Commonly Used Terms on our siteNgā kupu e rite tonu ana te whakamahia ki tā mātau pae tukutuku

Here are some explanations of commonly used terms and acronyms used throughout this website.

• AO

• Audit Office, which checks council annual and long term plans and financial statements for compliance with legislation and standards of practice.
• AHB
• Animal Health Board
• AEP
• Annual Exceedance Probability (flooding term), the chance of a flood of a given size occurring in any one year
• AQMS
•  Air Quality Monitoring Strategy
• Airshed
• A defined geographic area where air pollution is monitored. This area is legally gazetted by the government.
• BASS
• Better Administrative Support Systems
• Calicivirus
• Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease
• CCTO’s
• Council Controlled Trading Organisations
• CDEM
• Civil Defence Emergency Management
• Class Vie or Class VIIe
• A measure of the gradient of the land, with Class VIIe being the steepest land with a high risk of eroding.
• Clean Heat
• the Regional Council’s insulation and clean heating funding assistance programme for homeowners
• CMA
• Coastal Marine Area
• CPI
• Consumer Price Index
• DHB
• District Health Board
• DOC
• Department of Conservation
• ECAN
• Environment Canterbury Regional Council
• EECA
• Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority
• ETS
• Emissions Trading Scheme
• Flood event
• (or rainfall event) a period in which flood or rain is monitored for hazard warning
• GDP
• Gross Domestic Product
• GMO
• Genetically Modified Organism
• Hapu
• Maori sub-tribe
• HBCDEM
• Hawke’s Bay Civil Defence Emergency Management
• the Regional Council
• Hawke’s Bay Regional Council
• HBRIC
• Hawke’s Bay Regional Investment Company
• HDC
• Hastings District Council
• HPFCS
• Heretaunga Plains Flood Control Scheme
• HPUDS
• Heretaunga Plains Urban Development Strategy
• IRR
• Internal Rate of Return
• ISO
• International Organisation for Standardisation
• Iwi
• Maori tribe
• Kaitiaki
• Maori term for guardianship
• Kyoto Protocol
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• LAPP
• Local Authority Protection Programme
• LGA
• Local Government Act
• LGOIMA
• Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987
• LOS
• Level of Service
• LTCCP
• Long Term Council Community Plan – former name for Ten Year Plan or Long Term Plan
• LTP
• Long Term Plan, a 10 year plan required to be produced every 3 years by all councils in New Zealand
• McLean Scale
• A method for measuring populations of rabbits on land
• MAF
• Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
• MTA
• Maritime Transport Act 1994
• MTI
• Maungaharuru-Tangitu Iwi Incorporated, the mandated body for several hapu in the Tangoio, Tutira, and Maungaharuru areas
• MoU
• Memorandum of Understanding
• NCC
• Napier City Council
• NES
• National Environmental Standard
• NGO
• Non Government Organisation
• NZ GAAP
• New Zealand Generally Accepted Accounting Practice
• NZ IFRS
• New Zealand equivalents to International Reporting Standards
• NZTA
• New Zealand Transport Agency
• NZCPS
• New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement
• PCA
• Possum Control Area
• PIF
• Performance Improvement Framework
• PM₁₀
• Particulate matter of 10 microns in size. This is very fine material (in dust , smoke or sea spray) which can get into people’s lungs and cause respiratory illness. Air quality monitoring measures the amount of PM₁₀ in the air
• PONL
• Port of Napier Limited
• Rainfall event
• (or flood event) a period in which flood or rain is monitored for hazard warning
• RCEP
• Regional Coastal Environment Plan
• Rates
• Please refer to Targeted Rates, UAGC and UAC
• RID
• Rating Information Database
• RHD
• Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease - also known as calicivirus
• RLS
• Regional Landcare Scheme
• RLTS
• Regional Land Transport Strategy
• RMA
• Resource Management Act
• RPMS
• Regional Pest Management Strategy
• RRMP
• Regional Resource Management Plan
• RSAP
• Regional Safety Action Plan
• SOE
• State of the Environment
• SOI
• Statement of Intent
• Targeted Rates
• Rates set against particular properties, to fund activities specific to that area
• Tb or TB
• [Bovine] Tuberculosis, an infectious disease of cattle
• Telemetry
• Device that can automatically transmit and record various monitoring information, such as water use and soil moisture levels
• TLA
• A territorial local authority – a legal term for a city or district council
• Total Control
• Management level for plant or animal pests
• UAC
• Uniform Annual Charge, a targeted rating method where a fixed amount is charged on each property within a specific area
• UAGC
• Uniform Annual General Charge, a fixed amount charged on each property
• Vector control
• Pest control to prevent the spread of disease by ‘vectors’ or carriers ( i.e. TB Vector control )
• VTR
• Voluntary Targeted Rate