I hereby declare the result for the election of Trustees for Chatham Islands Enterprise Trust held on Sunday 22nd November 2009.
I confirm that the official result was determined after the scrutiny of the roll was completed, the validity of all votes was determined, and all valid votes were counted.
Election of TWO (2) Trustees
Candidate
Votes Received
SEYMOUR, Philip Douglas
124
TUUTA, Ronald Phillip
113
HORLER, Gregory Francis
112
SAUNDERS, Peter Wayne
73
INFORMAL
0
BLANK VOTING PAPERS
0
I therefore declare Philip Douglas SEYMOUR and Ronald Philip TUUTA to be elected as the Trustees for the Chatham Islands Enterprise Trust.
The Voter Return Percentage was 51.99%, being 235 votes received from 452 eligible voters. Dated at Christchurch this 25th day of November 2009.
A project to harness wave energy on the Chatham Islands has been
awarded funding under the government's Marine Energy Deployment Fund,
Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee announced today.
The proposal put forward by Chatham Islands Marine Energy Ltd
(CHIME), to install a shore-based device to capture wave energy, has
been awarded $2.16 million, subject to conditions, including receiving
resource consent.
The project will see the construction of an oscillating water column
to power two 110 kilowatt Wells turbines. The device will be installed
on the south-west coast of Chatham Island, and will supply electricity
into the island's electricity network.
Chatham Islands Management Limited Ron
Tuuta Trustee and Chatham Islands Ports Limited Director have been contracted
as Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Chatham Islands Enterprise Trust until
this position is filled.
We welcome La Toya Hough to
the staff; La Toya replaced Deidre Thomas as our cleaner.
CIET Trustees, Councillors
and Iwi/Imi Trustees have made the decision to meet monthly to attend monthly
Whanaungatanga (Relationship) Hui, each governance group has a turn at hosting
and the aim of these hui is for the groups to let each other know what is
happening within their organizations merely as a communication tool these hui
are informal and no set agenda is made but at times there have been requests
for a particular item to be discussed.
Enterprise Trust 
