Agenda of Environment and Community Committee

I hereby give notice that an ordinary meeting of the Environment and Community Committee will be held on:

Date:

Time:

Meeting Room:

Venue:

Tuesday, 13 June 2017

9.30am

Reception Lounge
Auckland Town Hall
301-305 Queen Street
Auckland

Environment and Community Committee

OPEN AGENDA

MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson	Cr Penny Hulse
Deputy Chairperson	Cr Alf Filipaina
Members	IMSB Member James Brown	Cr Daniel Newman, JP
	Cr Dr Cathy Casey	Cr Dick Quax
	Deputy Mayor Bill Cashmore	Cr Greg Sayers
	Cr Ross Clow	Cr Desley Simpson, JP
	Cr Fa’anana Efeso Collins	Cr Sharon Stewart, QSM
	Cr Linda Cooper, JP	Cr Sir John Walker, KNZM, CBE
	Cr Chris Darby	Cr Wayne Walker
	Cr Hon Christine Fletcher, QSO	Cr John Watson
	Mayor Hon Phil Goff, CNZM, JP	IMSB Member Glenn Wilcox
	Cr Richard Hills
	Cr Denise Lee
	Cr Mike Lee

(Quorum 11 members)

Tam White

Senior Governance Advisor

8 June 2017

Contact Telephone: (09) 890 8156

Email: tam.white@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Website: www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Terms of Reference

Responsibilities

This committee deals with all strategy and policy decision-making that is not the responsibility of another committee or the Governing Body. Key responsibilities include:

· Development and monitoring of strategy, policy and action plans associated with environmental, social, economic and cultural activities

· Natural heritage

· Parks and reserves

· Economic development

· Protection and restoration of Auckland’s ecological health

· Climate change

· The Southern Initiative

· Waste minimisation

· Libraries

· Acquisition of property relating to the committee’s responsibilities and within approved annual budgets

· Performing the delegations made by the Governing Body to the former Parks, Recreation and Heritage Forum and Regional Development and Operations Committee, under resolution GB/2012/157 in relation to dogs

· Activities of the following CCOs:

o ATEED

o RFA

Powers

(i) All powers necessary to perform the committee’s responsibilities, including:

(a) approval of a submission to an external body

(b) establishment of working parties or steering groups.

(ii) The committee has the powers to perform the responsibilities of another committee, where it is necessary to make a decision prior to the next meeting of that other committee.

(iii) The committee does not have:

(a) the power to establish subcommittees

(b) powers that the Governing Body cannot delegate or has retained to itself (section 2)

Exclusion of the public – who needs to leave the meeting

Members of the public

All members of the public must leave the meeting when the public are excluded unless a resolution is passed permitting a person to remain because their knowledge will assist the meeting.

Those who are not members of the public

General principles

· Access to confidential information is managed on a “need to know” basis where access to the information is required in order for a person to perform their role.

· Those who are not members of the meeting (see list below) must leave unless it is necessary for them to remain and hear the debate in order to perform their role.

· Those who need to be present for one confidential item can remain only for that item and must leave the room for any other confidential items.

· In any case of doubt, the ruling of the chairperson is final.

Members of the meeting

· The members of the meeting remain (all Governing Body members if the meeting is a Governing Body meeting; all members of the committee if the meeting is a committee meeting).

· However, standing orders require that a councillor who has a pecuniary conflict of interest leave the room.

· All councillors have the right to attend any meeting of a committee and councillors who are not members of a committee may remain, subject to any limitations in standing orders.

Independent Māori Statutory Board

· Members of the Independent Māori Statutory Board who are appointed members of the committee remain.

· Independent Māori Statutory Board members and staff remain if this is necessary in order for them to perform their role.

Staff

· All staff supporting the meeting (administrative, senior management) remain.

· Other staff who need to because of their role may remain.

Local Board members

· Local Board members who need to hear the matter being discussed in order to perform their role may remain. This will usually be if the matter affects, or is relevant to, a particular Local Board area.

