Let's Chat
Personal thoughts and observations by Garry Jackson, Mayor, Hurunui District Council
4 March 2010
Hello everyone
What a week this has been, with work pressures for me on three major fronts, including the Creech report on the Canterbury Regional Council, the progressing of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy (and its relationship to the Creech report) and finalising our own Hurunui Draft Annual Plan for 2010/20211.
The space available to me in this column does not really allow me to do justice to any one of these subjects, let alone all three.
Let me just say that with regard to Government’s report into ECan, the Canterbury Mayors have accepted the findings, we have discussed them with the Ministers and we now await Governments decisions on what actions they plan to take.
Concurrently we are progressing at pace with the implementation of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy at the local level, and further to the full page briefing advertisement we ran previously, this issue includes further communication calling for expressions of interest from those keen to be considered for the influential and important Hurunui-Waiau Zone Committee.
Supporting public meetings will be heard in Hawarden/Waikari on 8 March, Cheviot on 11 March, Culverden (in association with the Draft Annual Plan) on 16 March and Amberley/Waipara on 18 March. See the associated advertisements for more details and please come along.
And so to the Draft Annual Plan … please see the summary in this issue for detail. We are happy with it as a draft, including an overall rate increase held at 3% in line with inflation.
Tell me what you think and please come along to the public meetings.
Sincerely
Garry Jackson
garry.jackson@hurunui.govt.nz
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