Our Northland - Tõ Ttou Taitokerau Northland Regional Council is planning for the region's future and now it's time to have your say. Feedback closes 16 April. Kõrero mai: Let's talk, Taitokerau! We've faced some big challenges as a region in recent years - flood events, water shortages, Covid-19, legislative changes and more. To stay strong and continue growing, we need to keep protecting our region's environmental, social, economic and cultural wellbeing. Natural environment Community resilience Helping native ecosystems flourish is a big part of Being proactive is vital for building a resilient our job, and the work we need to do in this area is region. When plans are in place and infrastructure growing quickly. Central government is introducing is strong, this brings greater certainty to new policies and requirements to restore and protect our freshwater ecosystems, and we want to These are some of the projects we want to keep up the momentum on pest trapping and tree undertake to help keep our communities reslient: planting. communities and confidence for local economies. Build a multi-agency emergency coordination centre, in partnership with other emergency management agencies, and upgrade the tsunami siren network. These are some of the projects we're planning to help our amazing natural taonga thrive: Like all councils, we do a Long Term Plan every three years. We look at where we are now, where » Grow the knowledge and science to develop we all want to be in 10 years' time and how we'll get there. Everyone wants a thriving natural better approaches to managing and improving the health of freshwater. » Fast-track flood protection work for the Awanui River scheme and kick-off new flood protection work for Otiria-Moerewa and Kawakawa, with the environment, resilient communities and more chances to fulfil our region's potential - but we need to decide on the priorities and how it all gets paid for. More actively involve tangata whenua in freshwater management, through Te Mana o te Wai -a Maori concept underpinning the Government's freshwater reforms that prioritises help of central govemment funding. » Help iwihapü and communities prepare for the effects of climate change through regional andi local adaptation planning. Geting the balance right is challenging, so we want you to join the conversation. Your feedback helps us to understand what's important to our communities, and that we're on track as we the health and wellbeing of water over all other uses. Fund our share of the significant new Kaipara Moana remediation programme, to restore the health and mauri of New Zealand's biggest Replace our ageing maritime boat, which is critical for maintaining buoys and beacons, responding to ol spills and the safe running of our maritime operations. develop this plan for a strong Northland future. We asked what was most important to harbour. Northlanders during early consultation in August 2020, and that's been reflected in our plans. > Work in partnerships to restore and improve coastal, freshwater and land habitats. » Improve water resilience in remote communities by providing funding and grants for water tanks, guttering and spouting. For the coming year we're proposing around $6.2M . Ramp up our pest management work, on land of new work to build on recent progress and take on the challenges and opportunities ahead. This is around $70.69 per ratepayer on average, or a and underwater, and support local communities Wo're also investing more in zero-carbon and tangata whenua to continue playing a large part in this. initiatives in response to our obligations under the 2019 Zero Carbon Act. 19.8% increase in rates. Overall, we're planning to spend around $24M a year on our community resilience activities million a year on our natural environment activities including the work we're proposing above. Overal, we're planning to spend around $45 What follows is a snapshot of what's proposed - for more information, head online and read our including the work outlined above. consultation document. Find out more and give us your feedback at www.nrc.govt.nz/futureplan Our Northland - Tõ Ttou Taitokerau Northland Regional Council is planning for the region's future and now it's time to have your say. Feedback closes 16 April. Kõrero mai: Let's talk, Taitokerau! We've faced some big challenges as a region in recent years - flood events, water shortages, Covid-19, legislative changes and more. To stay strong and continue growing, we need to keep protecting our region's environmental, social, economic and cultural wellbeing. Natural environment Community resilience Helping native ecosystems flourish is a big part of Being proactive is vital for building a resilient our job, and the work we need to do in this area is region. When plans are in place and infrastructure growing quickly. Central government is introducing is strong, this brings greater certainty to new policies and requirements to restore and protect our freshwater ecosystems, and we want to These are some of the projects we want to keep up the momentum on pest trapping and tree undertake to help keep our communities reslient: planting. communities and confidence for local economies. Build a multi-agency emergency coordination centre, in partnership with other emergency management agencies, and upgrade the tsunami siren network. These are some of the projects we're planning to help our amazing natural taonga thrive: Like all councils, we do a Long Term Plan every three years. We look at where we are now, where » Grow the knowledge and science to develop we all want to be in 10 years' time and how we'll get there. Everyone wants a thriving natural better approaches to managing and improving the health of freshwater. » Fast-track flood protection work for the Awanui River scheme and kick-off new flood protection work for Otiria-Moerewa and Kawakawa, with the environment, resilient communities and more chances to fulfil our region's potential - but we need to decide on the priorities and how it all gets paid for. More actively involve tangata whenua in freshwater management, through Te Mana o te Wai -a Maori concept underpinning the Government's freshwater reforms that prioritises help of central govemment funding. » Help iwihapü and communities prepare for the effects of climate change through regional andi local adaptation planning. Geting the balance right is challenging, so we want you to join the conversation. Your feedback helps us to understand what's important to our communities, and that we're on track as we the health and wellbeing of water over all other uses. Fund our share of the significant new Kaipara Moana remediation programme, to restore the health and mauri of New Zealand's biggest Replace our ageing maritime boat, which is critical for maintaining buoys and beacons, responding to ol spills and the safe running of our maritime operations. develop this plan for a strong Northland future. We asked what was most important to harbour. Northlanders during early consultation in August 2020, and that's been reflected in our plans. > Work in partnerships to restore and improve coastal, freshwater and land habitats. » Improve water resilience in remote communities by providing funding and grants for water tanks, guttering and spouting. For the coming year we're proposing around $6.2M . Ramp up our pest management work, on land of new work to build on recent progress and take on the challenges and opportunities ahead. This is around $70.69 per ratepayer on average, or a and underwater, and support local communities Wo're also investing more in zero-carbon and tangata whenua to continue playing a large part in this. initiatives in response to our obligations under the 2019 Zero Carbon Act. 19.8% increase in rates. Overall, we're planning to spend around $24M a year on our community resilience activities million a year on our natural environment activities including the work we're proposing above. Overal, we're planning to spend around $45 What follows is a snapshot of what's proposed - for more information, head online and read our including the work outlined above. consultation document. Find out more and give us your feedback at www.nrc.govt.nz/futureplan