Henderson-Massey Local Board

 

OPEN MINUTES

 

 

 

Minutes of a meeting of the Henderson-Massey Local Board held in the Council Chamber, Henderson Civic Centre, 6 Henderson Valley Road, Henderson on Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 3.30pm.

 

present

 

Chairperson

Vanessa Neeson, JP

 

 

 

Deputy Chairperson

Shane Henderson

 

 

 

Members

Brenda Brady, JP

 

 

 

 

Peter Chan, JP

 

 

 

 

Warren Flaunty, QSM

 

 

 

 

Will Flavell

 

 

 

 

Tracy Kirkley

 

 

 

 

ABSENT

 

 

Luke Wilson

 

 

 

 


Henderson-Massey Local Board

16 June 2016

 

 

 

1          Welcome

 

 

2          Apologies

 

There were no apologies.

 

3          Declaration of Interest

 

There were no declarations of interest.

 

4          Confirmation of Minutes

 

Resolution number HM/2016/82

MOVED by Deputy Chairperson SP Henderson, seconded by Member MFP Chan:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a)         confirm the ordinary minutes of its meeting, held on Thursday, 2 June 2016 and the extraordinary minutes of its meeting, held on Tuesday, 14 June 2016, as a true and correct record.

CARRIED

 

5          Leave of Absence

 

There were no leaves of absence.

 

6          Acknowledgements

 

There were no acknowledgements.

 

7          Item withdrawn

 

8          Item withdrawn

 

9          Item withdrawn

 

10        Extraordinary Business

 

There was no extraordinary business.

 

11        Notices of Motion

 

There were no notices of motion.


 

12

Henderson Massey Local Grants Round Two and Quick Response Round Three 2015/2016

 

Resolution number HM/2016/83

MOVED by Member B Brady, seconded by Deputy Chairperson SP Henderson:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a)      Consider the applications listed in Table One and agree to fund, part-fund or decline each application in this round.

 Table One: Henderson Massey Local Grants, Round Two applications:

Application Number

Focus

Organisation Name

Project

Total

Granted

LG1605-210

Arts and culture

Zeal Education Trust

Releasing the creative potential of Henderson's young people

$0

LG1605-226

Arts and culture

Pacific Islands Dance Fono t/a Pacific Dance New Zealand

To deliver the annual 2016 Pacific Dance Choreographic Laboratory at Corbans Estate.

$0

LG1605-201

Community

Communicare CMA (AK) Inc.

Henderson and Massey Communicare Centers

$0

LG1605-203

Community

Pasifika Migrant Services Charitable  Trust

“Healthy living for the Kiribati community in West Auckland” project

$661.39

LG1605-207

Community

Henderson North School Trust Account

Year five and six school camp

$1,500

LG1605-212

Community

Dance Therapy New Zealand

Dance 4 Us West

$500

LG1605-217

Community

Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Waitemata Area Society Inc.

First Aid courses and operating costs

$0

LG1605-218

Community

Violence Free Waitakere

Project co-ordination and support

$0

LG1605-221

Community

Triangle Park Community Teaching Garden Charitable Trust

Triangle Park Community Teaching Garden

$250

LG1605-222

Community

Gecko NZ Trust

'Living Neighborhood' Hub Establishment – Waitakere Ranges, Henderson-Massey, Rodney and Hibiscus and Bays

$0

LG1605-224

Community

New Zealand Centre for Gifted Education

MindPlus Auckland West

$500

LG1605-214

Environment

Project Litefoot Trust

LiteClub - Henderson-Massey projects at Pringle Park Bowling Club, Waitemata Football Club, Waitakere Badminton, and Massey Athletics Club.

$0

LG1605-229

Environment

Royal RD School Board of Trustees Budget Account

Pest plant control programme and construction of a path to the stream and green area

$750

LG1605-219

Events

Waitakere Indian Association

Waitakere Diwali Festival

$0

LG1605-230

Events

Pacific Events and Entertainment

Diversity Festival Henderson-Massey

$0

LG1605-213

Historic Heritage

C Berntsen and M Wilson

Maintenance of heritage trees

$0

LG1605-204

Sport and recreation

Bears Netball and Sports Academy

2016 Netball Waitakere Winter Season

$1,000

LG1605-208

Sport and recreation

Ranui 135 Trust

Camps, sports and arts based activities

$1,500

LG1605-225

Sport and recreation

Baseball New Zealand

KiwiBall

$0

 

 

Total amount granted

$6661.39

 

b)      consider the applications listed in Table Two and agree to fund, part-fund or decline each application in this round.

