Minutes of a meeting of the Works and Infrastructure Committee
Held in the Council Chamber, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
On Thursday 29 June 2017, commencing at 9.02am
Present: Councillor S Walker (Chairperson), Her Worship the Mayor R Reese, Councillors L Acland, B Dahlberg, M Lawrey, P Matheson (Deputy Chairperson), G Noonan, and T Skinner
In Attendance: Councillor B McGurk, Acting Chief Executive (D Hammond), Group Manager Infrastructure (A Louverdis), Manager Roading and Utilities (P Anderson), Manager Capital Projects (S Davies), Manager Communications (P Shattock), Administration Adviser (E-J Ruthven), and Youth Councillors (A Tonks and E Rais)
There were no apologies.
2. Confirmation of Order of Business
There was no change to the order of business.
There were no updates to the Interests Register, and no interests with items on the agenda were declared.
4.1 Barbara Bowen, Tahunanui School, and Judy Robinson, Tahunanui Community Centre.
Barbara Bowen, of Tahunanui School, and Judy Robinson, of the Tahunanui Community Centre, expressed disappointment in the consultation process regarding the Tahunanui Cycle Network, and answered questions.
Attendance: The meeting adjourned from 9.19am to 9.24am.
4.2 Chris Allison, Bicycle Nelson Bays
Chris Allison, of Bicycle Nelson Bays, explained Bicycle Nelson Bays’ views regarding the proposed Tahunanui Cycle Network, and answered questions.
5.1 18 May 2017
Document number M2586, agenda pages 7 - 13 refer.
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Resolved WI/2017/036 That the Committee Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Works and Infrastructure Committee, held on 18 May 2017, as a true and correct record. |
6. Status Report - Works and Infrastructure Committee- 29 June 2017
Document number R7951, agenda pages 14 - 16 refer.
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Resolved WI/2017/037 That the Committee Receives the Status Report Works and Infrastructure Committee 29 June 2017 (R7951) and its attachment (A1150321). |
7. Notice of Motion - Tahunanui Cycleway Network
Document number R7939, agenda pages 17 - 73 refer.
Councillor Walker, seconded by Councillor Skinner, moved the recommendations contained in the Notice of Motion.
Team Leader Engineer, David Light and Senior Asset Engineer Transport and Roading Paul D’Evereux gave a power point presentation (A1778022) outlining the proposed Tahunanui Cycle Network, including additional cycleways planned for Tahunanui in the future.
Along with Group Manager Infrastructure, Alec Louverdis, Mr Light and Mr D’Evereux answered questions about the project.
Attendance: The meeting adjourned from 10.37am to 10.52am.
Acting Chief Executive, David Hammond, explained procedural options for moving forward with this matter.
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Resolved WI/2017/038 That the Committee Refers the item Notice of Motion – Tahunanui Cycle Network to the next meeting of the Nelson City Council scheduled to be held on 10 August 2017 at 9.00am. |
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1 A1778022 - Powerpoint Presentation |
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Resolved WI/2017/039 That the Committee Excludes the public from the following parts of the proceedings of this meeting. The general subject of each matter to be considered while the public is excluded, the reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter and the specific grounds under section 48(1) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 for the passing of this resolution are as follows: |
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General subject of each matter to be considered |
Reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter |
Particular interests protected (where applicable) |
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Works and Infrastructure Committee Meeting - Public Excluded Minutes - 18 May 2017 |
Section 48(1)(a) The public conduct of this matter would be likely to result in disclosure of information for which good reason exists under section 7. |
The withholding of the information is necessary: · Section 7(2)(i) To enable the local authority to carry on, without prejudice or disadvantage, negotiations (including commercial and industrial negotiations). · Section 7(2)(b)(ii) To protect information where 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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Status Report - Works and Infrastructure Committee- Public Excluded - 29 June 2017
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Section 48(1)(a) The public conduct of this matter would be likely to result in disclosure of information for which good reason exists under section 7 |
The withholding of the information is necessary: · Section 7(2)(i) To enable the local authority to carry on, without prejudice or disadvantage, negotiations (including commercial and industrial negotiations) |
The meeting went into public excluded session at 10.58am and resumed in public session at 11.01am.
Please note that as the only business transacted in public excluded was to confirm the minutes and receive the status report, this business has been recorded in the public minutes. In accordance with the Local Government Official Information Meetings Act 1987, no reason for withholding this information from the public exists.
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Resolved WI/2017/040 That the Committee Confirms the minutes of part of the meeting of the Works and Infrastructure Committee, held with the public excluded on 18 May 2017, as a true and correct record. |
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Resolved WI/2017/041 That the Committee Receives the Public Excluded Status Report Works and Infrastructure Committee 29 June 2017 (R7952) and its attachment (A1756746). |
9. Re-admittance of the Public
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Resolved WI/2017/042 That the Committee Re-admits the public to the meeting. |
There being no further business the meeting ended at 11.01am.
Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:
Chairperson
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