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”...
by Ron Scott | Apr 23, 2024 | News, Regional Council
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....
