Timaru District Councilcast

From Friday, Timaru is celebrating Welcoming Week as part of its work to become a welcoming community for everyone that comes here.

This time we spoke to Connected Communities Coordinator, Jess Hurst, about organising our local celebrations, and the benefits of encouraging a welcoming and diverse community.

This is the first in a series of podcasts where we sit down with the people representing you at the council table.

This time we speak to first term Councillor Michelle Pye, find more about her and talk about her priorities for the term ahead.

We've just opened the further submissions part of our Proposed District Plan review, so thought it was a good time to talk to our District Planning Manager, Hamish Barrell about what the District Plan is, and how does it shape our community? How and if you can take part in this current submission, what the aspirations for the plan are and with the much covered reforms to the Resource Management Act coming down the line, has all this work gone to waste?

A full transcript of this is available at: https://www.timaru.govt.nz/news/council-news/councilcast-ep13-Finding-Balance-Through-Planning

We've spoken to the museum director about how they are going to fill the new museum, but how do you go about building the centre it's going to go in, and how do you integrate that with a 100 year old theatre?

This week we speak to project lead Nicole Timney on what's going on behind the scenes on this ambitious project.

How do you go about making a new museum? Is it just sticking all your old stuff in a new space? Today we speak to South Canterbury Museum Director Philip Howe on their plans to bring a new museum to a new site in the centre of Timaru.

A full transcript can be found here: https://www.timaru.govt.nz/news-and-events/latest-news/councilcast-ep-11-building-a-new-museum

With the variety of ways we can contact you in an emergency, the time may have come to retire some of our cold war era mechanical sirens. This time we spoke to Emergency Management Officer Lamorna Cooper about the siren network and all things emergency preparedness. 

We're back for season 2 of the Timaru District Councilcast, and we thought where better to start than the same way we did last time.

The summer is always a busy time for the Council’s Land Transport Unit, in today’s episode I sat down with Anthony Bacon, Road Network Operation Technician and Selina Kunac, Transport Community Engagement Advisor to discuss the considerations and the challenges that Land Transport Unit work through to carry out maintenance on our road network.

So join us for (Even) More than you'd ever want to know about roading