Don Driver mural Update
One or two stragglers to come in but approaching 1,200 signatures.
The next part is to present this to Council together with my submission.
I have sent in my request for this, though it looks like the first opportunity will be at the end of February, no matter.
I am preparing it currently, but if anyone has anything they feel might be pertinent to the submission please feel free to either reply on here or send me a message; I believe in consultation, unlike our Council.
I can't promise to reply to you all, but everything will be given consideration.
I also look forward, once I can confirmed my request has been granted, to seeing as many of you at the Council chambers for that meeting; it is so important, after what so many of you have said about the mural's significance to New Plymouth's history, that we show our Councillors that they cannot sweep this under the carpet, or wash their hands of it.
Happy Christmas to you all and let's start 2019 off with a victory to the ratepayers, the very people who helped build our great little City.
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
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Poll: If we want to reduce speeding, what do you think actually changes driver behaviour? 🛻🚨🚓
In the Post's article on speeding penalties, the question is asked whether speeding fines are truly about road safety, or are they just a way to boost revenue for the Crown?
What do you think? Should speeding motorists receive speeding fines or demerit points?
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37.5% The sting of a fine (Money talks!)
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62.5% The threat of demerit points (Nobody wants to lose their license!)
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