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November 1 - 2016 KAIPARA LIFESTYLER
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Dargaville
Children’s Autism Foundation workshops Wednesday, November 9 at the Dargaville Museum, 32 Mount Wesley Coast Rd. FREE if you register online at www.autism.org.nz or phone 09 415 7406. Anglican Church Spring Fair with a “Touch of Christmas”. November 12, Dargaville Town Hall — 9am start. Northern Wairoa Country Music Club held 1st Sunday of each month at the Scout Hall Onslow St. 12.30 till 4pm. Enquiries phone Bruce 09 439 5513. Arapohue Bowling Club — Business House Bowls. Teams of 4, with 3 non bowlers limited entry. Starting Wednesday 9th November. Phone Sue Rokstad 09 439 0700 or 021 100 7817. SeniorNet for all your computer and mobile woes. Phone Dot 09 439 1711 or Heather 09 439 4452. Kaihu Valley Music Club every 2nd Sunday except January from 1–4pm. Everyone Welcome. Contact John or May 09 439 0827. Peggy purls in our Community. Meeting monthly, every 3rd Wednesday 10.30am, at Dargaville Sewing & Curtain Centre, 59 Normanby Street. Kumarani Productions, Circus Jam runs every Thursday 7–9pm at the Town
Hall through school terms only. A gold coin donation. Stitches and Craft — 5 Cranley Street, Dargaville 10am–4pm Tuesday and Friday. Contact Lois 027 473 0598 for further details. Make a Friend Playgroup. 0–5 years Thursdays 9.30am–noon. Methodist Church Hall, gold coin donation. Phone Ange 09 439 1304. Mental Health & Addiction Consumer Network. Mondays CMA rooms, 43 Tirarau Street, Dargaville. Gold coin lunch and workshop from 10am–4pm. Contact Graham Johnson Arataki Ministries. Phone 021 717 181 or 09 439 1685. NZ 60s Up Movement Dargaville Social Meetings held at the Dargaville Rugby Clubrooms on the first Tuesday of the month contact President Margaret Pinny 09 439 4560. Blokart sailing Regular social sailing at Glinks, Baylys and Ruakaka beaches. Contact Greg Schultz, 09 431 6863 or itzgreg@xtra.co.nz Dargaville Ukulele Group. New members are welcome either expert or beginners ok. Phone Mick 027 4792 126 or 09 439 7870 for more details. Wednesday Crafts 10am–12.30pm in old CMA building, Tirarau Street, All welcome. Varied crafts and warm
friendship. Lunch, morning tea and transport provided if necessary. $5 entry fee. Phone Lilian 09 439 7799 or Cynthia 09 439 5895 for more details. Acoustic Music Blackboard Concert — First Thursday of the month — 7.00– 9.30pm, Commercial Hotel, River Rd, Dargaville. $2 entry, $2 raffle. Performers and audience welcome. Phone Allan 09 439 6933 or 021 439 697. Girls Brigade For girls 5–15 yrs. Thursdays 3.30pm–5pm at the Baptist Church, Victoria St, Dargaville. Phone Pauline 021 263 7556 or 09 439 7507. Mainly Music 10–11am at the Dargaville Baptist Church, Victoria St. $2 per child or $3 per family. Phone Rebecca 09 439 1499. Dargaville Day Badminton every Thursday 10–12 noon. For any enquiries call Anneke 027 334 5515 or Lynley 09 439 8160.
Ruawai
Ruawai Garden Club — our annual Rose Show will be held on Saturday the 12th November. Anyone interested please phone Noeline on 09 439 2071
Wellsford
Wellsford Country Music Club 2nd Sunday of the month Phone John for further info 09 425 4041.
Mangawhai
Mangawhai Garden Ramble November 19–20. $25 per tickets. Mangawhai Bowling Club — Housie/ Bingo Held every Friday at the Mangawhai Club, Contact Jan 09 423 9511 or 09 431 5371.
Mangawhai Indoor Bowls Club at the Senior Citizen’s Hall Fagan Place every Monday 7.15pm ($3.00 includes refreshments) contact Terry 09 431 3254.
Markets
Kaihu Market On second November 19, 9am–noon. Kaihu Hall, stalls free, proceeds to fundraising for the hall. Esma 09 439 7293 Community Flea Market First Saturday of the month, Community Hall, Hokianga Road, opposite Dargaville Town Hall. $5 per table — book now 09 439 7243. Dargaville Riverside Market corner Totara and Kapia Street, Thursdays 12.00pm–4.00pm, phone 021 549 427 or see us on facebook. Kaiwaka Markets every Friday, 10am– 3pm. Kaiwaka War Memorial. David 021 210 3756. Maungaturoto Markets are on first Friday of the month, 3.30pm–6.30pm. For information phone Terri on 09 431 8599 or 021 022 20218 or email maungaturotomarkets@gmail.com. Paparoa Farmer’s market every Saturday 9am–12noon on the village green Paparoa. Mangawhai Village Market is on every Saturday by the Village Hall, 9.00am– 1.00pm. Contact Marita for details 021 598 917. Tangiteroria Tavern Car Boot Sale Gala, market day, 1st Sunday, $5 per car boot or stall. Contact Sheryl on 09 433 2802. Te Kopuru Market On 1st Sunday of the month, Coronation Hall, Te Kopuru. Ivy Vincent 09 439 1852.
