Asthmatic Children for the Sports Park
November 30, 2008
Last Tuesday marked the launch of the Regional Sports Park Supporters Club, orchestrated by Kelt Capital. Brenda Crene, Project Manager for Kelt Capital, busily sent emails to folks like the Ramblers Cycling Club urging them to spread the word.
This bit of propaganda is your ratepayer dollar at work, given that Kelt Capital still collects its [...]
A dangerous precedent!
November 27, 2008
Mayor Yule stopped by the Regional Council meeting on Wednesday to float an interesting idea … one that might have broad and radical implications.
Basically, he suggested that the Regional Council take full funding responsibility — and with it, commensurate governance control — for Hawke’s Bay, Inc., the agency charged with promoting economic development and tourism [...]
Council closes chapter on Ocean Beach
November 26, 2008
At a closed “workshop” on Tuesday, Hastings Councillors came to the following consensus on Ocean Beach:
1. Abandon the Council’s own structure plan, adopted in 2007, which envisioned in the range of 286 or so house lots at Ocean Beach. If in the future any developer wishes to propose a development scheme for Ocean Beach, they [...]
What you don’t know, can hurt you
November 23, 2008
The Regional Council, supposedly the body charged with ensuring us a healthy environment, has decided instead its paramount job is to protect property values.
And so it has declined our BayBuzz Information Act request for release of information pertaining to 3,000 sites throughout the Bay potentially contaminated by toxic waste. While the Council is mightily concerned [...]
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