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....
Pygmalian or Golem?
A fellow member of the Harvard Business Review Group, Sean Spurgin, contributed this week some thoughts on self-fulfilling prophesies. His infographic is shown here. “ Most parents are aware that teachers’ expectations about individual children become self-fulfilling...
A week in the life of Regional Councillor to Friday 9th, 2024
Pukekauri Farm It’s been a slow start to the year. A group of Councillors visited Pukekauri Farm near Aongatete to see how riparian planting, replanting of wetlands and change of use on the farm had made an incredible difference to water quality in the waterways of...
What Before SWOT?
An article I had published last year is the featured article for the Better Boards magazine this month. It asks what you should do before you even think about doing a SWOT analysis on "Strategy Day". Preparing for Strategic Planning There is a story about the tourist...
NZ Must up Power game -Transpower
The Government is encouraging new car buyers to buy electric vehicles. This is great until we run short of power and just like your hot water can be turned off when demand exceeds supply so will your charging station be reduced. Transpower’s press release: Transpower...