A message from the new Mayor of Kaipara On behalf of my fellow Councillors, I would like to thank you all for the support you have given us at election time. We enter a new and exciting time in the history of Kaipara. To those who stood and missed out also a thank you for being prepared to take on the role, please stay involved. Council We began our role formally on the 25th when we were sworn in. We dedicated that day to meeting senior Council staff and had a great session on how we would work together. The following day was also spent on induction and in the afternoon had presentations from Don Elliot and Andrea Hemmins from the Dargaville Museum followed by Peter Boyd from the Dargaville Business Forum. Monday will be spent in Maungaturoto following a similar theme, spending the morning understanding the workings of Council and the afternoon learning from our various community groups. In Maungaturoto there will be Don McKay from the Community Trust and Lisa Tolich, CE of the Kauri Museum. Any group who would like to present to Council, could you please contact Sean Mahoney at smahoney@kaipara.govt.nz or call Council. Our collective aim is to spend quite a number of days between now and the Xmas break understanding Council and our communities so that we can begin the new year "match fit"! Responsibilities Peter Wethy, Mangawhai, is my Deputy Mayor. I will value Peter’s experience and also being a resident of Mangawhai village will assist to ensue a strong link between east and west. Initially there will be two sub committees of Council, Audit, Risk and Finance (ARFC) and a Remuneration and Development Committee (RDC). I am very pleased to advise that Richard Booth (ex Commissioner) will Chair the ARFC for a period of twelve months. There are two reasons for this appointment, firstly, I would like to "institutionalise" having a non Councillor as Chair of this committee and secondly, it will assist us in the transition from Commissioners to Councillors. Richard will be paid at the same rate as a Councillor would be to do this job. The fee was agreed to by the Remuneration Authority at $5,371 per annum. The key function of the ARFC will be to spend time looking at the finances of Council to have high level of detail, overseeing both the statutory audit and any internal audit work, developing the risk matrix for the business of Council and overseeing our various treasury functions (borrowings in our case). We have also agreed to the outside responsibilities as follows • • • • • •
Raupo Drainage Committee – Greg Gent Taharoa Domain Governance – Andrew Wade, Greg Gent Mangawhai Community Park Governance – Anna Curnow, Peter Wethy Harding Park/Tu Te Rangi – Karen Joyce-Paki, Victoria Del La Varis-Woodcock Funding Committee – Jonathan Larsen • Sport Northland Board – Libby Jones Regional Transport – Julie Geange.
Training All Councillors have submitted to me areas that they see they will need development in. Individual plans will then be put in place overseen by the Remuneration and Development Committee. For all of us training will be ongoing, its a fast changing world!
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Crown Observer I met the Minister Louise Upston in Wellington soon after the election and we had a very good discussion around this role. It’s an initiative that I strongly support . Our reality is that most on Council have had no Local Government experience and our Chief Executive (CE), Graham Silbey likewise is from the private sector. Barry Harris has been appointed to the role. Barry has been the CE of a number of Local Authorities so has great experience that we can draw on. I have worked with Barry some ten years ago and rate him highly. He is there for us if needed, will attend some, but not all meetings and will always be available to both Councillors and Management. It is important to note that he has NO decision making powers. Crown Manager Peter Winder one of our Commissioners, will fill this role. His responsibility is to deal with the various litigation that Council is involved in. He does have decision making power and does not need to refer to Council either around his decisions or the costs that will be incurred that Council has to fund. He will however keep us updated as necessary. From a personal perspective I very much look forward to putting this chapter in our history behind us. Its been expensive for ratepayers even though we have been successful. The future needs to be our focus now. Staff Numbers During the election a number asked me about the sharp lift in Council staff numbers. Back when I Chaired the Review of Council some 4 years ago my memory tells me KDC had around 50 staff. Today we have double that number. The reason.... back then virtually all Council services were contracted out, including, in some areas, overseeing the contractors. That has been changing and will continue to do so. Our roading team is a good example. back then we had 1.5 people "in house". Today that number is 12, being a mix of people from qualified engineers to administrators. Roading is the single largest expense item Council has and its largest function. I couldn't think of many business operations that would contract out their core function, that is largely because knowledge needs to be retained within the organisation not within contractor organisations, to retain market power. Although it’s not a good enough reason on its own, it does also ensure KDC employs a greater number of locals. Redhill Cemetery On Sunday I attended a celebration lunch, along with Councillors Andrew Wade and Anna Curnow, at the Coronation Hall to recognise the completion of a large project at the Cemetery. This is an amazing example of what a community can do with a visionary leader and a lot of innovation. I would like to acknowledge Des Subritzky for the huge effort he put into this project. I suspect Shirley, his wife's effort was very little less. In total between work in kind and donations a circa $70k project was done with no outside help. Well done to all those in the wider Te Kopuru area including a lot of past residents. Meeting Dates Our first full Council meeting will be held in Mangawhai on the 9th of November followed by the 13th December in Dargaville. Greg Gent Mayor
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