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Tauranga City Council commission decision: $3.5m tipped for Omanawa Falls project

Kiri Gillespie
Kiri Gillespie
Assistant News Director and Multimedia Journalist·Bay of Plenty Times·
7 Mar, 2021 07:17 PM2 mins to read

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Tauranga City Council's pictured in its first public meeting with its four commissioners (right) instead of elected members. Photo / File

Tauranga City Council's pictured in its first public meeting with its four commissioners (right) instead of elected members. Photo / File

The Western Bay's Omanawa Falls, which are currently closed to the public, could be in line for $3.5 million in funding from the Tauranga City Council.

But it will all depend on a meeting of Tauranga City commissioners.

The Tauranga City Council meets formally today for the second time since the city's elected members were discharged of their duties.

The commissioners - chairwoman Anne Tolley, Bill Wasley, Stephen Selwood and Shadrach Rolleston - were appointed to the role on February 9.

Today the commissioners are expected to discuss a draft Long Term Plan - the very document that ultimately resulted in their replacement of the city's councillors.

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Previously Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta said appointing commissioners was a key part of the decision was to ensure the city's Long Term Plan was completed in time.

Key issues highlighted in the draft Long Term Plan are road resealing; city centre stocktake, tropical display house in Robbins Park; Omanwa Falls; and sustainability. The commissioners will decide whether each of these issues should continue and receive funding.

Omanawa Falls. Photo / File
Omanawa Falls. Photo / File

The decision to amend a budget for Omanawa Falls to include a council contribution of $3.5 million is also on the table; and whether to allocate $50,000 in the 2021/22 draft budget to help support a stocktake of strategic documents relating to the city centre.

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The commissioners will also decide whether to include the transportation, housing and community infrastructure needs of the city as issues to be addressed in a revised working draft of the document.

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