Your Update from District Council Call for volunteers at Get your Citizens’ Awards nominations in! Nominations for this year’s Citizens’ Awards close this Friday! Arbor Week planting day If you know someone who should be recognised for their efforts in the WE’RE LOOKING for many hands to community, complete the nomination make light work of a mass-planting! form by 5pm on Friday so that they On Wednesday 7 June the Council is can be considered. joining forces with Fitzroy School to mark Don’t let a local hero miss out! Arbor Week near Te Rewa Rewa Bridge. Nomination forms are online at About 1,500 plants will be dug-in at the newplymouthnz.com. Living Legends site near the bridge – and the public is welcome to come along and Monica Brewster Evening lend a hand. Come along to the Len Lye Centre Spaces are limited though! To register, Cinema at 7.30pm tomorrow please ring the Council on 06-759 6060 or (Thursday) for a discussion about Len email [email protected]. Lye’s and Robert Graves’s manifesto Volunteers will meet at the bridge at Individual Happiness Now. 10am on 7 June and will need to have This 76-year-old manuscript is a suitable footwear and a trowel or spade. collaboration between - Arbor Week celebrates the important role born artist Len Lye and notable trees play in our lives and communities, British writer Robert Graves, written and encourages individuals and groups to as an attempt to define a common plant trees. Arbor Day itself is on 5 June purpose and an alternative to Nazi propaganda. to coincide with World Environment Day. Tickets are $15 (Friends of The Living Legends site was first planted the Gallery $10, students with ID out in 2011 as part of a Rugby World free) – book your seats online at Cup community programme. Additional govettbrewster.com. planting in this back-dune area enhances Register now to be part of this year’s Arbor Week planting at Te Rewa Rewa’s Living Legends site! the wildlife habitat. Have your say on Waitara stormwater focus area COUNCIL MEETINGS WE ARE asking for your feedback on • Treasuring our water. the proposed 10 Focus Areas, which • Waitara stormwater. 24 May to 9 June will help us shape our priorities for • Thriving central city. the Long-Term Plan 2018-2028. • Iwi/Maori governance input. * Extraordinary Council (airport CCO) We have a survey online at • Coastal walkway extension from Bell newplymouthnz.com/Top10 that asks Block to Waitara. 1.30pm on Thursday 25 May about one of the proposed Top 10 Focus • East Port. Clifton Community Board1 Areas each week. • Flagship Infrastructure: refurbish TSB 4pm on Thursday 25 May It takes just a minute to fill in and you’ll Stadium and Todd Energy Aquatic Centre. 2 go in the draw to win an iPad! • Destination New Plymouth. Waitara Community Board Our proposed focus areas are: • People-friendly district. 9am on Friday 26 May • Zero waste 2040. Be sure to have your say! * Planning Committee 3.30pm on Tuesday 6 June PUBLIC NOTICES * Extraordinary Council (Annual Plan) 9.30am on Wednesday 7 June June meetings 20 June. Where no venue is shown, the Accordingly, in terms of Section • Kaitake Community Board1 at meetings are held at the Civic 342(1)(b) of the Local Government * Performance Committee COUNCIL will hold the following 7pm on Monday 26 June. Centre, New Plymouth. Act 1974 the Council directs that 3.30pm on Thursday 8 June meetings in June: • Inglewood Community Board2 at Venues: 1 – Hempton Hall, Tarata Road be closed to all traffic • Planning Committee at 3.30pm 1.30pm on Tuesday 27 June. Okato; 2 – Inglewood Library at property no. 7 (between Elliot * To be broadcast, with a recording available, on Tuesday 6 June. • Clifton Community Board3 at and Service Centre; 3 – Urenui Street and Dudley Road) from via newplymouthnz.com. • Extraordinary Council – Annual 4pm on Thursday 29 June. Community Centre; 4 – Waitara 7.30am until 5pm on Tuesday Plan at 9.30am on Wednesday 7 • Waitara Community Board4 at Library and Service Centre. 30 May or until the works are Agenda papers will be available for inspection June. 9am on Friday 30 June. completed (weather permitting). at least two business days prior to the meeting Temporary road closure: via newplymouthnz.com. Where no venues • Performance Committee at Agenda papers will be available The road will reopen without are shown, these meetings will take place in 3.30pm on Thursday 8 June. for inspection at least two business Tarata Road further notice. the Civic Centre, New Plymouth. • Len Lye Committee at noon on days prior to the meeting via REPLACEMENT OF a power pole Please direct all enquiries to Monday 12 June. newplymouthnz.com or at Council on Tarata Road will require the Brendon Bellamy of Tricky Trees Venue: 1 - Urenui Community Centre; • Council at 4.30pm on Tuesday offices and libraries. road to be closed. on 027 4718 441. 2 - Waitara Library and Service Centre.

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