott.

Being elected to the Regional Council is an important and complex role. It requires experience, governance skills such as teamwork and also hard skills such as understanding the financial reports of an organisation worth over half a billion dollars.

There are numerous technical reports to read and understand so as to ask the tough questions of the report writers. Finance, science, economy, community designs and more.

At the same time, it needs a dose of common sense and realism.  We are using your money to achieve the regional goals. 

So do I have those skills and experience?

Well, I wrote the book on Governance. Literally. Called The New Director, it has been published internationally. But writing and doing are different things. What have I actually done!

Below you will see my experience. I have been on boards that have built hospitals and schools. 

I get things done. At Suzanne Aubert I chaired the establishment Board. We started with a green paddock and within 12 months we had built a school and had a full roll. This was in 2020 with Covid at full blast. 

I understand the communities of Tauranga. 

I am a JP which gives me great access to people at milestones in their lives: weddings, divorces, funerals, graduation, etc. In terms of working on Boards I am very connected with a range of networks. SILC provides services to almost 200 people with various disabilities. Age Concern works to support the older community in Tauranga. The AA is concerned with motorists and mobility around the city. Blind Low Vision NZ serves those with vision impairment. Elsewhere the Institute of Directors has linked me to the business community and of course TECT gave me huge insights into the hundreds of community organisations, sports clubs and charities in this city.

I have Financial Know-how. For five years I chaired the Finance and Risk Committee at the DHB. Despite some horrendously difficult times we came in on budget.  I now serve on the Finance Committee of the Royal Foundation of the Blind. It is tough for lots of people so I feel a responsibility to make sure that every dollar is spent the way you would, if it was your own money.

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