Whau Local Board

 

OPEN MINUTES

 

 

 

Minutes of a meeting of the Whau Local Board held in the Whau Local Board Office, 31 Totara Avenue, New Lynn on Wednesday, 6 June 2018 at 10:45 am.

 

present

 

Chairperson

Tracy Mulholland

 

 

 

Deputy Chairperson

Susan Zhu

 

 

 

Members

Derek Battersby, QSM, JP

 

 

 

 

Catherine Farmer

 

 

 

 

Te'eva Matafai

 

 

 

 

David Whitley

 

 

 

 

ABSENT

 

 

Duncan Macdonald, JP

 

 

 

 


Whau Local Board

06 June 2018

 

 

 

1          Welcome

 

Chairperson Mulholland opened the meeting and welcomed everyone present.

 

2          Apologies

  

Resolution number WH/2018/57

MOVED by Chairperson T Mulholland, seconded by Deputy Chairperson S Zhu:  

That the Whau Local Board:

a)         accept the apology from member Duncan Macdonald for absence.

 

CARRIED

 

3          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.

Specifically members are asked to identify any new interests they have not previously disclosed, an interest that might be considered as a conflict of interest with a matter on the agenda.

The following are declared interests of the Whau Local Board.

 

Board Member

Organisation / Position

Tracy Mulholland

·     New Lynn Business Association – Business Associate/Contractor

Susan Zhu

·         Chinese Oral History Foundation – Committee member

·         The Chinese Garden Steering Committee of Auckland – Board Member

Derek Battersby

·         Whau Coastal Walkway Environmental Trust –Trustee

·         New Lynn Tennis Club – Patron

·         West Lynn Gardens – Patron

·         Tag Out Trust – Deputy Chairman

·         New Lynn Bowling Club - Patron

·         New Lynn RSA - Member

Catherine Farmer

·         Avondale-Waterview Historical Society – Member

·         Blockhouse Bay Historical Society – Member

·         Portage Licensing Trust – Trustee

·          Blockhouse Bay Bowls – Patron

·         Forest and Bird organisation - Member

Duncan Macdonald

·         Avondale Business Association – Chairman

·         Avondale Community Society – Chairman

·         Avondale RSA – Treasurer

·         Avondale-Waterview Historical Society - Member

·         Avondale Jockey Club – Member

Te’eva Matafai

·         Pacific Events and Entertainment Trust - Co-Founder

·         Miss Samoa NZ - Director

·         Malu Measina Samoan Dance Group - Director/Founder

·         Pasifika Festival ATEED - Samoa Village Coordinator

·         Aspire Events – Director

David Whitley

·         Rosebank Business Association - Member

·         Pathways to the future  - Past trustee

·         REINZ - Member

·           Don Oliver Youth Sports Foundation  - Past trustee

·           Chamber of Trade - Mentor

·           Lopdell House - Trustee

·           Amalgamated Hardware Merchants (AHM)  Apprenticeship Trust – Trustee

 

There were no change to the declarations of interest register.

 

4          Confirmation of Minutes

 

Resolution number WH/2018/58

MOVED by Chairperson T Mulholland, seconded by Member T Matafai:  

That the Whau Local Board:

a)         confirm the ordinary minutes of its meeting, held on Wednesday, 23 May 2018,  as a true and correct record.

CARRIED

 

5          Leave of Absence

 

 

Request for leave of absence from member Derek Battersby for 13 June to 22 June was noted.

 

6          Acknowledgements

 

There were no acknowledgements.

 

7          Petitions

 

There were no petitions.

 

8          Deputations

 

There were no deputations.

 

9          Public Forum

 

There was no public forum.

 

10        Extraordinary Business

 

There was no extraordinary business.

 

11        Notices of Motion

 

There were no notices of motion.

 

12

Whau Ward Councillor Update

 

Apology from Clr Clow for absence was noted.

 

 

13

Adoption of the Whau Local Board Agreement 2018/2019

 

Resolution number WH/2018/59

MOVED by Chairperson T Mulholland, seconded by Member T Matafai:  

That the Whau Local Board:

a)      adopt local content for the 10-year Budget 2018-2028 (Attachment A), including:

i.          a Local Board Agreement 2018/2019

ii.         a message from the Chair

iii.        local board advocacy.

b)      adopt local fees and charges schedules for 2018/2019 (Attachment B).

c)      delegate authority to the Chair to make any final minor changes to the local content for the 10-year Budget 2018-2028, including the Local Board Agreement 2018/2019.

d)      note:

i.        that Local Board Agreement 2018/2019 local activity budgets will be updated to reflect final budget decisions made by the Governing Body on 31 May 2018

ii.       that if there are outstanding (not yet agreed) matters in the Local Board Agreement 2018/2019, the local board should include an explanation of these matters in the Chair’s message at the front of the agreement

iii.      that the resolutions of this meeting will be reported back to the Governing Body when it meets to adopt the 10-year Budget 2018-2028 on 28 June 2018.

e)         agree that the following advocacy item be added to Appendix A:

           

Development of an Avondale Urban Plan and implementation planning

Advocate for the development of an urban plan for wider Avondale that will include Panuku’s High level Project Plan and Community Facilities’ planning

Governing Body

Panuku Development Auckland

f)       note that $450,000 of capital expenditure will be added to the local community services activity in the local board agreement to progress the Whau Local Board’s one local initiative. This is following decisions made at Finance and Performance Committee last week.

 

CARRIED

  

 

14        Consideration of Extraordinary Items

 

There was no consideration of extraordinary items.   

 

 

 

15        Procedural motion to exclude the public

Resolution number WH/2018/60

MOVED by Chairperson T Mulholland, seconded by Member T Matafai:  

That the Whau Local Board:

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       Panuku work programme 2018-2021

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 be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information.

In particular, the report contains information that has been unseen by decision makers and contains commercial information.

(2) Subject to sections 6, 8, and 17, this section applies if, and only if, the withholding of the
information is necessary to—
(b) protect information where the making available of the information—
(ii) would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information; or

Additionally, the clause 7 (2) (j) applies
(j) prevent the disclosure or use of official information for improper gain or improper advantage.

s7(2)(j) - The withholding of the information is necessary to prevent the disclosure or use of official information for improper gain or improper advantage.

In particular, the report contains information that has been unseen by decision makers and contains commercial information.

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

 

10.49am          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.

 

10.55am          The public was re-admitted.

 

 

restatementS

 

It was resolved while the public was excluded:

 

 

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Panuku work programme 2018-2021

 

That the Whau Local Board:

a)      endorse the proposed Unlock Avondale work programme 2018-2021.

b)      note there will be further opportunities for Local Board feedback and engagement.

c)      endorse Panuku as the lead Council agency.

d)      note that the board has an interest in the wider regeneration of Avondale and will be inviting Panuku to be part of a working party that the board propose to establish.

e)      confirm that there be no restatement of this confidential report (Panuku work programmes 2018-2021) until the reasons for confidentiality no longer exist but the resolutions be restated in open minutes.

  

 

 

10.55am                                             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 Whau Local Board HELD ON

 

 

 

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