Council Controlled Organisations

· Representatives of a Council Controlled Organisation can remain only if required to for discussion of a matter relevant to the Council Controlled Organisation

Environment and Community Committee

13 June 2017

ITEM TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE

1 Apologies 7

2 Declaration of Interest 7

3 Confirmation of Minutes 7

4 Petitions 7

5 Public Input 7

6 Local Board Input 7

7 Extraordinary Business 7

8 Notices of Motion 8

9 World Masters Games 2017 9

10 Council submission on an update to the National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry regarding charging to monitor permitted activities 11

11 2017/2018 Arts, Community and Events Regional Non-Contestable and Term Grants Programme 19

12 2017/2018 Public Art Capital Work Programme 25

13 Public Art in Auckland - its role and opprtunities 35

14 Information Report - 13 June 2017 37

15 Consideration of Extraordinary Items

1 Apologies

An apology from Cr G Sayers has been received.

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.

3 Confirmation of Minutes

That the Environment and Community Committee:

a) confirm the ordinary minutes of its meeting, held on Tuesday, 16 May 2017, including the confidential section, as a true and correct record.

4 Petitions

At the close of the agenda no requests to present petitions had been received.

5 Public Input

Standing Order 7.7 provides for Public Input. Applications to speak must be made to the Governance Advisor, in writing, no later than one (1) clear working day prior to the meeting and must include the subject matter. The meeting Chairperson has the discretion to decline any application that does not meet the requirements of Standing Orders. A maximum of thirty (30) minutes is allocated to the period for public input with five (5) minutes speaking time for each speaker.

At the close of the agenda no requests for public input had been received.

6 Local Board Input

Standing Order 6.2 provides for Local Board Input. The Chairperson (or nominee of that Chairperson) is entitled to speak for up to five (5) minutes during this time. The Chairperson of the Local Board (or nominee of that Chairperson) shall wherever practical, give one (1) day’s notice of their wish to speak. The meeting Chairperson has the discretion to decline any application that does not meet the requirements of Standing Orders.

This right is in addition to the right under Standing Order 6.1 to speak to matters on the agenda.

At the close of the agenda no requests for local board input had been received.

7 Extraordinary Business

Section 46A(7) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (as amended) states:

“An item that is not on the agenda for a meeting may be dealt with at that meeting if-

(a) The local authority by resolution so decides; and

(b) The presiding member explains at the meeting, at a time when it is open to the public,-

(i) The reason why the item is not on the agenda; and

(ii) The reason why the discussion of the item cannot be delayed until a subsequent meeting.”

Section 46A(7A) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (as amended) states:

“Where an item is not on the agenda for a meeting,-

(a) That item may be discussed at that meeting if-

(i) That item is a minor matter relating to the general business of the local authority; and

(ii) the presiding member explains at the beginning of the meeting, at a time when it is open to the public, that the item will be discussed at the meeting; but

(b) no resolution, decision or recommendation may be made in respect of that item except to refer that item to a subsequent meeting of the local authority for further discussion.”

8 Notices of Motion

There were no notices of motion.

Environment and Community Committee

13 June 2017

Council submission on an update to the National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry regarding charging to monitor permitted activities

File No.: CP2017/10297

Purpose

1. To approve Auckland Council’s submission on the amendment proposed to the National Environment Standard – Plantation Forestry regulations relating to charging for monitoring permitted activities.

Executive summary

2. The Ministry for Primary Industries (the Ministry) is calling for submissions on a proposed addition to the National Environment Standard – Plantation Forestry (the standard).

3. This proposed additional provision would enable councils, should they choose to do so, to charge for monitoring permitted activities under the standard.

4. The standard aims to increase efficiency and certainty in the management of forestry activities nationally.

5. Council previously submitted on the proposed standard during the public consultation period in 2015, and subsequently provided technical feedback on the operation of the regulations in March of this year.

6. The Council submission supports the proposed amendments which will enable it to charge reasonable costs of monitoring permitted activities in the standard.

7. The submissions period closes on 16 June 2017.

8. The new standard is expected to be gazetted by parliament in mid-2017, and implementation is expected to occur in early 2018.

