AGM outcomes and new Committee

An update for members of the OCBC and the wider Orere Point community

following the club’s AGM on Sunday 6th August.

OCBC Commitee for 2023-2024 Club Season

Natalie Hartnell (Co-Chair); Tim Greene (Co-Chair), Jason Brand (Treasurer), Rae Dalton (Secretary), Rick Simpson (Commodore), Steven Sachs, Joe Walker, Kristen Foots, Wendy Caldwell, Craig Caldwell and new committee members this season Melanie Moss, Virginia Hicks and Ben Hicks.

AGM highlights

Life Membership for retiring Chair Eddie Pram

Longtime club stalwart Eddie Pram was awarded Life Membership of the OCBC at the recent AGM. Eddie has been on or led just about every group that gets things done at Orere Point and has now stepped back after completing the last four years as OCBC Chair. His pastoral care for the Orere community through the Covid times will be among his many lasting legacies.

Read the citation for Eddie here

Community Award to the Tossell family

Rebekah and Kurt Tossell are behind just about everything good or useful that happens at Orere Point, and they do everything with a smile and hugely generous attitude. Really deserving Community Award winners, and a true asset to our community.

Read the citation for the Tossell family here

Community Award recipients the Tossell family (sadly minus Kurt) and retiring Chair and OCBC Life Member Eddie Pram

New Memberships and Key Renewals

The season’s started and so far just over half of our members have renewed for the year. Onto it please.

Your membership enables the OCBC to keep working on behalf of the Orere community, running our fishing fundraisers and community events like the Over 60s Lunch and Children’s Christmas Party, maintaining facilities we all enjoy, assisting with predator control programmes and helping our birdlife.

Membership and key renewals for 2023-24 can be done at the Orere Point General Store.

The OCBC appreciates the time and support Myrna and Mark are giving with this.

Interested in joining the OCBC? Know someone keen to join? Call Natalie Hartnell on 0204 041 7473

Update on matters raised at AGM

1. Boat ramp:

New magnetic fob opener working well. Keys can be returned and exchanged at the Orere Point General Store. Lost key charges will apply if keys are not returned as key sets will be retained and potentially sold if new system works out.

Specialist advice has been sought regarding the damage/maintenance to the ramps.

Potholes to be addressed on roadway to the ramps ahead of summer.

2. Positive contact made with Auckland Council with commitments made regarding tidying up the newly reinstated river wall area, additional rubbish bins at the Orere Beach Reserve and tree trimming as raised at the AGM.

3. Power outages

Vector’s Customer Manager advises that following damage to the line from Clevedon recently, the switch allowing power to get to Orere from a Counties Power line from Kaiaua failed, sparking a power cut for some Counties Power customers as well as a 13-hr outage at OP. We received assurance both Vector and Counties Power will maintain this alternative link, and that power supply to Orere Point is squarely ‘back on Vector’s radar’.

4. A major discussion point at the AGM was the use of the AT road reserve on Howard Road for parking, storage and trading by one resident. At the AGM the owner committed to members that he would shortly remove his property from the reserve and so return this land to the community.