Complaints to the Otago Regional Council's pollution hotline
about seven Central Otago bonfires within 48 hours has
prompted a warning that such behaviour will be ''stamped
out'' and the worst offenders prosecuted.
A proposal to invest in a Tarras irrigation scheme may have
dominated submissions but it only got a few mentions at the
Otago Regional Council's annual plan hearing yesterday.
Creating a student discount fare for Dunedin's bus service
will go a long way to increasing use of the public transport
service, student representatives say.
The Otago Regional Council's failure to list pinus contorta
in its draft annual plan is symptomatic of its attitude
towards wilding pines, Emeritus Prof Sir Alan Mark says.
Frustrations are starting to simmer at several Dunedin
secondary schools over new Otago Regional Council
regulations, implemented for coal-fired boilers, which are
costing schools hundreds of thousands of dollars in
compliance costs.
Do not drop the democratic ball again over the Tarras
irrigation scheme issue. That was the warning to the Otago
Regional Council's annual plan hearing panel yesterday from
submitter Robin Dicey, a Bannockburn viticulturist.
A change in the way elected members of councils are paid
means Otago regional councillors will not face a drop in pay
when their numbers increase in this year's local body
elections.
The goal of creating less crowded working spaces for staff
should not be lost by the Otago Regional Council, as it
settles into its new meeting rooms, Cr Michael Deaker says.
