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Twinkle twinkle, he’s a star

By Mary Anne Gill

Pirongia School principal Kelly Bicknell is sad the pool cannot be used by the community during the holidays.

Kelly Bicknell says her first year as Pirongia School principal has been challenging but amazing.

She feels sad for the students who because of Covid lockdown missed out on events such as school camps but then she looks at the resilience those same students showed when they returned to the classrooms “We’ve just grown students who are not going to take things for granted,” she says.

The school has also introduced a new student – a stuffed toy called Twinkle whose job it is to “have a lot of fun.”

Twinkle is a Christmas elf who features prominently in the school newsletters and helps children adjust back into school life by hiding in special spots around the school. The newsletter is full of pictures of Twinkle participating in various activities.

“We’re here to get children, happy, connecting and interacting. They love seeing Twinkle.”

Bicknell and her Waipā school cluster successfully sought funding to provide counselling for students affected by the lockdowns.

The counsellor visits once a week and is making a big difference.

The latest setback for the school’s 400 plus students and Pirongia is the decision not to open the school pool for community use during the holidays. Usually, the school sells keys which helps offset maintenance costs.

One on one swimming lessons can continue under public health restrictions under the traffic light system, but it would be impossible for the board of trustees to manage the facility for the community over the holiday period.

“This has been a difficult decision as we know what a great summer asset having the pool open for the community to use,” she says.

The decision meant the school had to hand back half of the $1500 it was allocated by Pirongia Ward committee’s discretionary fund to provide children with the daily opportunity to develop

water skills, and to have the facility open to the community outside of school hours.

Bicknell, husband Shaun and their three children moved to Pirongia earlier this year when she got the job at Pirongia.

She had been principal at the smaller Galatea School, in the Whakatāne district, for just over three years and they lived on the Bicknell dairy farm where they were the sharemilkers.

When the opportunity to be principal at the bigger Pirongia School came up, Bicknell, a Massey University graduate, knew it was the right role for her. They sold their cows and equipment and moved to Waipā. Shaun works for NZ Farmers Livestock Ltd. Two of their children are at Pirongia School; the oldest is at Te Awamutu College.

“Being a principal and leader of a school is an absolute privilege. While it’s important to value the past and people that have been before you, it is rewarding to achieve new goals and wonderful things at your school,” says Bicknell.

Students Sam Taylor, 11, and Isabella Tyer, 12, at the entrance to Pirongia School.

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St John Te Awamutu delivered a little Christmas cheer to the Māori Women’s Welfare League premises in Kihikihi last week in the shape of a much-welcome foodstuffs donation.

Ross McGowan, Te Awamutu area committee chairperson for St John Midland region, said they had been approached by supporters seeking advice on where in the local community to make a donation.

“We selected the Māori Women’s Welfare League,” Ross said. “We hope this will be the start of an ongoing relationship.”

His views were echoed by a grateful Māori Women’s Welfare League president Rosemary Murray, who said the donated food would fulfil ‘a vital need in support of our whānau’.

She said the organisation supports whānau wherever they are and donations such as that made through Te Awamutu St John were much needed and deeply appreciated.

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This will be my last message for the year.

Thank you to everyone who takes the time to read my column, for your community spirit and support.

I am personally grateful for the opportunity to communicate with you in this way and look forward to continuing in 2022.

I hope you find our information interesting and useful. With Ryan Fleming being on other duties currently, I would also like to thank the Te Awamutu community on his behalf for the support you give him.

Ryan says, “hey everyone, thank you very much for a great year! I look forward to catching up with you all next year.”

Today, to close, I again need your assistance. With Summer well underway we have had a big increase in boy racer activity with groups of 100 or more cars congregating predominantly in our rural areas.

Popular locations are Arapuni, Te Pahu, Ngahinapouri, Maungakawa, Whitehall, Te Miro and Scotsman Valley Road. These large groups of cars usually travel in convoy, will park up together and do burnouts for a short time, then move on to the next spot.

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I know there is periodically discussion on social media and elsewhere around locals being frustrated at the noise, pollution and general annoyance caused. So what can you do?

The offence of sustained loss of traction (that covers cars doing burnouts, rakis etc) leads to court, suspension of the person’s driver’s licence and the vehicle concerned being impounded. We need your good evidence if we are to hold the drivers to account however. When you see this type of activity, please call 111.

