|
Resolution number OP/2015/198
MOVED
by Chairperson E Collins, seconded by Member MA Gush:
That the Ōtara-Papatoetoe
Local Board:
a)
provides these views on regional issues for the Governing Body
to consider:
i)
Uniform Annual General Charge (UAGC): the board supports
retaining the UAGC at its current level, to stabilise the rates in the coming
year, and asks that there be no consultation on proposed changes.
ii)
Interim Transport Levy (ITL): the board
supports retaining the ITL as a uniform charge on residential and business
ratepayers at the current levels, and asks that there be no consultation on
proposed changes. The board opposes levying the ITL based on rateable value
because values do not reflect the traffic generation impacts of a business.
iii)
Maori land rates: the board supports consultation on changes
to the remissions policy as proposed by the Governing Body.
iv)
Rural rates: the board supports consultation on the proposal
to reduce rates on large rural properties and multiple titles managed as one
property, but suggests a smaller area that 50ha should be the threshold.
b)
request the Governing Body to continue the swimming pool
targeted rate in 2016/17 unchanged from 2015/16, i.e. $28.86 per household,
and notes that an unchanged rate does not require consultation in the Annual
Plan process.
c)
delegate to the Chair to present the
board’s advocacy items to the Governing Body, highlighting these issues:
i)
ongoing annual funding of Colin Dale
Park development ($280,000 per annum consequential opex) out of the board’s
Locally Driven Initiatives budget, severely reducing the board ability to
support local place making and community-led development;
ii)
the need to develop and improve the
local area’s sports facilities and playing fields including, Papatoetoe
Recreation Grounds, Kingswood Reserve, Kohuora Park, Te Puke o Tara Park,
Ngati Otara Park, Manukau Sports Bowl and Aorere Park.
iii) in relation to District Licensing Committees:
·
appoint
members of District Licensing Committees who better reflect and are more
representative of local communities.
·
consider
a localised District Licensing Committee model to operate in southern urban
local board areas, replacing the existing regional District Licensing
Committee model.
·
commission
an independent practitioner to review all District Licensing Committee
decisions and recommendations, in order to improve the consistency of
District Licensing Committee decisions.
· action a review to whether District Licensing Committee decisions
have resulted in worse outcomes than if the former Alcohol Regulatory and
Licensing Authority (ARLA) had remained the decision maker, in failing to
produce safer and more responsible sale, supply and consumption of alcohol,
or to minimise harm caused by excessive or inappropriate consumption of
alcohol.
CARRIED
|
