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Resolution
number MR/2018/62
MOVED by Chairperson A Dalton, seconded by Member S
Cattle:
That
the Manurewa Local Board:
a) receive the 10-year Budget 2018-2028 and draft
Auckland Plan 2050 consultation feedback report.
b) approve
the Manurewa Local Board advocacy initiatives, including its key advocacy
project, for inclusion (as an appendix) to its 2018/2019 Local Board Agreement,
as outlined in Attachment B to the report entitled “Local board
decisions and input into the 10-year Budget 2018-2028, draft Auckland Plan
2050 and draft Waste Management and Minimisation Plan 2018 – Manurewa”.
c) note
there is no Locally Driven Initiative (LDI) operating expenditure for the
Governing Body to consider for deferral to the 2018/2019 financial year.
d) provide
the following feedback on the 10-year Budget 2018-2028:
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1.
Transport -
Regional Fuel Tax
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Fifty two percent of
Manurewa residents do not support the introduction of the proposed RFT. Of
the 41 per cent that do support it, this is conditional on the extra
revenue contributing to transport priorities in the Manurewa area.
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The board is
supportive of this community position. Of those who did not support the RFT
the most common concern raised was lack of affordability, and equity
impacts on lower income residents.
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Research shows
commentary from the Ministry of Transport and Treasury which notes that the
RFT “could result in lower income households contributing a higher
proportion of their income to the tax compared to higher income
households”. It also notes that these households are less likely to
own newer more fuel efficient or electric vehicles.
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In Manurewa, public
transport, active modes and working at home are all significantly below
regional averages, as is the level of self-containment (the proportion of
residents who work in their local board area). Indeed, Manurewa has the
second-lowest level of self-containment in the region and the highest
private vehicle usage in the region at 85 per cent.
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Based on 2013 census
data there is a significantly high share of worker trips to the airport
from the south and its abutting suburbs (approximately an 18 kilometre
radius). Private vehicles account for almost 93 per cent (12,264) of these
trips. The public transport share is low at about 2 per cent (215 bus
trips). This reflects:
o the limited availability of easy public
transport services
o the nature and geographical distribution of
employment in the area with a high proportion of shift working
o and the dispersed nature of work sites
located away from public transport routes on offer.
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1.
Transport -
Regional Fuel Tax (cont.)
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The board therefore
has concerns about the value for money of the light rail proposal, noting
it won’t materially improve southern commuters’ access to the
airport precinct, and questions whether there are more cost-effective
alternatives.
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Instead of an RFT,
the board would like to see the Lean Model of continuous improvement
applied to Auckland Transport operations to create efficiencies and
identify savings within existing budgets.
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The board supports
any RFT revenue generated to be equitably allocated across Manurewa,
including improvements to public transport provision.
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2.
Natural
Environment - Water Quality Targeted Rate
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The board supports the proposed targeted rate, provided the
proceeds are allocated equitably to Manurewa.
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The board requests that an equitable portion of the targeted
rate (based on capital values) be allocated for Natural Environment water
quality be diverted and added to the board’s budget to target
/distribute to the sites where it needs to be spent.
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The board supports the Manukau Harbour Forum’s inclusion
in the restoration and protection of the coast and environment.
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The board supports Ngāti Tamaoho
feedback that additional funding sources should be sought. “partly
because of the increasing range of threats to water; partly because of its
importance to the wellbeing of people and the environment and fundamentally
because of its cultural significance”.
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The Manurewa Local Board Plan 2017 acknowledges that for mana
whenua, cultural and spiritual wellbeing are inextricably linked to the
quality of the water and land from which they draw sustenance.
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3.
Natural
Environment - Natural Environment Targeted Rate
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The board supports the targeted rate of $47 per annum provided
the proceeds are allocated equitably to Manurewa.
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The community and the board has concerns about affordability
and the cumulative impact of ‘targeted rates’ increases
proposed in this Long-term plan and the impact on the welfare of our people
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Consultation says the community requests more transparency on
how this rate will actually be spent.
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The board requests that an equitable portion of the targeted
rate (based on capital values) allocated for pest management be
diverted and added to the board budgets to enable targeted responses in
necessary sites.
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The board recommends budget also be directed towards the
elimination of all pests including toxic plants from all waterways.
