Minutes of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee

Environment, Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee

02 December 2015

Election of a Chair

The meeting elected a chairperson to preside at the meeting in the absence of the Chairperson Cr WD Walker.

Resolution number ENV/2015/29

MOVED by Cr CE Fletcher, seconded by Cr C Casey:

That the Environment, Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee:

a) agree that Cr J Watson be elected to preside as the chair at the meeting.

There being no further nominations, the Democracy Advisor declared that Cr J Watson be elected to preside at the meeting.

Cr J Watson assumed the Chair.

CARRIED

1 Apologies

Resolution number ENV/2015/30

MOVED by Cr J Watson, seconded by Cr CE Fletcher:

That the Environment, Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee:

a) accept the apologies from Deputy Mayor PA Hulse, Member L Ngamane and Chairperson WD Walker for absence.

CARRIED

2 Declaration of Interest

Cr CE Fletcher declared an interest in Item 10 - Regional Environmental Natural Heritage Grant Allocation and Crs R Clow and C Darby declared that they were members of Forest and Bird.

3 Confirmation of Minutes

Resolution number ENV/2015/31

MOVED by Cr R Clow, seconded by Cr C Casey:

That the Environment, Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee:

a) confirm the ordinary minutes of its meeting, held on Tuesday, 20 October 2015, as a true and correct record.

CARRIED

4 Petitions

There were no petitions.

5 Public Input

There was no public input.

6 Local Board Input

There was no local board input.

7 Extraordinary Business

There was no extraordinary business.

8 Notices of Motion

There were no notices of motion.

Forward work programme for Environment Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee

Resolution number ENV/2015/32

MOVED by Cr J Watson, seconded by Cr CE Fletcher:

That the Environment, Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee:

a) approve the forward work programme for the committee shown in Attachment A to the agenda report, to guide the work of this committee over the next ten months.

b) note that the forward work programme will be updated regularly and reviewed approximately every six months.

CARRIED

Regional Environmental Natural Heritage Grant Allocation

Cr ME Lee entered the meeting at 3.38 pm.

A PowerPoint presentation was provided. A copy has been placed on the official minutes and is available on the Auckland Council website as a minutes attachment.

Resolution number ENV/2015/33

MOVED by Cr C Darby, seconded by Cr R Clow:

That the Environment, Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee:

a) approve funding decisions and grant allocations for applications to the Regional Environmental Natural Heritage grants programme as listed below and in Attachment A of the agenda report:

Organisation	Amount recommended	Term
Motutapu Restoration Trust	$30,000	1 Year
Motuihe Trust	$15,000	1 Year
The Forest Bridge Trust	$24,700	1 Year
Hauraki Gulf Conservation Trust (HGCT)	$40,000	1 Year
The Whau River Catchment Trust	$15,500	1 Year
Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society, Waitakere Branch	$11,000	1 Year
The Forest Bridge Trust	$25,000	1 Year
The Whau River Catchment Trust	$12,000	1 Year
Stephen Thomas	$20,000	1 Year
Ngati Whatua Orakei, Whai Maia Trust Ltd,	$4,900	3 Year
Nuhaka Trust	$7,500	1 Year
He Tohu Aroha Co-Operative	$23,000	1 Year
Forest Ridge Conservation Group	$3,000	1 Year
Kevin Wragge	$5,000	1 Year
Cheryl Dill	$2,500	1 Year
Manaia Properties Ltd	$5,000	1 Year
Stephen and Stacey Thomas	$5,000	1 Year
Theo Stewart	$8,600	1 Year
Friends of Oakley Creek Te Auaunga Inc	$20,000	3 Year
B & EV Blake	$2,000	1 Year
John and Michaella McKenzie	$5,000	1 Year
Thomas Civil and Environmental Consultants Limited	$30,000	1 Year
The Sustainable Coastlines Charitable Trust	$8,000	1 Year
The Waiheke Resources Trust	$11,000	1 Year
Paul Mowbray	$5,000	1 Year
Urban EcoLiving Charitable Trust (UELCT)	$10,000	1 Year
Great Barrier Island Environmental Trust	$10,000	1 Year
Chirag Jindal, Peter Crossley, Ian Mander	$16,000	1 Year
Woodlands Park School	$7,000	1 Year
Waiheke Go Moth Plant Group (WaiGOMP)	$5,000	1 Year
Ross Hawkins	$5,000	1 Year
Maskell Trust	$5,000	1 Year
Kaipatiki Project Environment Centre	$16,000	1 Year
Beyond the Fence	$17,500	1 Year
Boffa Miskell Ltd	$5,000	1 Year
North-West Wildlink Partnership (NWW)	$12,000	1 Year
Gecko NZ Trust	$15,000	1 Year
Project Litefoot	$7,000	1 Year
Hajnalka Vezsenyi	$1,500	1 Year
Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi Inc	$5,000	1 Year
Forest and Bird North Shore Branch	$8,000	1 Year
Meadowbank School	$5,000	1 Year

