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visited by more than 128,000 people with around 7,250 people enjoying events organised by the gardens team. The project to redevelop Yarrow Stadium remains on budget and on time and the last year saw a number of milestones reached in the construction of the East Stand. The venue saw a sell-out crowd enjoy the Taranaki Bulls win the Bunnings NPC championship in September. Key policies and strategies to be developed or adopted included the Regional Coastal Plan, a new Regional Land Transport Plan, the
Catchment Communities, Taranaki Regional Council, Te Heru Māpara, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ruanui, Te Whatu Ora Taranaki. For more information and to get involved, visit www.thisisus.nz/biosecurity-taranaki or call Willy Harvey, Biosecurity Taranaki Chair on 027 284 4380.
they are living is the first step to trying to improve their chances of survival,” says Ms Jamieson. “The matuku-hūrepo is an absolutely beautiful bird and is truly an icon of healthy wetland habitats. We need to do as much as we can to ensure it does not go extinct. That would be a tragedy.” The data gathered will be used by the lovebittern.com campaign too. The national project is running a ‘Great matuku-hūrepo muster’ where the public are asked to record wherever they see or hear the bird on 19
Committee Chair Tom Cloke noted fewer than half of the 40 submitters who had requested to speak attended to share their views either in person or via Zoom. From here, Council staff will prepare recommendations to support the Committee with its deliberations in February 2024. Better Travel Choices for Taranaki and the Regional Public Transport Plan 2024 are scheduled to come into effect on 1 May 2024. This will build on a number of positive changes the Council has made to its bus services in response to
and put these into practice in your work. Be an agent for change – Always be on the lookout for ways to do things better, faster or smarter and be an active participant in the continuous improvement culture. Be digitally savvy – Understand and be competent in the use of digital technologies relevant to your role, including processing and storage of Council information in line with relevant policies. Emergency planning and response – Where required, participate in emergency
800,000 people. An email was sent to 5,500 registered Bee Card holders in Taranaki – the people who use our buses the most. Another email was sent to about 8,500 locals on our database. A dedicated web page was set up to enable easy, user-friendly engagement and we also happily received feedback the old-fashioned way via the post or face-to-face. Then we needed the community to play its part. While the survey was as user-friendly as possible, we knew that people’s time was precious and Council
recent years. The question now is how we build on this, especially when there is no guarantee or continued external funding for some of our programmes. “That’s a lot of information to take in so we’ve summarised things in a consultation document which sets out all the options including the key question of the impact on costs. We’re urging people to read this and we’re looking forward to hearing their views.” The consultation on the LTP runs from 10 March to 12 April and people can view the options
some unmonitored areas. This is raw data and may not have been subjected to a quality control process. All efforts are made to ensure the integrity of the data, but the Council cannot guarantee its accuracy, or its suitability for any purpose. See the full terms and conditions for the use of environmental data(external link). MONITORED SITES RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION Related links Monthly rainfall norms Current monitoring data
Nominations for those wanting to take a run at Council are now open. If you want to stand for Taranaki Regional Council, nominations opened on 4 July and close on 1 August. There is an online portal where you can submit your nomination – head to taranaki.rc/stand from 4 July. The Council has 11 elected members; five from the New Plymouth Constituency, two from the North Taranaki constituency, two from the South Taranaki constituency, one from the Stratford constituency and one from the Māori