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Waitākere Ranges Local Board Workshop
13 February 2025
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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!
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Waitākere Ranges Local Board Workshop
13 February 2025
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Local Board
Workshop
File No.: CP2025/01119
Te take mō te
pūrongo
Purpose of the report
1. To
present the Waitākere Ranges Local Board workshop agenda for 13 February
2025.
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. The
following will be covered in the workshop:
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Item 1
– Out and About Activations in Waitakere Ranges FY25/26
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10.45am-11.30am
Presenter/s: Sunny
Karan, Activation Team Member; Farina Hopwood, Activation Advisor - Targeted
Communities; Maraea Howe, Activation Advisor - Maori Outcomes; Ruth
Montgomerie, Activation Advisor.
Purpose: To
present the success of the programme in other local boards over the years and
how the programme can look like in Waitākare Ranges for generic and
targeted activations, and activations that achieve Maori Outcomes.
Proposed Outcome/s: The
local board consider funding Out and About as a new line in their 2025/2026
work programme.
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Break 11.30am-11.45am
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Item 2
– Annual BID update to local board
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11.45am-12.30pm
Presenter/s: Gill
Plume, senior BID Advisor; Claire Siddens, Principal BID Advisor; Alexander
croft, senior advisor; Gary Holmes, Glen Eden BID Manager.
Purpose: As
part of the BID Policy (2022), each BID needs to update their local board on
their current and future activities as part of their annual compliance
requirements. It provides an opportunity for all local board members to hear
directly from each BID in their area and consider if there are opportunities
for collaboration.
Proposed Outcome/s: Local
board members are aware of the activities that each BID within their area are
involved in.
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Item 3
– Parks and Community Facilities Monthly Update
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12.30pm-1.30pm
Presenter/s: Greer
Clark, Manager Area Operations; Helen Biffin, Work Programme Lead; Brad
Congdon, Parks & Places Specialist.
Purpose: To
provide the board with a monthly update.
Proposed
Outcome/s: Board is informed.
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Lunch 1.30pm-2.15pm
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CONFIDENTIAL
Item 4 – Project Twins Streams Update
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2.15pm-3.00pm
This workshop
is being held with the public excluded (confidential), in particular the
workshop material contains disclosure of commercially sensitive information
about contractor rates and charges. This relates to s7(2)(b)(ii), the making
available of the information would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the
commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the
information.
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Item
5 – Draft Parks & Community Facility FY25/26 to FY27/28 work
programme
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3.00pm-4.00pm
Presenter/s:
Greer Clark, Manager Area Operations; Helen Biffin, Work Programme Lead.
Purpose: To
present a draft Parks & Community Facilities work programme for the
2025/2026, 2026/2027 and 2027/2028 financial years. Funding discussed in this
workshop will be capital expenditure only.
Proposed
Outcome/s: To receive clear feedback on the local board
priorities for the development of a draft work programme before presentation
in March.
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