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Remember This?
I hereby request copies of any Declaration of Interests, Register of Pecuniary Interests, or Register of Interests held by your Council for all current elected members, staff, and directors of...
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Reactive, And Not A Good Start
I’m sorry, but an audit sparked by “recent allegations in the media” smacks of arse-covering. An independent legal audit of Environment Southland’s compliance processes will begin this week. Chief...
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Slightly Odd
In Saturday’s public notices, Environment Southland advertised this: Why odd? Well, the bloke has only been in the job just over three months, and IIRC, the Local Government Act says a review only has...
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When You Are In A Hole. Stop Digging #98363
Why, oh why, would Environment Southland put out this press release? It was time to put the shutters up when they announced their independent audit. This just adds fuel to the fire, because you know...
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Even More Boring And An Apology
OK, I now have it on good authority that Environment Southland isn’t planning to do a 90 day trial review of the new CEO – they are actually setting a best practice standard for performance review that...
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OK, So Their Record Keeping And File Management Is Shown To Be Pants, But….
The news story says this: The audit, carried out by Auckland environmental lawyer Karenza de Silva, found no evidence of dishonesty or fraudulent behaviour by Environment Southland staff. However, Mr...
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Well, That’s Interesting
In this comment, Robert Guyton raises a very interesting point (my emphasis in italics): As to positing Jan Riddell, I said to the journalist that, in my view, there were several councillors who were...
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Well Done, Michele
Environment Southland’s governance side might be in a tizzy over a storm in a tea cup at the moment, some enforcement staff might be having difficulty with ethics, but at least their communications...
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Have To Say I’m Not Surprised
Jesus wept. This just in via the tipline from someone who thinks I’m a complete C U Next Tuesday, so good on them for passing it on: My son has just been contacted by (name withheld for shits and...
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Bad Timing, Bad Judgment, Bad Spending
Environment Southland councillors and staff were treated to an $1800 ratepayer-funded breakfast consisting of bacon, sausages, muffins and more yesterday morning. Environment Southland communications...
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“Better To Remain Silent And Be Thought A Fool Than To Speak Out And Remove...
Lloyd McCallum is a dairy farmer. But he also firmly believes in environmental sustainability (as this joint presentation to the South Island Dairy Event shows) and is on the Fonterra Shareholders’...
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