Ways you can stay informed
You can:
- sign up for our weekly email newsletter, Everything Kāpiti
- Register for Have your say and share your thoughts on topics that matter to you.
- follow our main Council Facebook page (we have other Facebook pages too – find out more below)
- follow our Council Instagram page
- follow our Council LinkedIn page
- follow our Neighbourly page
- download the free Antenno app to your mobile phone – find out more on our Antenno page
- sign up for public notice email notifications
- sign up for our occasional newsletter for Kāpiti dog owners
- check out the latest media releases on our News page.
We've also made a list of official emergency information sources – see our Where to get official updates page.
Our other Facebook pages
We have a number of Facebook pages including:
Purpose
We use our Facebook pages for:
- sharing latest news and information
- getting informal community feedback on our activities and services
- building a community of people who care about the District.
If you're requesting a particular service, we might ask you to contact us via phone or email. This will help us to respond to your request effectively. If you need an immediate response, please call us on 0800 486 486.
We won't usually comment on political issues or get involved in debates.
If you have feedback for any of our elected members, you can contact them through our elected members page.
YouTube
YouTube is a free video-sharing website that allows users to upload, share, and view videos. From time to time we'll upload videos to our YouTube channel about our activities, information and services.
Social media rules
We reserve the right to remove or moderate contributions and followers on our social media pages that break the rules or guidelines of the relevant communities and our rules stated below.
Messages and images on the council's social media pages must always be polite, appropriate and relevant.
Users of our social media pages must not:
- swear
- post messages or images that are unlawful, libellous, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented or racially offensive
- post photos or videos of people without their prior consent
- post protected content copied from elsewhere
- post the same message, or very similar messages, more than once ('spamming')
- publicise personal information or contact details
- advertise products or services
- impersonate someone else.