Water Treatment Plant Meeting Oratia Settlers Hall This Tuesday 21 Feb, 6pm. We need your support.
Watercare is planning to update it’s infrastructure out west including a new water treatment plant. One proposed site is local at 130 Parker Road. Watercare are hosting a public drop-in information session where you can meet Watercare staff and talk through the proposals in detail, answer any questions and also will be taking note […]
TV One News 6 o’clock , Oratia and the Unitary Plan
Today the Unitary Plan (Council’s rulebook for future development) recommendations were released by the Independendent Hearings Committee and Oratia featured on TV one 6 oclock news last night, as a suburb that would be able to be zoned for “future urban land use”, which sounded widespread. In reality, the Rural Boundary in West Auckland remains largely unchanged . […]
What’s planned for Watiakere Budget 2016: Have your Say on Now!
Have your say on the Waitakere Local Boards Budgetpriorities for 2016/17.. Here The proposed expenditure for Waitakere for 2016 is $10.2 Million = $1.7 (capex) to renew and develop assets, and $8.5 million (opex) for operation and maintenance of those assets. Capex priorites for our local board are: develop a town centre plan for Glen Eden ($370,000) ** renew existing […]
Oratia Bus Services to be Cut – Submissions on Now.
Bus services in Oratia and Waiatarua are to be cut under new Auckland Transport Plans. Link to the map of new and reduced services here. If you’d like to make a submission. Please do so HERE Submissions must be made by 1st December. Besides the obvious issue of reduction to Rural Services the other issues it presents […]
Local Board gave 500k Foothills Heritage Area funding away!
Waitakere Ranges Local Board takes the funding from Waitakere Ranges Heritage Foothills and gives it to Community Waitakere Trust (Relationships with Trustee/ Local Board Member Steve Tollestrup, and Patron/ Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse). The Quarterly Budget report for Waitakere says, “Un-utilised funds on the Waitakere Ranges Foothills Heritage area has been used to fund Community Waitakere […]
Dodgy Council Calculator is out $120k
Auckland Council’s published Project Twin Streams 2014/15 numbers (see table below) are out by 120k. The numbers only add to $346,367. Is this an error or a revenue omission? The last questions to our council reps have gone unanswered. Also Dialect Communications don’t appear on a search of the NZ Business Register. It’s only 8k but they also […]
Heritage Area Budget – Fruit Trees Miss Out
Our Heritage Area Budget has been allocated, and the winners for this round are Bethells LAP, more and more for the weeds , the bats get another 5k, meetings, consultants and reports.
Yo, Where’s our Heritage Area Weed Money Gone?
Below is an Excerpt from Auckland Council Called: Weed control in West Auckland “Titirangi Resident and Ratepayers Association Project (TRRA) This project addresses a range of issues in the Titirangi Village business area including graffiti, kerbing, litter and the increasing presence of invasive weeds. The TRRA has worked with Council and other groups, including WeedFree Trust to […]
BEST USE OF COUNCIL MONEY? – HIPSTER PARTY WITH FREE BEER, BANDS AND PIZZA FOR TITIRANGI
Sorry you missed the free beer . If you live in Titirangi and Art Galleries are not your thing then pull out a few weeds and you would have enjoyed two really choice bands and free beer (the fancy kind) and organic cola, with woodfired pizza and top name bands -courtesy of the Waitakere Ratepayers – FREE. […]
GOBSMACKED – Foothills Economic Budget of 25k Goes to Fancy Greenhithe Consultant.
Gobsmacked! 25k was allocated for Foothills Economic Development last December. Auckland Council decided they knew best and ,without consulting ratepayers, they used the 25k to make a list of all the businesses in the foothills, by “computer research (googling) and driving around.” Council outsourced the project to a Managing Director and Senior Consultant in Greenhithe […]