Kōmiti Tiaki Pūtea /
Value for Money Committee

 

OPEN MINUTES

 

 

 

Minutes of a meeting of the Value For Money Committee held in the Room 1, Level 26, 135 Albert St, Auckland on Thursday, 20 February 2020 at 10.00am.

 

present

 

Chairperson

Cr Desley Simpson, JP

 

Deputy Chairperson

Cr Tracy Mulholland

 

Members

Deputy Mayor Cr Bill Cashmore

 

 

Cr Angela Dalton

 

 

Mayor Hon Phil Goff, CNZM, JP

 

 

Cr Shane Henderson

 

 

IMSB Member Glenn Wilcox

 

 

Cr Paul Young

From 10.40am, Item 10

 

 

ABSENT

 

Member

Chair of the Independent Reference panel for the Value for Money Review Programme (yet to be appointed)

 

 


Value for Money Committee

20 February 2020

 

 

 

1          Apologies

  

Resolution number VFM/2020/1

MOVED by Chairperson D Simpson, seconded by Deputy Chairperson T Mulholland:  

That the Value for Money Committee:

a)         accept the apology from Cr P Young for lateness and Cr B Cashmore for early departure.

CARRIED

Note:   The meeting concluded before Cr Cashmore was required to leave.

 

 

2          Declaration of Interest

 

There were no declarations of interest.

 

 

3          Confirmation of Minutes

 

There are no minutes to be confirmed.

 

 

4          Petitions

 

There were no petitions.

 

 

5          Public Input

 

There was no public input.

 

 

6          Local Board Input

 

There was no local board input.

 

 

7          Extraordinary Business

 

There was no extraordinary business.

 

 


8

Value for Money work programme – 2020

 

A PowerPoint presentation was given.  A copy has been placed on the official minutes and is available on the Auckland Council website as a minutes attachment.

Note:   changes to the original motion, adding new clause c) were made with the agreement of the meeting.

 

Resolution number VFM/2020/2

MOVED by Chairperson D Simpson, seconded by Deputy Chairperson T Mulholland:  

That the Value for Money Committee:

a)      endorse the approach of a six-monthly review of the forward work programme.

b)      agree the work programme, as set out in the report, for the first six months of 2020.

c)      agree to request staff to prepare a report as to how the review programme will address Treaty of Waitangi, LGA 2002 to Māori obligations; the Independent Māori Statutory Board Audit Programme; and the Issues of Significance to Māori 2017.

CARRIED

 

Attachments

a     20 February 2020 - Value for Money Committee, Item 8 - Value for Money work programme - 2020 - PowerPoint Presentation  

 

 

9

Value for Money Programme quarterly update

 

Resolution number VFM/2020/3

MOVED by Chairperson D Simpson, seconded by Deputy Chairperson T Mulholland:  

That the Value for Money Committee:

a)      note the Value for Money Programme status and the progress updates on:

·     Domestic waste services

·     Information, communications and technology

·     Customer services

·     Financial services

·     Legal and risk services.

CARRIED

 

 

10

Auckland Council savings progress for the period ended 31 December 2019

 

Cr P Young joined the meeting at 10.40am.

A PowerPoint presentation was given.  A copy has been placed on the official minutes and is available on the Auckland Council website as a minutes attachment.

Note:   changes to the original motion were incorporated under clause b) with the agreement of the meeting.

 

Resolution number VFM/2020/4

MOVED by Chairperson D Simpson, seconded by Mayor P Goff:  

That the Value for Money Committee:

a)      note the Auckland Council savings progress for the period ended 31 December 2019.

b)      request staff to send the presentation to all councillors, local board members and Independent Māori Statutory Board members for their information.

CARRIED

 

Attachments

a     20 February 2020 - Value for Money Committee, Item 10 - Auckland Council savings progress for the period ended 31 December 2019 - PowerPoint Presentation  

 

 

11        Consideration of Extraordinary Items

 

There was no consideration of extraordinary items.   

 

 

12        Procedural motion to exclude the public

Resolution number VFM/2020/5

MOVED by Chairperson D Simpson, seconded by Mayor P Goff:  

That the Value for Money Committee:

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       Review of operating model for council maintenance services

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)(h) - The withholding of the information is necessary to enable the local authority to carry out, without prejudice or disadvantage, commercial activities.

In particular, the report contains commercially sensitive 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

 

 

11.38am          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.

 

12.31pm          The public was re-admitted.

 

 


 

 

restatementS

 

It was resolved while the public was excluded:

 

 

C1

Review of operating model for council maintenance services

 

Resolution number VFM/2020/6

MOVED by Chairperson D Simpson, seconded by Deputy Chairperson T Mulholland:  

That the Value for Money Committee:

b)      confirm that the resolutions and report remain confidential until reasons for confidentiality no longer exist.

 

 

 

12.31pm                                             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 Value for Money Committee HELD ON

 

 

 

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