Kia ora and hello!I am sure that you are looking forward to a few well-deserved days off over summer. It has been a huge year for so many of us and I feel we all need a little family fun, sun and a great kiwi holiday season to celebrate.We need to have some time to… Read More End of Year Message from the Mayor Jacqui Church
Matangi School has put together a family cookbook to help raise money to upgrade the school pool and surrounding native area. “At the heart of Matangi School is our Tui-riffic mascot. Tui-riffic is a very special part of the Matangi learning community and is someone that all students and teachers are very proud of. To… Read More Opportunities to buy local? – you could purchase the beautiful cookbook Nectar created by the Matangi School Fundraising Committee.
A new Sustainability and Wellbeing Committee has just been added to the Waikato District Council committee structure. It will become one of the Council’s main committees alongside the Policy & Regulatory, Strategy & Performance (formerly Strategy & Finance) and Infrastructure committees which all councillors attend. The new committee will handle decisions on Council work that… Read More Tamahere-Woodlands Councillors’ update December 2022: Looking to the future for local government
The Matangi Community Committee was set up to contribute to the Matangi community plan and to be a liaison point between Waikato District Council and the local community. It provides an opportunity to raise local issues with council, coordinate responses to Council proposals and funding opportunities and to hear about Council matters from our local… Read More Matangi Community Committee Quarterly Meeting, 7.30 p.m., Tuesday November 15, Tamahere Council and Community Space. All Welcome.
For some time now Waikato District Council has been relying in good part to receive community feedback on proposed policies and bylaws via its website Shape Waikato. You can sign up to receive notification of items as they are posted. Each issue has a page setting out the proposals and how to provide feedback at… Read More WDC currently seeking feedback on a number of issues.
Thank you to everyone who voted in the Waikato District Council elections. Tamahere-Woodlands Ward led the District with a 32.3% turnout although, sadly, the overall turnout across the District was 27.8%, the lowest of the last three elections. Mike Keir and I, Crystal Beavis, have now been sworn-in as Councillors for the Ward, which stretches… Read More Tamahere-Woodlands Councillors’ update October 2022: Council sworn in.
Here is a great opportunity to catch up with what the sports club is planning to do and join them in welcoming our new Council representatives and thanking Rob McGuire. Please see the attached invitation and rsvp to Lance if you are going to attend. Lance.Rapana@tehauora.co.nz or contact him if you have any queries.
The original Matangi Hall opened in 1904 and was run by a community committee until it burnt down in 1959. The community built a new one in its place and passed ownership to the Waikato Council in 1962. From that time the Hall has been funded by local ratepayer contributions and hire fees and administered… Read More Matangi Hall Committee AGM, Matangi Hall, 478 Tauwhare Road, Wednesday 16 November 7.30 p.m. – we need some new members.
39 YEARS AS A COUNCILLOR – MY REFLECTIONSThis year I chose to not seek re-election. So much has changed during the past four decades.In 1983 I was elected unopposed as Councillor for the Ruakura Riding, Waikato County Council, following in the footsteps of my father who was the Riding member for 12 years. I was… Read More Last word – Councillor McGuire – the final newsletter
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