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Waste-Ed Team Gives Out Reusable Period Products
Tuesday, 26 March 2024, 12:46 pm | Gisborne District Council
What period products to use is not an easy topic to stand up and talk about. However, when Waste-Ed came to Gisborne this month they covered this and other tricky topics to help reduce the waste in our region. Waste-Ed is a company run by Kate Fenwick, ... More >>
No Place For Hate Or Bigotry In Tairāwhiti
Tuesday, 26 March 2024, 10:36 am | Gisborne District Council
Mayor Rehette Stoltz says last night’s destruction of the rainbow crossing in our Central Business District only fuels hatred and division between people. The rainbow crossing was painted on 20 December 2021. “Since then it has been a solid ... More >>
Community Conversations Have Started
Thursday, 21 March 2024, 4:22 pm | Gisborne District Council
Consultation on Council’s 2024-2027 Three Year Plan (3YP) opened yesterday and lasts for four weeks until 19 April. A series of Community Conversations are being held around the region to discuss the 3YP with the first one held last night. “To ... More >>
Council Adopts House Lifting Policy
Monday, 18 March 2024, 2:06 pm | Gisborne District Council
Council's policy for lifting houses that were flooded during the severe weather events last year, was officially adopted at Thursday's Council meeting. Called the Elevating Tairāwhiti Policy it specifies how Council will appoint service providers ... More >>
War Memorials To Be Cleaned Ahead Of ANZAC Day
Thursday, 14 March 2024, 4:53 pm | Gisborne District Council
Two important monuments in our region will be cleaned ahead of ANZAC Day on April 25. The Gisborne Cenotaph and the Pātūtahi Returned Services Monument will have scaffolding and fences put around them to enable contractors to clean them. “Because ... More >>
Millions To Secure Tokomaru Bay’s Landfill
Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 11:44 am | Gisborne District Council
Gisborne District Council has been granted nearly $5millon from the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) to stop waste from the landfill in Tokomaru Bay being exposed by erosion during severe weather events. Funding of $4,985,891 was announced by Minister ... More >>
Work Underway To Repair Local Road Dropouts
Friday, 8 March 2024, 8:53 pm | Gisborne District Council
Repair work has started on the first of more than 900 local road dropouts. Mayor Rehette Stoltz says the repairs will provide much-needed safety and resilience for communities who use these rural roads every day. “We’re building back,” says ... More >>
Council Purchases First Category 3 Property
Friday, 8 March 2024, 1:13 pm | Gisborne District Council
The buy-out of Category 3 residential properties across Tairāwhiti has commenced, with Council taking ownership of the first Category 3 property yesterday, 8 March 2024. Mayor Rehette Stoltz, says the settlement of the first Category 3 property ... More >>
Great Vibe At Saturday’s Community Event
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 12:45 pm | Gisborne District Council
The sun came out on Saturday for the free community event Tū Whitia – Stand & Shine to mark one year since Cyclone Gabrielle. This event was supported by Gisborne District Council with funding from Trust Tairāwhiti. Event organiser Merle Walker ... More >>
Stopbanks Being Raised At A Great Pace
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 5:29 pm | Gisborne District Council
Big construction works are going on at a great pace as stopbanks around the region get built up post Cyclone Gabrielle. Regional Rivers Manager Joss Ruifrok said the Eastern (city) side of the Waipaoa Stopbank Flood Control Upgrade has been completed. ... More >>
Hui Kicks Off Pilot For More Sustainable Ūawa Catchment
Friday, 23 February 2024, 3:33 pm | Gisborne District Council
Council is holding a hui for residents of the Ūawa catchment on 14 March to work towards a more sustainable future for the catchment. Council Director for Sustainable Futures Jo Noble says this gathering will be a crucial platform for discussing how ... More >>
New Signs For Enviroschools Early Childhood Education Centres
Friday, 23 February 2024, 1:26 pm | Gisborne District Council
Earlier this week, Enviroschools facilitators delivered six new signs to early childhood education centres around Tairāwhiti. Tairāwhiti Enviroschools Regional Coordinator Charlotte Phelps said the signs were presented to the centres to reflect their commitment ... More >>
Apply For Creative Communities Funding
Thursday, 22 February 2024, 9:44 am | Gisborne District Council
Make your community event ideas a reality through Council’s Creative Communities scheme. Every year Council opens two rounds of funding for projects with arts-based outcomes, the first in February and again in August. The first round of funding for ... More >>
Community Event To Acknowledge Cyclone Gabrielle Impacts
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 9:57 am | Gisborne District Council
Council is excited to invite Tairāwhiti to ‘Tū Whitia – Stand & Shine’, a free community event happening Saturday 2 March from 3pm to 8.30pm at the Gisborne Soundshell. Tami Neilson, Scribe and Oceanspace are just some of the artists performing ... More >>
Everyday SuperHeroes Acknowledged At Special Award Evening
Friday, 16 February 2024, 3:24 pm | Gisborne District Council
The War Memorial Theatre provided a grand backdrop for last night’s Tairāwhiti SuperHero Awards, which honoured everyday people who did extraordinary things in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle last year. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2402/fc84e1198c4c12765ae7.jpeg" ... More >>
Tairāwhiti Receives $23.6M For Cyclone Gabrielle Recovery
Wednesday, 14 February 2024, 2:46 pm | Gisborne District Council
Funding of $23.6 million to help accelerate silt and woody debris removal in Tairāwhiti was announced by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Emergency Management Minister Mark Mitchell on Sunday. Mayor Rehette Stoltz says she’s very grateful for the ... More >>
Experts Head To Region For Conference
Monday, 12 February 2024, 9:31 am | Gisborne District Council
Australasia’s leading landscape scientists are in town this week for the annual Australia New Zealand Geomorphology Group’s (ANZGG) biennial conference. The five-day gathering running February 12-16 is expected to attract up to 200 people, and includes ... More >>
Tairāwhiti Ahead Of NZ Waste Strategy
Thursday, 1 February 2024, 1:42 pm | Gisborne District Council
Changes to regulate recycling nationwide will have minimal impact on requirements for residential kerbside collection in Tairāwhiti. The government is introducing standardised kerbside recycling across New Zealand, in a bid to increase consistency ... More >>
Waingake Back On Full Production
Wednesday, 31 January 2024, 4:02 pm | Gisborne District Council
The Waingake Water Treatment Plant is back to full production pumping the summertime demand of city water from our dams. The milestone is just two weeks shy of the first anniversary of Cyclone Gabrielle, which caused considerable damage to the water pipe ... More >>
A Deep Dive Into Inner Harbour
Monday, 22 January 2024, 11:14 am | Gisborne District Council
Divers from Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Biosecurity Team will be conducting invasive species surveillance in the inner harbour this week. The project is part of the Mediterranean Fanworm (Sabella Spallanzani) eradication work in collaboration ... More >>
