Council News
Councils are better placed to deliver the Government’s Three Waters outcomes than a mega-entity model, new research shows.
Ashburton District Council has arranged alternative safe drinking water supplies at Methven and Mt Somers while temporary boil water notices are in place on the community schemes following last weekend’s rain.
UPDATE 18 February: Methven’s boil water notice has been lifted.
Delays in the construction industry caused by global and national supply chain issues mean Ashburton District Council’s new Library and Civic Centre is unlikely to be completed until the second quarter of 2023. Its original completion date was the end of this year.
Ashburton District Council is amending its Transportation Bylaw to keep heavy traffic out of the newly revitalised central business district in Ashburton.
Contractors are making good progress on a $1.3 million rehabilitation of Arundel Rakaia Gorge Road, with the first section of work to be complete by Easter.
Despite the wet and chilly weather last weekend, we had just under 50 people (47 to be precise) visit our drop-in information event at Lake Clearwater.
Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown is supporting members of Ashburton’s Tongan community, sending goods to family and friends back home as the Pacific Island recovers from an undersea eruption and tsunami.
Ashburton District Councillors are proposing to use $2 million from a rainy day reserves fund to boost roading work in the 2022-23 budget.
Council has granted $9547 to help Hakatere Huts residents set up a water source for fighting fires in the coastal settlement.