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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 2016 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
E: Rehette.Stoltz@gdc.govt.nz
Committees:
- Finance & Audit
- Environmental Planning and Regulations
- Assets & Infrastructure
- Hearings
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to the committees
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Councillor Meredith Akuhata-Brown

Gisborne ward
Contact details:
Home P: 867 7496
M: 027 200 5605
E: meredith.akuhata-brown@gdc.govt.nz
Committees:
- Community Development & Services
- Environmental Planning & Regulations
- Finance & Audit
- Hearings
- Regional Transport
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to the 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: Bill.Burdett@gdc.govt.nz
Committees:
- Community Development & Services
- Finance & Audit
- Assets & Infrastructure
- Wastewater Management (Chair)
- Regional Transport (Chair)
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to committees
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Councillor Andy Cranston

Gisborne ward
Contact details
P: 868 1160
M: 027 273 3192
E: Andy.Cranston@gdc.govt.nz
Committees:
- Community Development & Services (Chair)
- Environmental Planning & Regulations
- Finance & Audit
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to committees
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Councillor Shannon Dowsing

Gisborne ward
Contact details
M: 021 222 2571
E: Shannon.Dowsing@gdc.govt.nz
Committees:
- Community Development & Services
- Finance & Audit
- Wastewater Management
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to committees
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Councillor Amber Dunn

Gisborne ward
Contact details
Work and Home P: 867 3131
M: 021 475 470
E: Amber.Dunn@gdc.govt.nz
Committees:
- Community Development & Services
- Environmental Planning & Regulations
- Assets & Infrastructure
- Hearings
- Wastewater Management
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to committees
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Councillor Karen Fenn

Gisborne ward
Contact details
H: 868 1442
M: 027 3781 846
E: Karen.Fenn@gdc.govt.nz
Committees:
- Community Development & Services
- Environmental Planning & Regulations
- Future Tairāwhiti
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Councillor Larry Foster

Gisborne ward
Contact details
Home P: 868 8927
M: 027 450 8814
E: Larry.Foster@gdc.govt.nz
Committees:
- Community Development & Services
- Environmental Planning & Regulations
- Finance & Audit
- Assets & Infrastructure
- Hearings
- Future Tairāwhiti
- Wastewater
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Councillor Malcolm MacLean

Taruheru-Patutahi ward
Contact details
M: 027 222 1468
E: Malcolm.Maclean@gdc.govt.nz
Committees:
- Community Development & Services
- Environmental Planning & Regulations
- Finance & Audit
- Assets & Infrastructure
- Hearings
- Regional Transport
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to committees
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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:
- Environmental Planning & Regulations (Chair)
- Finance & Audit
- Assets & Infrastructure
- Hearings (Chair)
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to committees
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Councillor Graeme Thomson

Waipaoa ward
Contact details
P: 862 8737
E: thomson@gisborne.net.nz
Committees:
- Finance & Audit
- Assets & Infrastructure (Chair)
- Regional Transport
- Future Tairāwhiti
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Councillor Josh Wharehinga

Gisborne ward
Contact details
P: 027 51 25 195
E: Josh.Wharehinga@gdc.govt.nz
Committees:
- Community Development & Services
- Environmental Planning & Regulations
- Finance & Audit
- Hearings
- Future Tairāwhiti
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Councillor Brian Wilson

Gisborne ward
Contact details
M: 027 237 8080
E: Brian.Wilson@gdc.govt.nz
Committees:
- Finance & Audit (Chair)
- Assets & Infrastructure
- Future Tairāwhiti
Link to committees
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