Date: Time: Meeting Room: Venue:
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Thursday 12 December 2013 6.00pm Waikowhai
Meeting Room |
Puketapapa Local Board
OPEN MINUTE ITEM ATTACHMENTS
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8.1 Three Kings Precinct Plan
A. South Epsom Planning Group presentation 3
9.1 Greg McKeown
A. Presentation by G. McKeown 17
9,2 Three Kings Residents United Group
A. Three Kings United Residents Group presentation 21
15 Puketapapa Local Board Small Local Improvement Projects (SLIPs) Programme 2013/2014
A. Updated Puketapapa Local Board SLIPs Programme 2013/2014 25
16 Auckland Transport Monthly Update Report – December 2013
A. Local Board Transport Capital Fund - Financial Update for Puketapapa Local Board 31
21 Board Member Reports December 2013
A. E Kumar Board Member Report September to 11 December 2013 33
12 December 2013 |
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Report Name: Board member report –Ella Kumar
Portfolio: Events, Sport and Recreation, Arts and Culture, Library,
Significant points from monthly Board workshops and briefings
Portfolio activities for the month September to 11th December 2013
Start |
Subject |
Location |
Brief Description |
24th September |
Santa Parade |
Local Board Office |
Discussions on the route for parade. |
25th September |
Try A Craft |
Mt Roskill Grammar School Community Education office |
Debrief on event. Outcome: a successful art/culture event educating community of other ethnic group arts. |
28th September |
IDOP |
Shanti Niwas Onehunga |
Attended the celebration for older people. |
3rd October |
Pah Homestead Community day |
Pah Homestead |
Meeting to update the activities for the event on the 12th October 2013. |
5TH October |
Diwali event |
Manukau Vodafone Event Center |
Attended the Manukau Indian Association event |
8th October |
Creative Communities funding |
Town Hall |
Regional funding allocation Full Day |
9th October |
Auckland Council Diwali Launch |
Rendezvous Grand Hotel Conference room |
Launch for the 2013 Diwali festival, sponsors, media partners, guests |
10th October |
Ethnic communities |
Three Kings Plaza |
Attended the RCN event for diverse communities. |
11th October |
Santa Parade |
Local Board Office |
Meeting with Otahuhu Brass band co ordinator to organise their participation in event. |
12th October |
Pah Homestead Community Day |
Pah Homestead |
Event for the community to increase local community attendance from Puketapapa Local board area. This event had community participation. |
13th October |
Diwali festival |
Manukau Vodafone event center |
Humm FM Diwali event |
14th October |
NZ Herald article for Diwali |
Local board Office |
Met journalist for a Diwali article |
16th October |
Workshop
Diwali photo shoot |
Local board Office
Roop Darshan |
Weekly workshop welcome to newly elected board. Radio station took photos for Diwali to place on facebook with radio message delivered promoting Auckland Council Diwali festival and the culture of Diwali, how it is celebrated. |
19th -20th October |
Auckland Council Diwali Festival |
Aotea Center |
Annual event delivered and organised by ATEED. |
21st ,22nd, 24th October |
Diwali Festival school programme |
Various school |
Delivered messages of Diwali and the culture behind Diwali. |
23 October |
Workshop |
Local board Office |
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26th October |
Diwali |
Onehunga Library Papatoetoe town center |
Education on Diwali |
27th October |
Diwali |
Mt Albert Library |
Education on Diwali
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28th October |
Diwali |
Manukau Vodafone event center |
Radio Tarana event |
29th October |
Diwali |
Panmure Library |
Education on Diwali |
30th October |
Fitness machines For the park |
May Road War Memorial Park |
Discussed the location for fitness machines around the children’s playground. |
31st October |
Inaugural Local Board event for elected members |
Fickling Center |
Sworn in for local board |
1st November |
Diwali |
Onehunga Library |
Education on Diwali festive foods for Community |
2nd November |
Diwali
Sandringham Festival |
New Lynn Library
Sandringham park |
Education on Diwali |
5th November |
KHPUG meeting |
Tri Star Gymnasium |
Regular monthly catch up with the Keith Hay Park recreation and sports codes Soccer, Cricket, Gymnastics, Cameron Pools |
6th November |
Diwali |
Avondale Library |
Education on Diwali |
9th November |
Diwali |
Mt Roskill Library
Remuera Library |
Education on Diwali |
12th November |
Events Portfolio meeting |
Local Board office |
Update on upcoming events Taste of Puketapapa Santa Parade |
14th November |
Lynfield reserve Board walk |
Lynfield |
New walk way to be commenced. Local Board walked through the walk way, not completed yet in the process. |
16th November |
Building Bridges event
Ethnic Panel event |
Mt Roskill Primary school
Papatoetoe |
Diverse communities building bridges between parents and schools.
