The council’s people and performance committee made a recommendation to keep Carran in the job. Cr Richard Lyon was supportive of retaining Carran, moving that the recommendation be accepted. “The recommendation has been thoroughly researched and democratically approached.” Lyon said Carran had been a strength in many ways and difficult decisions had been made. “I know there have been all sorts of undercurrents, but the reality is - it’s for our organisation to grow and grow and structured for the future. Naturally we can’t please everybody but that’s life.”
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Timaru District Council mayor Nigel Bowen, pictured with Carran, was absent from the meeting but later gave his endorsement.
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Many of the hardest hit streets were those with Kāinga Ora homes, he said. Buller emergency operations centre controller Bob Dickson said building assessors were going through homes from Sunday afternoon to determine which were still habitable. People were resilient, but support would be needed long-term. “We re looking at many, many months [of work] this is a big, large-scale event.” Faafoi said the Government would provide $300,000 to the Buller District Council s mayoral fund and $100,000 to Marlborough s fund – another region affected by flooding, road closures and evacuations over the weekend. Westport s housing issues would be “one of the challenges we ll work through” once the floodwaters had receded and the damage could be better assessed.
Saturday, 17 July 2021, 4:44 pm
Local Government New Zealand’s (LGNZ) member councils
have today passed seven remits to direct LGNZ’s policy
advocacy.
LGNZ is the peak body representing New
Zealand’s 78 local councils, providing a unified voice for
the sector and a pathway for continuous improvement through
CouncilMARK™.
All 78 member councils were able to
debate and vote on proposed remits at the LGNZ Annual
General meeting.
A brief summary of each remit, and
the voting results, can be found below:
1.
Tree Protection
Proposed by Auckland Council
and supported by Auckland Zone. This remit calls for the
urgent repeal of current provisions in the Resource
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