Recommendation

That the Environment and Community Committee:

a) approve the submission included as Attachment A to the agenda report entitled ‘Consultation on council charging to monitor permitted activities in the National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry’, dated 30 May 2017, in support of the amendment to the National Environmental Standard – Plantation Forestry.

Comments

9. The Ministry for Primary Industries is calling for submissions on a proposed addition to the National Environmental Standard – Plantation Forestry (the standard).

10. The standard aims to increase efficiency and certainty in the management of forestry activities nationally. The standard includes rules for eight main forestry activities; afforestation, pruning and thinning-to-waste, earthworks, river crossings, forestry quarrying, harvesting, mechanical land preparation, and replanting.

11. Where activities are permitted, conditions have been developed to control potential adverse effects, such as erosion and sedimentation of waterways, by specifying what must be achieved.

12. The standard provides council with the ability to set more stringent rules regarding forestry activities:

i. for the purposes of giving effect to the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management and the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement and recognising and providing for certain matters in section 6 of the Resource Management Act; and

ii. for activities and effects excluded from the standard, including but not limited to effects on cultural and historic heritage.

13. The Auckland Unitary Plan – Operative in part (the Unitary Plan) contains rules for forestry activities which are both more permissive and more stringent than the regulations in the standard. Once the standard is implemented, council will be required to undertake a plan change to avoid the Unitary Plan being in conflict with the standard.

14. The Ministry carried out public consultation on the proposed standard between June and August 2015, at which time Auckland Council prepared a submission on the standard regulations^{^[1]}.

15. Council provided subsequent technical feedback to the Ministry on the implementation and operation of the standard regulations in response to targeted consultation on an ‘exposure draft’ in April 2017.

16. The Ministry now propose to include a provision allowing councils to charge fees for monitoring permitted activities in the standard.

17. A recent amendment to the Resource Management Act (enacted 19 April 2017) allows for National Environmental Standards to include provisions allowing councils to charge a fee to monitor specified permitted activities permitted under that standard, if the individual standard specifically enables that charging to occur. However, the National Environment Standard – Plantation Forestry was drawn up before these provisions were created; therefore no ability to charge for permitted activities is currently included.

18. Enabling councils to charge for monitoring of permitted activities will ensure that councils can cost recover for monitoring and enforcement as they would if the activity was regulated through resource consent. Councils will retain full discretion about where, when and how often to carry out particular monitoring and enforcement activities.

19. The Auckland Council Compliance Team from the Resource Consents department have provided input and advice into the content of the submission, given their experience and knowledge of monitoring permitted activities in the Unitary Plan.

20. The Compliance Team advise that it is particularly important that the costs associated with ongoing monitoring of the standard are able to be passed on to the forestry operator where appropriate, as the standard includes a very substantial set of permitted activities and associated conditions.

21. It is integral that costly compliance activities of this new standard are able to be recouped where appropriate. This is in line with current provisions of the remainder of the Resource Management Act.

Consideration

Local board views and implications

22. Local Boards have not been consulted about the standard update given the discrete and administrative nature of the changes.

Māori impact statement

23. The update to the standard provides council the option of on-charging permitted activity monitoring costs to forestry operators.

24. Māori landowners or forestry operators may be impacted by the proposed changes, if council were to use these provisions. The procedures for these charges would align with existing monitoring as per current practice, determined by the Compliance Team.

25. Mana Whenua are also able to provide feedback on the update through the submission process run by the Ministry.

Implementation

26. Submissions must be received by the Ministry no later than 5pm Friday, 16 June 2017.

27. The Ministry will analyse responses as part of developing the final regulations. The regulations are scheduled to be notified in the New Zealand Gazette in mid-2017. Implementation of the changes relating to charging for permitted activities will be included in the standard when it is implemented. This is expected to occur in early 2018.