Local Board elections Diverse community representation low |
20th November |
Diwali Debrief |
Town |
Discussions on what worked pros and cons. Met other council staff behind scenes working group. |
20th November |
Citizenship ceremonies |
Fickling center |
Two ceremonies |
22 November |
Local board Workshop |
Local Board Office |
Run through agenda |
26th November |
Pah Homestead Community day Debrief |
Pah Homestead |
Met with Pah Homestead staff. Discussions on Pros and Cons of event for 2014 event. |
25th November |
Santa Parade |
Local Board office |
Meeting with working committee to update final requirements for Santa Parade. |
27th November |
Local board Workshop governance |
Mt Albert War Memorial Hall |
Advance Governance workshop for local board members Full day |
28th November |
Business Meeting |
Wesley Community center |
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29th November |
Santa Parade |
Local board office |
Printing, prepare event documents etc. |
30th November |
Santa Parade |
Mt Roskill Shops |
Community event |
3rd December |
Creative Communities
Monthly catch with Chair |
Local Board office |
Mary and I met Fahima A group that was not successful in the last funding to see how we can help for future applications.
Catch up with Board Chair Julie |
4th December |
Local board Workshop |
Local Board office |
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5th December |
Santa Parade debrief |
Local board office |
Met with Business association and parade youth committee. Debriefed event for future of this event. |
6th December |
Carols by Candlelight Event |
Three Kings Reserve |
Annual Event |
10th December |
Events portfolio meeting
Taste of Puketapapa event debrief and prize draw |
Local Board office |
Debriefed with Jody, Ren and team for the future of this event.
Drew the prizes with community member Dawn and board member Doig. |
11th December |
Local Board Workshop |
Local board office |
Run through Agenda |
Any other issues:
Events, Sport and Recreation and Arts/Cultural Activity:
Tri Star Gymnastics stage 2 project.
Lovelock Track
Mt Roskill Grammar School Hockey Turf
Pah Homestead
Library
Santa Parade
Santa Parade November 30th Saturday 10.00am to 12.30pm
Discussion continues with youth committee, Comms department and Event council teams.
Successful event delivered; with over 1000 people attended, we doubled the number of stalls and floats this year, 30 floats.
Many community members did compliment the event and are very happy we have sorted local event shared by all.
Taste of Puketapapa
Excellent two week event.
Our community plus other Auckland community were able to come over and taste the diverse community dishes.
Carols by Candlelight
Excellent annual Christmas event for the community.
Weather was great and atmosphere was amazing.
Other Issues:
87 Parau Street
Issue with hedges and allergies, neighbours house belong to Housing NZ, met with Lily Brown housing NZ on site to sort our possibilities to trim and remove the allergy plants.
This owner is 82 years old and also facing issues about her berms.
She was angry as a pensioner she now has to pay for the berm on top of her lawn to be mowed.
Dumping
A lot of dumping around the Sommerset Road on the Auckland Transport land. As soon as the side berm grass is over grown to half a meter high dumping is becoming a problem, sofa’s televisions. I had to lodge a complaint for all dumping to be picked up so community don’t start dumping. Signs need to be placed around this area.
Email of solo parent:
Dear Ella,
I am writing in regards to the lawn which needs to be mowed, outside my property 562 Richardson Road. Being a corner house I have. Two sides which needs to be mowed and I have been quoted NZD45 for the first cut and NZD30 for every fortnightly cut (this is not even counting my regular lawn cost of NZD30 which is done fortnightly). This means I have to pay double the amount for the lawn! NZD30 fortnightly is going to add up the cost of lawn mowing to NZD1440.00 per annum instead of NZD720.00 and I think this is outrageous! It is already so hard managing the expenses as a Solo mum with rising rates, electricity and other necessities and I am not happy with this decision made by Land transport.
I will appreciate if you can please see if it can be arranged to be done as I think this had been unfairly passed on to me as the house owner.
Thank you appreciate your assistance with this.
Kind Regards
Kalpa Patel
Recommendation/s
I request the Board to consider adopting these recommendations below.
Even though the Board has already agreed in the previous Annual Plan to not have berm mowing, our residents are more affected than we thought at the time. I recommend we review our position and consider community feedback on this issue. Many of our affected residents are from low income or refugee background. There are a high number of rental properties so there is no strong a sense of ownership of some of the areas which are now presenting us a problem.
That the Puketapapa Local Board
a) receives the report
b) requests officers to investigate other methods initiate to deter people from dumping including possible erecting signs around the Sommerset Road indicating “No Dumping” to deter people from dumping along this road.
c) agrees to investigate options for addressing the berm mowing issue is proving to be a problem issue for some parts of our community.
d) requests officers to assist in identifying ownership of those parcels of land that are overgrown so that it can help the board and the community to find a way to address this.
Signatories
Authors |
Board Member Ella Kumar |