Councillor contact details

You can contact the Mayor and councillors any time to discuss your ideas, issues or concerns.
They are your elected members to represent you and your community. The members were elected in October 2013 and will remain in office for 3 years.

Mayor Meng Foon

Contact details

Work P: 867 2049
Home P: 867 1870
F: 867 9265
M: 0274 484 084
E: mayor@gdc.govt.nz

The Mayor shall be ex officio on standing committees and statutory committees except for the Hearings committee.

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Deputy Mayor Rehette Stoltz

Gisborne ward

Contact details

P: 868 5382
M: 021 279 7948
F: 868 5382
E: rehette@me.com
Committees:
- Performance, Audit and Risk
- Environmental Planning and Regulations
- Infrastructure Services
- Hearings
- Reginal Transport
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to the committees
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Councillor Meredith Akuhata-Brown

Gisborne ward

Contact details:

Home P: 867 7496
Work P: 868 7003
M: 027 200 5605
E: jasandmere@vodafone.co.nz
Committees:
- Community Development and Services
- Environmental Planning and Regulations
- Regional Transport
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to the committees
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Councillor Craig Bauld

Gisborne ward

Contact details

P: 862 9550
F: 862 9551
E: cbauld@gisborne.net.nz
Committees:
- Performance, Audit and Risk
- Environmental Planning and Regulations
- Hearings
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to committees
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Councillor Bill Burdett

Matakaoa-Waiapu ward

Contact details

P: (06) 864 8966
M: 027 686 4968
F: (06) 864 8967
E: no email
Committees:
- Performance, Audit and Risk
- Community Development and Services
- Infrastructure Services
- Wastewater Management
- Regional Transport
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to committees
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Councillor Andy Cranston

Gisborne ward

Contact details

P: 868 1160
F: 868 1161
M: 027 273 3192
E: a.cranston@xtra.co.nz
Committees:
- Community Development and Services
- Environmental Planning and Regulations
- Performance, Audit and Risk
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to committees
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Councillor Alan Davidson

Gisborne ward

Contact details

P: 867 9474
F: 867 9473
M: 027 4217 805
E: alan.davidson@slingshot.co.nz
Committees:
- Environmental Planning and Regulations
- Hearings
- Future Tairāwhiti
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Councillor Amber Dunn

Gisborne ward

Contact details

Work and Home P: 867 3131
M: 021 475 470
E: Amber.dunn@yahoo.co.nz
Committees:
- Community Development and Services
- Hearings
- Wastewater Management
- Future Tairāwhiti
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Councillor Larry Foster

Gisborne ward

Contact details

Home P: 868 8927
Work P: 867 8424
M: 027 450 8814
E: larryfoster@callplus.net.nz
Committees:
- Performance, Audit and Risk
- Community Development and Services
- Infrastructure Services
- Wastewater Management
- Regional Transport
- Future Tairāwhiti
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Councillor Roger Haisman

Taruheru-Patutahi ward

Contact details

P: 867 0922
F: 867 0918
M: 027 332 8601
E: rlhais@xtra.co.nz
Committees:
- Performance, Audit and Risk
- Infrastructure Services
- Wastewater Management
- Regional Transport
- Future Tairāwhiti
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Councillor Pat Seymour

Tawhiti-Uawa ward

Contact details

P: 862 2697
F: 862 2703
M: 027 472 5997
E: pnseymour@xtra.co.nz
Committees:
- Performance, Audit and Risk
- Environmental Planning and Regulations
- Infrastructure Services
- Hearings
- Regional Transport
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to committees
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Councillor Graeme Thomson

Waipaoa ward

Contact details

P: 862 8737
F: 862 8197
E: thomson@gisborne.net.nz
Committees:
- Performance, Audit and Risk
- Infrastructure Services
- Future Tairāwhiti
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Councillor Josh Wharehinga

Gisborne ward

Contact details

P: 027 51 25 195
E: josh@josh.org.nz
Committees:
- Community Development and Services
- Environmental Planning and Regulations
- Future Tairāwhiti
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Councillor Brian Wilson

Gisborne ward

Contact details

P: 868 8118
F: 867 4675
M: 027 237 8080
E: bwilson@paradise.net.nz
Committees:
- Performance, Audit and Risk
- Infrastructure Services
- Future Tairāwhiti
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