Attachments

No.	Title	Page
a ⇩	Draft Auckland Council Submission on an update to the National Environmental Standard - Plantation Forestry	15

Signatories

Author

Steve Van Kampen - Team Leader Planning

Authorisers

Phill Reid - Manager Planning- Aucklandwide

John Duguid - General Manager - Plans and Places

Dean Kimpton - Chief Operating Officer

Environment and Community Committee

13 June 2017

Consultation on council charging to monitor permitted activities in the National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry

We would like to hear your views on the inclusion in the NES-PF of provisions to allow councils to charge for monitoring of permitted activities.

Please feel free to use this template to prepare your submission. You do not have to complete the questions in one sitting. Your responses can be saved by clicking on the "save and continue later" bar at the top of the page.

If you have any queries to assist you in making your submissions please email us at NES-PFConsultation@mpi.govt.nz

Consultation closes at 5pm on Friday 16 June 2017

1. Name:

Auckland Council

2. Postal Address:

Auckland Council

Private Bag 92300

Victoria Street West Auckland 1142

3. Phone Number:

09 301 0101

4. Email Address:

unitaryplan@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

5. Are you submitting on behalf of an organisation?

Yes

6. If yes, which organisation are you submitting on behalf of?

Auckland Council

7. If you are a forest owner/manager, what size of forest do you own/manage (in hectares):

N/A

Privacy Act 1993

Where you provide personal information in this consultation, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) will collect the information and will only use it for the purposes of the consultation. Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have the right to request access and correction of any personal information you have provided or that MPI holds on you.

Submissions are subject to the OIA

Any submission you make has the potential to become public information. Anyone can ask for copies of all submissions under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). The OIA says we must make the information available unless we have a good reason for withholding it. You can find those grounds in sections 6 and 9 of the OIA. Tell us if you think there are grounds to withhold specific information in your submission and why. Reasons might include, it is commercially sensitive or it is personal information. However, any decision MPI makes to withhold information can be reviewed by the Ombudsman, who may require the information be released.

8. Please indicate below if you wish your personal details to be withheld:

□ Please withhold my personal details in response to a request under the Official Information Act 1982.

□ Please specify if there are parts of your submission you wish to be withheld in the case of a request under the Official Information Act 1992.

Questions for Submitters

9. Do you agree that this enabling power (for councils to charge to monitor permitted activities) should be included in the NES-PF? If not, why not.

Yes, agree.

10. Do you agree that administrative conditions should be excluded from the permitted activities that councils could set monitoring charges for? If not, why not?

Yes. However, as detailed by the enabling power proposal, the technical review of reports (or other such information provided to demonstrate permitted activity compliance should be considered a monitoring activity and be subject to fair and reasonable charging that the NES-PF changes enable.

11. What are the benefits and risks in the use of this enabling power in the NES-PF?

Agree with the benefits detailed within the NES-PF enabling power discussion paper. In particular, section 7 which identifies the limits of Council budgets to adequately monitor activities.

It is noted that the NES provisions include a suite of permitted activities (with conditions) which address the associated potential effects of these activities. In particular it is highlighted that if councils cannot choose to cost recover for monitoring and enforcement, limited budgets or competing needs for funding may mean that the permitted activities with substantive conditions are not subject to adequate monitoring and enforcement. This is very important in light of the breadth of permitted activities included in the NES-PF.

12. If this enabling power was used in the NES-PF, what guidance information would you require to assist in the implementation of the power?

· Guidance that promotes national consistency of inspection regime, for example, the risk characteristics contribute to the level or frequency of monitoring and inspection.

· Guidance to industry on the enabling power and increasing awareness that Councils can on-charge for monitoring of permitted activities.

13. Do you have any other comments to make about this enabling power?

Monitoring under NES-PF may start prior to the activity commencing should review of reports be required. Charges associated with such review should be met by the person who is proposing to carry out the activity.

Environment and Community Committee

13 June 2017

2017/2018 Arts, Community and Events Regional Non-Contestable and Term Grants Programme

File No.: CP2017/10463

Purpose

1. To present the 2017/2018 Arts, Community and Events regional non-contestable and term grants programme for approval.

Executive summary

2. This report seeks approval of the 2017/2018 Arts, Community and Events regional non-contestable and term grants report (Attachment A).

