Council

Paperless meetings and new committees

Tauranga City councillors started their three year term this week grappling with paperless agendas and fine tuning a new committee structure. 'If it does work,... Read More

Tauranga Council’s first meeting today

Tauranga new city council has its first meeting today where the legal power to operate the city is handed over from chief executive Garry Poole to new mayor Greg... Read More

Interference affects Council data

Regular users of Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Live Monitoring website may notice a number of gaps in the data as radio interference causes a number of issues. Council's... Read More

Councillor left out in the cold

He was the highest-polling candidate for the Te Puke Community Board, but Western Bay of Plenty Councillor Mike Lally has been left completely out of the loop. Being... Read More

Clamour for coastal sirens

'Confused and conflicting.” One Papamoa mum's experience, and it appears a shared one, of the early hours of Monday morning when the 7.5 earthquake wrecked... Read More

Williamson Park ‘ready-to-use’

The newly upgraded Williamson Park will be ready for pedestrians and vehicles by this weekend, says the Thames-Coromandel District Council. The upgrade of the park... Read More

Trees poisoned, vandalised on Coromandel

The Thames-Coromandel District Council is disappointed and disturbed by a spike in the number of trees on council land being poisoned or vandalised. Since Labour... Read More

Quakes show importance of being prepared

The ‘never happens' has now happened - so how prepared where you? A number of Coromandel locals got a wake-up call following Monday's 7.5 magnitude earthquake... Read More

Calls for proper warning system

An online petition launched after yesterday morning's deadly earthquake has been signed by more than 3000 people. The Papamoa and Mount Maunganui need tsunami sirens... Read More

New sandpit for waterfront

A new sandpit has been installed on the waterfront, complete with a working toy digger, as part of the council's ‘Access to Water' project. The sandpit was... Read More

TCDC examining landscaping concept

Thames-Coromandel District Council staff are currently investigating a new landscape design concept for the Thames War Monument. The proposed design aims to make... Read More

Refinements for governance structure

Whakatāne District Mayor Tony Bonne has made a number of refinements to the Council's governance structure for the 2016-19 triennium. These include the appointment... Read More