Hastings District Council has accessed external funding to significantly increase its investment in the Hawke’s Bay Opera House. Here’s how.
Councils face complex challenges when trying to finance good community infrastructure. There are only so many ratepayers and, without rates rises, the ratepayer dollar will only go so far....
A pioneer of sustainable development, a business partnership that’s converting landfill emissions into electricity, and some solar-powered toilets, were among the local government success stories recognised in the recent 2016 EECA Awards.
The EECA Awards, which honoured winners in 10 categories for a range of energy management...
Hastings District Council chief executive Ross McLeod talks with Ruth Le Pla about mental cogs, going ‘glocal’ and why councils need new ways of working with their communities.
Ross McLeod could write this whole magazine standing on his head, eating a banana and gazing nonchalantly into the horizon. He’d never say that, of course....
At the 2015 LGNZ EXCELLENCE Awards.
A community possum-control initiative, which has seen tui and korimako (bellbird) numbers grow in the region, wins the Air New Zealand EXCELLENCE Award for Environmental Impact.
The Hawke’s Bay Urban Biodiversity (HUB) programme, run by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC), in association with...
Mick Lester is on a mission to nurture the next generation of people willing to enter local government. He tells Ruth Le Pla how it’s going.
Catching up with Mick Lester is a bit like trying to pin down a kangaroo. I’d lucked a meeting with him in Wellington a while back and since then he’s been bouncing round the country doing...
