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Seniors
Advisory Panel
09 February
2015
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1 Apologies
Secretarial note: Member
Sonny Niha spoke of his need to balance panel commitments with other
obligations and was considering options. Following the meeting, member Sonny
Niha advised the Lead Officer Support he sought a Leave of Absence until April
2015.
2 Declaration of Interest
Members are
reminded of the need to be vigilant to stand aside from decision making when a
conflict arises between their role as a member and any private or other
external interest they might have.
There were no declarations
of interest.
3 Confirmation of Minutes
4 Extraordinary Business
There was no
extraordinary business.
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Rates Rebate Promotion
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Staff
provided a powerpoint presentation.
A copy of the
document is attached to the official copy of these minutes and is available
on the Auckland Council website as a Minutes Attachment.
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Resolution number SEN/2015/48
MOVED by Member M Devlin:
That the Seniors Advisory Panel:
a) provided feedback to staff on ways to engage with seniors to
encourage the uptake of rates rebates as follows:
i) that
council continue to work with Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), Inland Revenue
Department (IRD) and with other councils in advocating for the development of
systems that would enable rates rebates to be applied automatically.
ii) that
council actively promote its rates rebate and postponement schemes to assist
property owners who cannot afford to pay all their rates at that time.
iii) that the
Chair of the panel prepare a media release to help promote the rates rebate.
CARRIED
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Attachments
a 9
February 2015 Seniors Advisory Panel - Item 5 Rates presentation
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Long term plan consultation update
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Staff
provided a powerpoint presentation.
A copy of the
document is attached to the official copy of these minutes and is available
on the Auckland Council website as a Minutes Attachment.
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Resolution number SEN/2015/49
MOVED
by Member RJ Northey, seconded by Member R Fowler:
That the Seniors
Advisory Panel:
a) receive
the Long-term Plan consultation update and provide advice on strategies to
achieve high levels of participation by older people across all aspects of
the consultation.
b) note
the audience-specific Youth / Seniors Intergenerational Forum ‘Have Your Say’
event on the afternoon of Saturday, 21 February 2015 between 2pm to 4pm at
the Auckland Town Hall and the opportunity for panel members to participate.
c) agree that
an opportunity be taken for the Chair to promote the youth/senior ‘Have Your
Say’ event on 21 February 2015 in the media.
CARRIED
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Attachments
a 9 February 2015 Seniors
Advisory Panel - Item 6 LTP presentation
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Seniors Advisory Panel Work Programme Update
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Resolution number SEN/2015/50
MOVED
by Member J Clews, seconded by Member J Blakey:
That the Seniors
Advisory Panel:
a)
receive the Work Programme for February 2015 and the verbal
update from the Lead Officer Support.
b)
requests the Lead Officer Support to draw the attention of
Communication and Engagement to the non-appearance of images of older people
in the 10 year budget household summary.
c)
that future work programme reports include detail on how the
panel’s input has been used.
CARRIED
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8 Consideration of Extraordinary
Items
There was no consideration of extraordinary items.
2.51 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 Seniors Advisory Panel HELD
ON
DATE:.....................................................................
CHAIRPERSON:....................................................
