Community Development and Safety Committee

 

OPEN MINUTES

 

 

 

Minutes of a meeting of the Community Development and Safety Committee held in the Council Chambers, Auckland Town Hall, 301-305 Queen Street, Auckland on Wednesday, 19 February 2014 at 9:32am.

 

present

 

Chairperson

Dr Cathy Casey

 

Deputy Chairperson

Cr Sir John Walker, KNZM, CBE

From 9.38am, Item 5.1

Members

Cr Anae Arthur Anae

 

 

Cr Linda Cooper, JP

 

 

Cr Alf Filipaina

From 9.38am, Item 5.1

 

Kris MacDonald

 

 

Cr Calum Penrose

 

 

Cr Wayne Walker

Until 10.25am, Item 9

 

Cr John Watson

From 9.46am, Item 6.1

 

Cr George Wood

From 12.05pm, Item 15

Ex-Officio

Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse

 

 

 

ALSO PRESENT

 

 

Cr Dick Quax

From 12.46pm, Item C1

 

Cr Cameron Brewer

From 12.56pm, Item C1

 

 


Community Development and Safety Committee

19 February 2014

 

 

 

1          Apologies

 

Resolution number COM/2014/7

MOVED by Chairperson CM Casey, seconded by Cr CM Penrose:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)         accept apologies from Crs GS Wood, A Filipaina and J Watson for lateness and Cr W Walker for early departure.

 

CARRIED

 

 

2          Declaration of Interest

 

There were no declarations of interest.

 

3          Confirmation of Minutes

 

Resolution number COM/2014/8

MOVED by Chairperson CM Casey, seconded by Cr WD Walker:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)         confirm the ordinary minutes of its meeting, held on Wednesday, 18 December 2013 as a true and correct record.

 

CARRIED

 

4          Petitions

 

There were no petitions.

 

5          Public Input

 

5.1

Rainbow Communities - Trevor Easton

 

 

 

Cr J Walker entered the meeting 9.38am

Cr A Filipaina entered the meeting 9.38am

 

 

 

Resolution number COM/2014/9

MOVED by Chairperson CM Casey, seconded by Member  MacDonald:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)         receive the verbal presentation from Trevor Easton of Outline NZ.

 

CARRIED

 


 

6          Local Board Input

 

6.1

Franklin Local Board - Andrew Baker

 

 

 

Cr J Watson entered the meeting 9.46am

 

 

 

Resolution number COM/2014/10

MOVED by Chairperson CM Casey, seconded by Cr JG Walker:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)      receive the report and correspondence from Board Member Andrew Baker.

b)      support Andrew Baker to reduce the work and time frame for Council’s policy development on phychoactive substances.

 

CARRIED

 

 

6.2

Manurewa Local Board - Simeon Brown

 

Board Member Simeon Brown was unable to attend. The Chairperson agreed to table his information.

A copy of the tabled information has been placed on the official copy of these minutes and is available on the Auckland council website.

 

Resolution number COM/2014/11

MOVED by Cr CM Penrose, seconded by Cr JG Walker:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee

a)            receive the correspondence on phychoactive substances from Board Member Simeon Brown.

b)            express its support for Auckland Council to regulate the sale and supply of psychoactive substances.

CARRIED

 

Attachments

a     Letter to Ministry of Health

b     Letter from Ministry of Health

c    Manurewa Local Board draft psychoactive substances position paper

 

7          Extraordinary Business

 

There was no extraordinary business.

 

8          Notices of Motion

 

There were no notices of motion.


 

9

 Auckland Regional Injury Prevention Update

 

 

 

Amanda Kelly, Senior Advisor Injury Prevention and Coral Timmins, Chairperson of the Guiding Coalition for Injury Prevention were in attendance and gave a presentation to the meeting.

 

Copies of the tabled presentation and Injury Profiles by area have been placed on the official copy of these minutes and is available on the Auckland council website.