Remember 111 is the number you phone when something is in progress, so it is happening at the time and you need police attendance straight away. Calling 105 in this situation may slow the reporting process down. Any delay in a unit being despatched decreases the chance of us catching up with the boy racers where you saw them.

If this activity is happening in your area and you can safely get a video without being observed, all good.

Remember that your safety is paramount, however. As a minimum, evidentially

we need to know the location, vehicle registrations and descriptions, details of their actions and importantly, we need you to be willing to make a signed witness statement and to give your evidence in court if required. As with all crime prevention, it requires a team effort between police and the community.

One final reminder - If you are heading away over the holidays, minimise the signs that your house is unoccupied. Don’t close all the curtains, do leave a vehicle parked at your house, get someone to mow lawns if you will be away for an extended time and either stop mail delivery or have your mailbox emptied by a friend.

Ensure you lock up your home and keep valuables out of sight. The same applies when you are away camping or holidaying too. It’s easy to get a bit relaxed about such things when in holiday mode.

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Briefs…

Death investigated

Police were investigating the death of a 46-year-old man in a property in Hazelmere Cres, Te Awamutu, yesterday following reports of an altercation.

Dawson flies out

Hamilton and Waikato Tourism head Jason Dawson has announced he is moving to join Air New Zealand as its Regional Affairs manager.

Dawson, who has been in the job for more than five years, finishes at the start of February.

Cat’s out the bag…

This week’s Waipā District Council meeting, available to watch on Zoom, was held up for this week as mayor Jim Mylchreest announced he had a task to do. “Could you give me 30 seconds to let the cat out?” he asked councillors.

The mayor came in under budget and was back reading the agenda items in just 12 seconds.

Hard line on vaccines Waikato District Council has announced all staff and a range of others who work in its facilities, offices, or out in the field must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of January to carry out their roles. They will not be permitted to enter council workplaces in the meantime unless they are fully vaccinated. Visitors to the council’s corporate offices will also be required to show proof of vaccination.

Hall of Fame

The Waikato Chamber of Commerce has announced this year’s inductees to the Waikato Business Hall of Fame as Sir Dryden Spring and the late Sir Robert Mahuta. The induction will take place at the Business Awards on February 9.

Dutch Day

The Dutch market at Bridges Church in Cambridge will be held on Saturday, not tomorrow (Friday) as previously announced.

community Mayor stranded New board review – by one water

One of the three waters scuppered Waipā mayor Jim Mylchreest’s plans to join fellow mayors on the steps of parliament for a protest yesterday.

Mylchreest has joined forced with Communities For Local Democracy which represents more than 20 councils opposed to the Government’s Three Waters reform plans. But this week’s heavy rain put paid to his flight plans.

“I am extremely disappointed that the weather interrupted my plans to attend the launch of Communities For Local Democracy which is an important event to reinforce to central government that communities across New Zealand do not accept the need for the proposed Three Waters Reform and that the basis for the decision is not based on facts and that the forecast savings are not likely to be achieved,” he told the News.

“The appropriation of community assets, built up by communities over many generations, is unjust and the lack of control of those assets in the proposed governance structure of the four proposed new entities will seriously impact the communities ability to plan and develop their areas in a unique way.”

The Government announced in October it planned to strip the water infrastructure and services from 67 councils and create four megaregional water entities.

Legislation was scheduled to be introduced

before Christmas, but there has been a significant backlash and this week Leader of the House Chris Hipkins confirmed the legislation would be delayed.

The Act Party has backed the new group and its Local Government spokesperson Simon Court said yesterday Jim Mylchreest morning it planned to meet the council representatives.

He acknowledged the present system was “not up to scratch” but said the Government’s proposed reforms missed the mark.”

ACT says it would provide for councils to enter into voluntary “shared services” agreements while retaining local ownership and control. It would establish 30-year Central Government-Local Government Partnership agreements to plan water infrastructure upgrades tailored to specific regions and set up Public-Private Partnerships to attract investment.

“Simply shifting water assets from one government body to another is a recipe for more bureaucracy and less local input, not an enduring solution to upgrade water infrastructure in New Zealand,” Court said.

More classes for College

By Mary Anne Gill

Three new modular classrooms arrived at Te Awamutu College last week to house the college’s growing roll.

The first truck arrived at 4am and was finished by midmorning.

