May 27, 2010
Regional Council CEO Andrew Newman reports that the consenting process is progressing that would shift Central Hawke’s Bay’s (CHB) wastewater discharge onto land and out of the river. The scheme would see CHB’s treated wastewater pumped onto Regional Council-owned land outside Waipawa. HBRC has acquired land on which it expects to plant trees this winter, [...]
May 26, 2010
More precisely, how will the ownership of and investment in (or divestment of) strategic and public infrastructure assets in Hawke’s Bay be controlled and managed in the future? That’s the question raised by the Regional Council’s proposal to form a “Holding Company” to own and manage approximately (initially) $123 million of assets, like the Port [...]
May 24, 2010
Janet Takarangi, general manager of Venture Hawke’s Bay, will leave that organization as of next Friday. Her position will be “dis-established” and not replaced. The announcement was made initially in an email sent by Ms Takarangi on Monday afternoon, followed by two media releases from Andrew Newman, her boss and CEO at the HB Regional [...]
May 23, 2010
After-Party Mallow Puffs By Andrew Frame With the weather finally turning winter-like there is a tendency to look for more indoor things to do. One of my favourite inside activities has always been going to the movies. But not at your typical multiplex movie, where a second mortgage gets you a ticket and some popcorn [...]
May 21, 2010
Last week I asked Dr Kevin Snee, DHB’s CEO, a series of questions about current managing of Cranford Hospice. My questions (here on BayBuzz) dealt mostly with the ongoing roles of Presbyterian Support’s two managers, Shaun Robinson and Barry Keane. Most readers of the recent Cranford audit, sharply critical of Cranford’s management-produced dysfunctional organizational culture, [...]
May 20, 2010
That’s the title of a recent leading article in the UK’s Independent, which observes: “…the inconvenient truth is that, whatever errors or over-statements individuals may make in this debate, the overwhelming body of climate science still shows that man-made climate change is real. Our report today, of solid and robust research measuring changes in temperature [...]
May 19, 2010
In yesterday’s post, Venture Hawke’s Bay, HB Wine Country Tourism and some of our more political friends talked about how to market Hawke’s Bay. Today we feature a few of the region’s professional marketers, as well as a two guys who successfully “sell” a couple of the Bay’s leading attractions … Art Deco and Mission [...]
- 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
