The engineers, designers and architects involved in this project, were unable to identify a viable cheaper option between options 1 and 2. General Funding Questions 31. A number of submitters infer or claim the increase in rates to pay for the repair and updates is on top of the rates already being levied for the stadium. This is incorrect. Existing rating mechanisms end and have been incorporated into the proposed rating system. 32. Some submitters have argued for
and enhanced. THE BOTTOM LINE The Council finished the 2017/2018 year with a surplus of $962,000 (total comprehensive income). Total expenditure was $26.6m. Overall it was a good result, noting that the general rates increases have been at or below the rate of inflation for the past few years (a 1% general rates increase in 2017/2018). The Council’s balance sheet remains very strong, with no public debt. All of the achievements outlined here would not
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some minor issue in regards to abstraction rates during the brief intermittent periods of low flow restrictions in the Patea River, however, no environmental effects were noted. During the year, SDC demonstrated a high level of environmental performance. However SDC demonstrated a poor level of administrative performance due to the fact, that despite repeated reminders by Council staff, renewal applications for the weirs in the Konini Stream and Patea River, and for the backwash discharge
longer periods rather than at high rates for short periods. The filter is backwashed once per week to a series of two soak holes. The capacity of the soak holes is more than adequate to deal with the volumes of backwash which they receive. 1.3. Resource consents SDC holds various resource consents for the water supply plants and structures that it operates, including water abstraction permits, discharge permits and land use consents. These consents are listed in Table 1 and
discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by CCCWSL, this report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period under review. Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is concerned with CCCWSL’s approach to demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including …
compliance by the consent holders, this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance during the period under review. The rating categories are high, good, improvement required and poor for both environmental and administrative performance. The interpretations for these ratings are found in Appendix II For reference, in the 2021-2022 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental performance and compliance for 88% of
good level of administrative performance. STDC has advised council that the breaches in discharge rates at Opunake should be resolved by February 2020. The non-compliant breaches became apparent when council received the discharge data at the end of the monitoring year. For reference, in the 2018-2019 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental performance and compliance for 83% of the consents monitored through the Taranaki tailored monitoring programmes,
Taranaki Solid Waste Management Committee - Regional Waste Minimisation Officer's Activity Report 14 page ECM 8527156 Waste Free with Kate –Food Masterclass, Parenting Workshops & Reusable Sanitary Products in Schools *NPDC* Waste Free Parenting Nineteen people attended the Waste Free Parenting workshop on 4 March. Feedback indicated the workshop was well received with 70.6% of attendees rating the workshop highly. Of the attendees, many committed to making changes to
Predator-Free project, the ambitious region- wide campaign launched in May 2018. Monitoring data shows this intensive predator control may already be making a difference – rats and possums in urban New Plymouth are decreasing, while the trapping network in rural and urban areas is expanding rapidly. Monitoring, using rat footprint tracking and a possum bite-mark index, show catch rates have dropped; rats went from 33 per cent to 19 percent over the year, while the urban New Plymouth