The college is one of 23 schools to benefit from new classrooms in an announcement from Education Minister Chris Hipkins last week.

Te Awamutu College’s roll has grown from 1134 to 1283 in four years.

It will get three new classrooms from the 2021 Budget short-term roll growth initiative.

“Schools around New Zealand are growing, and it is important that we provide them with the classrooms they need, so teachers can focus on teaching and students can focus on learning,” said Hipkins.

Three schools in Bay of Plenty/Waikato,17 in Auckland and three in the Otago/ Southland area got new learning spaces to help them cope with growing student numbers.

Te Awamutu College principal Tony Membery was asked to

comment but did not respond to a request from The News.

Meanwhile the college’s new board student representative for next year has been named as Jacob Chetwin.

House leaders will be announced in February.

In a scene similar to television’s Moving Houses, three new modular classrooms arrive at Te Awamutu College in the early hours.

The make up of Waipā’s local government boards and council is up for debate again.

An appeal has been lodged against the proposal adopted by the council in late October to retain community boards.

That has sparked a process which will see the Local Government Commission review those decisions and come up with a response by April 11.

The next local Government elections will be in October 2022.

The sole appeal received during the appeal period related to the decision to retain community boards in Te Awamutu and Cambridge. The council had earlier been looking at removing them from the political landscape.

Council adopted a proposal on October 26 to change elected member representation by cutting the number of councillors from 13 to 11, after hearing from submitters following a consultation period.

The council reported community feedback was split but the majority of submitters agreed with Council’s recommendation to reduce the number of general ward councillors from 13 to 10 to reflect the number of Councillors appropriate for a Council the size of Waipa. Rounding up the full 11 Councillors will be the new Māori Ward councillor, which was approved following a public consultation in April.

Council received 49 submissions and one late submission on the matter.

Community feedback was also split on community boards. Most submitters supported Council’s proposal to keep the Te Awamutu Community Board and Cambridge Community Board structure.

The final proposal adopted by Council for its representation arrangements for the 2022 and 2025 local body elections were: • Four Councillors for Cambridge Ward and a boundary change in the Fencourt and Hautapu areas.

• Three Councillors for Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Ward and a small boundary change in the Paterangi/Ngaroto Road area.

• Two Councillors in the newly combined Pirongia and Kakepuku Ward and boundary changes in the Paterangi/Ngaroto Road and Kaipaki areas.

• One Councillor for the Maungatautari Ward and a boundary change to extend the ward to include Kaipaki and reflect the changes to the Cambridge Ward boundary.

• Te Awamutu Community Board to become the Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Community Board, and \maintain the same number of elected members from the same areas (reflecting the small boundary change in the Paterangi/Ngaroto Road area); • Cambridge Community Board to reduce by one member, comprising four in the Cambridge and one in Maungatautari subdivision. Changes proposed for the ward boundaries would also be reflected in the subdivision boundaries.

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Vax ban: Titchener hits out

By Mary Anne Gill

A Te Awamutu Community Board member told Waipā District Council “we’ll see you in court” when his notice of motion to prevent unvaccinated people from going into council facilities lapsed for want of a seconder.

Kane Titchener told the board Waipā chief executive Garry Dyet acted without consultation when he banned people who did not have a Covid vaccine pass from council buildings including swimming pools and libraries. “(He) has made the decision to ban healthy people from facilities they have paid for. It is a bloody disgrace,” Titchener told the board.

In a statement to The News, he said the action was “discriminatory and creates a segregated society.

As we know from history, segregated societies do not end well.”

Other Waipā residents have also reacted angrily to the Waipā decision and threatened to take the council to court while some called for a rates rebate saying they are not getting services they pay for.

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rate continues to lead the Waikato with 95 per cent first doses and 91.4 per cent second doses as of yesterday morning.

Māori rates are lower with first doses at 82.2 per and second doses at 74.8 per cent.

Nina Parker, who The News understands was one of the first people turned away from the Te Awamutu Aquatics Centre, has launched a Give-a-Little page to raise $10,500 for a representative action.

By Tuesday, the fund had reached over $4000.

“We support appropriate safety protocols for these venues for Covid-19 and are of the opinion that where essential services such as supermarkets are prohibited from requiring vaccine passports, so too should

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Mayor Jim Mylchreest said the actions put Waipā in a “really sad position.”

