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As most readers will already be aware, on Wednesday the Council resolved to ask Central Government to appoint a “Review Team”, to help to solve the Council’s numerous self-created problems. What this means is that Council was forced to admit that it is completely incompetent (as had already become readily evident to the ratepayers), cannot solve its own massive financial and legal problems, ...
Had an interesting Council meeting in Dargaville on Wednesday. After all the talk of operating Council transparently at the ratepayer meetings over the past week – what do you know, another public excluded meeting – subject matter: receving and notifying the decisions on the Landscape Variation to the Proposed District Plan. The Mayor was quick to announce that the item be debated in sec...
The Long Term Plan consultation meeting at Mangawhai attracted possibly the biggest crowd ever seen at a local political meeting in Kaipara. The estimated group of some 2500 disgruntled and concerned ratepayers marched en masse from The Hub to the Recreation Centre. The LTP proposal was not well received by the ratepayers (as expected). MRRA chairman Bruce Rogan made a strong address to the meetin...
The problems with Re-Captcha on the WorkBoot forums are now fixed. You may have received a handful of retrospective forum post notifications yesterday as a result of this fix. You can now get involved in the debate in the Long Term Plan forum here. The Council consultaton meetings are due to be held at Maungaturoto and Kaiwaka on Friday, and at Mangawhai on Saturday - see the timetable of me...
There are many highly experienced and talented businesspeople and professionals with interests in Kaipara. They often offer their advice or assistance to the Council in the best interests of the district and its communities - they genuinely want to help make Kaipara a great (and affordable) place to live and work, and have a vested interest in doing so. What has never ceased to amaze me is Coun...