3. The regional Arts, Community and Events non-contestable grants budgets are set and reviewed through the Long Term Plan process. The work programme line items within the budget allocations are set by staff in consultation with stakeholders and in the context of Auckland Council endorsed strategies, policies, and plans.

4. The budgets and work programme align to the Auckland Plan, the Long Term Plan 2015-25 (LTP) and Auckland Council endorsed strategies, policies and plans.

5. The primary objectives of the work programme are to:

· administer grants that enable organisations and artists to deliver arts and culture projects and activities at Q Theatre, Te Tuhi and through the Auckland Festival of Photography

· administer event grants that support Māori outcomes.

6. The Arts, Community and Events 2017/2018 regional non-contestable and term grants report includes the following areas of activity:

· Arts and Culture - $1,040,591

· Events - $107,304

7. Endorsement of the 2017/2018 regional non-contestable and term grants programme is required to mandate implementation of the programme. Not approving the programme would result in grants not being executed in a timely manner.

Recommendation/s

That the Environment and Community Committee:

a) approve the 2017/2018 Arts, Community and Events regional non-contestable grants programme

b) approve the execution of funding agreements to the following regional arts organisations and the event grants dedicated to achieving Māori outcomes for a one year term:

i. Q Theatre, $416,598 (uninflated opex budget)

ii. Te Tuhi, $551,993 (uninflated opex budget)

c) Māori outcomes event grants, $107,304 (uninflated opex budget)

Comments

8. The regional Arts, Community and Events non-contestable and term grants budgets are set and reviewed through the Long Term Plan process. The work programme line items within the budget allocations are set by staff in consultation with stakeholders and in the context of Auckland Council endorsed strategies, policies, and plans.

9. Council’s regional Arts, Community and Events non-contestable and term grants programme is outlined below, and further detailed in Attachment A:

Area of investment	Description/comment	Amount
Arts and Culture
Asset-based term grants with regional organisations	· The budgets for these grants are set via the LTP. Q Theatre - $416,598 · Te Tuhi - $551,993 (The budgets for these grants are set via the LTP)	$968,591
Regional grant to Auckland Festival of Photography	A grant for three years commenced in FY 2015/2016. The grant is $72,000 per annum as per the LTP allocation. The Arts, Culture and Events Committee approved the execution of a funding agreement of $144,000 for the period FY2016/2017 and FY2017/2018 in June 2016 (ART/2016/21)	$72,000
Arts and Culture Total		$1,040,591
Events
Non-contestable grants - Māori outcomes	Non-contestable grant funding to support events to achieve Māori outcomes. Includes funding for Waitangi Day Events at Okahu Bay and Hoani Waititi Marae, the Portage Crossing/Mangere Bridge Festival and Iron Māori.	$107,304
Events Total		$107,304
Arts, Community and Events Total		$1,147,895

Consideration

Local board views and implications

10. The funding recommendations for non-contestable and term grants form part of the regional network of facilities and service provision that complement investment at the local board level.

Māori impact statement

11. Māori outcomes and participation information will be reported as part of grant accountability reporting requirements. This accountability reporting will inform future funding decisions.

Implementation

12. Staff will ensure the timely delivery of the individual grant schemes and funding agreements detailed in the Arts, Community and Events non-contestable and term grants programme and their evaluation. The work programme will be implemented within the annual plan 2017/2018 budget.

Attachments

No.	Title	Page
a ⇩	Arts, Community and Events Regional Non-contestable and Term Grants Programme	23

Signatories

Author

Chinwe Akomah - Advisor - ACE

Authorisers

Graham Bodman - General Manager Arts, Community and Events

Dean Kimpton - Chief Operating Officer

Environment and Community Committee

13 June 2017

2017/2018 Public Art Capital Work Programme

File No.: CP2017/10507

Purpose

1. To present the 2017/2018 Public Art capital work programme for approval.

Executive summary

2. This report seeks approval of the 2017/2018 Public Art capital work programme (Attachment A).

3. The regional public art budget is set and reviewed through the Long Term Plan process. Its purpose is to strategically plan for and manage the city’s collection of public art assets.

