Taranaki Regional Council – Pre-Election Report – July 2019 4 Monitoring, using rat footprint tracking and a possum bite-mark index, show catch rates have dropped; rats went from 33 per cent to 19 percent in the past year, while the urban New Plymouth possum index has fallen from 25.6 to 1.4 per cent in the past four years. These results strongly suggest the rapidly growing trapping network in urban New Plymouth backyards, parks and reserves is having an impact,
the Meeting of Waters. The results suggest an impact from the increased rate of take allowed by the variation of consent 2053 since 2016. The Company has struggled to provide regular and timely updates on progress made towards monitoring sedimentation within the lake in this monitoring period. Due to the late submission of a lake sedimentation report during the writing of this report, a compliance assessment on the work undertaken by the Company to date has not yet been made in this
site. Inspection visits typically comprised of: a visual inspection of the production bore, abstraction pipework monitoring equipment and associated infrastructure; and obtaining manual measurements of groundwater levels in the production and monitoring bores and retrieving electronic data. To monitor the exercising of consent 7470-1.2, abstraction volume and rate data are recorded electronically at the site by a data logging system and transferred to the Council via telemetry,
the rest of this Agenda Item: The final option to be adopted for the repair/reinstatement and update of Yarrow Stadium The availability of the facilities for a multitude of users and sports at an affordable cost The Revenue and Financing Policy for Yarrow Stadium The incidence of rates for industrial and commercial ratepayers in the New Plymouth and North Taranaki constituencies The incidence of rates for the Patea Ward of the South Taranaki District. 6.
general rates increases have been at or below the rate of inflation for the past few years. The Council’s balance sheet remains very strong, with no public debt. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts and achievements of council staff during the year, ably governed by a team of Councillors providing clear direction, consistent with our mission. David MacLeod Basil Chamberlain Chairman Chief Executive page
Special Interest Group (regional sector of LGNZ) SIP Speed and Infrastructure Programme SMP Speed Management Plan SPR Special Purpose Road STDC South Taranaki District Council STE Stock Truck Effluent TEFAR Targeted Enhanced Financial Assistance Rate TIO Transport Investment Online TP Transport Programme TRC Taranaki Regional Council TSIG Transport Special Interest Group VKT Vehicle Kilometres Travelled Taranaki Regional Transport Committee -
lifestyles Regional Council Taranaki Taking Taranaki Regional Council Taranaki Yarrow Stadium reduction in targeted Yarrow Stadium rate following $20m COVID recovery infrastructure investment by the Govt. Public bus services and transport 26,775 55,220 Citylink passenger trips up 7.6% subsidised trips up by 1924 Total Mobility cardholders passenger trips on the Connector -New Plymouth service up 6.8%Hāwera 548,870 Connecting with the community engagements
administrative performance Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the consent holder, this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance during the period under review. The rating categories are high, good, improvement required and poor for both environmental and administrative performance. The interpretations for these ratings are found in Appendix II. For reference, in the 2021-2022 year, consent
budgeting for a 1.5% rates rise in the 2013/2014 year on the back of a zero percent rates rise in 2012/2013. This was assisted by improved dividends from Port Taranaki Ltd, which is 100% owned by the Council on behalf of the people of the region. The Council is firmly committed to continued public ownership of the port. Financially, the Council continued its strong financial performance. Operating expenditure was 1.3% below budget. On the resource management front, the Council had a busy year