 

 

 

Cr Hulse left the meeting 10.14am

Cr Watson left the meeting 10.17am

Cr Anae left the meeting 10.24am

Cr Watson returned to the meeting 10.26am

Cr W Walker retired from the meeting 10.25am

Cr Anae returned to the meeting 10.31am

 

 

 

Resolution number COM/2014/12

MOVED by Chairperson CM Casey, seconded by Cr J Watson:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)         receive the Auckland Regional Injury Prevention Update report.

b)        thank the Guiding Coalition for Injury Prevention for their update.

 

CARRIED

 

Attachments

a     Auckland Regional Injury Prevention update

b     Auckland Region Injury Profile

c    Albert-Eden Injury Profile

d    Devonport-Takapuna Fatality Profile

e     Franklin Injury Profile

f     Great Barrier Injury Profile

g    Henderson-Massey Injury Profile

h    Hibiscus and Bays Injury Profile

i      Howick Injury Profile

j     Manurewa Injury Profile

k     Maungakiekie-Tamaki Infury Profile

l     Orakei Injury Profile

m    Otara-Papatoetoe Injury Profile

n    Papakura Injury Profile

o    Puketapapa Injury Profile

p     Rodney Injury Profiles

q    Upper Harbour Injury Profile

r    Waiheke Injury Profiles

s     Waitakere Injury Profiles

t     Waitemata Injury Profiles

u    Whau Injury Profiles

 


 

Precedence of Business

Resolution number COM/2014/13

MOVED by Chairperson CM Casey, seconded by Cr LA Cooper:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)         agree that Item 13, Submission on the proposed national drug policy be accorded precedence at this time.

 

CARRIED

 

 

13

Submission on the proposed national drug policy

 

 

 

Cr AJ Anae left the meeting at 10.40 am.

Cr Hulse returned to the meeting at 10.42am

Cr AJ Anae returned to the meeting at 10.50 am.

 

 

 

Louise Prew, Policy Analyst and Michael Sinclair, Team Leader Community Policy & Planning-Regional Social Policy were in attendance and gave a presentation to the meeting.

 

A copy of the tabled presentation has been placed on the official copy of these minutes and is available on the Auckland council website.

 

 

 

Resolution number COM/2014/14

MOVED by Chairperson CM Casey, seconded by Cr AJ Anae:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)      endorse the submission written on A New National Drug Policy for New Zealand: Discussion document and agrees to its being sent to the Ministry of Health by 28 February 2014.

b)      forward resolutions made by this committee to the Regional Strategy and Policy Committee meeting to be held on 6 March 2014 for retrospective approval.

c)      delegate any changes made following feedback from this committee to the report writer with approval from the chair of this committee.

d)      include alcohol pouches as a future trend

e)      strengthen in the submission the impact that Maori are disproportionally affected by drug harm

 

CARRIED

 

Attachments

a     Submission on the proposed national drug policy

 


 

10

Kids Voting Online Pilot 2013

 

 

 

Jan Ziegler-Peri, Community Development Project Leader was in attendance and gave a presentation to the meeting.

 

A copy of the tabled presentation and document have been placed on the official copy of these minutes and is available on the Auckland council website.

 

 

 

Resolution number COM/2014/15

MOVED by Cr LA Cooper, seconded by Cr AJ Anae:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)      receive the Kids Voting Online Pilot report.

 

 CARRIED

 

Attachments

a     Kids online voting pilot 2013

b     Kids online voting pilot 2013 results

 

 

11

Making Auckland the most liveable city for rainbow communities - A proposed action framework

 

 

 

Resolution number COM/2014/16

MOVED by Chairperson CM Casey, seconded by Member PA Hulse:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)         endorse A framework for action: making Auckland the most liveable city for rainbow communities and thank the Rainbow Door working party for their work so far.

b)        express support for embarking on the Rainbow tick certification process and request the Chief Executive to advise the committee on the best way to proceed.

