Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board

 

OPEN MINUTES

 

 

 

Minutes of a meeting of the Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board held in the Woodside Room, Level 1, Manukau Civic, 31-33 Manukau Station Road, Manukau  on Tuesday, 2 May 2017 at 12.45pm.

 

present

 

Chairperson

Lotu Fuli

 

 

 

Deputy Chairperson

Ross Robertson, QSO, JP

 

 

 

Members

Apulu Reece Autagavaia

 

 

 

 

Mary Gush

 

 

 

 

Donna Lee

 

 

 

 

Dawn Trenberth

 

 

 

 

ABSENT

 

Member

Dr Ashraf Choudhary, QSO, JP

 

 

 

ALSO PRESENT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN ATTENDANCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board

02 May 2017

 

 

 

1          Welcome

 

Deputy Chair R Robertson led the meeting in prayer.

 

2          Apologies

 

Resolution number OP/2017/63

MOVED by Chairperson L Fuli, seconded by Member M Gush:  

That the Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board accept the apology from Member A Choudhary for absence.

CARRIED

 

 

3

Annual Budget 2017/2018

 

Resolution number OP/2017/64

MOVED by Chairperson L Fuli, seconded by Deputy Chairperson R Robertson:  

That the Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board:

a)      approve the final 2017/2018 Locally Driven Initiative budgets by project, within funding envelopes (Attachment B)

b)      agree the advocacy initiatives for inclusion in the 2017/2018 Local Board Agreement (Attachment C).

c)      confirm the local board’s key advocacy priority for the organisation to work on: discontinue the board’s payment of interest on borrowing for Colin Dale Park (first initiative, Attachment C)

d)      confirm the board’s views on these regional financial policy issues:

i)        acknowledge that the majority of the local submitters support a 2.5% rates increase which the board supports accordingly;

ii)       paying for tourist promotion: tourist operators should be contributing to the infrastructure costs to council that arise from tourism, and the money raised should be fairly allocated to infrastructure within the local board’s area;

iii)      paying for housing infrastructure: the money raised should be fairly allocated to infrastructure within the local board’s area;

iv)      paying council staff a living wage:  the board supports this proposal in principle.

e)      recommend that the governing body approves the new boundaries for the Wiri and Manukau business improvement districts (BIDs).

f)       recommend that the governing body adopts for inclusion in the Annual Plan 2017/2018 a targeted rate set as a uniform charge per separately used or inhabited part of a property, on residential properties in the Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board area, for the purpose of fully subsidising entry to swimming pools for persons 17 years and over. Further, that the local board notes the rate is estimated to be $29.37 including GST, based on current cost estimates and the number of separately used or inhabited parts of a residential property in the Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board area.

g)      recommend $30,000 of 2016/2017 Locally Driven Initiatives operational expenditure be deferred to 2017/2018.

h)      note the public feedback on the draft annual plan, and refer all feedback to relevant council departments for their consideration and reporting as appropriate, and

i)        refer to Community Services Department (Parks Sport and Recreation) and Auckland Transport the feedback received about Swaffield Road litter, general untidiness and suggested development for the adjoining reserve;

ii)       include the Papatoetoe Museum and Arts facility project into the board’s advocacy list

iii)      refer to the Community Services Department (Parks Sport and Recreation) and Auckland Transport the feedback received about the trees in Flatbush Road, and request staff to take all necessary steps to avoid any nuisance to residents from a build-up of fallen leaves this autumn.

iv)      refer to Community Services Department (Community Empowerment Unit) the feedback received on a seniors symposium, as the local board would like to progress this concept in 2017/2018.

 

CARRIED

  

 

 

 

 

 

12.59 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 Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board HELD ON

 

 

 

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