News and information from the Council - Te takiwä kaunihera o Kawatiri Issue #88 - April 2016 Keep up to date! 2 2016/2017 Draft Annual Plan Council’s Draft Annual Plan for 2016/2017 will be adopted by Council on Wednesday 30 March. Buller Events 2 Consultation Period: Roadshows: Calling all book lovers 2 Submissions will be accepted from Friday During the consultation period Council will hold Building consents on line 2 8 April 2016 to Tuesday 10 May 2016. roadshows in our local communities: Keep up to date 2 Consultation Documents: 11 April ~ Consultation documents and submission 12 April ~ Buller Libraries 3 forms will be on Councils website 13 April ~ Westport Solid Energy Centre 3 www.bullerdc.govt.nz from 8 April, and will 14 April ~ Ngakawau be available from: 18 April ~ NBS Theatre 3 - Council offices and libraries Venues in each area to be confirmed and will (Westport & Reefton) Community Grants 4 be listed on the Council website nearer the time - Punakaiki i-Site and Visitors Centre Please direct all queries to: Meetings 4 - Northern Buller Resource Centre Mary Wilson [03] 788-9618 Creative 4 - Karamea Resource Centre [email protected] what’s inside... Annual Report Summary For year ended 30 June 2010

Buller Events Building consents Are you organising a community or annual on line event happening in Buller? You are now able to lodge a building Don’t forget to send us the details for consent application on line by going a free listing on the events calendar through the link on the Council website on the Buller District Council website www.bullerdc.govt.nz and selecting http://events.bullerdc.govt.nz/ Building or directly at to drop in a poster or information to the https://consents-buller.abcs.co.nz. You can email the details to events@bdc. front desk at Council on Brougham Street Applying online will allow you to attach plans govt.nz fill in the events form or feel free in Westport. and specifications electronically saving time and resources. The deposit can be paid by direct banking referencing the applicant Calling all book lovers! name and site address. Once the application is in the system you will be able to track its Council is about to introduce a community Buller District Council, by phone 788 9634 progress and if further information is required book exchange with a difference throughout or email [email protected]. Council will contact you directly by email. Buller. As the name suggests, the Fridge Library This competition is designed to add colour, You will also receive the approved consent is a book collection housed in a fridge that is culture and a point of difference to our documents by email although a hard copy available for public use. The main advantage communities and like the recent bikestand will still be printed off to be available on site. of using fridges for the book exchange is that competition, the Fridge Library is another The new system will also allow a code they will be easy to spot around the district, low-cost positive initiative that encourages compliance certificate to be issued from the and will be able to withstand our famous community participation. site to an email address once a final inspection weather while protecting the books inside. has been completed and approved provided Picture: The first of the revamped fridges all required documentation, including any The Fridge Libraries will be dotted all around for the Fridge Library is this one, painted by additional fees, have been received. Buller, including in smaller locations such as Jessie Batchelor from the UK, who was in A live demonstration of how to lodge an Ikamatua and . Anyone can Westport for a few weeks recently. electronic application will be held at the use the libraries just by rocking up, browsing Westport Library on Thursday 31/03/06 the selection, choosing a book at 400pm. If you regularly lodge consent and swapping it for one no longer applications this is a great opportunity to needed. see how it is done and you are more than To kick-off the initiative, Council welcome to attend. invites you to head down to the You will still be able to lodge a hardcopy Transfer Station in Westport, select application in person and Council staff will a fridge from the collection that enter your details and scan the documents in has been set aside for the project to the system for you. (they’re free), and use your artistic flair to transform a plain old fridge into an amazing piece of art that Keep up will be put to good community use. to date! Along with having an opportunity to showcase your artistic talent in a fun If you’d like to stay community project, you will also be up to date more often, in the running for a prize for your remember to join our efforts. Council Community Info E Newsletter, which has a variety of snippets Council are also looking for people of useful information to keep you in the loop who would like to become caretakers between bi monthly newsletters. Just head to for each the Fridge Libraries. If this the News section of the Council website and sounds like something you would click on Council Community Info or head to like to do or if you would more http://bullerdc.govt.nz/council-community- information, contact Annikka at info/ to join our mailing list to receive the e newsletter by email – simple! What’s new @ Buller Libraries W I N D O W S T O R E A D I N G . . . Life Long Learning for Curious Minds The Buller District Libraries and the West Coast Adult Learning Service have joined forces to bring you a feast of wonderful speakers through the year. Each month, generally on the fourth Thursday of the month, there will be a presentation at 7pm in the library meeting room (enter off Henley Street). The presentations for the next 3 months are:

April 28 Lynn Irving will be speaking about being a vet in the Buller. May 26 Phil Rossiter will be speaking about the joys and struggles of the building of the Old Ghost Road June 23 Emma Stevens, author of Walking on Ice, will be speaking about her life in the Alaskan wilderness.

