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Resolution
number HB/2020/167
MOVED by Chairperson G Brown, seconded by Member L
Willis:
That
the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board:
a) approve
local consultation document content (Attachment A of the agenda report) and
local supporting information content (Attachment B of the agenda report) for
inclusion in the 10-year Budget 2021-2031 consultation material
b) delegate
authority to the local board chairperson to approve any changes required to
finalise the local consultation document and supporting information content
for the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board for the 10-year Budget 2021-2031
c) approve
the following Have Your Say event in the local board area during the 10-year
Budget 2021-2031 consultation period:
i) World
Café, day, date and time to be confirmed but within the local board
area
d) note
that two other engagement events are being held in the local board area during
the 10-year Budget 2021-2031 consultation period:
i) Orewa
Youth Music festival, Sunday 13 March 2021, 1:00pm – 4:00pm at Orewa
Skatepark, Western Reserve, Orewa
ii) Torbay
Music festival, Saturday 27 February 2021, 1:00pm – 4:00pm at Waiake
Aiken Reserve, Torbay
e) delegate
authority to the local board chairperson to approve any changes required to
the Have Your Say event.
f) delegate
to the following elected members and staff the power and responsibility to
hear from the public through “spoken (or New Zealand sign language)
interaction” in relation to the local board agreement at the
council’s public engagement events during the consultation period for
the 10-year Budget 2021-2031:
i) local
board members and chairperson
ii) General
Manager Local Board Services, Local Area Manager, Local Board
Senior Advisor, Local Board Advisor, Local Board Engagement Advisor
iii) any additional staff approved by the General Manager
Local Board Services or the Group Chief Financial
Officer
g) provide the following feedback on the Mayoral
proposal (Attachment C of the agenda report) and potential regional
consultation topics for the 10-year
Budget 2021-2031, noting
that further local board feedback on these and other regional topics will be
provided once submissions received through the consultation process have been
considered:
Overview
i)
endorse the
proposed approach to the 2021-2031 Long-term Plan consultation
ii)
support consultation
on the proposed one-off increase of five per cent in
average general rates for 2021/2022
iii)
support the
proposal to invest $31 billion in infrastructure, following the
sharp deferral of this money in the Emergency Budget, in order to support
recovery, but seek this to be applied to both new and renewed assets
to ensure existing assets do not fail
Climate Action
iv) support increasing
expenditure to deal with the impacts of climate change
as much of this investment creates long term infrastructure or a positive
environmental legacy
v)
strongly
support an increase in Council’s Zero Waste resource recovery
network, and suggest that this should include the potential to fund
improvements or additions to the Community Recycling Centres, especially
where there are identified gaps, such as the need for a larger facility
in the North Shore
Transport
vi) support the proposed
$550 million investment in transport infrastructure
over the next three years and seek this to be applied to new
and renewed assets, as well as reinstatement of the Community Safety
Fund and Local Board Transport Capital Fund
vii) request that Project
Streetscapes be fully funded through regional funding,
not local board budgets, with options included to set local service
standards and in alignment with the Auckland Council Weed Management
Policy for Parks and Open Spaces 2013
viii) acknowledge the
support given by the Government for funding of the $411
million Penlink Project via the New Zealand Upgrade project, noting
that the local board supports a four lane option with two lanes being
dedicated to public transport to offset carbon emissions, and noting
that this was included due to the strength of Penlink’s detailed business
case
ix)
recommend
that more priority be given to ensuring that key infrastructure
projects in transport, the environment and community services,
are progressed to detailed business case, in order to make them
“shovel-ready”
x)
strongly
support sufficient funding be given to Auckland Transport to ensure
that Glenvar – East Coast roads improvement project is able to be
delivered in 2022/2023 via the Auckland Transport Alignment Project
Infrastructure for
growth
xi) partially support the
“focussed approach to providing growth infrastructure”,
but suggest that spending should continue in existing local
board growth areas or in places where growth has occurred but investment
is still required
xii) support actions such
as utilising the Infrastructure and Funding and Financing
Act 2020, but seek to raise the current reserve contributions to
the maximum allowed under the Local Government Act 2002
Community services
and facilities
xiii) strongly support “an
alternative approach to community service provision
and asset management” and agree with the proposal that it is connected
to the service level and funding workstream of the Governance
Framework Review, and accelerate the delivery of this workstream
xiv) do not support the
funding of the Ōrewa Beach Esplanade Enhancement
Project via optimisation or asset recycling, as this project
is a climate action priority and the proposed sale of underperforming
local service assets is not a viable option
xv) request that local board
views are taken into account before finalising the priority
of projects in the Capital Prioritisation Framework
xvi) request reinstatement
of the Local Board Locally Driven Initiatives capital
funding to levels comparable to those planned prior to the Emergency
Budget to enable local boards to progress local shovel- ready
priority projects not included in renewal or growth funding
Social investment
xvii) support the retention
of contestable grants such as the Sport and Recreation
Facilities Fund, as this directly contributes to organisations that
support wellbeing in the community
xviii) support the
Homelessness operational fund, as it provides a longer term
solution to a problem facing communities in the local board area, in
particular Hatfields Beach, Ōrewa and Gulf Harbour
xix) recommend that
opportunities to promote social procurement be extended
to budgets such as Local Board Locally Driven Initiatives or budgets
within the Local Board Work Programmes, in order to support local
economic development
Environmental
Protection
xx) support the extension
of the Water Quality Targeted rate for a further three
years to 2031 in order to fund monitoring of the North Eastern Beaches
A resilient water
supply
xxi) support initiatives
by Watercare to improve leak detection, but seek an equal
emphasis on maintaining current assets as well delivering for growth
xxii) support the extension
of the Natural Environment Targeted Rate for a further
three years to 2031 in order to fund increased activity on pest control
and monitoring
Level of spending
and how we pay for it
xxiii) support the proposal
to increase the debt limit to 290 per cent as long as
the current credit rating is protected
xxiv) request that local boards
are given more detailed analysis of the impact of
permanently annualising $90 million of savings from operational budgets
initially conducted as a result of the Emergency Budget as there
are concerns that local priorities were not considered adequately at
the time, and that this proposal is carried out in accordance with Auckland’s
shared governance model
Asset Recycling
xxv) request that the
asset recycling process be improved so that local boards
are incentivised by ensuring proceeds from asset recycling are equitably
distributed both regionally and to the local board area
xxvi) support formal local board views
being given more weight in any final decision on
asset recycling in the local board area
xxvii) note that the current process
for optimisation takes some time, and while the
local board supports this process, request that more budget is
allocated to the responsible departments and Panuku in order to speed
up this process
xxviii) recommend that current strategic assets including council
controlled organisations be utilised in a manner
that would yield a better return.
CARRIED
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