by Ron Scott | Apr 21, 2024 | News, Regional Council
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....
by Ron Scott | Apr 20, 2024 | Leadership, News
I am excited to have been nominated to join the board of Consumer NZ. Voting is taking place now. If you are a subscriber to Consumer NZ then I would appreciate your support. You will have received an email explaining how to vote. Thank you in advance for your...
by Ron Scott | Apr 19, 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 | Mar 25, 2024 | News, Regional Council
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...
by Ron Scott | Mar 19, 2024 | News, Regional Council
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...
by Ron Scott | Mar 12, 2024 | News, Regional Council
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...
by Ron Scott | Mar 4, 2024 | News, Regional Council
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...
by Ron Scott | Feb 26, 2024 | News, Strategy
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...
by Ron Scott | Feb 25, 2024 | News, Regional Council
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...
by Ron Scott | Feb 19, 2024 | News, Regional Council
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....