Council News
Council is inviting the community to tune in to an online presentation of how a major alpine earthquake would impact the Ashburton District, and how they can prepare for such a disaster.
EA Networks Centre will host hundreds of young basketballers this week when 54 teams hit town for the Under 14 Southern regional championships.
The end construction cost of Te Whare Whakatere, Ashburton library and civic centre has been finalised at $62.1 million.
Council is promoting an online space for youth, with discussion topics that could help inform future council decisions.
Council has engaged engineering consultants Tonkin and Taylor to help create a future strategy plan for the management of Lake Hood, which has been affected by water quality issues over the past two summers.
The first concrete pour at the new Friendship Lane elderly persons housing project has happened this week.
Council will begin the formal process of closing part of a paper road at Chertsey, so it can build a new water treatment plant for the township.
It was my pleasure on Friday to declare Ashburton’s new library and civic centre officially open, even though I’ve had my feet under the desk here since the start of the year.
Fine weather has helped contractors seal the first road rehabilitation job of the new roading repair season.
Council has sold two of the four relocatable buildings it had up for tender, and is now offering community groups a chance to buy three older prefab classrooms at the former Polytech site on Cameron Street for just $1 each.