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Mayor and Councillors

The role of councillors is to maintain contact with the community, businesses and other organisations that are affected by the council’s decisions, consider their views when setting policy, and monitoring and review. We have 14 councillors elected from the district’s three wards.

Peter Tennent
Maurice Betts
Shaun Biesiek
Heather Dodunski
Sherril George
Lance Girling-Butcher
Andrew Judd
Alex Matheson

Craig McFarlane
John McLeod
Marie Pearce
Phil Quinney
Jed Rowlands
Alison Rumball
Neil Wolfe

Peter Tennent (Mayor)

Address: Civic Centre or 390 Devon St East
New Plymouth

Phone: 06-759 6100 (day)
06-759 4790 (after hours)

Email: peter.tennent@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 1995
Memberships: Monitoring Committee, Policy Committee, Investments Subcommittee (chair), Performance Review Subcommittee (chair), Mayor's Taskforce for Jobs (chair).
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Maurice Betts

Address: 254B Carrington St
New Plymouth

Phone: 06-759 0015 (day)
06-753 8222 (after hours)

Email: maurice.betts@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 2001
Ward: New Plymouth
Memberships: Policy Committee, Hearings Commission, Performance Review Subcommittee, Funding Subcommittee, International Relations Working Party (chair).

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Shaun Biesiek

Address: 50 Lismore St
Merrilands
New Plymouth

Phone: 06-759 4633
027 530 0457

Email: shaun.biesiek@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 2007
Ward: New Plymouth
Memberships: Policy Committee, Hearings Commission, Youth Subcommittee, Police Liaison Working Party, Mayor's Taskforce for Jobs.

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Heather Dodunski

Address: 23b Ngaio St
Strandon

Phone: 06-769 5170
Email: heather.dodunski@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 1992
Ward: South-West
Memberships: Policy Committee (chair), Hearings Commission, Iwi Liaison Subcommittee, Investments Subcommittee, Performance Review Subcommittee, Funding Subcommittee (chair).

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Sherril George

Address: 2 Armstrong Ave
Waitara

Phone: 06-754 7674
0800 759 668

Email: sherril.george@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 2001
Ward: North
Memberships: Policy Committee, Funding Subcommittee, Police Liaison Working Party, Disabilities Issues Working Party, Mayor's Taskforce for Jobs.

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Lance Girling-Butcher

Address: 7 Pendarves St
New Plymouth

Phone: 06-758 4280

Email: lance.girling-butcher@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 2007
Ward: New Plymouth
Memberships: Policy Committee, Len Lye Committee (chair), Funding Subcommittee, Disabilities Issues Working Party.

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Andrew Judd

Address: C/ NPDC
Liardet St
New Plymouth

Phone: 06-751 1683

Email: andrew.judd@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 2007
Ward: New Plymouth
Memberships: Policy Committee, Len Lye Committee, Youth Subcommittee, Investments Subcommittee, Police Liaison Working Party, Mayor’s Taskforce for Jobs.

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Alex Matheson (Deputy Mayor)

Address: 2018 Mountain Rd
Inglewood

Phone: 06-756 8080

Email: alex.matheson@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 1995
Ward: South-West
Memberships: Monitoring Committee, Hearings Commission (deputy commissioner), Investments Subcommittee, Performance Review Subcommittee, Police Liaison Working Party (chair).

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Craig McFarlane

Address: 18 Seymour St
Waitara

Phone: 06-754 8123 (home)
06-754 8631 (work)

Email: craig.mcfarlane@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 2007
Ward: North
Memberships: Monitoring Committee, Hearings Commission, Iwi Liaison Subcommittee.

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John McLeod

Address: 15 Hoyle Pl
New Plymouth

Phone: 06-758 3269

Email: john.mcleod@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 2007
Ward: New Plymouth
Memberships: Monitoring Committee, Hearings Commission, Iwi Liaison Subcommittee (chair), Police Liaison Working Party, Mayor’s Taskforce for Jobs.

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Marie Pearce

Address: 450 Bedford Rd
RD6
Inglewood

Phone: 06-756 7977

Email: marie.pearce@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 2007
Ward: South-West
Memberships: Monitoring Committee (deputy chair), Funding Subcommittee, International Relations Working Party.

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Phil Quinney

Address:188 Heta RdNew Plymouth

Phone: 06-759 2460 (day)
06-758 2333 (after hours)

Email: phil.quinney@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 2001
Ward: New Plymouth
Memberships: Monitoring Committee, Hearings Commission (chief commissioner), Investments Subcommittee, Performance Review Subcommittee, International Relations Working Party.

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Jed Rowlands

Address: 18 Clawton St
New Plymouth

Phone: 06-753 4825

Email: jed.rowlands@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 2001-2004
2007
Ward: New Plymouth
Memberships: Len Lye Committee, Iwi Liaison Subcommittee, Funding Subcommittee, Mayor’s Taskforce for Jobs.

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Alison Rumball

Address: 93 Umutekai Rd
New Plymouth

Phone: 06-755 0390

Email: alison.rumball@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 2001
Ward: New Plymouth
Memberships: Policy Committee, Hearings Commission, Len Lye Committee, Youth Subcommittee, Iwi Liaison Subcommittee, Mayor's Task Force for Jobs, Disabilities Issues Working Party.

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Neil Wolfe

Address: 21 Fillis St
New Plymouth

Phone: 06-758 3564

Email: neil.wolfe@npdc.govt.nz

Elected: 2004
Ward: New Plymouth
Memberships: Monitoring Committee (chair), Hearings Commission, Investments Subcommittee, Performance Review Subcommittee, Funding Subcommittee, Mayor's Taskforce for Jobs.

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