b) request that for future funding rounds, staff put in place a process that clearly identifies measurement and assessment of all fund outcomes, but specifically, outcomes 1 and 6 in Table 3, page 21 of the agenda report, as it relates to Māori outcomes.

CARRIED

Cr CE Fletcher took no part in the discussion or voting on the matter.

Attachments

a 2 December 2015 - Environment Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee - Item 10 Regional Environmental Natural Heritage Grant Allocation PowerPoint presentation

11 Consideration of Extraordinary Items

There was no consideration of extraordinary items.

12 Procedural motion to exclude the public

Resolution number ENV/2015/34

MOVED by Cr R Clow, seconded by Cr CE Fletcher:

That the Environment, Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee:

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 Allocation of Grants from the Waste Minimisation and Innovation Fund 2015

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)(b) (ii) The withholding of the information is necessary to protect information where the making available of the information would disclose a trade secret.

In particular, the report contains sensitive information about some applications relating to technological innovations in waste minimisation that are trade secrets.

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

3.44pm 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.

4.00pm The public was re-admitted.

restatementS

It was resolved while the public was excluded:

Allocation of Grants from the Waste Minimisation and Innovation Fund 2015

Resolution number ENV/2015/35

MOVED by Cr R Clow, seconded by Member Wilson:

That the Environment, Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee:

a) approve funding decisions and grant allocations for the medium and large applications to the Waste Minimisation and Innovation Fund as listed below and in Attachment A of the agenda report:

Organisation name	Amount recommended
Kiwi Property Group Limited	$25,000
Auckland District Health Board	$10,000
ECP Ltd	$33,560
The North Shore Resource Centre (umbrella organisation for Make Like a Tree)	$1,770
Kauri Park School	$450
Helensville Enterprise Trust	$20,445
Earth Action Trust	$40,000
Grey Lynn 2030 Transition Community Trust	$40,000
EcoMatters Environment Trust (as umbrella for He Tohu Aroha)	$50,000
Envision New Zealand	$44,200
Te Awa Ora Trust	$45,000
Sleepwell NZ Limited	$30,000
North Harbour Business Association	$9,975
Sustainable Business Network on behalf of a collaborative working group consisting of AUT, WasteMINZ, Community Recycling Network, Entire Consultants and SBN	$10,050
3R Group Limited	$10,000
KiwiHarvest	$40,000
3R Group Limited	$10,800
Home Grown Waiheke Trust	$45,000
Rakino Ratepayers Association	$9,500
Mangere East Family Service Centre Inc [t/a ME Family Services]	$20,800
Massey Matters	$650
Shore Vineyard Churches	$1,267.50
Multi - Educational Support and Services Trust	$20,000
Total	$518,468

b) agree that this decision be restated in the open minutes, but that the agenda report and its attachment remain confidential.

4.00pm 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 Environment, Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee HELD ON

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

CHAIRPERSON:........................................................

Acting Chairperson	Cr John Watson
Members	Cr Dr Cathy Casey
	Cr Ross Clow
	Cr Chris Darby
	Cr Hon Christine Fletcher, QSO
	Cr Mike Lee	From 3.38pm, Item 10
	Member Karen Wilson

	Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse
	Member Liane Ngamane
	Cr Wayne Walker (Chairperson)