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Speaker 1: And back for the new year. Is council boss Hamish react,

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Speaker 1: morning morning, how are you You're good? Did you enjoy break?

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Speaker 1: I did?

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Speaker 2: I did stay cation, so lots of time in around

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Speaker 2: Ashburd and lots of visitors.

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Speaker 1: Family here, all your clan came to you, so hold

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Speaker 1: on your break is returning to work.

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Speaker 2: There was a little bit of that involved. But enjoyed

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Speaker 2: the house full of grandchildren.

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Speaker 1: So I hope you've got a couple of days at

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Speaker 1: the tail end where everybody's moved out. Take the sigh

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Speaker 1: of relief and recharge the battery.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that was the putting the house back together day?

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Speaker 2: Is that the day you mean? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, having all the kid lits is wonderful and all

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Speaker 1: the energy, but oh my goodness, it takes it out

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Speaker 1: of you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a joy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe you could treat yourself to a night out.

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Speaker 1: And I spoke to about half an hour ago all

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Speaker 1: the beast too happy and the team from well Noble

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Speaker 1: taking on this new venture. Yes, the ale House house

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Speaker 1: saves on signage, didn't.

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Speaker 2: It delighted to see the building back time being occupied

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Speaker 2: and we wished them every success.

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Speaker 1: Yeah big time. Hey, so council, we're into business, and

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Speaker 1: we start with some good news for the new year.

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Speaker 1: The water restriction has been lifted.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so the review was yesterday, and consumption has declined

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Speaker 2: with the average summer. This summer's sort of but with

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Speaker 2: consumption down, but and some more vin in the forecast,

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Speaker 2: to be honest, over the next few days or weeks

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Speaker 2: or two, felt it was appropriate to take the restrictions off.

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Speaker 2: The consumptions dropped well back below the consented level of

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Speaker 2: the twenty five thousand cubic meters, so no reason to

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Speaker 2: keep them on.

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Speaker 1: Really that's the limit in town. But the restrictions have

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Speaker 1: been lifted right across the reg.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so everybody's got the same relief because the weather

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Speaker 2: forecast and the consumption has dropped everywhere. Just one caveat

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Speaker 2: We do keep the water restrictions under review through the summer.

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Speaker 2: So we've got a spike in hot weather and a

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Speaker 2: spike and consumption, we might have to revisit it, but

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Speaker 2: at the moment there doesn't seem to be any reason

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Speaker 2: to keep it on.

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Speaker 1: The restriction we had were leveled two, which was really

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Speaker 1: just on watering your garden and your lawn in the

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Speaker 1: evenings on alternate days and it was the first year

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Speaker 1: in a while that we've had to implement them because

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Speaker 1: you know, we only think back a short time. It's

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Speaker 1: almost like summer came early for us. It was really

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Speaker 1: hot and really dry into Christmas, and then boom by

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Speaker 1: last year it changed.

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Speaker 2: That's right. And so the last few summers, I think

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Speaker 2: we've seen a kind of a wetterer spring and early

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Speaker 2: summer and hasn't been a need for restrictions. This year,

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Speaker 2: we got that summer really early and people were you know,

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Speaker 2: looking after their gardens in particular and using the water

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Speaker 2: and it gets close to that consented lever and water

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Speaker 2: pressure gets to be a bit of an issue, and

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Speaker 2: so the restrictions were the right thing to do this year.

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Speaker 2: But you know, we don't do it automatically every year.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, lifted as of yesterday, So good news.

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Speaker 1: What is happening with council. Everybody's back, we're all reaven

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Speaker 1: to go into the new year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just about everyone's back, and from the Council's point

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Speaker 2: of view, starting to think about the reform agenda, which

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Speaker 2: the Government announced sort of in the flurry before Christmas.

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Speaker 2: So lots of things going on in and around Resource management,

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Speaker 2: the structure of councils, the regional council stuff hasn't gone

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Speaker 2: away at all just because we've had a holiday. So

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Speaker 2: all of that stuff comes back to the council table

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Speaker 2: very shortly. Of course, we're knee deep in budgets, so

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Speaker 2: council starts grappling with that in a couple of weeks time,

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Speaker 2: with the detail of the budget from next July, and

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Speaker 2: then there's all the projects and businesses usually and one

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Speaker 2: really good news story you might have seen, Luke, was

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Speaker 2: that NDTA have allocated us some extra money for riding.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, two and a half million bucks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So we have to pay a forty share

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Speaker 2: of that. But because we've got that unsubsidized money and

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Speaker 2: our budget that council put in there a couple of

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Speaker 2: years ago and we were able to then we were

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Speaker 2: able to meet our share of that. So essentially we

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Speaker 2: get another million dollars of work done on the roads

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Speaker 2: that we wouldn't we're otherwise going to get get this year.

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Speaker 2: So absolutely ideal extension of some of the rehab on

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Speaker 2: Fairfield Road and some work on the Oak Grove walnut

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Speaker 2: A belt road roundabout.

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Speaker 1: Oh, the one down by the College yeah yeah, that's bumping.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So that so that that wouldn't have otherwise been done,

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Speaker 2: so really good news that we can we can get

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Speaker 2: a bit more rating work done as well.