 

CARRIED

 

Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse left the meeting at 11.16am

 

The meeting adjourned at 11.16am

The meeting reconvened at 11.25am


 

12

Disability, Access and Inclusion Update

 

 

 

Paul Brown, Strategic Advisor (Disability) and Rachael Trotman, Community Development and Safety Principle Advisor were in attendance and gave a presentation to the meeting.

 

A copy of the tabled video presentation has been placed on the official copy of these minutes.

 

 

 

Resolution number COM/2014/17

MOVED by Chairperson CM Casey, seconded by Cr AM Filipaina:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)      receive the Disability, Access and Inclusion Update report.

 

CARRIED

 

14

Review of the regional settlement strategies and planned new arrangements

 

 

 

Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse returned to the meeting at 11.40am

 

 

 

Resolution number COM/2014/18

MOVED by Chairperson CM Casey, seconded by Cr AJ Anae:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)      note that Auckland Council staff will work with Immigration New Zealand to develop a new Auckland regional partnership agreement that will replace the current Auckland Regional Settlement Strategy

b)      note that Auckland Council staff will report to the Regional Strategy and Policy Committee in April, with recommendations towards finalising the regional partnership agreement.

 

CARRIED

 

 

15

Housing for older persons work programme update

 

 

 

Cr GS Wood entered the meeting at 12.05 pm.

 

 

 

Kat Tierney, Team Leader, Community Facilities, South was in attendance and gave a presentation to the meeting.

 

A copy of the tabled presentation has been placed on the official copy of these minutes and is available on the Auckland council website.

 

 

 

Resolution number COM/2014/19

MOVED by Chairperson CM Casey, seconded by Cr J Watson:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)      receive the Housing for older persons work programme update presentation.

 

CARRIED

 

Attachments

a     Housing for older people

 

 

16

Feedback from the Community Development and Safety Committee's Workshop

 

 

 

Cr CM Penrose exited the meeting at 12.28 pm.

 

 

 

Rachael Trotman, Community Development and Safety Principle Advisor was  in attendance and tabled documents at the meeting.

 

Copies of the tabled documents have been placed on the official copy of these minutes and is available on the Auckland council website.

 

 

 

Resolution number COM/2014/20

MOVED by Chairperson CM Casey, seconded by Cr AM Filipaina:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)      endorse the proposed work programme for the 18 months from March 2014.

 

CARRIED

 

Attachments

a     Minutes of the Community Development and Safety Committee's workshop

b     Proposed Community Development and Safety Committee key focus areas to July 2015

  

17        Consideration of Extraordinary Items

 

There was no consideration of extraordinary items.  

 

 

18        Procedural motion to exclude the public

Resolution number COM/2014/21

MOVED by Chairperson CM Casey, seconded by Cr AJ Anae:  

That the Community Development and Safety Committee:

a)      exclude the public from the following part(s) of the proceedings of this meeting.

b)      agree that Kat Teirney, Peter Loud, Martin Brown and Allan Young be permitted to remain for Confidential Item C1, Wilsher Village – Request for Proposal – Commercial and in Confidence, after the public has been excluded, because of their knowledge of the Request for Proposal process, which will help the Community Development and Safety Committee in its decision-making.

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       Wilsher Village – Request For Proposal - Commercial and in confidence

Reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter

Particular interest(s) protected (where applicable)

Ground(s) under section 48(1) for the passing of this resolution

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.

s7(2)(h) - The withholding of the information is necessary to enable the local authority to carry out, without prejudice or disadvantage, commercial activities.

In particular, the report contains commercially sensitive information concerning the Request for Proposal process.

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.

 

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

 

 

12.30pm          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.

 

1.12pm            The public was re-admitted.

 

restatementS

 

It was resolved while the public was excluded:

 

 

C1

Wilsher Village – Request For Proposal - Commercial and in confidence

 

d)         agree the report and resolutions will remain confidential

 

 

1.12 pm                                              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 Community Development and Safety Committee HELD ON

 

 

 

DATE:.........................................................................

 

 

 

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