an update on what we are up to
阿 Ken
I would like to post a brief update on what's happening recently with
CCET.
1. Guess we all know about the forum on 30 June. It went pretty well
and we are please with the results. The board will get the discussion
results sorted out and make recommendations accordingly. Thanks again
whose who helped.
2. A couple of activities in Nov and Dec have been confirmed. Dates
and some details can be viewed on our website under future activities.
They are the Cockle Bay Shellfish Monitoring and the spring trip. This
year we will go back to the Miranda Shorebird centre.
3. Our South-East group will take part in the Manukau City Council
planting @ Point View Drive Reserve on Sunday 9th September. Do come
and give us support and may be some help.
4. The proposed Hampton Park (officially called Puke o Tara - Hampton
Park) environmental education centre proposal has progressed to the
next stage. We have the support from local councils, DOC, local
community people and obviously within CCET. We will, as the next
essential step, go to mana whenua and ask to work with them and get
their support. We don't anticipate any miracle opening of the centre
until after, maybe, 2 years.
5. George, Lawrence and I are working on getting a few thousand
reusable shopping bags made for CCET use. All going smoothly, we
should be able to find sponsorship from corporate for doing this. Do
you know of any business who are willing to spend a few thousand
dollars on printing their logo on bags?
6. I will take a break in December. I will travel down to south of
South Island. On my way back, I'm looking at visiting a few
interesting conservation places in North Island. Places like Karori,
Maungatautari, etc. Those visits may be somewhere around 16-23
December. If any of us who are interested, we can talk about going
together. Mind you, it is not an open invitation to the general
public, nor it be a tour group. We look after ourselves but traveling
together with company. By the way, any other good places you will
recommend to me?
Last but not least, I would like to share some of my feelings as a
chairperson.
At present, CCET hasn't got the huge resource that other organisations
have. Hence, we don't have a lot of employed staff time to carry out a
lot of work. On one hand, it has limited the scope of our work. One
the other hand, it gives opportunities to us, as volunteers, to do
things that we think are right to our community. I want to encourage
our volunteers to continue your great effort.
However, it came to my notice that, on some occasions, people simply
yell out "you should do this.... and you should do it that way...." We
welcome ideas and criticism. A lot of times, you will find that all
the management can do is: opinions taken, but there is nothing much
more we can do due to limited resources both in money and manpower
terms. If we see more positive input from all of us, there will be
people coming forward and say, "I can see room for improvement here. I
am willing to try it out. Would you like me to have a crack at it?"
That is what we need to prosper as an organisation. After all, you and
I are both volunteers. I can't order you to do anything for the trust,
and it is not fair for you to expect us to carry out all your ideas.
We can never have enough time together to interchange ideas. There are
a lot of information about what had happened in the past and will be
in the future that we should share. Because of this lack of
communication, misunderstanding will eventually occur. A lot of times
it ends up creating a few more unhappy souls. Guess it's the nature of
any human interaction. WE CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING.
It's not the end of the world. We can mitigate the adversity by
tolerance and being proactive in communication. It's all too easy to
say, "how do I know if you don't ask". But have we taken it seriously
enough?
Enough moaning this time. Thanks for making it to the end.
Ah Ken
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