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Councillor update Feb 2024: New bus services.
Trial bus service for Tamahere, Matangi and Tauwhare Pa: Two new services using a 14-seater Sprinter bus now connect Tamahere, Matangi...
Crystal Beavis
Mar 26, 20242 min read
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Councillor update Dec 2023: It's a season for change!
It's a season for change! The new coalition Government has announced a flood of major changes that will impact local government. Waikato...
Crystal Beavis
Dec 12, 20234 min read
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Cambridge News column Nov 2023: Costs pressure on rates forecast
With inflation running at 5.6%, down from a 30-year high of 7.3% just over a year ago, households and businesses face difficult choices...
Crystal Beavis
Nov 15, 20232 min read
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Councillor update Nov 2023: Volunteers honoured, costs rising, have your say...
Tamahere-Woodlands Ward volunteers honoured with Mayoral Awards Congratulations to Sue Edmonds of Eureka, Kitty Burton of Matangi, John...
Crystal Beavis
Oct 31, 20234 min read
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Councillor update Oct 2023: Local aspirations, blueprints and more
Blueprints Community aspirations for the future were a focus for the Council this month, and Councillors spent time considering feedback...
Crystal Beavis
Sep 29, 20233 min read
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Councillor column Cambridge News, Sept 2023: Richness in diversity
The village of Matangi, southeast of Hamilton in Waikato District, is now home to the fourth Romanian Orthodox church to be consecrated...
Crystal Beavis
Sep 29, 20232 min read
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Councillor update Sept 2023: District news
Koroneihana: Your local Councillors Mike Keir and Crystal Beavis were among 6,000 people who gathered at Tuurangawaewae Marae in...
Crystal Beavis
Aug 29, 20233 min read
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Councillor update August 2023: Building community resilience
Trees down, roads closed, electricity outages and flooding – we’ve experienced it all in parts of the Tamahere-Woodlands Ward this year...
Crystal Beavis
Aug 3, 20233 min read
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Councillor update July 2023: Celebrating diversity
Waikato District Council has taken the step to hang the portraits of both Kiingi Tūheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII and King Charles III...
Crystal Beavis
Jul 27, 20233 min read
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Councillor update June 2023: Improving the dialogue between Council and community
As we look forward to a new financial year, Waikato District Council is examining how it can improve the dialogue between Council and...
Crystal Beavis
Jul 27, 20233 min read
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Special update May 2023: Have your say on a Tamahere gully restoration targeted rate by 25 May.
There is a new closing date of Thursday 25 May (at 5pm) for submissions to the Waikato District Council on a proposed targeted rate to...
Crystal Beavis
Jul 27, 20232 min read
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Councillor update May 2023: Challenges ahead and our ANZAC traditions.
We are facing challenging times. Economic conditions have changed dramatically since the Council adopted its last “Long Term Plan”...
Crystal Beavis
Jul 27, 20233 min read
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Councillor update April 2023: SH1B rail crossing, Annual Plan changes, natural burials!
A final decision on the future of the SH1B Telephone Rd rail crossing has been put off for another year, but its ongoing closure is...
Crystal Beavis
Jul 27, 20233 min read
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Councillor update March 2023: Cyclone clean-up, progress on local government reform, and more!
Restoration of the damage caused by two major weather events in just two weeks in our District in the past month is ongoing and – at the...
Crystal Beavis
Jul 27, 20233 min read
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Councillor update December 2022: Looking to the future for local government
A new Sustainability and Wellbeing Committee has just been added to the Waikato District Council committee structure. It will become one...
Crystal Beavis
Jul 27, 20233 min read
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Councillor update Nov 2022: Council sworn in
Thank you to everyone who voted in the Waikato District Council elections. Tamahere-Woodlands Ward led the District with a 32.3% turnout...
Crystal Beavis
Jul 27, 20233 min read
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