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Governing Body
16 May 2024
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Tūpuna
Maunga Authority Operational Plan 2024-2025
File No.: CP2024/05232
Te take mō te pūrongo
Purpose of the report
1. To
recommend to the Governing Body to agree the Tūpuna Maunga
Authority Operational Plan 2024/2025 and the summary of that plan.
Whakarāpopototanga matua
Executive summary
2. Public
feedback has been received on the Draft Tūpuna Maunga Authority
Operational Plan 2024/2025.
3. The
Tūpuna Maunga Authority will consider the Authority’s Draft Operational
Plan 2024/2025 and the Draft Summary of the Operational Plan 2024/2025 at its
meeting scheduled for 10 June 2024.
4. The
Governing Body is invited to approve the Tūpuna Maunga Authority
Operational Plan 2024/2025 and the Summary of the Tūpuna Maunga Authority
Operational Plan 2024/2025 for inclusion in the Long-term Plan 2024-2034
(Long-term Plan).
Ngā tūtohunga
Recommendation/s
That the Governing Body:
a) whakaae / agree to the Tūpuna Maunga Authority Operational Plan
2024/2025 (Attachment A of the agenda report), and the Summary of the
Tūpuna Maunga Authority Operational Plan 2024/2025 (Attachment B of the
agenda report).
b) whakaae
/ agree to include the approved Summary of the Tūpuna Maunga Authority
Operational Plan 2024/2025 in the Long-term Plan 2024-2034.
Horopaki
Context
5. Each
year the Tūpuna Maunga Authority Operational Plan is developed to
provide a framework in which the council will carry out its functions for the
routine management of the tūpuna maunga, under the direction of the Tūpuna
Maunga Authority. The Tūpuna Maunga Authority Operational Plan must be
prepared and agreed concurrently with, and included in summary form, in its
annual budget or long-term plan.
6. A
summary of the Draft Tūpuna Maunga Authority Operational Plan was
included in the supporting information for council’s Long-term Plan
2024-2034 Consultation Document, and public feedback was received by the
council (through the consultation document) and the Tūpuna Maunga
Authority. A report summarising the feedback was received at a joint hui of the
Governing Body and the Tūpuna Maunga Authority on 1 May 2024.
Tātaritanga me ngā tohutohu
Analysis and advice
7. The
Draft Tūpuna Maunga Operational Plan 2024/2025 and Draft Summary of the
Tūpuna Maunga Operational Plan 2024/2025 set out the budget for the coming
financial year in detail and provide indicative information for the years
2025/26 and 2025/2027. In this year the Long-term Plan 2024-2034 budget
figures are also included.
8. On
27 November 2023, the Tūpuna Maunga Authority adopted its
Draft Tūpuna Maunga Operational Plan 2024/2025 and Draft Summary of the
Tūpuna Maunga Operational Plan 2024/2025.
9. On 14 December 2023, the Governing Body agreed to the Draft
Tūpuna Maunga Operational Plan 2024/2025 and the Draft Summary of the
Tūpuna Maunga Operational Plan 2024/2025 for inclusion in the consultation
material for the Long-term Plan 2024-2034 (GB/2023/240).
10. The council
received feedback on the Draft Tūpuna Maunga Operational
Plan 2024/2025 through its consultation process for the Long-term Plan.
11. The
Tūpuna Maunga Authority also sought and received feedback on the Draft Tūpuna Maunga Operational Plan 2024/2025.
12. A report was
prepared summarising feedback received on the Draft Tūpuna Maunga
Operational Plan through both the council and Tūpuna
Maunga Authority consultation processes. This was considered on 1 May
2024, when a joint deliberation hui was held between the Tūpuna Maunga
Authority and the Governing Body.
13. Auckland
Council received 27 written submissions that related to the Draft Tūpuna
Maunga Operational Plan and the summary. However,
eight of the 27 submissions were considered to be out of scope as they did not
refer to the budget nor any proposed authority activities set out in the draft
operational plan. Most submissions were of a few sentences and often contained
additional comments that were not germane to the draft operational plan or
summary.
14. A
common theme received through the council’s consultation was opposition
to the vegetation management programme.