4. The work programme line items within the budget allocations are set by staff in consultation with stakeholders and in the context of Auckland Council endorsed strategies, policies and plans.

5. The public art work programme aligns to the Auckland Plan, the Long Term Plan 2015-25 (LTP) and Auckland Council endorsed strategies, policies and plans.

6. The Arts, Community and Events public art 2017/2018 regional work programme includes the following:

Activity	Budget	Funding source
Public art projects	$2,341,628	Capital expenditure (capex)
Collections and asset management functions	$307,489 $642,433	Capex for ongoing renewals Opex for maintenance and repairs
Total	$3,291,550

7. The production of public art projects is iterative as many projects are connected to larger parent projects (such as Parks renewals) and involve feasibility, developed design and detailed design phases.

8. Any significant changes affecting the objectives and intent of the approved work programme will be presented to the committee for consideration.

9. Endorsement of the 2017/2018 public art capital work programme is required to mandate implementation of the programme. Not approving the programme would result in significantly increased (and transactional) reporting on the many individual line items within it, and the risk of not being able to deliver activities and projects expected by stakeholders.

Recommendation/s

That the Environment and Community Committee:

a) approve the 2017/2018 Arts, Community and Events Public Art regional work programme (Attachment A).

b) delegate authority to the Manager Arts and Culture to approve changes to individual items on the work programme provided such changes do not significantly affect the intent of the programme, noting that significant changes will be presented to the committee for consideration.

Comments

10. The regional public art capital work programme presents the projects to be undertaken in 2017/2018 and aligns these with budget allocations, timelines and staff resource. The work programme includes the following areas of activity:

· public art projects - $2,341,628 (capex)

· collections and asset management functions - $307,489 (capex for ongoing public art renewals) and $642,433 (opex for public art maintenance and repairs)

11. The regional public art capex budget for 2017/2018 is $2,341,628.

12. The public art programme contributes to achieving multiple strategic outcomes and involves working across the council family to identify and leverage opportunities within other capital works projects; including town and city centre transformation and upgrade programmes.

13. In 2015 staff completed an inventory of Auckland Council’s Public Art Collection. The inventory has provided staff with data regarding the geographic spread of the collection, type of work, artist ethnicity and/or iwi and genre. Staff have also been able to see areas where works are well maintained and where they are not, areas well represented with public art and/or Māori art and those that are not, regions that have a dominance of certain artists, and so on. The inventory data has been used as an input to prioritise projects for 2017/2018 such as addressing the geographic spread of the collection (as indicated in attachment B).

14. Other prioritisation criteria which determine the 2017/2018 public art programme include:

· delivery on Public Art Policy outcomes

· contribution to Māori outcomes

· the opportunity to leverage funding from other sources

· the scale of the opportunity

· achievability

· staff resource required to deliver individual projects relative to budget allocation

· long term impact

· project lifespan, and

· the relationship to and fit with city centre and town centre plans, and other growth and development programmes such as those delivered by Pānuku Development, Community Facilities, Parks and Healthy Waters.

15. The prioritisation criteria define the objectives and intended outcomes of the resulting work programme.

Collections and asset management

16. Council manages both indoor and outdoor art collections and assets that need to be maintained and repaired. The collections and asset management budget for 2017/2018 is as follows:

Purpose	Amount
Capex budget for an on-going programme of renewals	$307,489
Opex budget for maintenance and repairs	$642,433

17. The 2015-25 Long Term Plan does not include a budget for new acquisitions for the indoor collection.

Public art work programme strategic alignment

18. The regional public art capital work programme aligns to the Auckland Plan and endorsed strategies, policies and plans, including Toi Whītiki – Arts and Culture Strategic Action Plan and the Public Art Policy.

Working in partnership

19. The public art team will work in partnership to deliver the regional with;

· mana whenua

· Pānuku Development

· Auckland Transport

· private developers and philanthropic trusts.

