A Week in the Life of a Regional Councilor to June 14th, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/embed/-fffb_CAU_U?si=CCEiibGe58oEiang Reading: 206 pages Hours in meetings: 7 hours Two meaty meetings this week. Monitoring and Operations Committee is the...
A Week in the Life of a Regional Councilor to June 7th, 2024
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...
A Week in the Life of a Regional Councilor to May 31, 2024
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....
A Week in the Life of a Regional Councilor to May 24, 2024
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...
A Week in the Life of a Regional Councilor to May 17, 2024
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,...
A Week in the Life of a Regional Councilor to May 10, 2024
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...
A Week in the Life of a Regional Councillor to May 3, 2024
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...
A Week in the Life of a Regional Councillor to April 26, 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 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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