Members of the public are being offered a unique opportunity to come and listen to the sounds of taonga puoro (traditional Māori musical instruments) and learn about their origins with Jo’el Komene.
Residents in the Whakatāne District’s major urban areas have been urged to rake up leaves on their properties and clear leaves and debris from their local stormwater grates to avoid possible damage from surface flooding.
The Whakatāne District Council’s Annual Plan, fees and charges schedule and rates resolution for the 2016/17 financial year have now been adopted and will take effect from 1 July.
Whakatāne District Council has initiated a project which will see the Council’s 20,000-plus hard copy property and subdivision files converted into a digital format.
Vehicles travelling to and from Whakatāne’s CBD on Hillcrest Road will be diverted via Seaview Road for a 12-week period from Monday, 13 June while road repair works are carried out.
The Whakatāne District Council has adopted new guidelines which will allow cremations and funerals to be arranged privately, without engaging a funeral director’s services.
Progress on the planned development of a 100-metre long floating pontoon wharf along the river edge adjacent to Quay Street in Whakatāne was reported to the Whakatāne District Council’s Projects and Services Committee last week, together with proposed harbour entrance dredging options to be trialled next summer.
Whakatāne District Council’s website has been judged the supreme winner among the 78 local government websites evaluated in the 2016 Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM) rankings.
Freshly-picked peaches could be on offer at a kohanga, school, or community centre near you. Pride Whakatāne has purchased 55 ‘Snow Grace’ peach trees to gift to worthy community groups and organisations.
The Ōhope to Ōtarawairere Bay section of the Ngā Tapuwae o Toi Walkway will be closed for a month – from 13 June to 18 July – while contractors rebuild staircases and install barrier rails on the track leading down to the bay.
An amended Gambling Policy and social impact assessment for the Whakatāne District have now been adopted, following the consideration of public submissions by the Whakatāne District Council.
Walkers and cyclists who use Whakatāne’s Warren Cole Walkway will need to make a brief detour from their usual route while a major stormwater upgrading project is completed at the McAlister pump station over the next six months.
The average 2016/17 rates increase across the Whakatāne District has been trimmed from 3.2 to 2.8 percent following the completion of deliberations on submissions to the Council’s Annual Plan for the next financial year, which starts on 1 July.
Affordable opportunities for the purchase of land have become available with the sale by tender of seven Murupara properties. The properties have been declared abandoned by the Rotorua District Court and cleared of all rate arrears.
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