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Otago Daily Times 21/3/2023
Call for more transparent meetings Canterbury regional councillors say they want open and transparent meetings, but are divided on how to achieve it. A motion by councillor Greg Byrnes calling for Environment Canterbury’s briefings, workshops and seminars to be open to the public was lost by seven votes to nine at Wednesday’s council meeting. But…
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Council meeting outcomes March 20th 2024
We held the March Council meeting today, which went for a fair part of the day. I had a notice of motion to make public access to briefings workshops and seminars the default position, rather than the current practice of excluded by default. I wish to thank Councillor Davies, Dietche, Edge, Pauling, Robinson and Southworth…
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An informed community is an engaged community
The Editor In response to the letter from S M McNeill ‘why should we submit’ The Press 16 March. I can assure the letter writer and your readers that the comment attributed to one of my fellow ECan Councillors, in relation to the consultation process “we hear from the same old serial submitters’ does not…
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Weekly round up – 15 March
An interesting week at Council with the draft Long Term Plan out for consultation. We also had – briefings on consenting activities, the cruise ship rresponse and dam safety regulations – the water & land committee – the Avon Heathcote Ihutai Trust meeting and – today we held our Council to Council forum with Christchurch…
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he tangata o te tiriti ahau
18 Feb A really interesting day today starting with Te Reo Māori lessons alongside Councillors Edge, Robinson and Southworth. This was followed by a catch up with my fellow Christchurch Central Councillor Genevieve Robinson to discuss our draft Long Term Plan consultation calendar. Then during the afternoon we had Te Rōpū Tuia, the joint Canterbury…
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