Table Two: Henderson-Massey Local Board Local Grants Round Two Multiboard applications

Application Number

Focus

Organisation Name

Project

Total

Granted

LG1616-218

Arts and culture

Woodhill School Board of Trustees

Matariki Celebration

$0

LG1621-202

Events

Interacting

“InterACT 2016!”

$1000

 

 

Total amount granted

$1,000

 

c)      consider the applications listed in Table Three and agree to fund, part-fund or decline each application in this round.

Table Three: Henderson-Massey Local Board Quick Response Round Three Grant application

Application Number

Focus

Organisation Name

Project

Total

Granted

QR1605-306

Events

Craft Out West

Craft Out West - fundraiser for Hospice West Auckland 

$0

 

 

Total amount granted

$0

 

 

CARRIED

 

13

Transfer of the Moire Road Hall to the Leataata O Le Lumanai Samoan Trust Incorporated

 

Resolution number HM/2016/84

MOVED by Member B Brady, seconded by Member TJ Kirkley:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a)      recommend to the Governing Body that the Moire Road Hall be transferred at nil value to the Leataata O Le Lumanai Samoan Trust Incorporated.

b)      request officers liaise with the trust to surrender the current lease and apply for a new agreement to lease outlining demolition and future development plans and timeframes, (pending the successful transfer of the Moire Road Hall to the Leataata O Le Lumanai Samoan Trust Incorporated)

CARRIED

 

 

14

Henderson Youth Facility, Hub West/ McLaren Park South Community House, Ranui Community House, Manutewhau Community Hub (West Harbour Community Hub) funding agreements

 

Resolution number HM/2016/85

MOVED by Member WW Flaunty, seconded by Member MFP Chan:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a)    requests workshop/s to discuss:

·       governance directions

·       alignment with local board plan outcomes

·       context and evidence base

·       localised information about current delivery

·       reporting expectations

·       all other ABS:Opex community funding agreements

 for the Zeal, Hub-West, Ranui and Manutewhau community hub funding contracts and anticipates a further report be presented at the July 2016 Henderson-Massey Local Board business meeting.

CARRIED

 

15

Sport and Recreation Investment - Community Access Scheme guidelines and future allocation of residual legacy Hillary Commission Community Sport Fund

 

Resolution number HM/2016/86

MOVED by Member B Brady, seconded by Member TJ Kirkley:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a)    notes the following part of the 24 May 2016 resolution of the Audit and Risk Committee (AUD/2016/16) :

That the Audit and Risk Committee:

b) agree that the Hillary Commission – Reserve Account report be provided to the Finance and Performance Committee for decision.

b)    recommend that the allocation of the residual $2.5m Hillary Commission Community Sport Fund be put toward sport and recreation within the legacy Waitakere ($1.1M) and Auckland City ($1.39M) Council areas and be allocated to local boards in these areas.

c)    Strongly recommend that with regard to the legacy Waitakere City Council area allocates the residual Hillary Commission Community Sport Fund component of $1.1m for local decision making through a collective western joint funding committee with a representative from each of the legacy Waitakere City Council area local boards (Henderson-Massey, Waitākere Ranges and Whau local boards) to be used to support local sport and recreation.  

d)    requests the Community Access Scheme Guidelines be amended to include prioritisation criteria supporting the sub-regional preference towards the legacy areas of Waitakere and Auckland City.

e)    Notes that Waitakere City Council was forced to retain the Hillary Commission funding by the Auckland Transition Agency (2010) so that Waitakere communities were unable to benefit as intended by the conditions for use of the funds made by the Hillary Commission.

CARRIED

Member Flavell left the meeting at 4.17 pm

Member Flavell returned to the meeting at 4.19 pm

 

16

Community Lease Work Programme 2016/2017

 

Resolution number HM/2016/87

MOVED by Member B Brady, seconded by Member WW Flaunty:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a)    Approve the community lease work programme 2016/2017, subject to amendments as agreed with the portfolio-holder,  as presented in Attachment A noting:

·        Scouts New Zealand have indicated they wish to move their building from 14 Bittern Place (ID 1624)

·        The Massey Library is to be repurposed following the opening of the Westgate Library (ID1616)

b)    Request staff investigate a community lease for 399 Don Buck Road.

c)    Requests a workshop to discuss the report on 103 Glenn Road.

