PIHA COASTCARE NEWS

The goals: "Eradicate Weeds, replace with natives, pedestrian and vehicle safety".  What a Team, what a project!  Beach Valley Road Project

Dear Keith

I am in receipt of your Presidents Report to the 2010 R&R Annual General meeting.

Included in this report is one sentence regarding Coastcare that reads:

"Coastcare after asking the R&R for finding (sic) and receiving it, then advised us that they had formed trust and would no longer be involved with the R&R"

The two events you refer to are two separate matters, and we would like you to revise your report to more accurately reflect what happened.

At the February 09 meeting of the R&R Committee, in response to a request from Piha Coastcare, a donation of $1000 was made towards the catering costs for the upcoming National Dunes Conference being held in Piha in March 2009.  This donation was not for Piha Coastcare, but was sponsorship of the Dunes Conference on the same sort of basis that R&R also made a similar donation to the Piha Surf Club to run its anniversary celebration.

At the end of July Piha Coastcare announced to its members that it was in the process of forming a Trust and at the end of September, following the first meeting of the Trust Board, a letter was sent to R&R in which we said that the Coastcare Trust looked forward to maintaining "an ongoing friendly and productive relationship with you". 

Could you please alter your report to convey a more accurate account to your members.

Regards

Berend Westera,  Chair,  Piha CoastCare Trust

See news on War on Weeds HERE

• Nature in my Neighbourhood brochure HERE  
• Nature in my Neighbourhood Program HERE
• Website to enrol HERE

Keep Easter Sunday 2010 free for a great outing with Piha CoastCare - suitable for children and fun.  Includes Easter Egg Hunt for the under 12

24th Feb '10: The Future of Piha Beach and Dunes - Community Open Day - March 7th

This flyer is going out by postal delivery, letterbox drop and display at the library at Piha Community Library

  You can see it  HERE also [760kb].pdf

Wai Care Expo 2010 24th April 2010

 Click this photo for more details

Unitec, Mt Albert Campus, Auckland City

Community Consultation : The Future of Piha Beach and Dunes - Session Two

OPEN DAY - ALL WELCOME

March 7th 2010 @ Piha SLSC

Presentations at 10.30, 12.00 and 1.30

VACANCIES FOR 2 PART-TIME RANGERS AT PIHA Summer 2009/10

10/11/09 The Piha Coastcare Trust has been contracted by Waitakere City Council to provide a ranger service for Piha over the summer months.  Two part-time contract positions are available, one at approximately 16 hours per week (weekends and public holidays only) until mid April, and the other for 20 hours per week (week days) for a 2 month period during January and February.  Applicants must be committed to the conservation of the natural environment and have good public relations skills with all age groups.  Applicants would need to be available to take up the position at the beginning of December 2009.

For job description and contract conditions, please apply to one of the CoastCare Co-ordinators. 

• Bobbie Carroll,  phone 8128 758 or email Bobbie here or 
• Pat La Roche, phone 8128 202 or email Pat here.   

All enquiries will be treated as confidential.  Applications close at midday on Monday, 23 November.

WCC Piha Ranger Service : The Piha CoastCare Trust wins tender for Ranger Service

Nov '09 The Trustees of Piha CoastCare are delighted to announce they have won the tender to provide summer 'ranger services' in Piha.

In putting the 'tender together' the Trustees thought long and hard about how the summer ranger could offer the very best value to the Piha Community and Visitors to Piha.   We thought well outside the square and submitted a tender with the hope that WCC would see how this would benefit everyone.  We are thrilled to have won the tender.

Community Consultation : The Future of Piha Beach and Dunes 18/10/09

Sharing ideas on how you would like to see Piha Beach managed in the futre and hear coastal experts give a presentation about "How West Coast Beaches Function"

 Waitakere City Council Parks have contracted Coastline Consultants to facilitate Consultation with the Piha Community on the Future Management of Piha Beach (South) including the Dunes.  This will involve meeting with and gathering ideas from the Community, returning with a report for feedback and ultimately report back to Waitakere City Council with their results.

First Consultations 18th October 2009:

Below: 4 tables were set up with 'post it' stickers for people to write their thoughts on these quesitons.

Below: The three sessions were well attended with plenty of questions being asked by the audience.

Below: Freehand map of the area being consulted on

An example of the 'post it' stickers with feedback.

Below: Random photos

Piha CoastCare Trust would like to thank Piha SLSC for their assistance.

We would also like to thank the person who wrote the idea on the left  :-)  

 Email Harley @ Coastline Consultants here  if you would like to share your ideas with him.

Piha CoastCare Trust is supporting this process

Piha Surf Life Saving Club is also offering their club rooms free for the consultation process . . .

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