Everyone is welcome. A gold coin donation is requested. You can find more information on the Life Long Learning for Curious Minds facebook page and keep up to date with the Buller District Libraries facebook page.

SHOWS: How to stay informed with shows and movies: Check out our Facebook page or subscribe to our st 1 April – West Coast/Buller Regional Schools email database. Contact us on [email protected] Shakespeare Competition and Festival 19th-24th – Westport Performing Arts Movies: Competitions • Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice Shows and th 26 SNAPTIME – Play relating a true story • Dad’s Army • Lady in the Van movies focussing on a coal mining disaster at a coming colliery in the Derbyshire village of Creswell. • Hunt for the Wilderpeople • Zootopia 2D and 3D your 30th April-1st May – Best of the West Country • Grimsby • Allegiant way: Music Awards 24th May – Operatunity presents NBS Theatre is a Ticket Direct outlet, so no matter where in NZ The Great Gatsby Era the show is – you can purchase your tickets from us!!!

For more information ring NBS Theatre 03 789 4219 or see our website www.nbstheatre.co.nz Meetings You are warmly invited to attend the Council meeting listed below. Please note some venues are yet to be confirmed or maybe subject to change. WESTPORT Please contact Council to confirm venues closer to address Brougham Street the meeting date. PO Box 21 Westport 7866 COUNCIL ph 03 788 9111 27 April 2016, starting at 5pm fax 03 788 8041 free phone 0800 807 239 Council Chambers, Palmerston St, Westport 25 May 2016, starting at 5pm Council Chambers, Palmerston St, Westport REEFTON 30 June 2016, starting at 5pm address 66 Broadway PO Box 75 Council Chambers, Palmerston St, Westport Reefton 7851 ph 03 732 8821 If you have any queries about the above Council fax 03 732 8822 meetings, or would like to indicate your interest in free phone 0800 808 821 Community Grants speaking during the public forum, please contact Applications are now open for the next round Linda Pablecheque, [email protected] or Solid Energy Centre of Community Grants, to be allocated in Sept 03 788 9642. address Corner Pakington and 2016. The Community Grants Fund was set INANGAHUA COMMUNITY BOARD Domett Streets up to support the work of community groups Westport 5th April 2016, starting at 4pm ph 03 789 8316 and volunteer organisations, who are providing Reefton I-site Visitor Centre www.solidenergycentre.co.nz community and social projects and services within the Buller district. 7th June 2016, starting at 4pm NBS Theatre Reefton I-site Visitor Centre address 105 Palmerston Street Funds are available in recognition of the wide Westport range of organisations whose efforts enhance If you have any queries about the above meeting, ph 03 789 4219 the wellbeing of our communities. or would like to indicate your interest in speaking www.nbstheatre.co.nz at the public forum, please contact Mary Wilson, Application forms for the Community Grants Sue Thomson Casey Memorial Library [email protected] or 03 788 9618. address Palmerston Street Fund are available now from the Council Offices Westport in Westport and Reefton and from our website FINANCE & AUDIT COMMITTEE ph 03 788 8030 www.bullerdc.govt.nz/funding. 13 April 2016, starting at 5pm fax 03 788 8147 Buller District Council, Brougham St, Westport If your group or organisation would like to be 24 Hour Noise Control Services considered for a Community Grant, you need 11 May 2016, starting at 5pm ph 03 788 9115 to complete an application form and return it to Buller District Council, Brougham St, Westport 24 Hour Animal Control Services th the Council by Monday 5 September 2016. 15 June, starting at 7pm ph 03 788 9111 Late applications will not be accepted. Buller District Council, Brougham St, Westport After hours Operations emergencies Westport ph 03 788 9119 Reefton ph 03 732 8092 - cemeteries - roading CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND - sewerage - rural fire - stormwater - water CREATIVE COMMUNITIES SCHEME - refuse - council property

Funding for Local Arts Buller District Council email [email protected] Applications for financial assistance under that their projects will be of benefit to the website www.bullerdc.govt.nz the Buller Creative Communities Scheme are Buller community. now being invited. Application forms and further information Funding assistance is available for groups and are available from the funding page of our The Buller Community Newsletter is produced by Buller Printing for individuals to assist with projects taking place website www.bullerdc.govt.nz or at either of Buller District Council. in the Buller District that focus on participating the Council offices in Westport or Reefton. For circulation enquiries, please contact in the arts. Applicants must be able to show Buller Printing on ph 03 789 8858. Applications close at 4.30pm on Monday 9th May 2016. For editorial enquiries, please contact Buller District Council on 03 788 9111.