“Although it’s a small percentage of the population that have got really strongly held views against vaccination for whatever reason and we’ve got this split in the community, we’ve really got to look to focus on the majority and looking after the health and wellbeing of the whole community.

“It’s a really challenging time. I feel for those people who have made that call and I feel for the staff who have to manage it. It becomes quite confrontational. Somehow, we’ve got to satisfy people we’re doing the right thing and we are considering everybody’s point of view,”

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Commsafe boost

By Mary Anne Gill

Part of the unspent $258,645 in the Waipā Covid community recovery fund will go towards Te Awamutu’s Commsafe.

Commsafe is one of several organisations which will benefit from what is left of $400,000 allocated in August last year to help the district recover from the pandemic.

In a report to an extraordinary Strategic Planning and Policy committee meeting this week, Strategic Partnerships manager Gary Knighton said $141,355 was originally allocated in November last year.

There had been a stronger economic recovery than anticipated until the Covid Delta variant appeared.

“The Covid-19 response continues to be a dynamic situation. With the recent implementation of the Covid-19 Protection Framework the ability to respond quickly to community needs is ever present,” Knighton said.

At the request of councillors, staff looked at ways to use the funds, so the focus was on areas of community benefit such as vaccination, community safety and support for the hospitality, retail and events sectors.

Commsafe Te Awamutu and the Cambridge Safer Communities Trust will receive $30,000 in total from the allocation. Both organisations said they could make a significant impact with the funding.

The two Chambers of Commerce in Cambridge and Te Awamutu have also expressed interested in an alfresco dining proposal.

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Titchener disagreed saying other councils had not mandated Covid passes.

When his notice of motion at the community board meeting failed, Titchener said he would see the council in court. Minutes later he left the meeting.

Susan O’Regan said Dyet had to make the call, which she and other councillors supported, to protect staff “first and foremost.”

“No one wants to be in that position on a lot of levels, least of all staff.”

Vaccination rates in the district were high. “Have faith in the science,” she said.

Lou Brown said the council had to protect its staff from the likelihood of becoming infected.

Dyet told the council meeting earlier in the day he was managing the risk for staff.

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THE FEDS’ VIEW

Three Waters will fail

By Jacqui Hahn, President, Federated Farmers Waikato

The establishment of four entities mandated

by Government to deliver stormwater, wastewater and drinking water services across the country is destined to fail, in my view.

Justification of the new system has been based on incorrectly collated figures and major assumptions. The whole process lacks transparency and accountability. It is difficult to see this delivering an optimal outcome when there is no hard evidence to support the position that small council communities will be better serviced in a centralised system.

It’s been put up to the general public as the solution (to a poorly defined problem) and given a big promotions budget to sell the story before the chapters in the book have even been written. No-one can get a straight answer on what assets and services are going to be in or out, for example.

A key point relates to stormwater and flood and drainage networks in the rural zone. A lot of this infrastructure is owned or operated by regional councils and therefore likely to be transferred to the new entities but we are yet to get confirmation from central government one way or the other.

I can only see great reputational risk by any person or group promoting the status quo or not trying to find a better way, especially once the rubber hits the ground and the failures become glaringly obvious to everyone. How can a centralised regulator govern stormwater, when so much of it is simply based on the local flow of the land, and there is lots of uncertainty as to what a stormwater network is, or even where it begins and ends.

The cabinet papers say the network of pipes and channels: what does that mean?

Is a culvert a pipe? Are rural roadside drains

network channels? Some of them belong to the NZTA, others to councils as part of the roadside reserve.

I can see great piles of memorandum of understandings building up.

It also seems common sense to me that if you’re on a rural scheme deep in the Waikato or Coromandel and if your water turns brown you will struggle to get assistance or advice, or even a person to take your call. Highly vexing when compared to dialling up your district council or someone from the local scheme committee who knows the local area.

If you go to the water pages on, say, Hauraki district’s website, there’s a page for each scheme, info on the water quality right now, and what the situation is as regards quality, pressure and flow. Many councils do this. Seems a lot safer to me for people than waiting for a bureaucratic call centre to answer the phone somewhere.

The incentive of debt reduction or reimbursement of infrastructure costs by participating councils has been reduced to gross write-downs by the government so that has been described as outright theft. The ratepayer and renters pay the shortfall plus whatever it takes to raise the standard of all the Three Waters in the amalgamated group.

