News from Hutt City Council
This morning Lower Hutt Mayor Campbell Barry officially opened the Les Dalton Dog Park to the public, and was joined by a contingent of about 500 people and their dogs for the city’s first Dog Day Out.
Campbell Barry said the opening of the dog park has been a long time coming for the city’s dog community, and will be a well utilised asset in the city – evidenced by the strong turnout on the park’s opening day.
“It was an absolute pleasure joining dog owners and their furry friends this morning, and seeing everyone, especially the dogs, experience and enjoy the park for the first time,” Campbell Barry says.
Saturday, 15 May 2021, 4:02 pm
This
morning Lower Hutt Mayor Campbell Barry officially opened
the Les Dalton Dog Park to the public, and was joined by a
contingent of about 500 people and their dogs for the
city’s first Dog Day Out.
Campbell Barry said the
opening of the dog park has been a long time coming for the
city’s dog community, and will be a well utilised asset in
the city - evidenced by the strong turnout on the park’s
opening day. It was an absolute pleasure joining dog
owners and their furry friends this morning, and seeing
everyone, especially the dogs, experience and enjoy the park
Of the disestablished roles, 19 were vacant. Twenty-six staff had found new roles in the council. “Those 11 people [who took redundancy] didn’t have a direct match to a job. They were legally entitled to take redundancy, and that’s the choice they made.”
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Environment Minister David Parker explains how the Resource Management Act will be reworked into three different parts. She said the world was changing, and things such as the declaration of a climate emergency and a housing crisis had shifted the council’s priorities. New roles had been made in several areas such as waste and recycling, information technology and subdivision engineers.
Hutt City Council restructure: 56 roles disestablished, 11 redundancies
12 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Lower Hutt City. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Wellington issues reporter, NZ Heraldgeorgina.campbell@nzme.co.nz
Hutt City Council is undergoing a restructure, which has resulted in 56 roles being dis-established and 11 redundancies.
Some of those roles were already vacant, meaning 37 staff are directly affected.
But the new structure includes 71 reconfigured roles, of which 15 are brand new ones.
Council chief executive Jo Miller said there needed to be the appropriate resource to match the council s priorities.
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