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Keep Dogs On A Lead, Help Prevent The Spread Of COVID-19
Thursday, 2 April 2020, 1:21 pm | Hamilton City Council
Getting out for a walk and some fresh air is necessary during Alert Level 4, but Hamilton City Council’s Animal Education and Control has an important message for all dog owners – keep your dog on a lead at all times. “This goes for all parks ... More >>
Helpline Set Up To Help Struggling Waikato People
Wednesday, 1 April 2020, 12:52 pm | Hamilton City Council
Freephone 0800 800 405 has been established for Waikato people struggling to get food, groceries, medication or other household goods and services. The freephone service established by the Waikato Civil Defence and Emergency Management Group is ... More >>
City Announces 12-point Recovery Plan
Friday, 27 March 2020, 5:19 pm | Hamilton City Council
Hamilton City Council has announced a sweeping 12-point plan to help the city withstand the economic and social ravages expected from COVID-19. The Council approved phase one of the programme today, costed at $3.4M. Phase two is still to come and will ... More >>
Council To Livestream Virtual Meeting
Friday, 27 March 2020, 11:39 am | Hamilton City Council
Hamilton City Council’s first meeting in which Elected Members are taking part remotely will be livestreamed to the public. The Extraordinary Meeting at 1pm today (Friday 27 March) is the Council’s first under new legislation which came into ... More >>
Library EServices Open A Window To New Worlds
Thursday, 26 March 2020, 3:18 pm | Hamilton City Council
The doors may be shut due to COVID-19 but Hamilton City Libraries has plenty of online services to keep people busy. The libraries’ eCollection has more than 31,500 items, including eAudiobooks and eBooks, newspapers and magazines. Hamilton City ... More >>
Chief Executive Gets Temporary Council Delegations
Wednesday, 25 March 2020, 2:35 pm | Hamilton City Council
Hamilton City Council has temporarily passed decision-making powers to its chief executive Richard Briggs while the Council remains in lock-down. Councillors today unanimously agreed to extend the chief executive’s delegations so he can ... More >>
Council’s Non-essential Services To Cease
Tuesday, 24 March 2020, 5:05 pm | Hamilton City Council
Following Government guidance, Hamilton City Council has confirmed several new changes to its services while the country is at COVID-19 Alert Level 4. Chief Executive Richard Briggs says the Government’s message has been extremely clear and now we all must ... More >>
Last ‘live’ Council Meeting Tomorrow
Tuesday, 24 March 2020, 1:20 pm | Hamilton City Council
At least seven Hamilton City Councillors will physically meet under urgency tomorrow before New Zealand goes into lock-down. The rest will tune in remotely to an extraordinary Council meeting, brought forward from Thursday. By Thursday, physical meetings across ... More >>
Essential Services Safe, Playgrounds To Close
Monday, 23 March 2020, 7:39 pm | Hamilton City Council
Hamiltonians will continue to have access to the essential services Hamilton City Council provides but its playgrounds and remaining customer-facing sites will close following the move to COVID-19 Alert Level 3 and 4. Alert Level 3 is in place from ... More >>
Council Closes All Community Facilities As A Precaution
Saturday, 21 March 2020, 1:51 pm | Hamilton City Council
Hamilton City Council community facilities will be closed effective Sunday 22 March as a precaution to slow the spread of COVID-19. The Government has put limits on the number of people who can gather in a space and is urging the practice of ‘physical ... More >>
Working-from-home Test A Success
Friday, 20 March 2020, 4:20 pm | Hamilton City Council
Hamilton City Council has successfully tested a key component of its business continuity plans in preparation for further potential impacts of COVID-19. Today (Friday 20 March) saw more than 30% of the Council’s 1000+ staff performing ... More >>
Council Wants Urgency On Hardship
Friday, 20 March 2020, 2:19 pm | Hamilton City Council
Hamilton City Council will meet under urgency next week to discuss a potential stimulus package and hardship response to COVID-19. On Tuesday Councillors instructed staff to find “creative” ways in which the Council can best support the Hamilton community, ... More >>
Programmes Suspended Due To COVID-19
Friday, 20 March 2020, 12:04 pm | Hamilton City Council
Hamilton City Council is making changes to community facilities and programmes from tomorrow (Saturday 21 March) following the Government’s new limits on mass gatherings. Indoor gatherings are now limited to a maximum of 100 people and the Government is ... More >>
Hamilton’s Anzac Day Services Cancelled
Thursday, 19 March 2020, 2:24 pm | Hamilton City Council
The cancellation of Hamilton’s Anzac Day events will not diminish the remembrance of our city’s fallen and returned soldiers. That’s the message from Hamilton City Council and Hamilton Returned and Services Association (RSA), after the Royal ... More >>
‘Measured And Responsible’ Council-wide Response To Covid-19
Tuesday, 17 March 2020, 7:08 pm | Hamilton City Council
Hamilton City Council is implementing contingency plans to maintain essential services to the city while supporting the health and wellbeing of the community and staff in response to Covid-19. The Council’s Chief Executive Richard Briggs says the ... More >>
Rotowaro - The Town That Disappeared
Friday, 13 March 2020, 1:37 pm | Hamilton City Council
Photographer David Cook spent nearly four decades recording the effects of the coal industry on one small New Zealand town and it’s 400 residents – now all gone – and the landscape around it. David Cook’s long-term study of Rotowaro, in the ... More >>
Environmental Wellbeing Up For Discussion
Thursday, 12 March 2020, 3:12 pm | Hamilton City Council
Hamilton City Council are asking the community what loving and protecting the environment means to them as part of their Shape Your Future City campaign. The Shape Your Future City campaign is a chance for the community to tell us what’s important to them, ... More >>
Rail Service Opening Date Proof Of Partnership
Thursday, 12 March 2020, 1:30 pm | Hamilton City Council
Hamilton Mayor Paula Southgate says today’s announcement of the first trip for Te Huia – the new passenger rail service between Hamilton and Papakura – shows that working in partnership is critical to delivering results for communities. The ... More >>
Peacocke’s First Park Recognises The Area’s Past
Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 8:59 am | Hamilton City Council
The first park in the new Peacocke neighbourhood will recognize the horticultural history of the area. The park, on Inuwai Street in Dixon Heights, will celebrate the area’s previous life as a food bowl for Maaori and English settlers. The surrounding ... More >>
Hamilton Mayor Seeks Community’s Voice
Monday, 9 March 2020, 5:18 pm | Hamilton City Council
A new engagement programme launched today will impact on Council activities for the next decade in Hamilton. Hamilton City Council has launched the ‘Shape Your Future City’ campaign – a month-long community-based programme which aims to ... More >>