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The board agrees with Ngāti Tamaoho
comment on the “importance of preventative measures (for example to
protect the Hunua Ranges from the risk of Kauri dieback) because however
expensive it may be it is cheaper than the cost of redress later”.
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The board also supports mataawaka feedback that “the
environment needs to be as sustainable as the rate of growth for the
Auckland population and that adequate resourcing be provided”.
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The board requests that education programmes be made available
for communities to be able to understand and respond to the effects of
Kauri dieback and its impact on other tree species such as Totara.
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4.
Rates and Charges
– proposed rates increase
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Whilst the board supports the need for a 3.5% increase to
‘cover the bills’, the Manurewa community does not support a
rates increase with the rationale that the council is not prioritising
rates spending on core services.
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Community feedback expressed concern about the lack of
transparency of expenditure that occurs year by year and noted that
spending in south Auckland is considerably less than funds invested into
central city projects.
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Both the community and the board have concerns about
affordability and the cumulative impact of ‘targeted rates’
increases proposed in this Long-term plan and the impact on the welfare of
our people.
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5.
Rates and Charges
–Accommodation provider Targeted Rate for online accommodation
providers
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The community supports an Accommodation Provider Targeted Rate
(PTR) for the online accommodation sector who intends to operate property
in a commercial capacity.
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The board notes that the community may not be fully aware of
the implications that this rate may have on property owners who do not
intend to operate in a fully commercial capacity.
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The board recommends the council to do more work around
unintended consequential impacts on property owners before implementing
this rate.
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6.
Other budget
information
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The board would like to see all local boards to have greater
governance responsibility and influence over Capex funds, to enable the
facilitation of discretionary projects, in the spirit of shared governance.
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Concerns about illegal dumping and waste management were also
commented on by the community in their feedback.
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e) provide the following feedback on the draft Auckland Plan 2050:
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Outcome area 1:
Belonging and participation
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The local board is concerned that there is little in the
Auckland Plan relating to additional investment in sport and recreation
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a critical component in uniting communities.
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The Manurewa Local Board Plan 2017 acknowledges people in
Manurewa are actively connecting everywhere, every day. Manurewa has a wide
range of community places where people gather to celebrate, take part in
their favourite past times, exercise and compete, work together on
community projects or socialise with friends and family.
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The board supports Ngāti Paoa
sentiments:
o to reduce the
number of liquor shops in the south
o the
integration of council community services with Māori warden
services,
o for better
understanding, education and comprehension of the Treaty amongst other
communities
o that the
Treaty of Waitangi be the corner stone to all council policy
o to establish
and support iwi homeless services.
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Outcome area 2:
Māori identity and wellbeing
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The Manurewa Local
Board is in full support of the direction and focus areas of Māori
identity and wellbeing. Manurewa has a significant number of Māori
residing in the area, both mana whenua and mataawaka, and we look forward
to seeing strong gains for our Māori community.
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We would like to
stress the importance of the Auckland Plan acknowledging and reflecting
through action, the diversity and intricacy of Māori experience,
identity and sense of belonging.
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The plan needs to be
visible in its approach to assist and respond to those Māori who
can’t align to their own whakapapa – both those who don’t
know where they come from, and those who have lost touch with their ability
to connect back to their tribal areas.
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For Māori who
live in Tāmaki Makaurau, and
are well immersed in their whakapapa, it is important to acknowledge that
their tribal identity will often precede other identities.
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Outcome area 3:
Homes and places
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The Manurewa Local
Board supports the Auckland Plan’s aspirations to accelerate the development
of quality homes affordable to a range of Aucklanders. We trust that this
will address the current issue of house prices remaining out of reach for
most low-income earners in Counties-Manukau, which is also threatening
intergenerational stability. To support this, we would like to see
speedy action on the development of infrastructure that supports the volume
of homes being built. 'Affordable ' must offer real hope to low income
households and facilitate access to decent accommodation for people who
find themselves homelessness.
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The delivery of
affordable housing must include public space around those dwellings.
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The board supports
the intention to improve the quality of existing dwellings, particularly
rentals, and to see the investment and support for Māori continue.