CARRIED

 

 


 

17

Henderson-Massey Local Board Libraries Work Programme 2016/2017

 

Resolution number HM/2016/88

MOVED by Deputy Chairperson SP Henderson, seconded by Member MFP Chan:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a)    Approves the 2016/2017 Libraries work programme (Attachment A).

b)    Requests a budget breakdown for each work programme line for decision-making purposes

c)    Notes that the local board decision-making allocation for libraries includes the use of local libraries including local exhibitions, programmes and events within local libraries.

d)    Requires  all the costs of programmed exhibitions and heritage activities be fully funded by the libraries ABS:Opex budget.

e)    Notes the local board decision-making allocation for the construction of the new libraries and the development of the programmes and activities to take place at new libraries and requests staff develop a process that operationalises the board’s decision-making allocation for the construction and commissioning of Westgate Library

CARRIED

 

 

18

Henderson-Massey Board Community Facilities Renewals Work Programme 2016/2017

 

Resolution number HM/2016/89

MOVED by Member WI Flavell, seconded by Member WW Flaunty:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a)      approve the 2016/2017 work programme for Henderson-Massey Local Board Community Facility Renewals

b)      note that the 2016/2017 funding envelope is indicative to deliver this programme of work and any budget variances (within scope) will be managed within the total region-wide renewals funding envelope.

CARRIED

 

 

 

19

Parks, Sport and Recreation Annual work programme 2016/2017

 

Resolution number HM/2016/90

MOVED by Member MFP Chan, seconded by Member B Brady:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a)      approves the Henderson-Massey Parks, Sport and Recreation Annual work programme 2016/2017 financial year as detailed in Attachment A to this report;

b)      delegates the approval for any changes to the Parks, Sport and Recreation Annual work programme 2016/2017 to the appropriate Parks, Sport and Recreation advisor and local board portfolio holder/s.

c)      Requests the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) fund programmes be included in the work programme.

d)      Looks forward to receiving the Parks capex and renewals work programme

e)      requests an update memorandum on the Cycle Hub project at Te Rangi Hiroa (ID2587).

f)       requests the inclusion of the repurposing of the Massey library be included in the leisure work programme and notes the inclusion of the project in the Arts, Community and Events work programme (ID2199).

g)      requests a workshop about the growth funding process focussing on how the local board decision making allocation is operationalised

h)         Looks forward to the Westwave work programme presented to the board at a workshop being entered in the Leisure Sharepoint work programme.

i)          notes that the leisure work programme indicates further work is required on activities         at Westwave and the board looks forward to working with the leisure team to finalise          this item.

CARRIED

 

 

20

Henderson-Massey Local Board Arts, Community and Events Work Programme 2016/2017

 

Resolution number HM/2016/91

MOVED by Chairperson VS Neeson, seconded by Deputy Chairperson SP Henderson:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a)    approve the 2016/2017 Arts, Community and Events work programme in Attachment           A.

b)    Requests all funding agreements are workshopped with the local board.

 

c)    delegates financial decision-making to the community development portfolio-holder        to approve the funding agreements required to deliver the Henderson-Massey Local        Board Plan 2014.

d)    repeats its governance direction to focus the work programme and reporting on the activities required to deliver the local board plan and not the organisations funded and requests staff work with the portfolio-holder to amend the work programme to reflect this governance direction.

e)    notes the local board guidelines for implementing the community arts wayfinding project (ID 2535) include a direction to focus on visual arts, use local artists, including local Maori artists and an emphasis on community arts.           

f)     notes the board has decision making allocation for asset based budgets including the Pacific Mamas, Waitakere Arts and Cultural Development Trust and Waitakere Central Community Arts Council  contracts (IDs 2532, 2533, 2534) and requires staff to work with the board to agree and operationalise a process that enables the board to fulfil its decision-making allocation.

g)    Requests clarification of ID2299 and requires an opportunity to update the community grants guidelines to incorporate this transfer of the discretionary events fund to community grants for administrative purposes

h)    requests the funding for community safety wardens and graffiti vandalism prevention be agreed to be sourced from the regional budget until the Local Board Funding Policy is amended to enable this funding to be allocated to local boards for this very local activity

i)     For ID2680 the board requires the hire fee subsidy is sourced from the operational surpluses of community hire venues.

j)     Requests staff provide further information on ACE project 15 which is included in the ABS:Opex budget.

k)    Requests staff investigate:

·     the Te Atatu Community House funding in the ABS:Opex budget for $38,596 for the next three years

·     the ABS:Opex funding lines West Harbour Community House $69448, and West Harbour Community Hub $57746.

l)     Request staff retain and repurpose any funding that is identified as unallocated as a result of any investigation of the ABS:Opex budget and request that staff prepare a report that reconciles the April 2016 ABS:Budget to the revised ABS:Opex budget and include a proposal for utilising any surplus funds.

m)  Notes the board’s requirement for Results Based Accountability contracts with all community organisations.