The level of services is unlikely to change much for the majority, combined with less timely action at the community level for dayto-day issues.

To get improvements in the three waters, there was opportunity to put more teeth in behind local government with clear outcomes and assistance packages and templated contracts that protect the community spend on underperforming new infrastructure.

FAITH IN WAIPĀ

The truth about Christmas

By Murray Smith, Senior Leader, Bridges Church

Lots of traditions can be sourced back to meaningful origins. Over time however, many drift into being a ‘form’ with their point long forgotten.

Once a tradition is formed, then perpetuated throughout many years, memories can dim as to what actually began that tradition in the first place.

Reflecting on ‘why’ we do what we do and the circumstances behind our observance of traditions is worth re-evaluating.

I heard someone once describing a young woman about to pan-fry a whole fish. Before she placed it in the hot frying pan she cut its tail off.

Her mother observed this and asked the daughter if there was a reason for cutting off the fish’s tail before cooking it. The daughter’s slightly indignant response was that she had learned it from her mother “I learned that from watching you,” she said. “You always cut off the tail first and I thought it was just something that you did to cook fish nicely.”

The mother smiled as she responded, “Oh my goodness! I only ever cut the tails off because I never owned a frying pan that was big enough…”

That makes me think about how Christmas is celebrated. With traditions galore that go with the season, it’s anyone’s guess where these originated back in the past. Putting up the Christmas tree, decorating spaces with tinsel and lights, kissing someone you love under mistletoe, eating treats like plum pudding, the anticipation of Santa Claus coming (if you’ve been good), hanging stockings, exchanging gifts… on the list goes.

But what is the enduringly special element

of Christmas? The clue is in the first six letters.

Christ. Therein lies the blessing and magnitude of Christmas. The coming of a Saviour, so needed by all of us.

Our culture has exchanged much of this significance, preferring other traditions over celebrating the birth of a baby born 2000 years ago.

Yet the birth of Jesus Christ remains the pre-eminent event in human history despite many viewing it as irrelevant to their lives.

Becoming secularised and humanistic has had consequences. In 2016 the Oxford Dictionary declared the phrase of the year to be… post-truth era - having observed its usage increase by 2000%.

The assertion of our world being in a ‘posttruth era’ has certainly gained oxygen up until today, with its abundance of twisted, misrepresented, distorted and unreliable information. Into a setting desperately needing truth, Jesus’ timeless words echo…

“I am the truth.”

While leading a small group course explaining what Christian faith really is, I spoke about the coming of Jesus to earth. A young woman in her ‘twenties’ delightfully expressed her discovery realising for the first time, the true essence of the Christmas story.

That wondrous account of Mary giving birth to Jesus - the ‘incarnation’ or God coming in human form to reveal Himself.

She had observed nativity scenes on cards and in shop windows since childhood, but never connected the dots as to the reality and purpose behind those images.

Discovering the reason for the season changes everything.

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THURSDAY DECEMBER 16, 2021

OBITUARY – MARGARET JEAN WALLIS: 13.08.1938 – 14.10.2021

Sporting passion passed down the line

By Viv Posselt

Jean Wallis will be a familiar name to many Waikato sports-lovers. Those whose lives she touched across generations will remember her contagious passion and abiding belief that playing sport helps shape character.

From childhood, Jean played and excelled in a range of sports, primarily softball, netball, and indoor basketball. Decades spent coaching and umpiring only enhanced the reputation she had built as a player.

She took up lawn bowls in later life, applying the same dedication to that as she had to other disciplines and was soon racking up wins at local, regional and provincial level, including four Waikato bowling titles.

She also played for the Te Awamutu Bowling Club.

Word has it that in Jean’s case, the term sports ‘fan’ translated directly to ‘fanatic’. That reference was made during a private celebration of her life after Jean died in Waikato Hospital in mid-October.

It is because of her expansive sporting reach that the family has decided to hold a memorial service for Jean at the Cambridge Raceway from 1pm on February 18, at which all will be welcome.

Jean was born in Taranaki on August 13, 1938, the youngest of five children. Jean and her siblings were brought up by a solo-mother in Roto-o-Rangi and attended the primary school there.

She later played softball and netball for Cambridge High School, going on to represent Cambridge and attain Waikato honours through being part of the Waikato softball team that won the Bensel Cup and Coca-Cola Trophy at the 1955 New Zealand Interprovincial Championships.

