Whangarei’s multi-events stadium is on budget and ahead of time with a completion date expected in May. This update answers the questions about the targetted rate collected by the Northland Regional Council and clarifies which assets go to the Northland Rugby Union.

Great news - press release from Whangarei District Council. Glad to have been part of this effort.

Reporter Rosemary Roberts, in her column Down to Business, asked for progress reports on four major Whangarei District Council projects announced in the last two years....

While the controversy over Auckland’s super-city proposal continues, battle lines and barricades are already being formed about local body reform in the North.

The over-riding issue is that this community asset should be managed in a financially responsible and efficient manner and with the best interests of the community at its core.

Can the Museum grow without more support from ratepayers?

"It is always better to proceed on a basis of recognition of what is, rather than what ought to be” - Stewart Alsop

With our Local Government Minister in the mood for change as we are witnessing with the creation of the “super city”, I found the Northern Regional Council’s submission to the Whangarei District Council’s Long Term Council Community Plan timely.

Of the submissions hearings on the Long Term Council Community Plan we heard recently, I found the Northern Regional Council’s was one of the more interesting.
Deliberations on the LTCCP beginning on Thursday.

Listening to submissions, one hears some pertinent comments, like this one: When recently renovating her house, a constituent fixed the smelly toilet before she did the wallpaper.