Category: Community
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What to do if your land has a slip
I went to Paturoa yesterday morning on a quiet and still day and took this photo. It was serene, but the cliffs bore the scars of some significant slips, parts of the foreshore was washed away and there is still a car deposited on the edge of the cliff as a reminder of the fury…
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My Chair’s report for December 2022 – the Board’s goals, Council finances and the Arts
What the local board wants to achieve this term The following is the text from my speech to the inaugural meeting setting out what we want achieve this term: “Three years ago, I set out eleven different areas I wanted the Board to work on and I thought I would do the same this term.…
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The term ahead for the Waitakere Ranges Local Board
I have the privilege of being re elected as chair of the Waitakere Ranges Local Board and Michelle Clayton is the deputy chair. This is an excerpt from my speech to this term’s inaugural local board meeting.
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WRLB end of term report 2022 – Three years of living strangely
My review of the past three years on the Waitakere Ranges Local Board. It has been a term like no other with the effects of a global pandemic profound. Despite this we advanced much of what we wanted to do although TItirangi’s chickens are still a problem …
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Chair’s report – November 2020 – Derivatives, Open Studio and acknowledging a community hero
My November report where I comment on Council’s derivatives policy, talk about the joys of Open Studio, report on Community Waitakere’s year and an important speech by their chair David Kenkel, and acknowledge a community hero Ian Henderson.