Te Kāhui Ngārahu / Emergency Committee

 

OPEN MINUTES

 

 

 

Minutes of a meeting of the Emergency Committee held remotely on Thursday, 2 April 2020 at 10.01am.  The meeting can be viewed on the Auckland Council website at https://councillive.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/

 

present

 

Mayor

Hon Phil Goff, CNZM, JP

 

Deputy Mayor

Deputy Mayor Cr Bill Cashmore

 

Councillors

Cr Josephine Bartley

 

 

Cr Dr Cathy Casey

 

 

Cr Fa’anana Efeso Collins

 

 

Cr Pippa Coom

 

 

Cr Linda Cooper, JP

 

 

Cr Angela Dalton

 

 

Cr Chris Darby

 

 

Cr Alf Filipaina

 

 

Cr Christine Fletcher

 

 

IMSB Member Hon Tau Henare

 

 

Cr Shane Henderson

Until 12.57pm.

 

Cr Richard Hills

 

 

Cr Tracy Mulholland

 

 

Cr Daniel Newman, JP

 

 

Cr Greg Sayers

 

 

Cr Desley Simpson, JP

 

 

Cr Sharon Stewart, QSM

 

 

IMSB Chair David Taipari

 

 

Cr Wayne Walker

 

 

Cr John Watson

 

 

Cr Paul Young

 

 

Note:   All members attended the meeting via electronic link.

 

 


Emergency Committee

02 April 2020

 

 

 

1          Apologies

  

There were no apologies.

 

 

2          Declaration of Interest

 

There were no declarations of interest.

 

 

3          Confirmation of Minutes

 

There were no minutes for confirmation.

 

 

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

 

7.1

Extraordinary Business - Council’s response to COVID-19 to date and Summary of Infrastructure criteria announced by Government

 

 

 

Resolution number EME/2020/1

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

That the Emergency Committee:

a)         consider two extraordinary items

“Council’s response to COVID-19 to date”

and

“Summary of Infrastructure criteria announced by Government”

at Item 9 – Consideration of Extraordinary Items of this agenda, noting:

i)          the reason the matters were not on the agenda, and

ii)         the reason why these matters cannot be delayed until a subsequent meeting

is that the situation with COVID-19 is fluid and fast moving.

CARRIED ON VOICES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

Emergency Powers during state of national emergency

 

 

 

Resolution number EME/2020/2

MOVED by Mayor P Goff, seconded by Cr S Stewart:  

That the Emergency Committee:

in its capacity as the Civil Defence and Emergency Management Group under Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002:

a)      note the general explanation of the emergency powers and roles that apply during the current state of national emergency relating to COVID-19;

b)      delegate to the Group Controller all emergency powers conferred on the Group by section 85 of Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002; and

c)      ratify any decisions of the Group Controller exercising the emergency powers under section 85 of Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 taken since the declaration of a state of national emergency on 25 March 2020.

A division was called for, voting on which was as follows:

For

Cr J Bartley

Cr C Casey

Deputy Mayor BC Cashmore

Cr E Collins

Cr P Coom

Cr L Cooper

Cr A Dalton

Cr C Darby

Cr A Filipaina

Cr C Fletcher

Mayor P Goff

IMSB Member T Henare

Cr S Henderson

Cr R Hills

Cr T Mulholland

Cr D Newman

Cr G Sayers

Cr D Simpson

Cr S Stewart

IMSB Chair D Taipari

Cr W Walker

Cr J Watson

Cr P Young

Against

Abstained

 

The motion was declared carried by 23 votes to 0.

CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY

 

  


 

 

 

9          Consideration of Extraordinary Items

 

9.1

Council’s response to COVID-19 to date

 

A report had been circulated prior to the meeting.  A copy has been placed on the official minutes and is available on the Auckland Council website as a minutes attachment.

 

Resolution number EME/2020/3

MOVED by Mayor P Goff, seconded by Deputy Mayor BC Cashmore:  

That the Emergency Committee:

a)         note the activities undertaken by the council to support the wider community in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

CARRIED ON VOICES

 

Attachments

a     2 April 2020, Emergency Committee:  Item 9.1 - Council's response to COVID-19 to date, Update Report

 

 

 

9.2

Summary of Infrastructure criteria announced by Government

 

 

 

Resolution number EME/2020/4

MOVED by Mayor P Goff, seconded by Deputy Mayor BC Cashmore:   

That the Emergency Committee:

a)         receive the verbal update on the Summary of Infrastructure criteria announced by Government.

CARRIED ON VOICES

 

 

 

10        Procedural motion to exclude the public

Resolution number EME/2020/5

MOVED by Mayor P Goff, seconded by Cr A Dalton:  

That the Emergency 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       CONFIDENTIAL:  Reappointments to City Rail Link Limited and Haumaru Housing

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)(a) - The withholding of the information is necessary to protect the privacy of natural persons, including that of a deceased person.

In particular, the report contains private information about candidates who have applied for the director vacancies on City Rail Link Limited and Haumaru Housing.

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 ON VOICES

 

 

12.57pm          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.

 

1.21pm            The public was re-admitted.

 

 

restatementS

 

It was resolved while the public was excluded:

 

C1

CONFIDENTIAL:  Reappointments to City Rail Link Limited and Haumaru Housing

 

Resolution number EME/2020/6

MOVED by Mayor P Goff, seconded by Cr C Fletcher:  

d)         agree that the report and attachments will remain confidential due to the private information relating to individuals contained in the report

e)         note that at the conclusion of the appointment process the decisions will be made publicly available.

   

1.21 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 Emergency Committee HELD ON

 

 

 

DATE:.........................................................................

 

 

 

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