Village vacancy and reshuffle

Tauranga Historic Village radio chairman Colin Beere says the village radio station may be following the Tauranga Charitable Trust in leaving the site.


Charitable trust trustee Des Ferrow says his organisation has decided to leave because the council has found it cannot deliver on its promises until July 1, 2011.
Not having nine months to waste, Des says he's decided to pull out of the village and turn his attention to The Elms Trust, with which he is closely associated.
"I'm not sure what the game plan will be," says Des.
"That Ten Year Plan. They are caught by their own knackers, and they can't do anything about it," says Des.
"Staff are involved, and if they want to make changes they have to wait for the operative year to go by. We thought we would hop out.
"There's also a bit of 'there's going to be an election, so wait for the new team to get in and do it'."
Village Radio, the Tauranga Historic Village radio station has recently gone FM and is in the process of becoming part of the country's Access Radio Network.
The station is anticipating much more foot traffic and wants street front ground floor premises, says Colin. If they don't get it in the village, they will go elsewhere.
"We need to be ground floor because of the foot traffic, and we have got old people who can't get up the stairs," says Colin.
"Within the year hopefully we will have some answers as to what the future of the village is going to be. There needs to be an indication for the community."

5 comments

Des has been misled, as has the community ...

Posted on 26-09-2010 09:38 | By Murray.Guy

Des Ferrow, the Historic Village, the community that values the past contribution of the Village and it's supporters, those that fought to have life breathed back in to the Village - You've all been systematically, by stealth, kicked to touch. TCC staff are no more, no less, than the tools of the 'Govenerance body', albeit, like in a horror movies, a few tools appear to have taken up a life form with a mind (agenda) of their own. To use the 10 year plan as an excuse for a 10 month delay in actioning a Council elected member resolution is another slap in the face for democracy and the community. Immediately the resolution was passed, for a new community village management structure, the process could have begun. Immediately, not a week, a month, 6 months or a year!!!!! An immediate instruction should have gone out to existing Village management that no decisions of significance should be made that may have the potential to impact on future 'community management' decisions. The buck must stop at the feet of governance - there is none and I guess this outcome is further prove. To the demise of the Historic Village and our wider community, the mainstreem media will not investigate and or inform the community of reality and the downward spiral will continue!


What the hell??

Posted on 26-09-2010 12:40 | By Pat

Whos robbing this wagon??? The "Staff" or the TCC I dont remember voting to give "Staff" this sort of power do you?


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Posted on 26-09-2010 17:00 | By carole

Within the year hopefully we will have some answers as to what the future of the village is going to be. There needs to be an indication for the community." Don't hold your breath Mr Beere. Comments


Village will only work if people support it

Posted on 26-09-2010 18:46 | By JSmithington

All this stuff about the Historical Village over the last weeks. If everyone gets behing it and puts some money in, it will ge nice. I don't want to see rates keep on going into it though. Give it s group to run, provided they don't come back for money. The Village Radio should easily be able to rent ground floor space close to the city. There's plenty of spare buildings there.


Who's running the place

Posted on 28-09-2010 09:14 | By Murray.Guy

Pat asks,"Whos robbing this wagon??? The "Staff" or the TCC? I dont remember voting to give "Staff" this sort of power do you? On a new council being formed staff will present to elected members a very complex set of agenda items which inlude reaching 'delegation' resolutions to the CEO. The result is to disenfranchise elected members and the community from the operational and related effective monitoring. See: http://www.rmastudies.org.nz/issues/40-decision-making/113-fourteen-tips-for-new-mayors


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