Yule launches sustainability quest
November 30, 2007
Yesterday Mayor Yule “trial ballooned” his plan to launch a formal exploration of environmental sustainability policies and initiatives for the Hastings district.
At a meeting with 50+ members of the public, plus other Hastings councillors (I noticed Heaps, Bowers, Burnside, Wilson and Turner), staff and MP Craig Foss, Yule said that the HDC had been remiss [...]
Sibling rivalry
November 28, 2007
Hastings district councillor Kevin Watkins will “continue to champion” Hastings’ relationship with Chinese sister-city Guilin, despite his Taiwanese flannelette pyjamas bursting into flames at a council fondue party.
The admission came during Monday’s Guilin board meeting, where the evergreen advocate of the sister-city programme came under fire from colleagues for his “blind devotion” to the [...]
Sports Planet – Why? What cost? Where?
November 28, 2007
The public submissions window for the proposed Regional Sports Park closes on Friday. But how informed can submissions be when some of the most important background information is not available?
Several dozen megabytes of material have been posted on the HDC website. From this, I know such crucial facts as there will be about 584 parking [...]
How much talking is enough?
November 26, 2007
Public consultation … too much, too little, too superficial, too
untimely, too formal, too predictable, too inconsequential, too driven
by the letter of the law rather than its spirit? Which is it?
A wide selection of scenarios greeted us last week on the matter of “consultation” with the public.
In Hastings, even as formal submissions are underway on the [...]
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