Tauranga harbourmaster Jennifer Roberts' services with the Bay of Plenty Regional Council have been terminated, a council spokesperson has confirmed.
Jennifer is the second harbourmaster to leave the council within a year after former Bay of Plenty regional harbourmaster Carl Magazinovic resigned in December.
Former BOP Regional Council harbourmaster Jennifer Roberts.
A regional council communications spokesperson says the council will be making no further comment as it is an employment matter.
SunLive understands Jennifer's departure is over issues that have arisen during the recruitment process for Carl's replacement.
It leaves the BOP Regional Council with no Harbourmaster qualified to manage shipping within a region centred on the busiest ports in the country.
Read more about Carl's resignation here.
10 comments
brandy1
Posted on 08-07-2014 12:15 | By Jessie
This is a devastating loss to the Bay of Plenty. Jennifer is an amazing person who has given so much to the whole community of boating in our region. She will be very missed.
No Harbourmaster = NO shipping
Posted on 08-07-2014 12:26 | By The Caveman
It leaves the BOP Regional Council with no Harbourmaster qualified to manage shipping within a region centred on the busiest ports in the country - thus all large shipping stops !!! Must be something wrong at the council when two leave within a year !
Well done
Posted on 08-07-2014 15:05 | By Theway
Congrats to the council for leaving itself in the poo again. Surely there must be some spare bods on the councils payroll of 550 odd that could do this job?
You have to be kidding!!!!
Posted on 08-07-2014 17:14 | By Sambo Returns
Jennifer, I hope this was your decision, in all my dealings with you, you have come across as very knowledgeable and astute, and I could see your Harbour staff showing you nothing but respect, so whats the bloody go here?, and the mooring thing must go very deep, but once again the "desk jockey" brigade prevail at the expense of knowledge.
No Way??
Posted on 08-07-2014 19:05 | By John
Jennifer Roberts earned the utmost respect of all the users of Tauranga Harbour, both large vessel interests. It leaves the Council with no continuity and a sad loss of expertise. It begs the question of who in the management is doing what and why? Who is the replacement and where are they coming from. Can we be assured qualifications are correct and they have command experience? This seems a high risk decision that our Council management has made. ON behalf of Users Jennifer, your are noting departure (if true)is nothing more than a very large loss to this harbour.
WTF?
Posted on 08-07-2014 20:08 | By Bobby
Busiest port by volume in NZ, and no harbourmaster, what could go wrong?? Rena 2, coming soon to a town near you....
Bad news
Posted on 08-07-2014 20:53 | By Wayne Larsen
This is a shame as Jennifer appears to have been the only harbour master who has had the guts to get tough on the boyracer/jet skier and other dangerous individuals on the water.
We all know...
Posted on 09-07-2014 23:51 | By GreertonBoy
Councils think of themselves as 'mini gods' ok, well, not so mini....lets hope that no disasters happen while this poop fight is going on, If Jennifer is qualified and doing a good job, you [council] should be begging her to stay, whatever it takes .
Cadeau
Posted on 10-07-2014 12:29 | By Paddy van den Heuvel
We are in shock! It seems as if there are major problems at the BOP Regional Council??
A law unto themselves
Posted on 14-07-2014 22:53 | By GreertonBoy
Seems to be the problem? Isn't the council supposed to 'act on behalf of the people'? Might be time for them to start thinking about us the people instead of perhaps being stubborn just because they can. It would be interesting to hear if Jenns leaving was her decision or not and what the gods.... er, I mean council are going to do to make Tauranga Port safe once more?
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