Minutes of a meeting of the Nelson City Council

Held in the Council Chamber, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson

On Thursday 13 April 2017, commencing at 9.03am

 

Present:              Her Worship the Mayor R Reese (Chairperson), Councillors L Acland, I Barker, M Courtney, B Dahlberg, K Fulton, M Lawrey, P Matheson, B McGurk, G Noonan, M Rutledge, T Skinner and S Walker

In Attendance:   Chief Executive (C Hadley), Group Manager Infrastructure (A Louverdis), Group Manager Corporate Services (N Harrison), Senior Strategic Adviser (N McDonald), Manager Administration (P Langley), Manager Communications (P Shattock), Team Leader Administration Advisers (R Byrne), Administration Adviser (S Burgess), and Nelson Youth Councillors (L Ly and E Edwards)

 

 

Opening Prayer

Her Worship the Mayor gave the opening prayer.

1.       Apologies

There were no apologies.

2.       Confirmation of Order of Business

There was no change to the order of business.

 

3.       Interests

There were no updates to the Interests Register, and no interests with items on the agenda were declared.

4.       Public Forum

There was no public forum.

5.       Mayor's Report  

Her Worship the Mayor provided an update on recent weather events, the opening of the Marsden Valley Cemetery memorial to returned soldiers, and timeframes for remits for the Local Government New Zealand Annual General Meeting.

Attendance: Councillors Matheson and Skinner joined the meeting at 9.10am.

6.       Amended Deed of Agreement for Regional Landfill Business Unit and Terms of Reference for Joint Committee

Document number R7483, agenda pages 4 - 78 refer.

Group Manager Corporate Services, Nikki Harrison, presented the report. She noted additional wording to be included in clause two of the officer recommendation to reflect that the final determination from the Commerce Commission had not yet been received.

Resolved CL/2017/086

That the Council

Receives the report Amended Deed of Agreement for Regional Landfill Business Unit and Terms of Reference for Joint Committee (R7483) and its attachments (A1742987, A1740538, A1742918, A1740535, A1742942 and A1742760); and

 

Approves, subject to equivalent approval from Tasman District Council and the issue of a final authorisation by the New Zealand Commerce Commission, the Deed of Agreement for the Nelson Tasman Regional Landfill Business Unit (A1740538), and the Terms of Reference for the Nelson Tasman Regional Landfill Business Unit as a joint committee of Tasman District and Nelson City Councils (A1740535); and

 

Confirms, subject to equivalent confirmation from Tasman District Council, that the Terms of Reference (A1740535) constitutes an agreement as required under Schedule 7, clause 30A, of the Local Government Act 2002; and

 

Updates the Nelson City Council Delegations Register to include the Nelson Tasman Joint Landfill Business Unit delegations (A1742760).

Barker/Courtney                                                                         Carried

7.       Establishment of Joint Committee for Regional Landfill Business Unit

Document number R7481, agenda pages 79 - 82 refer.

Group Manager Corporate Services, Nikki Harrison, presented the report. She noted additional wording to be included in clause two of the officer recommendation to reflect that the final determination from the Commerce Commission had not yet been received.

Councillors Barker and Walker were nominated as Council members of the Nelson Tasman Regional Landfill Business Unit.

Attendance: Councillor Fulton left the meeting from 9.21am to 9.23am.

Resolved CL/2017/087

That the Council

Receives the report Establishment of Joint Committee for Regional Landfill Business Unit (R7481); and

 

Establishes, subject to an equivalent resolution by Tasman District Council and the issue of a final authorisation by the New Zealand Commerce Commission, the Nelson Tasman Regional Landfill Business Unit as a joint committee of Nelson City Council and Tasman District Council; and

 

Appoints Councillor Barker and Councillor Walker as Council members of the Nelson Tasman Regional Landfill Business Unit.

Her Worship the Mayor/Noonan                                                  Carried

    

 

 

There being no further business the meeting ended at 9.27am.

 

Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:

 

 

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