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There’s so many people working quietly away at making our communities better places to live, often with little recognition and no pay – which we want to publicly acknowledge and thank for their service with our Community Service Awards.
It’s our way of giving some well-deserved recognition to these unsung heroes of our communities.
Criteria to be eligible is
There will be two awards for each Community Board area, and each Community Board will make decisions for their area.
The awards ceremony will be at our Council meeting in December
Download the nomination form here and send it back to us before 1 October.
There will be a mass planting of 100 kauri trees this Sunday, 23 August at 415 Albert Street, Coromandel Town. These trees meant to be planted as part of the Coromandel 200 events in June.
The number of trees is the same amount the log books of HMS Coromandel show she took back to England.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions the trees weren’t able to be planted when planned and the organisers now need help to urgently get the trees in the ground, so they're established before summer, to survive.
There’s no need to bring anything, just a willingness to help.
Brophys Beach (Ohuka Beach) - We need to carry out some maintenance on the geotech wall from 1 September – 27 September, followed by a community dune planting day. During this time, the footpath, parking and boat ramp will be blocked off (location outlined above).
Buffalo Beach - Maintenance will also be taking place from Wednesday 26 August (weather permitting) on the Buffalo Beach rock wall as recent inspections have identified some damage and rock movement due to a series of easterly storms and large swells. Work will happen at low tide over 10 days.
Robinson Road boat ramp - A reminder that now the upgrade of this facility is finished that trailer boat parking fees are now in place - tcdc.govt.nz/boatramps.
Community planting days - Dune restoration planting dates for this season can be found here.
Road works - You can view a summary of scheduled weekly roading activities in our district on our website - tcdc.govt.nz/roading.
Whangapoua boat ramp upgrade - Work is schedule to start on site today to address the cracks appearing in the ramp and the fact the two ramps were historically poured at different levels. The new ramp will eliminate these issues, along with the addition of a pontoon (Stage two, scheduled for 2022/2023). All this work will make the boat ramp more user-friendly for boaties.
Kuranui BBQ kiosk - The barbeque kiosk is closed to the public for repairs, however, it should be finished this week (weather permitting).
Whangamata wharf - The gantry and hoist has been removed from the wharf for refurbishment and will be reinstalled by Labour Weekend.
Whangamata boat ramp - The replacement of the fractured pontoon guide pole is expected to be reinstated late August, subject to weather conditions.
Dune erosion - Due to the recent storm events our dunes have eroded on the East Coast. We have been receiving a few enquiries about this. Our Coastal Scientist Jamie Boyle shared some great points about our dunes and why this has happened which you can read here.
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Over the past fortnight our Community Boards and Emergency Management Comittee met.
All meetings are recorded and posted online to our Council website or click below to read the highlights from the meetings:
Upcoming meetings:
A friendly reminder to our local scooter and skateboard riders to please be considerate of others and keep off street town furniture and paths.
We’ve got some great skate projects and facilities across our district where you can safely ride without disrupting others and damaging furniture - tcdc.govt.nz/skate.
Our District is at Alert Level 2.
With the COVID-19 alert level remaining at level 2, we are seeing a number of events being cancelled or postponed. We will be updating our events pages with any postponements or cancellations. This information can be found here.
If you are attending any of the events in our district please remember to keep yourself safe, practice social distancing, good hand washing and utilise the COVID-19 tracking app.
Thames cycle skills - The free adult cycle skills course is taking place Friday 28 August and Thursday 3 September.
Spaces are limited, call us on 07 868 0200 to book.
Four Coromandel surf clubs have been given funding from the government’s $50 billion COVID Response and Recovery Fund (CRRF).
The money is to be used to build infrastructure facilities and will replace funds that were unable to be raised due to COVID-19 restrictions and the loss of traditional funding and fundraising opportunities.
The projects announced this week are:
Funding was also announced for two clubs in Tauranga and Port Waikato and to build an Eastern Region Rescue Centre located in Mt Maunganui, to be the hub of Surf Life Saving New Zealand’s eastern region operations.
Our Thames-Coromandel economy has taken one of the hardest hits from the COVID-19 pandemic, fresh data reveals. Click here to read more including the following topics in our latest Economic Development update:
Microchip Monday and the microchipping service we offer is on hold until we return to Alert Level 1 - tcdc.govt.nz/microchipping.
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