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Northland Regional Council - 21 October 2009 Page 23 Item 7Monthly Usage:September 2009 August 2009 July 2009Visits 1 13,461 11,869 11,577Page views 2 41,378 39,318 41,5141. Visits represent the number of individual sessions initiated by all the visitors toyour site.2. Page views shows the total number pages viewed on our websiteNote re reporting:The reporting package used for measuring visits to the NRC website has changed.The new package reports in a different way to the previous one, therefore trendcomparisons were restarted from July 2009.Most popular pages this month:• Job vacancies• CityLink Whangarei Bus Service• Tsunami warning• Rivers and rainfall data• Weed and pest controlEDUCATIONNorthland Regional Council 2009 Environmental Curriculum AwardsCelebration assemblies were held at the final five Northland schools duringSeptember to celebrate winning a NRC 2009 Environmental Curriculum Award(ECA). Environmental Education staff and Councillors Bain, Jensen or Hill visitedPoroti, Riverview, Ruakaka, Tangowahine and Waipu schools to deliver the awards.The deliveries completed the NRC's 2009 ECA delivery roadshow to 19 Northlandschools.Northland Regional Council 2009 Youth SummitMore than 50 students from schools throughout Northland applied to attend the NRC2009 Youth Summit by the 10 September application deadline. The event is to beheld at Onerahi Yacht Club on 28 October.Science FairKerikeri High School student James Berghan (17) won the NRC Excellence Award atthe 2009 Far North Science and Technology Fair, held in Kerikeri on 10-12September. David, a Y13 student from Otangaroa near Kaeo, won the award for hisresearch project, entitled ''Spider mite, Might not' (Biological Control of Gorse)'.Councillor Bill Rossiter attended prizegiving for the fair, handing out the student'sprizewinning certificate.NRC School VisitsThere were 15 school visits during September with visit topics including possumcontrol, waste management, school-wide sustainability and using EnvironmentalEducation in outdoor education and science.Enviroschools Secondary Youth JamsThe first ever Northland Enviroschools Youth Jams took place this month, one inWhangarei and the other at Northland College. Five school groups attended with atotal of 50 students and teachers. The programme was led by staff from theEnviroschools Foundation and was attended by a Team Solutions facilitator and highschool teachers. Four NRC staff were involved.
Northland Regional Council - 21 October 2009 Page 24 Item 7Enviroschools VisitsSix visits were conducted this month to Northland Enviroschools. Most visits were toprofile the new resource kit to staff. Agreements are currently being signed byschools as an indication of commitment to running the programme. A seventh schoolwas visited this month which wished to learn about the programme.Northland Enviroschools Facilitation MeetingThe term three Northland Enviroschools facilitation meeting was held on10 September. Matters discussed included the progress and plans of Enviroschoolsthroughout the region, feedback on regional events, the roll out of the newEnviroschools kit, 2009 scrapbook, the new national Enviroschools website and theend of year Sustainability Celebration.IWI LIAISONDuring September the third workshop on Treaty of Waitangi Settlements was held forCouncillors. This workshop was attended by Ben White, lead negotiator for theNorthland region attended on behalf of the Office of Treaty Settlements.The Iwi Liaison Officer attended a seminar on the Native Assessors Court (andrelated groups) at the Maori Land Court in Whangarei. The seminar concentrated onthe group’s activities and their impacts across the public sector, including variousattempts to present at resource consent hearings. It was a very informative sessionand a regional analysis of material and documentation will now be undertaken.The Iwi Liaison Officer attended the Lake Omapere Trusts’ Annual General Meetingthis month. At this meeting there was discussion about the Sustainable ManagementFund money that was accessed to assist with the compilation and implementation ofthe Lake Omapere Restoration Strategy. NRC presented a short report on waterquality and ongoing monitoring work.FINANCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYFINANCEYear to date, Council is showing a surplus before extraordinary items of $471Kagainst a budgeted surplus of $27K. During the first few months of the financial yearwe can expect a degree of variability between actual results and budget asprogrammes of work are established.The 2008/2009 Annual Report will be adopted at this meeting.The 2010/2011 Annual Plan process has commenced. The first budget workshopwill be held on the 18 th November 2009 with Councillors.FORESTRYAs at end of August, Council was advised that the latest net return estimate toharvest the year 1977 stand (26 ha, approximately 13,000 tonnes) is in the order of$430,000. This is similar to that estimated in April 2009, and some 38% up onOctober 2007 and 17% up on October 2008. Industry reports suggest exportmarkets are likely to remain similar for the short to medium term. NRC at its August2009 Audit and Finance meeting, agreed in principle, that subject to estimated netreturns holding at a similar level, to harvest the 1977 area this summer with a finaldecision to be made in late September, early October. The Chief Executive Officerand the Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee were delegated decision makingauthority to make the final decision. On the 7 October, the net return estimate toharvest was $446,000 and a decision was made to proceed with the harvest.
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