Date: Time: Meeting Room: Venue:	Wednesday, 4 December 2024 10:15 am Whau Local Board Office 31 Totara Avenue New Lynn
Whau Local Board Workshop OPEN AGENDA

MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson	Kay Thomas
Deputy Chairperson	Fasitua Amosa
Members	Ross Clow
	Catherine Farmer
	Sarah Paterson-Hamlin
	Warren Piper

Liam Courtney

Democracy Advisor

2 December 2024

Contact Telephone: 027 260 4570

Email: liam.courtney@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Website: www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Karakia

Kia hora te Marino

May the peace be widespread

Kia whakapapa pounamu te moana

May the sea be like greenstone

Hei huarahi mā tatou I te rangi nei

A pathway for us all this day

Aroha atu aroha mai

Let us show respect for each other

Tātou ia tatou katoa

For one another

Hui e taikie!

Bind us all together!

Whau Local Board Workshop 04 December 2024

Local Board Workshop

File No.: CP2024/18838

Te take mō te pūrongo

Purpose of the report

1.       To present the Whau Local Board workshop agenda for 4 December 2024.

Whakarāpopototanga matua

Executive summary

2.     Most workshops are open to the public to attend as observers in person.

3.       Some sessions may not be open to the public. The staff / chairperson and deputy chairperson decide which sessions are open to the public, depending on the sensitivity of the information being discussed. If a session is not open, a reason will be provided below.

4.       Local Board workshops provide an opportunity for local boards to carry out their governance role in the following areas:

a)   Accountability to the public

b)   Engagement

c)   Input to regional decision-making

d)   Keeping informed

e)   Local initiative / preparing for specific decisions

f)    Oversight and monitoring

g)   Setting direction / priorities / budget.

5.       Workshops do not have decision-making authority.

6.       Workshops are used to canvass issues, prepare local board members for upcoming decisions and to enable discussion between elected members and staff.

7.       Members are respectfully reminded of their Code of Conduct obligations with respect to conflicts of interest and confidentiality.

8.       One workshop item on this agenda is closed to the public for the reasons given below.

9.       The following will be covered in the workshop:

Item 1 – Auckland Transport monthly update

10.15am – 10.45am

Presenter/s:                  Peter Naber, Elected Member Relationship Partner

Purpose:                       To provide the Board with a monthly update including on safe walking and cycling improvements in Kelston and New Lynn.

Governance role:          Keeping informed.

CONFIDENTIAL Item 2 – Healthy Waters - Awa Enhancement

10.45am – 11.30am

This workshop is closed to the public as it may include discussion of commercially sensitive information, to allow free and frank discussion.

Presenter/s:                  Donna Carter, Healthy Waters Specialist

Taylor Farrell, Relationship Advisor

Purpose:                       For the board to provide Healthy Waters with a prioritized project list for scoping future work programme.

Governance role:          Local initiative / preparing for specific decisions.