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Waitākere Ranges Local Board Workshop
06 March 2025
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ITEM TABLE
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1 Local Board
Workshop 3
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
06 March 2025
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Local Board Workshop
File No.: CP2025/02799
Te take mō te
pūrongo
Purpose of the report
1. To
present the Waitākere Ranges Local Board workshop agenda for 6 March 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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CONFIDENTIAL Item 1 – Northwest Rapid Transit -
refined emerging preferred option
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10.15am-11.15am
This workshop is being held with the public excluded (confidential), in
particular the workshop
materials will contain confidential information about potential implications
on private landowners whose properties would be blighted if this information
became public. This relates to s7(2)(e) under LGOIMA, the withholding of the
information is necessary to avoid prejudice to measures that prevent or
mitigate material loss to members of the public.
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Break 11.15am-11.30am
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Item 2
– Waitakere Ranges ecological contract
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11.30am-12.30pm
Presenter/s: David
Stejskal, Regional Arborists & Ecological Manager Specialist Operations;
Sarah Gibbs, Senior Ecological Specialist.
Purpose: To
discuss the Waitākere Ranges ecological contract.
Proposed Outcome/s: The
local board is informed.
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Lunch 12.30pm-1.15pm
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Item 3
– Proposed new Welcoming Waitākere Ranges activity in work
programme 2025-2026.
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1.15pm-2.00pm
Presenter/s: Claire
Liousse, Empowered Community Specialist; Lisa Diggins, Specialist Advisor; Sunita
Kashyap, Manager, Community Innovation; Lisa Howard-Smith, Community Broker.
Purpose: To
share with the local board insights from the Welcoming Communities programme
in five pilot local boards since March 2023 and discuss a proposed new
activity in the work programme 2025-2026 to assist newcomers orientate
themselves in their local community and settle successfully in Waitākere
Ranges.
Proposed Outcome/s: The
local board members provide feedback and indicate their interest in the
proposed initiative being included in the draft work programme 2025/2026.
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Item 4
– Local board budget
update and cost pressures
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2.00pm-3.00pm
Presenter/s:
David Rose, Lead Financial Advisor.
Purpose: To
present local boards with their 2025/2026 budget position and cost pressures
post the budget refresh exercise. A March business meeting report will follow
the workshop seeking feedback on certain aspects of local board cost
pressures.
Proposed
Outcome/s: Local boards are informed on their budget positions,
relevant cost pressures, and impacts of potential options, ahead of
workshopping their work programmes, and are in the position to give feedback
on the Annual Budget where there are local impacts and considerations.
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Item 5 – Updates on catchments in Piha.
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3.00pm-4.00pm
Presenter/s:
Nick FitzHerbert, Team Leader Relationship Advisory; Tom Mansell, Head
of Sustainable Outcomes; Jack Dickens, Healthy Waters Specialist; Amirah Rab,
Relationship Advisor.
Purpose: To
update the local board on the catchments of Piha.
Outcome/s:
The local board is updated on the catchments of Piha.
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