April 30, 2009
In response to public uproar over a year ago regarding the shabby state of the Tukituki, the Regional Council commissioned an independent review of its water quality monitoring approach and data, taking into account criticisms of same by the Hawke’s Bay Environmental Water Group (HBEWG), led by Bill Dodds, David Renouf, John Scott and Colin [...]
April 29, 2009
At a meeting on April 30 of its Works Committee, the Hastings Council will consider a staff recommendation to put any major consideration of future development plans for Ocean Beach on the back burner. Assuming it accepts the recommendation, the Council will not re-address the issue until it reviews its entire District Plan as part [...]
April 28, 2009
Led by Mayor Yule, Team HDC went to two meetings yesterday.
One was a ritualised farce. The other was a classic in grassroots politics.
Meeting #1 was a “public briefing” by HDC on the progress of the sports park. Questions had to be submitted five days in advance in writing. Two people, both opposed to the park, [...]
April 27, 2009
The Hastings Sports Park is mired in legal, fundraising and personnel issues … to say nothing of whether the complex makes sense in terms of community priorities or programmatic direction.
One would think Hastings Councillors might finally start asking some tougher questions about the initiative, if only because several of them explicitly pegged their original support [...]
April 24, 2009
In a report provided to the Hastings Council yesterday by Lawrence Yule, Chairman of the Sports Park Trust (go figure out the accountability issues on that one!), the following came to light:
1. Kelt Capital was paid $651,668 through March 09, when its contract to develop and fundraise for the Sports Park was terminated, for reasons [...]
April 23, 2009
Yesterday, the Regional Council came dangerously close to action on the Tukituki. Chairman Alan Dick did his best at Wednesday’s Council meeting to get his Councillors to dip their toes at last into the water and actually beginning to clean up the river.
But once again, the water was just too cold for comfort, and the [...]
April 22, 2009
Buried in Volume Two of the draft Hastings Ten Year Plan is a summary of something called the “Water and Sanitary Services Assessment.” This assessment, prepared in 2006, is required by the Local Government Act and must be reviewed in 2010. Probably about a mere dozen citizens will even see Volume Two, let alone wade [...]
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