A summary of the decisions requested by submitters to the Whakatāne District Council’s Proposed District Plan is now available via the Council website or at Council offices and District libraries.
The chairpersons and chief executives of all seven Iwi in the Whakatāne District have been invited to a hui to discuss opportunities for Māori participation in Council decision-making.
Following insufficient nominations at the recent triennial elections held on 12 October 2013, by-elections are now being held for the Ōhope Beach Community Board (three vacancies) and the Murupara (Murupara Subdivision) Community Board (one vacancy) of the Whakatāne District Council.
Summer event organisers should plan ahead so they don’t get caught out by changes to alcohol legislation that come into effect next month, says Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) President Lawrence Yule.
Today marks the start of the 2013 White Ribbon Campaign to end men’s violence towards women. This kicks off with Mayors throughout the country taking The Pledge ‘to never commit, condone or remain silent about violence towards women’.
Applications for funding under the Creative Communities Whakatāne Scheme will close at 5:00 pm on Friday, 22 November 2013, and all interested individuals or organisations are urged to have their applications in.
Today, 136 The Strand is an unused shop awaiting demolition to create a new pedestrian plaza linking Whakatāne’s main retail area to the river-edge. In a matter of days, it will be hive of activity and youthful entrepreneurial spirit.
Members of the Whakatāne District Youth Council last week presented the $700 they raised from their recent ‘Movies Under the Stars’ event to the Dream Chaser Foundation.
A shellfish toxin warning issued in October for the Bay of Plenty has been extended to the Whakatāne District. Shellfish in Whakatāne, Ōhope and Ōpōtiki should be considered unsafe for human consumption until further notice.
A media release from Toi Te Ora Public Health Service, reproduced below, provides further details.
Following ongoing shellfish toxin monitoring the Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) warning has been extended eastwards along the Bay of Plenty coastline.
Work is nearing completion on a sizable underground storage tank in Ōhope that will see wastewater management improve dramatically.
The 20-metre-long concrete tank, part of a capital works programme at the Maraetōtara wastewater pump station, has a capacity of 50,000 litres and should be in use by the end of November. The pump station, one of two that serve Ōhope and Ōtarawairere, delivers wastewater to the Ōhope oxidation ponds. The new tank will provide eight hours of wastewater storage in the event of a power outage at the station.
Whakatāne District residents who have unused analogue television sets sitting in their garages and homes now have a golden opportunity to get rid of them, at a reduced cost and with the assurance that they will not end up in a landfill.
With the switchover to digital television signal transmissions scheduled to take effect in this area on 1 December, many more old-style ‘box’ TVs will be consigned to the scrap heap – which is where CReW (Community Resources Whakatāne)– comes in.
Whakatāne’s annual Young Achiever Awards have seen 144 members of the community recognised for national or international excellence in academic, cultural and sporting fields.
Organised jointly by the Whakatāne District Council and Whakatāne West Rotary Club, the Awards were held on 31 October 2013 at the Whakatāne Liberty Centre and were open to any young person up to and including secondary school level. More than 250 people attended the ceremony, and Master of Ceremonies Ian Finch noted that this reflected the high degree of support the community has for the event.
The Whakatāne District Council has awarded a three-year routine road maintenance contract to Tauranga-based Transfield Services NZ Limited.
The $4.39 million contract covers all routine pavement, drainage and environmental maintenance work on the 903 km of sealed and unsealed local roads in the Whakatāne District until October 2016. Council Infrastructure General Manager Tomasz Krawczyk says the tendering process attracted six bids, including three from local contractors. Tenders were assessed by an evaluation team which included a highly-experienced, independent convener.
The Whakatāne Community Board, in association with the Whakatāne Beacon and Radio 1XX, are pleased to present the Smiths City Christmas Lighting Trail. This district-wide event encourages home owners and businesses to light up their premises for the festive season.
Smiths City will be the major prize sponsor for the Supreme Award. PAK ’n SAVE and Bunnings are sponsoring the Residential and Commercial sections. Opus, Nova Energy and Horizon will sponsor the Community, People’s Choice and Best Neighbourhood Awards. There will also be spot prizes on offer.
Master Painters, Bay of Plenty Councils, Tauranga Environment Centre and Dulux, Wattyl and Resene are together conducting the Paint Waste Reduction Campaign across the Bay of Plenty to raise awareness of environmental issues resulting from painting and paint waste disposal.
The paint companies involved all run paint waste disposal programmes to allow painters to return unused paint and old paint buckets.
Eastern Bay of Plenty councils continue to work together on alcohol regulation and are pleased to announce the appointment of a shared Eastern Bay of Plenty District Licensing Committee (DLC) to take responsibility for local decisions relating to the sale and supply of alcohol. From December 2013, all local-level liquor licence decisions - new and renewal of premises licences, managers’ certificates, special licences and temporary authorities - will be made by the DLC.
A Whakatāne District Council-owned shop earmarked for demolition in mid-2014 is set to help young entrepreneurs gain real life business experience.
The Council owns four shops in the Whakatāne town centre which are expected to be demolished in June next year to make way for the development of a pedestrian plaza linking The Strand to the Whakatāne River-edge greenway area.
A road resurfacing procurement partnership between the NZ Transport Agency and the Whakatāne District Council is helping each organisation to achieve more efficient and economical local and highway maintenance outcomes.
The partnership involves the two organisations contracting out similar work programmes under one contract, as opposed to operating separate contracts.
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