A year later, in 1956, she married Ted Wallis.

They raised three children at their Roto-o-Rangi farm, with Jean all the while continuing her

involvement with Cambridge softball and netball.

Her eldest daughter Dianne Overwater said her mother then took up playing indoor basketball in the local competition.

“After her years of playing netball, she umpired and coached local representative teams, and went on to the Waikato sub association as coach for five years,” Dianne said. “She was honoured with a life membership for her contribution to netball.”

Jean’s sporting prowess has passed on to her family. Dianne played in the Cambridge softball team alongside her mother, and both Dianne and her late sister Margaret played indoor basketball against Jean. Dianne and Margaret both represented Waikato at softball; Dianne represented Cambridge at netball and moved into coaching and umpiring. She still officiates at netball games. Jean’s son Ian played soccer, and both his sons swam competitively, while both Dianne’s daughters played netball at representative level, with the younger making Waikato age group teams.

In the early 1990s, Jean and Ted moved to Leamington. Jean continued with her sporting commitments while also working for the then Cambridge Independent, and what was then Wright’s Bookshop. She also joined the Leamington Bowling Club where she was described as a ‘keen and regular bowler’ both at club and competition level, winning several championships. She was club president for a year.

When the Leamington club closed in 2012, Jean joined the Te Awamutu Bowling Club where she notched up a raft of additional wins.

Dianne said her mother was very family-oriented and was always on hand to support her children and grandchildren in their endeavours.

Jean is survived by her daughter Dianne and son Ian, four grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

Jean Wallis played for the Te Awamutu Bowling Club.

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Live stream: why it’s not liked

By Mary Anne Gill

The two Waipā community board chairs are unhappy they had to allocate their ratepayerfunded discretionary funds with the public watching.

Cambridge’s Sue Milner said this year was the first time they had to consider the applications live.

“We learned a lot about many groups in our area who make a real difference in our community.”

But members felt uncomfortable about debating the applications on live stream.

“If can be very difficult if someone knows something about an applicant, that may be considered detrimental to their application and they have to say this in a public meeting.

“It’s not fair on the board or the applicant,” she said.

Te Awamutu chair Ange Holt agreed saying it was hard to do it in a completely public space.

“It would be nice to go back to the way we

No censure plans

By Mary Anne Gill

Waipā District Council says it has no further plans to censure Cambridge councillor Philip Coles over a conflict-of-interest breach at a recent committee meeting.

Deputy chief executive Ken Morris said Cr Coles did not vote on the matter during the meeting. “There is no further action planned other than to use this as an opportunity to further reinforce the importance of the processes in place.”

The council had appropriate processes in place to manage and mitigate conflicts of interest, he said.

“Our elected members are aware of the guidance issued by the Office of the Auditor General and it featured in our

Philip Coles

beginning of term induction programme with the guide distributed to all elected members, and senior staff from the Auditor General’s office running an interactive session with our members on this topic,” said Morris.

Waipā mayor Jim

Mylchreest told Coles at the committee meeting that he was “getting to a point where it’s lobbying rather than information” while discussing a grant to Destination Cambridge.

Coles chairs Destination Cambridge which was asking for funds to run a movie night at Cambridge Raceway. The event went ahead with more than 300 people attending.

Meanwhile, Cr Coles continues to make or break the news. The councillor credited with revealing the first Covid case in Waipā earlier this year revealed this week Tourism Waikato head Jason Dawson was moving on – and stepped in to help control traffic following a vehicle crash in Cambridge.

used to do it,” she said.

“We do the mahi.”

Waipā allocates discretionary funding to its two community boards and the Pirongia Ward committee. This year more than $70,000 went to community groups and organisations.

There were 64 applications for nearly $308,000. Te Awamutu allocated $22,166.86, Pirongia $24,513.80 and Cambridge $25,000.

Milner and Holt presented to this week’s district council meeting. Holt was particularly critical of the council-community board relationship saying there was rarely a mention of the community board’s involvement in council media releases and that without her newspaper column, the community would not know what the board does.

She gave the example of the residents’ survey results reported by council.

“We did not see ‘only one out of five think council do a good job’ quoted in the article but we did see community boards singled out with the statement ‘two in five do not know what community boards do.’