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It is vital that
urban spaces are well designed and cared for, for all to enjoy. In this
context, the board anticipates that Manurewa will not be left with large
apartments and flats being built and then disregarded, and that newly built
environments retain the integrity and style of the local area.
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Outcome area 4:
Transport and access
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The Manurewa Local
Board believes the Transport and Access themes are on track and workable.
Important to us is how they are applied equally across the region,
including decent cycleways across the south that are safe and encouraging
for people to use, and go beyond the hazardous green bicycle lanes on the
sides of busy highways.
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The south continues
to require public transport investment given the increased growth that is
currently being experienced.
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The board will always
advocate for an increase in user friendly and accessible public transport
that offers real alternatives to as many people as possible, while
contributing to the reduction of private vehicles on the road. This
includes affordability for young people and families and the use of
universal design principles to increase accessibility.
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We would like to see
an improvement in the security and safety of park and ride facilities, to
further increase the uptake of public transport.
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The board supports
the prioritisation of the Mill Road project as paramount to keeping traffic
moving easily across the southern region.
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Outcome area 5:
Environment and cultural heritage
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The local board
supports the six focus areas of environment and heritage and expects that
the Auckland Plan will truly take account of the whole of the Auckland
region when considering environmental and cultural heritage priorities.
There are areas of the Waitemata Harbour that are in excellent condition
and we hope this is an aspirational goal for the Manukau Harbour also.
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The board also
encourages the plan to address further swimsafe locations in the south,
thus creating equitable access to beaches across the region.
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The board supports
the request from Ngāti
Paoa to establish a guardian of the harbours co-governance regime that
enables the joint management of the clean-up and restoration of
Auckland’s harbours tributaries fresh waterways and catchments.
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The board supports
the Te Ora O Manukau statement that the environment needs to be as
sustainable as the growth for the Auckland population and that we need to
ensure that there is adequate resourcing to support the cleaning up of our
environment equivalent to the investment in the growth of Auckland.
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Outcome area 6:
Opportunity and prosperity
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The Manurewa Local
Board believes that the focus areas identified in Opportunity and
Prosperity will support Manurewa to adapt to rapid technology changes.
However as an area that houses the third largest Pacific population in
Auckland (over 25,020 and 33% of our total population) we would like to see
Focus Area 3 (advance Māori employment and support Māori business
and iwi organisations to be significant drivers of Auckland’s
economy) and Focus Area 5 (increase educational achievement, lifelong
learning and training, with a focus on those most in need) extended to our
Pacific people.
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The board strongly
supports Focus Area 5 because success in education is fundamental to the
wellbeing of people, their families and the wider community. Focus Area 5
also relates to Focus Area 3 because a more highly educated workforce
boosts productivity and economic wellbeing.
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However Pacific
people are still significantly behind in many social areas, particularly
education and employment:
- In 2015, the labour force participation
rate for Pacific Peoples was at 63.5% while the participation rate for
Māori was 67.2% - both which are still lower than the participation
rate (69.2%) for all people.
- In March 2017, a significantly
high proportion of Māori (19.5%) and Pacific youth (17%) were not in
employment, education or training (NEET).
- Despite some improvements in
educational outcomes, Māori and Pacific people still have the highest
proportion of people with no qualifications.
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If we want
opportunity and prosperity for ALL, the Auckland Plan needs to deliver
outcomes for Pacific people too. When our Pacific people are thriving,
Auckland is thriving.
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Development
strategy
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The local board
agrees with the Auckland Plan intention that people should be able to work
and play where they live and supports a continuous review of the
development strategy to ensure its relevance to a growing and diverse
population.
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The local board also
supports expansion of the rural urban boundary to free up land which will
create affordable housing whilst maintaining retention of fertile market
garden areas.
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It is important to
ensure that existing communities experiencing brownfield intensification
are supported with infrastructure to match the population growth, for
example hospitals, stormwater, retirement villages, schools etc.
The regions must benefit, as the city does, from Urban
Design, Panuku and ATEED investment and support.
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f) provide the following feedback on the draft Waste Management and Minimisation Plan 2018:
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Overall views
on Waste outcomes
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What we have now
is not currently working for the south - from the roll out of the new red
bins to the implementation of a new inorganic collection programme.
