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 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”...