“This was actually 41 per cent, so what about the almost 60 per cent that do know what we do. Considering how much press there is for council compared to community boards, we are not doing too badly. Putting the statement the other way, ‘three in five do know what community boards do’ would reflect that,” said Holt.

She urged the council to keep the community boards informed of projects and activities and to give them more time to feedback.

Often, they only had four days to canvas the community – from when the board agenda comes out to when the meeting takes place.

“That is not enough time, and we often only have one perspective.”

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Meet our three youth MPs

By Mary Anne Gill

The full set of Youth MPs for the three general electorates with Waipā links have been confirmed.

The News revealed last week that Te Awamutu’s Brylee Gibbes, was chosen as Barbara Kuriger’s TaranakiKing Country MP.

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Brylee will be joined by Waipā teenagers Sophia Goodrich and Meghana Gaddam to sit in the 10th Youth Parliament next July.

Sophia, 16, studies at Cambridge High School and Meghana at St Peter’s School.

They will represent Taupō’s Louise Upston and Waikato MP Tim van de Molen in Wellington on July 19 and 20 next year.

Sophia’s mother Rachel (nee Brighouse) participated in the first Youth Parliament in 1994, as Bill Birch’s Franklin representative, held to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the lowering of the voting age to 18.

Then it was only an education day in Wellington.

Now it is every three years and runs from March 1 to August 31 with a two-day event in Parliament itself.

Sophia lives in French Pass

Road and says she is invested in her country’s future and how decision will affect her generation.

“I can communicate well with a wide variety of people and I enjoy forming new connections.”

The community project she wants to undertake in the electorate is to provide free swimming lessons. She is a Learn to Swim instructor at Perry Aquatic Centre in Cambridge and will give the free lessons herself.

“Living in New Zealand means swimming is an essential skill in order to live safely and a basic life skill which can bring joy in going to the beach or lake.

Upston said Sophia came across as an inspirational person with good positive energy.

“Everyone we interviewed was simply outstanding, especially considering interviews were held virtually,” said Upston.

Meghana lives in St Kilda and is holidaying with family in India.

She was St Peter’s School head girl this year and excelled through her studies and extracurricular activities including volunteering for two years at the Refugee Orientation Centre Trust in Hamilton and contributing to the Model United Nations.

As part of Meghana’s Head Girl role, her responsibilities included planning the Waipā Youth Awards, chairing the student executive and leading the prefect team.

She intends doing either a Bachelor of Property / Bachelor of Commerce in economics and finance conjoint, or a bachelor of

property / bachelor of global studies in international relations and business next year, at Auckland University.

Van de Molen said Meghana’s four-minute video, where she gave her opinion on issues facing youth in the Waikato, was excellent and could have come straight from Parliament’s general debate.

The 10th Youth Parliament includes Youth MPs selected

by each MP and a Youth Press Gallery which will report on the activities of Youth MPs and learn from the Press Gallery journalists about the key role they play.

The Youth Clerk of the House will be at the heart of political decision making, providing advice to Youth MPs, and ensuring Youth Parliament runs as it should learning from the Clerk himself, David Wilson.

Rimmington apologises

Waikato Regional Council Chair Russ Rimmington (pictured right) has been censured by elected members for comments he made during an October Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) webinar on the Three Waters reform.

It followed a letter of complaint about the comments to Waikato Regional Council from Bonita Bigham, chairperson of LGNZ’s Te Maruata Rōpu Whakahaere.

During the final meeting of council for the year, Cr Rimmington apologised “without any qualifications or reservations from the bottom of my heart” for the “disrespectful and inappropriate remarks I made”.

Due to a conflict of interest declared at the start of the meeting by Cr Rimmington, the deliberations and vote on a notice of motion on the matter were chaired by councillor Barry Quayle.

Councillors unanimously recorded their “serious concerns with the offensive comments” and requested that Cr Rimmington reflect on his responsibilities as chair, and the expectations conferred upon him.

The majority of councillors agreed that their decisions in the meeting amounted to “censure and lack of confidence” in him and that “significantly improved performance” needed to be demonstrated.

Four councillors, Stu Husband, Kathy White, Pamela Storey and Hugh Vercoe, abstained.

Councillors were told a written apology had gone to Te Maruata Rōpu Whakahaere, Waikato Regional Council’s iwi partners and Local Government New Zealand.

