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Governing Body
30 January
2014
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1 Affirmation
His Worship the Mayor read the affirmation and acknowledged the new
Auckland Council Chief Executive, Stephen Town, noting that this was his first
Governing Body meeting.
2 Apologies
3 Declaration of Interest
There were no declarations of interest.
4 Confirmation of Minutes
5 Acknowledgements
Cr AM Filipaina entered the meeting at 9.35 am.
Cr ME Lee entered the
meeting at 9.38 am.
Cr
CE Brewer entered the meeting at 9.40 am.
His
Worship the Mayor acknowledged the passing of Bishop John Mackey, Lindo
Ferguson and Gordon Johns and a moment of silence was observed for each.
Cr
C Darby noted that Lorde was a resident in his ward and presented the Auckland
Council with a copy of Lorde’s album, Pure Heroine, for its archives.
6 Petitions
There were no petitions.
7 Public Input
Cr
JG Walker entered the meeting at 9.49am.
9.49
am The meeting was adjourned because of disruption.
10.09
am The meeting reconvened.
His
Worship the Mayor invited the Friends of the Fukuoka Garden to address the
meeting.
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Public Input - Friends of the Fukuoka Garden
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Resolution number GB/2014/4
MOVED by Mayor LCM Brown, seconded by Cr CE Fletcher:
That the
Governing Body:
a) apologise
to the Mayor and people of Fukuoka City and to the people of Auckland,
including the Japanese community, regarding the removal of the Japanese
Garden at Auckland Zoo.
b)
refer the matter of the Japanese garden
to the Parks, Recreation and Sports and CCO Monitoring Committees for
involvement and action with the Friends of Fukuoka.
CARRIED
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8 Local Board Input
There was no local board input.
9 Extraordinary Business
There was no extraordinary business.
10 Notices of Motion
There were no notices of motion.
Deputy Mayor PA Hulse left the meeting at 10.27 am.
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Submission on draft regulations for exploratory oil and gas
drilling under the EEZ Act
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Resolution number GB/2014/5
MOVED by Cr LA Cooper, seconded by Cr RI Clow:
That the Governing Body:
a) approve the
submission on draft regulations for exploratory oil and gas drilling in the
exclusive economic zone (Attachment A to the agenda report).
A division
was called for, voting on which was as follows:
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For
Cr AJ Anae
Cr CE Brewer
Mayor LCM Brown
Cr WB Cashmore
Cr RI Clow
Cr LA Cooper
Cr CE Fletcher
Cr DA Krum
Cr CM Penrose
Cr D Quax
Cr SL Stewart
Cr JG Walker
Cr J Watson
Cr MP Webster
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Against
Cr CM Casey
Cr C Darby
Cr AM Filipaina
Cr ME Lee
Cr WD Walker
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Abstained
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The motion was
declared carried by 14
votes to 5.
CARRIED
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Secretarial
note: Cr WD Walker and Cr RI Clow noted their concerns about
drilling offshore and around the process and timeframe provided by Central
Government.
Cr
CM Casey noted her opposition to drilling offshore.
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Cr C Darby left the meeting at 10.57 am.
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Auckland Airport Capital Return
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Resolution number GB/2014/6
MOVED by Cr RI Clow, seconded by Cr MP Webster:
That the Governing Body:
a) direct
Auckland Council Investments Limited to vote Auckland Council’s shareholding
in favour of the proposed capital return by Auckland International Airport
Limited.
b) note that
if the capital return proceeds, a separate report outlining options, including
an option to use 10% of the return to lower Auckland Council’s 2014/2015 rate
requirement, will be received by either the Governing
Body or Finance and Performance Committee by April 2014.
CARRIED
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Secretarial note: Changes
to the original recommendation were incorporated into motion b), with the
agreement of the meeting.
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Secretarial note: Cr C Darby was not present for
this item and neither spoke nor voted on
the item due to a conflict of interest.
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13 Consideration
of Extraordinary Items
There was no consideration of extraordinary items.
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14 Procedural
motion to exclude the public
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Resolution
number GB/2014/7
MOVED by Mayor LCM Brown, seconded by Cr CE
Fletcher:
That the
Governing Body:
a) exclude
the public from the following part(s) of the proceedings of this meeting.
The
general subject of each matter to be considered while the public is excluded,
the reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter, and the
specific grounds under section 48(1) of the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 for the passing of this resolution follows.
This
resolution is made in reliance on section 48(1)(a) of the Local Government
Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 and the particular interest or
interests protected by section 6 or section 7 of that Act which would be
prejudiced by the holding of the whole or relevant part of the proceedings of
the meeting in public, as follows:
C1 Further
Appointments to Outside Organisations
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Reason for passing
this resolution in relation to each matter
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Particular interest(s)
protected (where applicable)
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Ground(s) under
section 48(1) for the passing of this resolution
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The public conduct of
the part of the meeting would be likely to result in the disclosure of
information for which good reason for withholding exists under section 7.
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s7(2)(a) - The
withholding of the information is necessary to protect the privacy of
natural persons, including that of a deceased person.
In particular, the
report contains the names of potential nominees.
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s48(1)(a)
The public conduct of
the part of the meeting would be likely to result in the disclosure of
information for which good reason for withholding exists under section 7.
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The text of these resolutions
is made available to the public who are present at the meeting and form part
of the minutes of the meeting.
CARRIED
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Cr C Darby returned to the meeting at
11.17am.
11.17 am The public was excluded.
Resolutions in relation to the confidential items are recorded in
the confidential section of these minutes and are not publicly available.
11.44 am The public was re-admitted.
restatementS
It was resolved while the public was excluded:
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Further Appointments to Outside Organisations
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That the Governing Body:
a) nominate Neil
Henderson for appointment to the Living Cell Technologies’ Animal Ethics
Committee.
b) nominate Mr
Bill Burrill for re-appointment to the Auckland Zoological Park Animal Ethics
Committee.
c) agree that the
report and decision be restated in the open section of the minutes.
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Attachments
a Further
Appointments to Outside Organisations report
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11.44 am The
Chairperson thanked Members for their attendance and attention to business and
declared the meeting closed.
CONFIRMED AS A TRUE AND CORRECT RECORD AT A MEETING OF
THE Governing Body HELD ON
DATE:.........................................................................
CHAIRPERSON:........................................................
