Christmas and New Year Council facility opening times

Council offices and other Council managed facilities will be closed at times over the festive season.

All Council facilities* will close on Friday 19 December at 3pm for a staff/family Christmas gathering. The normal after hour's service will be in place. Urgent matters will be attended to.

* Except all pools, these will remain open, serviced by casual staff

Council offices
The Council offices in Tokoroa and Putāruru* are closed from 3pm on Wednesday 24 December and will reopen again at 8am on Monday 5 January 2015. Council can be contacted for all queries on 07 885 0340 (water, sewerage, noise, building, dogs). Environmental Health have a duty officer on call, please contact 0274 516 173.

*The Putāruru Service Centre is open from time to time but for the library service only (refer table below).

Fire permits

No rural or urban fire permits will be issued after Friday 19 December 2014 until Monday 5 January 2015, urgent call only to 07 885 0340.

Pools

The South Waikato Indoor pools are open during the festive season from Monday to Friday from 6am to 8pm and on weekends and public holidays from 7.30am to 8pm, except for:

• Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve when we close early at 6pm
• Closed on Christmas Day
• Open on New Year's Day from 12 noon

The seasonal pools in Putāruru/Tīrau are closed on Christmas Day and open every other day from 12noon to 6pm.

Refuse and recycling

Collections for the Christmas/New Year period are affected; some collections will be the day AFTER normal. Refer below:

• Thursday 25 December will be collected on Friday 26 December
• Friday 26 December will be collected on Saturday 27 December
• Thursday 1 January will be collected on Friday 2 January
• Friday 2 January will be collected on Saturday 3 January

This information is on the recycling calendar distributed to all households and on Council's website.

All landfill and transfer station sites are closed on Thursday 25 December and Thursday 1 January.

At Christmas time there is usually an over-abundance of recycling from an increase in bottles, containers and cardboard. Don't forget that recycling can be dropped off at the urban recycling facilities in Tīrau (Depot St), Putāruru Transfer Station (State Highway 1) and the Tokoroa landfill (Newell Road) at all times, and at the new recycling facility in Croad Place (off Sloss Road, Tokoroa) weekdays from 8am to 4pm and weekends 9am to 1pm. The Croad Place facility will be closed on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.