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Going up…

Despite submissions against it from all the councils opposed, including Waipā, a bill allowing people to build up to three homes of up to three storeys high on most sites without a resource consent, passed through Parliament this week.

National, Labour, Greens and the Māori parties all supported the bill with only Act opposed. It enables tier one councils, including greater Hamilton which includes Waipā, to implement the policy from August 2023.

Power to the people

Waikato and King Country links to Taranaki have been made easier for drivers of electric cars with the installation of a rapid charging station at Mokau. The 50kW station fills a gap in the EV charging network between New Plymouth and Te Kuiti. It is the result of collaboration between Waka Kotahi, ChargeNet and Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority with support from Waitomo District Council.

Road plan

Resource consent applications have been filed by Waka Kotahi with The Waikato Regional Council, Matamata-Piako District and South Waikato District councils as part of its plans to carry out major work at the intersection of State Highway 1 and 29 at Piarere. The roading agency wants to alter the road configuration and add a major roundabout away from the present site.

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Bus drivers will get a slice of a $200,000 bonus announced by the Waikato Regional Council. This amounts to about $1000 for a full-time worker and recognises the job they have done through Covid-19 lockdowns in the region. At the same time the council has announced SuperGold Card holders can travel free at all times from March.

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Enviro win for Tokanui A move which sees Waipā District Council taking on responsibility for maintaining the Tokanui Hospital and Tokanui village wastewater system is an environmental win, councillors have been told.

An agreement was reached last month between Waipā District Council and Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) to help with the operation of two new wastewater pump stations and the wastewater network in Tokanui Village.

The decision will assist LINZ with a gap in services, Waipā District Council Consultant Engineer Richard Bax told last week’s Service Delivery Committee meeting.

“The agreement reached is for staff to manage the wastewater reticulation on behalf of LINZ and for the village’s wastewater to be received by Council’s wastewater network for treatment,” Bax said.

“LINZ is still working through the ownership of the wastewater network with Maniapoto Māori Trust Board so whether the asset will be vested to Council to look after in future isn’t agreed at this time.”

The Tokanui Hospital wastewater treatment plant and pump station was built

in the 1950s to service the Tokanui Hospital and surrounding properties. Wastewater from Tokanui is now being pumped to the Te Awamutu wastewater treatment plant and pump station through the pipeline servicing the Waikeria Prison.

The wastewater plant was operated and maintained by Waikato District Health Board and its predecessors until April 2019, and by the Wastewater Specialists from April 2019 until decommissioning this month.

Council’s Water Services Manager Martin Mould said the agreement would also see the removal of treated wastewater from entering the nearby stream which would result in a much-improved environmental outcome.

He said connecting Tokanui Village into the Waikeria pipeline, which brings wastewater from Waikeria Prison through to Te Awamutu for treatment, was a win for the environment and for the town.

Bidding farewell to the plant were longtime wastewater specialists Lloyd Furze and Tony Turnbull who provided a combined 78 years of service to the Tokanui community.

Turnbull started at the plant in 1978 and was joined by Furze in 1986.

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Helping each other through COVID-19 With more cases of COVID-19 in the community, it’s possible you and your whānau will be exposed to the virus. To make sure you’re ready, have a plan in case you or someone in your house tests positive and needs to isolate.

Everyone who tests positive for COVID-19, and those who live with them, will need to isolate for at least 10 days to stop the spread of the virus. If someone else in your house tests positive for COVID-19, they’ll be advised how much longer they need to isolate.

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Most fully-vaccinated people with COVID-19 are likely to have a mild to moderate illness and will fully recover at home.

Who can help out Be prepared in case you’re exposed to COVID-19. Speak with a neighbour, friend, or whānau about the support you could need. For instance, dropping off food and supplies, and help with activities outside the house. Being ready is about people, conversations, connections and knowing what to do, so your whānau and community can help each other when needed.

You’ll have a support person who will contact you often to check that you and your whānau are safe and supported – even if you’re travelling and away from home. You will also get a telephone number for 24-hour health support.

If you need more help or support to manage at home, you can access a COVID-19 welfare line.

What you’ll need To help you get through, you will need to have food, medications and supplies available to you. Find a detailed checklist to help you prepare at Covid19.govt.nz/prepare

Check what support is available for self-isolating at home and find more preparation tips at Covid19.govt.nz/prepare

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