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The local board is
requesting a return to the traditional inorganic collection as the
paramount solution to what has become a daily occurrence of illegal dumping
throughout the region. The vision is to educate residents to recycle and
provide the resources required for recyclables and inorganics to be
disposed of. This is taking time. A return of the traditional annual
inorganic collection is needed to support this transition.
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Support for a change
to the Crimes Act to target commercial and entrepreneurial illegal dumpers. Recommend that Ministers be petitioned to
amend Part 10 (which deals with Crimes against the rights to
Property) of the Crimes Act 1961.
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Applying the Lean
Model to evidence the true cost of illegal dumping to better inform
solution based decision making.
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Accurate statistical
data and corresponding financial reporting is absent when decision making
on reported illegal dumping and inorganic collections. The
organisation is not geared up to present complete costs of each transaction
associated with the disposal of illegal dumping
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A GPS app for
reporting rubbish is being developed and requires sponsorship to enable it
to interact with Auckland Council’s reporting tool. This app
will allow anyone to take a photo of illegal dumping and log its location
via GPS. This can be sent through various media to Auckland Council.
It removes the barrier of calling the call centre or completing a
standardised template on the Auckland Council website. Both interactions
take time and cost money.
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Encourage businesses
to reduce the number of plastic bags that are used.
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In our community,
education is an important tool towards improving Waste Management.
Improvement in this area should be applied by targeting
environmental/recycling programmes in local schools, Marae community
organisations and the business sector and is paramount to the ongoing
implementation and success of the Waste Minimisation and Management Plan.
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Waste from
businesses and commercial activities
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Housing
intensification has led to increasing volumes of construction and
demolition industries. Infrastructure is needed to enable
businesses to separate, sort and recover resources instead of sending them
to landfill.
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The board supports a
deconstruction approach which incorporates the recycling of recovered
materials that are effectively diverted from landfill.
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The board also
supports changes to the Crimes Act 1961 (to amend part 10) to enable
commercial builders to be prosecuted for irresponsible dumping and waste
management.
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Community
recycling centres / Container deposit scheme
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It is proving to be
an impossible task expecting residents to transition to ZERO 2040 without
providing the tools that enable success.
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Policy restrictions
coupled with no access to recycling plants and financial barriers to
disposal of inorganic waste are presenting the community with a lived experience
of unhygienic streets littered with significant dumping of household
inorganic waste that present a health and safety risk to residents, young
and old.
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The board supports
advocating to central government to increase the waste levy and review how
it is applied.
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The board supports
the implementation of product stewardship schemes and advocating to central
government to put in place legislation for a container deposit scheme
whereby a refundable deposit is built into the purchase price of drinks
which could greatly increase the recycling rate and reduce litter. To
be implemented at the same pace as the Fuel tax
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The local board
supports maximising recycling or social enterprise opportunities such as
providing free drop off at recycling centers for paper, glass, tins
particularly where local recycling centers are not available. Is there an
option to provide recycling bins or wire crates similar to clothing
recycling bins? It would also make it easier for people in our communities
who do not have a vehicle to enable them to drive to recycling centers
located outside their board areas.
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Manurewa residents
have difficulty in disposing of waste excluded from the criteria and weight
limits set by Auckland Council’s policy for inorganic collection. The
local board would like to see the return of the previous inorganic
collection or a variation of it.
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Targeting
environmental/recycling programmes in local schools, marae, community
organisations and the business sector would support achieving ZERO waste 2040.
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The board would like
to see additional investment into the waste minimisation and innovation
fund to provide opportunities and support to local organisations such as Te
Awa Ora Trust, a Manurewa-wide social enterprise which includes Talking
Trash (recycling, up-cycling and re-using) to work in this space educating,
training and creating employment opportunities for local people.
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Hauraki Gulf
Islands waste management
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The board supports the implementation of the Tikapa Moana
Hauraki Gulf islands draft waste Plan to respond to developing on-island
waste solutions.
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g) note
that the redacted submissions will be made available through the Auckland
Council website in May, until then the submissions are available on request
by emailing akhaveyoursay@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
i) submissions on the Manurewa Local Board
priorities
ii) the
submissions on regional proposals in the 10-year Budget 2018-2028 and draft
Auckland Plan 2050 from people or organisations based in the Manurewa Local
Board area.
CARRIED
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