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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
November 20, 2008
The November/December edition of BayBuzz Digest is now available, and all the articles are on the BayBuzz website as well. The Digest will be letterbox-distributed in the coming week to about 10,000 homes in Hastings, Napier and Havelock North, plus you can pick up a copy in a few dozen shops, dairies and cafes around [...]
November 18, 2008
Today’s headline in the Dominion Post tells it all: “Council tries to evade grandstand objectors.” Mayor Yule, in his capacity as Chairman of the new Sports Park Trust, established in anticipation of ultimate approval of the park project, is seeking a resource consent from Mayor Yule (could they be related?) and his Hastings Council, to [...]
November 16, 2008
Last week, a remarkable debate occurred in the HB Regional Council on the issue of dealing (or not) with the region’s air quality. Specifically, curbing the level of so-called “PM10″ pollution … the fine particles in smoky air, mostly caused by wood burning in this region, that penetrate the lungs deeply and cause or aggravate [...]
- 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
