Attachments of Parks Committee - Tuesday, 25 February 2025

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Tuesday 25 February 2025

2.00pm

Room 1, Level 26,
Te Wharau o Tāmaki - Auckland House,
135 Albert Street, Auckland

Te Komiti mō ngā Papa Rēhia / Parks Committee

OPEN ATTACHMENTS

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4.1 Public Input: Walk, Tramp, Run (WTR) - Phytophthora and kauri dieback.

A. Letter to Council - Ongoing dialogue regarding the role of Phytophthora agathidicida 3

B. WTR's updated discussion paper on kauri dieback 5

C. Walk, Tramp Run (WTR) - Presentation 15

4.2 Public Input: Muriwai Environmental Trust - Environment focused projects in the Muriwai and Waimauku area

A. Public Input: Muriwai Environmental Trust - Presentation 31

7 Parks and Community Facilities - Regional Operations Capital Work Programme 2024/2025 delivery update.

A. Botanic Gardens, Regional Parks, Farming, Pukekawa - Q2 Report to Parks Committee 55

8 Te Ara Hura 2027 Parks and Community Facilities maintenance contracts

A. Te Ara Hura 2027 Parks and Community Facilities maintenance contracts memorandum 67

9 Regional Parks - Financial Year 2024/2025 quarter two operations performance update

A. Regional Parks - Operations performance update Q2 2024-2025 - Presentation 73

10 Draft Regional Capital Investment Programme for Regional Parks, Farming and Auckland Botanic Gardens for financial years 2026-2028

A. Draft Regional Parks, Farming and Auckland Botanic Gardens Work Programmes 25-28 91

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11 Rainforest Express - Waitākere Ranges Regional Park - investigation into approval process required for a third party to restore the Rainforest Express.

A. GS14 108 Waitakere Tramlines Public Risk Assessment 111

B. Lease Watercare Hunua & Waitakere 19921012 195

12 Chair's report - Reports of the Regional Parks Working Group

A. Memorandum - report back from Councillor Lee dated 23 September 2023 241

B. Follow up report from Regional Parks Working Group dated 20 December 2023 249

13 Summary of Parks Committee information memoranda, workshops and briefings (including the forward work programme) - 25 February 2025

A. Parks Committee 2025 Forward Work Programme 261

B. Information only: Photos from Hunua Kokako TV1 story 265

C. Memorandum: Regional Parks Annual Report 2023-2024 269

D. Memorandum: Proposed masterplan for Auckland Botanic Gardens extension 297

Parks Committee

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Parks Committee

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Parks Committee

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Te Komiti mō ngā Papa Rēhia / Parks Committee
Forward Work Programme 2025

This committee is established to provide oversight of regional parks network and other significant open spaces (not including the Auckland Domain or waterfront). The full terms of reference can be found here: Auckland Council Governing Body Terms of Reference

Note: Annual Budget decisions may affect the work programme.

Area of work and Lead Department	Pūnga / Reason for work	Committee role ohia / endorse, tautoko / support and/or tika / give direction	Expected timeframes Highlight the month(s) this is expected to come to committee in 2025
Area of work and Lead Department	Pūnga / Reason for work		Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Parks and Community Facilities
Parks and Community Regional Capital Investment Work Programme 2025/2026	Present the draft 25/26 regionally funded capital works programme with a focus on Regional Parks, Farming and Botanic Gardens	To whiwhi / receive and consider an update on the Regional Parks parts of the Parks and Community Regional Capital Investment Work Programme 2025/2026 prior to approval by the Community Committee. Progress to date:
Quarterly Regional Operations update	To provide a regular operations update to the committee on the previous quarter’s challenges, successes and update on the delivery of the current delivery porgramme	To whiwhi / receive the Quarterly Regional Operations update on Regional Parks, Farming and Botanic Gardens, including status updates on current capital programme delivery. Progress to date:
Project Koru Update	To provide updates to the committee on Regional Parks and Farming operating model improvements	To whiwhi / receive the update on Regional Parks and Farming Operational improvement initiative – Project Koru Progress to date:
Te Ara Hura Project 27	Review of the structure of full facilities contracts and to explore a potential future contract framework.	To whiwhi / receive and consider an update on the project as it relates to Regional Parks prior to approval by the Revenue, Expenditure and Value Committee. Progress to date:
RPMP Annual Report	23/24 Annual report will be provided via memo, 24/25 report will report on progress against the implementation plan (insert resolution).	Progress to date:
Review of committee forward work programme* Governance and Engagement Policy, Planning and Governance	Regular reporting	To whai / adopt the committee work programme. To whiwhi / receive updates (monthly) To arotake / review the content of the forward work programme six-monthly. Progress to date: Item 10 – Link to decision

Completed

Area of work and Lead Department	Committee role	Whakatau / Decision
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Area of work and Lead Department

Committee role

Whakatau / Decision

[insert the work stream name]

[insert the name of the Lead Department or CCO]

[Briefly summarise the decision or direction you will be seeking from this committee. If there are multiple, please describe these separately and in chronological order. Te reo verbs should be used here too]

[For expected timeframes highlight the month(s) which this work is expected to be considered by the committee – see right-hand column]

[the Governance Advisor to provide a link to the final decision only - decisions to be hyperlinked to the public minutes HTML version]

Report name – [Day Month Year]

Link to decision