15. While
of course decisions on submissions are based on merits not numbers, for
completeness, of the submissions received by council, three of 27 were
generally supportive of the draft operational plan, six of 27 were generally in
opposition, while ten of 27 did not express support or opposition. As noted
above, eight of 27 appeared to be out of scope.
16. No
amendments arising out of the submissions are recommended by staff. The
Draft Tūpuna Maunga Authority Operational Plan 2024/2025 and the Draft
Summary are attached to this report as Attachments A and B respectively.
17. Staff
recommend that the Governing Body agree the Tūpuna Maunga Authority
Operational Plan 2024/2025, and the Summary of the Tūpuna Maunga Authority
Operational Plan 2024/2025 as attached to this report, with the agreed Summary
to be included in the Long-term Plan 2024 - 2034.
Climate impact statement
18. This report relates to the budget and operational plan of the Tūpuna Maunga Authority, an independent
co-governance entity. Matters relating to climate impacts may be addressed by
that authority.
Council group impacts and views
19. This
report relates to the budget and operational plan of the Tūpuna Maunga Authority, an independent
co-governance entity. The authority has its own independent relationships with
the various parts of the council group.
Financial implications
20. The
budget for the Tūpuna Maunga Authority Operational Plan 2024/2025
is provisionally allocated in the council’s draft Long-term Plan.
The Long-term Plan is expected to be adopted in June 2024.
Risks and mitigations
21. The
Tūpuna Maunga Authority Operational Plan 2024/2025 is necessary to support
the council’s routine management of the Tūpuna Maunga under the direction of the Tūpuna Maunga Authority
and must be agreed by the Auckland Council and the Tūpuna Maunga Authority prior to 1 July 2024.
22. There
is a reputational risk to Māori outcomes and relationships if the council
did not approve funding for the Tūpuna Maunga in the Auckland area. This could affect the
council’s ongoing relationships with mana whenua organisations of Tāmaki Makaurau.
23. If
the Tūpuna Maunga Authority Operational Plan 2024/2025 is approved there
is a theoretical reputational risk in relation to any members of the community
opposed to co-governance entities established by Treaty of Waitangi settlements
and the council continuing to fund them, despite the statutory requirement for
such funding.
Tauākī whakaaweawe
Māori
Māori impact statement
24. The Tūpuna Maunga Authority is a tangible expression of a
Treaty-based partnership between Ngā Mana Whenua and the council. It is a
vehicle through which the mana whenua worldview and historical, cultural and
spiritual connections with the Maunga will be given visibility and guide
decision-making for the health and wellbeing of these important taonga.
The Tūpuna Maunga
Authority and council have engaged with Ngā Mana Whenua on the Draft Tūpuna Maunga
Operational Plan 2024/2025 and submissions were received and considered.
Ngā whakaaweawe
ā-rohe me ngā tirohanga a te poari ā-rohe
Local impacts and local board
views
25. The Tūpuna Maunga Authority sought the
views of the eight local boards with Tūpuna Maunga within their areas. The council sought the views of
all local boards in relation to the Long-term Plan.
26. Nine
local boards gave feedback on the plan and all nine expressed support
(Albert-Eden, Franklin, Hibiscus and Bays, Howick, Manurewa,
Ōtara-Papatoetoe, Papakura, Puketāpapa, and
Waitematā local boards). Local board feedback on all regional topics
in the Long-term Plan will be included in a separate report.
Ngā koringa ā-muri
Next steps
27. On the agreement with the Tūpuna
Maunga Authority of the Operational Plan 2024/2025 and Summary by the Governing
Body, funding for the agreed Operational Plan 2024/2025 will be provided for,
and the Summary will be included, in the final Long-term Plan 2024-2034. The agreed Operational Plan will
also be made available for public viewing online.
Ngā tāpirihanga
Attachments
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No.
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Title
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Page
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a⇨
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Draft Tῡpuna Maunga Authority
Operational Plan 2024-2025
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b⇨
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Draft Summary of the Tῡpuna
Maunga Authority Operational Plan 2024-2025
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Ngā kaihaina
Signatories
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Author
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Dominic Wilson - Head of
Co-governance
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Authorisers
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Anna Bray - Acting Director -
Governance and CCO Partnerships
Phil Wilson - Chief Executive
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