n)    Provides the following list of minor amendments:

o)    requires ID2493 to be split into three project lines being the Massey Matters Shared Work Programme, Massey Neighbourhood Development and Henderson-Massey Match Fund to reflect the activities being funded

p)    amend the activity description of ID 2483 to” A project to investigate the administrative, accounting and legal needs of community organisations in the Henderson-Massey Local Board area and develop a range of options to meet those needs.”

q)    split ID2492 into two project lines being the Community Waitakere Shared Work Programme and Pomaria Neighbourhood Development

r)     requests ID2504 include a bulleted list of how the funding is to be split.

s)    amend the activity description of ID2489 to indicate this funding is to Massey Means Business as per resolution HM/2015/133

t)      amend the activity description of ID 2500 to indicate the areas where the safety plans are to be implemented and include a reference to the implementation of CPTED recommendations from the community safety plans. Note also that the Henderson-Massey Local Board Plan provides a direction to address the underlying problems of family, whanau and sexual violence.

u)    amend ID 2490 to focus on describing the activity rather than the funding recipient.

v)    The ID1989 focus description needs to be formally adopted by the board and requests a report to enable the adoption of this governance direction.

CARRIED

 

 

21

Local Board input into the Empowered Communities Approach Progress Update Report

 

Resolution number HM/2016/92

MOVED by Deputy Chairperson SP Henderson, seconded by Member MFP Chan:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a)    Provides the following feedback on the progress and implementation of the Empowered Communities Approach:

·         The Henderson-Massey Strategic Broker has been a standout success

·         The amount of negative feedback received by board members about community matters has remained the same or declined

·         The board would know the Empowered Communities Approach is working well in our area if relationships between the board and community organisations are strengthened, Results Based Accountability contracts are the standard in our local board area, community organisations are more independent and network and fundraise by themselves

·         The transition to an Empowered Communities approach has put the board’s work programme significantly behind.

·         There has been confusion regarding the Youth Voice component of the board’s LDI budget and the board is not sure what will be happening in 2016/17

·         Community safety is the number one priority of the 2014 HM Local Board Plan. Local community safety is a local activity and the boards need to be funded to deliver community safety in their area. The regionalisation of the community safety budget resulted from an historical decision of the Mayor rather than applying the legislative rationale. The regional community safety budget should be reallocated to local boards and not offered as savings by the CEU.

·         There is a lack of visibility about what other staff in the CEU are doing and the board would like more transparency about the entire work programme of the CEU, especially projects that have been classified as ‘regional’

·         The size of Auckland Council leads to disconnectedness and layers of bureaucracy and is a barrier to rolling out the empowered communities approach through out the organization.

·         Constant restructuring in all departments, causes organizational confusion over who does what and increases risk averse behaviours.

·         The Local Board Funding Policy effectively strands the local boards in 2010 and hampers change, eg the boards can not be delegated regional budget lines(say the Corban Estate budget) without those being divided between 21 local boards.

·         Local boards have insufficient funds to do anything meaningful to empower communities

·         The exclusion of community places from the ECA by way of the ABS budget system

·         Unilateral decision-making about community assets by the community places team eg stopping funding of the Te Atatu Community House, which the board doesn’t disagree with, but should have been involved in the decision rather than retrospectively approached to endorse it.

CARRIED

 

22

Draft 2016 Elected Members’ Expenses Policy

 

Resolution number HM/2016/93

MOVED by Member WI Flavell, seconded by Member MFP Chan:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a) provide comments on the draft 2016 Elected Members’ Expense Policy to the governing body:

-       That the board does not support hard close off date for expenses.

-       That elected members be able to park in Auckland Transport off street car parks with their permits while on Council business.

CARRIED

 

Member Brady left the meeting at 17:38 pm

Member Brady returned to the meeting at 17:40 pm

 

23

Health, Safety and Well-being May 2016 Update

 

Resolution number HM/2016/94

MOVED by Member WW Flaunty, seconded by Deputy Chairperson SP Henderson:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a)      note the report forwarded by the Audit and Risk Committee entitled “Health, Safety and Well-being May 2016 Update”.

CARRIED

 

24

Governance Forward Work Calendar

 

Resolution number HM/2016/95

MOVED by Member TJ Kirkley, seconded by Member MFP Chan:  

That the Henderson-Massey Local Board:

a)      Notes the Henderson-Massey Local Board Governance Forward Work Calendar – July 2016 to September 2016.

 

CARRIED

  

 

25        Consideration of Extraordinary Items

 

There was no consideration of extraordinary items.  

 

  

5.52 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 Henderson-Massey Local Board HELD ON

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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