Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board

 

OPEN MINUTES

 

 

 

Minutes of a meeting of the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board held in the Ōrākei Marae, 59b Kitemoana Street, Ōrākei, Auckland on Monday, 10 November 2014 at 6:07pm.

 

present

 

Chairperson

Grant Hawke

 

 

Deputy Chairperson

Cr Cameron Brewer

 

 

Members

Cr Linda Cooper, JP

 

 

 

Sharon Hawke

 

 

 

Kit Parkinson

 

 

 

APOLOGIES

 

 

Margaret Kawharu

 

 

 

IN ATTENDANCE

 

Glenn Wilcox, Independent Māori Statutory Board

Jacky Bartley, Senior Project Manager – Co-Governance, Auckland Council

Jane Aickin, Manager Local and Sports Parks Central, Auckland Council

Lucy Deverall, Policy Analyst, Auckland Council

Mark Bowater, Manager Local and Sports Parks, Auckland Council

Moana Tamaariki-Pohe, General Manager NWŌ Toki Taiao Heritage and Resource Unit

Otene Reweti, Kaihautu, Te Waka Angamua, Auckland Council

Peter Jefferies, Commercial Manager, Auckland Council

Pippa Sommerville, Ōrākei Parks Advisor, Auckland Council

Richelle Kahui-McConnell, NWŌ Toki Taiao Heritage and Resource Unit

Ronel Gerber, Insurance and Claims Manager, Auckland Council

Tupara Morrison, Chief Executive, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Whai Maia Ltd

Warwick McNaughton, Principal Adviser, Democracy Services, Auckland Council

 


Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board

10 November 2014

 

 

 

1          Apologies

 

Resolution number NGA/2014/1

MOVED by Ms S Hawke, seconded by Mr K Parkinson:  

That the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board:

a)         accept the apology from Ms Margaret Kawharu for absence.

CARRIED

 

2          Declaration of Interest

 

There were no declarations of interest.

 

 

3          Confirmation of Minutes

 

Secretarial note:          The minutes were confirmed after confidential item C1 and once the public were re-admitted.

 

Resolution number NGA/2014/2

MOVED by Ms S Hawke, seconded by Mr K Parkinson:  

That the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board:

a)         confirm the minutes of its meeting held on 1 September 2014 as a true and correct record of proceedings

CARRIED

 

4          Matters arising from the previous minutes

 

There were no matters arising from the previous minutes.

 

 

5

Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board Financial Plan 2015-25

 

Resolution number NGA/2014/3

MOVED by Ms S Hawke, seconded by Deputy Chairperson CE Brewer:  

That the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board:

a)      adopt the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board Financial Plan 2015-25

b)      request Auckland Council protect existing capital funding in the 2012-22 Long Term Plan for Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board ($877,316)

c)      request Auckland Council bridge the operational and capital works funding gap as detailed in the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board Financial Plan 2015-25 noting that the additional operational funding is essential for activities of the reserves board to continue at their current levels

d)      request that board members receive the revised 10-year opex and capex budgets prior to the 18 December 2014 adoption of the draft Long-term Plan by the Governing Body.

CARRIED

 

Secretarial Note:         Pursuant to Standing Order 3.15.4, Member K Parkinson abstained from voting.

 


 

6

Operational Expenditure and Revenue Update

 

Resolution number NGA/2014/4

MOVED by Cr LA Cooper, seconded by Mr K Parkinson:  

That the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board:

a)      receive the report.

CARRIED

 

 

7

St Heliers Bay Pony Club

 

Resolution number NGA/2014/5

MOVED by Mr K Parkinson, seconded by Ms S Hawke:  

That the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board:

a)       agree to extend the length of tenure for the St Heliers Bay Pony Club on the basis of:

i)      one year’s licence term with right of renewal for two further periods of      one year each (one plus one plus one) from mid-2015 to mid-2018

ii)      a 14% discount on the current licence fee which reflects the recent 14%      reduction in grazing area

iii)     the recovery of the outstanding licencing fees include a deduction to      reimburse the costs of recent fencing ($6547.00 plus GST) carried out      by the St Heliers Bay Pony Club.

CARRIED

 

 

8

Ōkahu Bay Planting Plan

 

Resolution number NGA/2014/6

MOVED by Cr LA Cooper, seconded by Mr K Parkinson:  

That the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board:

a)    endorse the planting plan to restore a section of the sand dunes and mitigate stormwater impacts on Ōkahu Bay

b)request Auckland Transport investigate and install an appropriate filtration treatment device, possibly a tetra trap, to the open stormwater drainage in the eastern end of Ōkahu Bay, Tamaki Drive.

CARRIED

 

 

9

Waitangi Day Event 2015

 

Secretarial note:          This item was considered in the confidential section of the meeting.

 


 


10

2015 Meeting Dates

 

Resolution number NGA/2014/7

MOVED by Deputy Chairperson CE Brewer, seconded by Ms S Hawke:  

That the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board:

a)      approve the proposed dates, conditional on the confirmation of the schedule of meetings by the Auckland Council Governing Body as follows:

i)       Monday 16 February 2015, 5:00pm at Ōrākei Marae

ii)      Monday 18 May 2015, 5:00pm at 135 Albert Street, Auckland Central

iii)     Monday 10 August 2015, 5:00pm at Ōrākei Marae

iv)     Monday 9 November 2015, 5:00pm at 135 Albert Street, Auckland Central.

CARRIED

 

11        Procedural motion to exclude the public

Resolution number NGA/2014/8

MOVED by Cr LA Cooper, seconded by Mr K Parkinson:  

That the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board:

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       Waitangi Day Event

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)(c)(i) - The withholding of the information is necessary to protect information which is subject to an obligation of confidence or which any person has been or could be compelled to provide under the authority of any enactment, where the making available of the information would be likely to prejudice the supply of similar information or information from the same source and it is in the public interest that such information should continue to be supplied.

 

 

In particular, the report contains information on event artists where negotiations are still ongoing..

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

 

7.00pm            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.

 

7.24pm            The public was re-admitted.

 

12

General business

 

Member S Hawke noted the Taumata had discussed the issue of the closure of the current urupa and creation of a new urupa elsewhere on the Whenua. The relocation of the urupa was signalled as a priority in the master plan. The reserves board asked staff to bring a report back to the next meeting, including information on the lifespan remaining at the current site and the logistics, requirements and possible locations for a new site.

 

 

restatementS

 

It was resolved while the public was excluded:

 

C1

Waitangi Day Event

 

That the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board agree that the decisions, report and attachments regarding ‘Waitangi Day Event’, not be re-stated in the open section of the minutes.

 

 

7.28 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 Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Reserves Board HELD ON

 

 

 

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