$118k MELA funds awarded

 

At its recent committee meeting, the Mangawhai Endowment Lands Account (MELA) committee awarded a total of $118,754.55 of funding to various community projects around the Mangawhai Harbour. 

On the MELA committee is deputy mayor Peter Wethey and councillors Libby Jones and Jonathan Larsen.

The following grants were awarded: 
 Mangawhai Activity Zone: Shade sails including installation, curved retaining walls and earthworks, $36,065.
Mangawhai Domain: Showers, plumbing and gas fitting, $26,259.
 Mangawhai Heads Volunteer Lifeguard Service Inc: Architect, engineer, first aid supplies and rescue boat fuel, repairs and maintenance, $12,822.25.
 Mangawhai Historic Village Trust: Computer hardware, $1470.43.
 Mangawhai Museum and Historical Society Inc: Story boards, graphic work, acrylic display cases, supply materials for fairy tern exhibit and re-design of birds on sand dunes box display, $12,836.
 Mangawhai Public Library: 20 deluxe folding tables, $6461.85.
 Mangawhai Tennis Club: Refurbishment of four Tiger Turf courts, $2840.
 Mangawhai Tracks Charitable Trust: Contribution towards timber and posts for boardwalk, $20,000.

The Mangawhai Endowment Lands Account was created on dissolution of the Mangawhai Harbour Board, which had significant assets in the Mangawhai area, and is managed under the Mangawhai Lands Empowering Act 1966.

The cash and income from land assets not transferred to the Northland Harbour Board for port purposes were invested to provide grant funding for community groups in the Mangawhai area – a defined area around the Harbour.