20. This approach aligns to the Empowered Communities approach which seeks to develop more effective and enabling ways to deliver council services and supports more community led development.

Changes to the work programme during the year

21. The creative processes involved in producing public art projects is iterative as many projects are connected to larger parent projects and involve feasibility, developed design and detailed design phases.

22. To accommodate this, staff recommend that the committee delegate authority to the Manager, Arts and Culture to approve changes to individual items on the work programme, provided such changes do not significantly affect the intent of the programme, noting that significant changes proposed affecting the intent of the approved work programme will be presented to the committee for consideration.

23. Items of significant impact would include cancellation of public art projects in ‘build’ phase or addition of new projects in which there is likely to be high public interest but not phasing alterations linked with parent projects.

Consideration

Local board views and implications

24. Local boards are also key stakeholders in public art projects and in some cases contribute local funds to projects.

25. The inventory of the public art asset collection has identified geographic gaps in some local board areas and this information has been used to prioritise planning for future public art projects.

Māori impact statement

26. The Arts, Community and Events department is committed to working with iwi, Māori creative practitioners and other Māori groups.

27. Some examples of this are:

a. Commissioning a research project to develop and populate a database of Māori creative practitioners who whakapapa to the 19 mana whenua groups in Auckland, with a view to extending it to include māta-awaka practitioners in future.

b. Commissioning the development of an engagement process co-led with Te Waka Angamua to define how it engages with mana whenua for all public art commissioned by Auckland Council. The process will clarify key issues, roles and responsibilities, interdependencies and milestones including defining the role of governance, operations and delivery.

28. Te Aranga Design principles have been incorporated in public art briefing documents following feedback from iwi cluster group meetings.

Implementation

29. Staff will ensure the timely delivery of the projects in the work programme and their evaluation. Information and progress updates will be provided to the committee each six months. The work programme will be implemented within the annual plan 2017/2018 budget.

Attachments

No.	Title	Page
a ⇩	2017/2018 Public Art Captial Works Programme	29
b ⇩	Geographic Spread of Public Art Projects and Initiatives	33

Signatories

Author

Richard McWha - Manager Sector Engagement and Production

Authoriser

Graham Bodman - General Manager Arts, Community and Events

Dean Kimpton - Chief Operating Officer

Environment and Community Committee

13 June 2017

Information Report - 13 June 2017

File No.: CP2017/10312

Purpose

1. To note progress on the forward work programme. (Attachment A).

2. To inform the committee of the supplementary submission from Auckland Council submitted to the Ministry for the Environment – Clean Water Consultation 2017. (Attachment B).

3. To provide a public record of memos, workshop or briefing papers that have been distributed for the Committee’s information since 16 May 2017.

Executive summary

4. This is regular information-only report which aims to provide public visibility of information circulated to committee members via memo or other means, where no decisions are required.

5. The following papers/memo were circulated to members:

· 2 June 2017 – Memo re Monthly Global Engagement Activity Update

6. The workshop papers and any previous documents can be found on the Auckland Council website at the following link: http://infocouncil.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/

· at the top of the page, select meeting “Environment and Community Committee” from the drop-down tab and click ‘View’;

· under ‘Attachments’, select either HTML or PDF version of the document entitled ‘Extra Attachments’.

7. Note that, unlike an agenda decision report, staff will not be present to answer questions about these items referred to in this summary. Committee members should direct any questions to the authors.

Recommendation/s

That the Environment and Community Committee:

a) receive the information report.

Attachments

No.	Title	Page
a ⇩	Environment and Community Committee Forward Work Programme	39
b ⇩	Clean Water Package Supplementary Submission 2017	47
c	2 June 2017 - Memo re Monthly Global Engagement Activity Update (Under Separate Cover)

Signatories

Authors	Tam White - Senior Governance Advisor
Authorisers	Dean Kimpton - Chief Operating Officer

[1] An item regarding this submission was placed on the 06 August 2015 agenda of the Regional Strategy and Policy Committee.