March 12, 2008
From BayBuzz reader Jeff Worshop: What’s in a name? In a move that appears to recognise the low-flow problems that beset the Tukituki, a plan has been revealed that may divert attention in the future. In its wisdom the Regional Council has decided not to restrict the many farmers that suck the famous river dry [...]
March 11, 2008
Last week, the Hastings Council spent two days growing the District’s budget. Working from a spending template driven by the LTCCP, Councillors quibbled around the margins, adding here, subtracting there. The results, pending some re-calculations and follow-up revisions, and public consultation over the month of April, is a 2008/9 budget that will increase rates by [...]
March 10, 2008
Wayne Bradshaw, Hastings Councillor: Budget Reform Last Thursday and Friday, the HDC Councillors with the assistance of management were presented with the Draft Budgets for the 2008/9 year. We as a Council with management’s assistance were expected to: Review these Budgets (there are over 100 Cost Centres within Council), Analyse and Prioritise the spending, Find [...]
March 10, 2008
Don’t miss the Tukituki meeting this Wednesday the 12th, 7:30pm at the Havelock North Community Center. I expect folks from the HB Regional Council will tell us not to worry … management of the Tuki is on good hands and its water quality is “not getting worse.” My, what a high bar to set! Fortunately, [...]
March 8, 2008
A Clive-based Lebanese man has hit out at the number of geldings competing at this year’s Kelt Capital Horse of the Year Show. Speaking to BayBuzz, Khalil Gibran said he has strong reservations about an event that had become “Yiddish” in character. “A phallus is perfect at birth,” Mr Gibran said. “Any willful alteration is [...]
March 6, 2008
Some councils are, shall we say, slow learners. The former Hastings Council bungled Ocean Beach badly, getting too cozy with Hill Country at the outset, even if they were disposed to make some kind of “deal” with Andy Lowe. Let’s say, generously, that they were outmaneuvered. But now they’re doing the same thing all over [...]
March 5, 2008
Health Minister David Cunliffe has sacked the New Zealand Cricket Board after maligned Blackcap Jesse Ryder (pictured) was yesterday given the nod to re-join the Blackcaps in May’s tour of England. The shock announcement comes after last month’s alcohol-related incident, where Napier-schooled Ryder needed surgery to a finger after putting his hand through a window [...]
- Andrew Reyngoud on DAM(N)! A half-billion dollar water storage scheme
- Margaret Donnelly on WATER. What's all the fuss about?
- Elizabeth Sisson on 'Dump Council' campaign
- Paul Bailey on Cows in Karamu Stream
- Rob Pharazyn on Cows in Karamu Stream
- John J Harrison on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Anne Parker on Let's get Council meetings online
- Stuart Nash on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Kylie Fowler on Let's get Council meetings online
- Paul Bailey on Let's get Council meetings online
- ‘Dump Council’ campaign
- Cows in Karamu Stream
- Questions for HB ‘regional study’ director
- Let’s get Council meetings online
- 5 mayors in HB … ‘Yeah right’ says Tui
- Crucial Environment Court hearing underway
- Regional Council warns on pollution standards
- Democracy in action?
- 1+1+1 = 3 hours
- Councils’ reorganization survey results
