Council staff find new home
Report concluded previous premises unsafe in a quake
Don’t miss having dinner with All Blacks captain and Gallagher Chiefs centurion Sam Cane at the haupō Hub next Thursday.
Doors open 6:30pm and dinner will be served around 7pm. Catering is supplied by local business Windy Ridge and the bar will be open. Tickets are $100 each with the option to book a table of six for you and your friends/whanau. Raffle tickets will be on sale and prizes to be won, please bring cash. For enquiries or to purchase tickets email, info@ohaupohub.org.nz.
Dinnerwith Sam Cane
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Christmas Light Trail
AThe bout 70 Waipā District Council staff will move into a leased building in Te Awamutu early next year. staff were evacuated last month from their office in Roche St following an independent seismic assessment.
That report found the building, which also houses the Te Awamutu Museum, is at 20 per cent of National Building Standard and vulnerable in an earthquake.
Council confirmed it had leased the 55 Rickit Rd building from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa at a market rental.
Council has a lease for 18 months with two rights of renewal, with funding coming from council’s cash surplus.
Chief executive Garry Dyet could not confirm how long the Rickit Rd building would be needed for.
“What is clear is that no one will be moving back into the Roche St building any time soon,” he said.
“In the meantime, we’re grateful to have found local space quickly. It meanswecan get staff back with their colleagues because at the moment, they are either working from home or are grabbing a desk where they can.”
Council is still assessing its options and looking at how the seismic issues at Roche St might be fixed, he said.
But that would take some time and means the Te Awamutu Museum would also remain closed.
“We’re continuing to look at potential pop-up options for a museum in Rickit Rd but there’s a lot to work through.”