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Disability
Advisory Panel
24 November
2014
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1 Apologies
2 Declaration of Interest
There were no
declarations of interest.
3 Confirmation of Minutes
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There were no minutes to confirm.
Secretarial Note: The minutes of the final meeting of the Disability
Strategic Advisory Panel, held on Monday, 15 September 2014, have
been confirmed as a true and correct
record by the Chairperson and the Lead Officer Support.
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4 Extraordinary Business
There was no
extraordinary business.
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Purpose of Disability Advisory Panel
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Kevin Wright, Lead Officer Support,
encouraged members to share their aspirations about how they could best
contribute to the purpose of the Panel and what they wished the Panel to
achieve. Comments from members included the following:
- Huhana Hickey – not to make submissions
– advise within Council – representing the disabled community.
- John Herring – asked whether issues
relating to the Panel’s conflicting submission had been resolved.
- Don McKenzie – represent the views of
our community – early advice on submissions Council is making is
essential.
- Clive Lansink – strategic advice
including advice not actually been sought – getting support and
accountability from senior management – need to lift the importance of
the disabled community and draw to Council’s attention key issues.
- Colleen Brown – strategy and
accountability – Housing issues with two storey houses with no ground
floor toilet – Leisure issues with city not being inclusive especially
regarding aquatic facilities – Transport example of recent issue at
Newmarket demonstrating a lack of accountability.
- David Hughes – queried the fact that
there were proposed to be fewer meetings of the Panel and whether they
would still be able to deliver on their purpose.
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Resolution number DIS/2014/78
MOVED by Interim Chairperson H Hickey, seconded by Member D
McKenzie:
That the Disability Advisory Panel:
a) acknowledge
the aspirations of the members in relation to how members can best contribute
to the Panel’s purpose and what advice the Panel wishes to provide to the
council to make
the biggest difference ensuring full accessibility and inclusion to the
disability community.
CARRIED
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Work Programme - Review and Update
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Kevin Wright, Lead Officer Support and
Bruce Thomas, Principal Advisor Panels lead the discussion on this item.
Comments from members included the following:
- Don McKenzie – need to develop
relationships with the Seniors Advisory Panel, Urban Design Panel and
Auckland Transport’s Capital Projects Accessibility Group and Public
Transport Accessibility Group – support Council’s development of a
Disability Strategy – input to the Long-term Plan.
- John Herring – sought clarification of
the Panel’s priorities.
- Huhana Hickey – priorities identified
by DSAP were: 1. Transport 2. Housing 3. Communications 4. Environmental
access 5. Employment.
- Clive Lansink – referred to Attachment
C to the report and the difficulty for those sight impaired people to
read it – queried whether the request made by the Panel at its May 2014
meeting to present to the Governing Body on the need for Council to
develop a Disability Strategy had been responded to – the work programme
guides but does not determine everything the Panel can do.
- Jade Farrar – commented on the need for
synergy between the Panels.
- Don McKenzie – queried the availability
of minutes from other Panels.
- Susan Sherrard – asked for the original
paper regarding a Disability Strategy to be recirculated amongst members
- requested an outline of disabled staff providing support to the Panel
– inclusion and accessibility need to be the two high level visions of
the Panel.
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Resolution number DIS/2014/79
MOVED by Interim Chairperson H Hickey, seconded by Member D
Hughes:
That the Disability Advisory Panel:
a) receive
suggestions from its members regarding the review and update of the Panel’s
work programme
b) approve a
subgroup comprising Huhana Hickey, John Herring, Clive Lansink, Don McKenzie
and the Lead Officer Support to develop the Panel’s 2014/2015 work programme
and bring it back to the Panel prior to submitting to the Regional Strategy
& Policy Committee
c) request a
response from the organisation on the development of a Disability Strategy.
CARRIED
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Councillor Sharon Stewart left the
meeting at 12.20 pm.
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Auckland Council Inclusive Employment Forum
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Kevin Wright, Lead Officer Support
reminded members that this forum was taking place on 27 November 2014 and
that Councillor Sharon Stewart would be welcoming forum attendees on the day.
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Resolution number DIS/2014/80
MOVED by Interim Chairperson H Hickey, seconded by Member CB
Brown:
That the Disability Advisory Panel:
a) receive
this update on the Auckland Council Inclusive Employment Forum.
CARRIED
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Auckland Transport’s Accessibility Groups
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It was agreed to defer this item to the
next meeting and an update was requested about what happens at the meetings
of these accessibility groups.
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Schedule of Meetings 2015
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It was agreed to hold future meetings
generally on a six weekly basis on a Monday starting at 10 am. It was agreed
to hold the next meeting on Monday, 15 December 2014 in order to approve the
work programme.
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Resolution number DIS/2014/81
MOVED
by Interim Chairperson H Hickey, seconded by Member CB Brown:
That the Disability
Advisory Panel:
a) authorise the Lead Officer
Support to finalise a schedule of meetings of the Panel for 2015 based on
discussions at this meeting.
CARRIED
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10 Consideration
of Extraordinary Items
There was no consideration of extraordinary items.
12.40 pm The
Interim 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 Disability Advisory Panel HELD
ON
DATE:.........................................................................
INTERIM CHAIRPERSON:........................................................
