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Northland Regional Council - 21 October 2009 Page 21 Item 7The positions of Land Programme Manager and Environmental Monitoring Officer –Land Use were advertised internally and externally during the month withapplications closing on 10 September 2009. Interviews with short listed applicantsfor the position of Environmental Monitoring Officer – Land Use were held on2 October 2009 and interviews for the position of Land Programme Manager arescheduled for 5 October 2009.The position of Regional Policy Senior Programme Manager has been advertisedinternally and externally during the month. Applications close on 8 October 2009.The positions of Biosecurity Officer, Consents Officer, Environmental MonitoringOfficer – Bay of Islands, Hazardous Substances Programme Manager andWastewater Management Officer – Engineer are on hold or are under review. In themeantime temporary and/or consultant staff are being used as required.STAFF ESTABLISHMENTStatus (FTE) rounded Sept 2009 Sept 2008 Aug 2009Full Time Permanent 117 110 117Part Time (FTE) 9 9 10Fixed Term (incl Part Time) 7 6 5Students/TFG 1 2 1Vacancies 9 15 10TOTAL FTE 143 142 143STAFF TRAININGCourse Dates Location AttendeesCustomer Services Course 9-11New Plymouth K GrammerSeptemberInformation and Meeting 8 September NRCDeborah RyderLaw2009Dean AldertonKathryn RossHeather WeberSharon CallaghanLisa AubreyDesrae NicholasHEALTH AND SAFETY• There have not been any serious incidents or injury in September.COMMUNITY RELATIONSPUBLIC COMMUNICATIONSNorthland’s media was monitored for items of interest to the Council. Media releaseswere sent to appropriate media concerning the following:• Investigation into mystery Whangarei plant• Super City boundary change ‘workable’ for NRC• NRC to give away aerial, geographic data• NRC nominates three new port corp directors• Biological gorse control research wins NRC award• Nominations sought for Whangarei flood group• Draft Mangawhai Mooring Management Plan released• Mystery Whangarei plant identified
Northland Regional Council - 21 October 2009 Page 22 Item 7• Tsunami warning for Northland• Update 2 - tsunami expected in Northland• Update 3 - tsunami passes, warning downgraded• Update 4 –tsunami warning cancelled, but caution still advisedThe Chairman’s ‘Northern Matters’ column covered the proposed local governmentchanges in Auckland and highlighted the need for Northland to work with theAuckland Transition Agency.The Chairman’s ‘From where I sit’ column looked at changes to the ResourceManagement Act and the impact on Regional Council processes.EVENTSAs part of Keep New Zealand Beautiful week and Conservation week staff have beeninvolved in four clean-ups across Northland. On 7 September eight staff fromCoastal Monitoring, Maritime and Community Relations undertook a clean-up on theHatea River area behind Okara Park on Port Road and Pohe Island. The rubbish wasaudited and over 1500kgs of rubbish was collected in four hours.The same day, the CoastCare Co-ordinator assisted in a clean-up in Paihia involving25 people around the Paihia beach area. This community-lead clean-up is going tobecome a monthly event.NRC also supported the Tokerau Beach clean-up on 19 September. The day is anannual event and is supported by several local businesses, DOC and FNDC as wellas NRC.The results from these clean-ups have been entered into national databases forKeep New Zealand Beautiful and the Sir Peter Blake Trust.NRC also supported a planting and clean-up day at Mangawhare Skate Park inDargaville organised by KDC and DOC. Staff from NRC’s Dargaville office attendedthe community day held on 17 September.NRC supported eDay again this year and Community Relations staff worked on thepromotion and advertising of the Whangarei event. Several NRC staff worked ateDay on 12 September helping collect electronic waste. Despite the rain, this year’seDay collected 966 tonnes of old computer equipment and mobile phones, 33 tonneswas collected in Whangarei with 622 car visits throughout the day (nearly double thatof last year).Twelve groups and individuals were recognised – one posthumously - for a range ofdiverse work from wetland restoration to pa site enhancement at the 2009 NorthlandCommunity Conservation and Environment Awards. The awards were held on 17September at Kingston House, Kerikeri. The awards were jointly organised by DOC,NRC and the Biodiversity Northland Forum.WEBSITEHighlights:On an average week day, the website receives approximately 1,500 page views perday. The tsunami warning on 30 September resulted in 5,387 page views to the NRCwebsite on that day.
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