Minutes of a meeting of the Community Services Committee
Held in the Council Chamber, Civic House , 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
On Thursday 13 July 2017, commencing at 9.05am
Present: Councillor G Noonan (Chairperson), Councillors M Courtney (Deputy Chairperson), K Fulton, B McGurk, and M Rutledge
In Attendance: Councillors I Barker and S Walker, Acting Chief Executive (D Hammond), Group Manager Community Services (C Ward), Senior Strategic Adviser (N McDonald), Manager Communications (P Shattock), Manager Community Partnerships (S Raggett), Policy Advisor (G Thorpe), and Administration Adviser (L Canton)
Apologies: Her Worship the Mayor R Reese, and Councillors M Lawrey and P Matheson
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Resolved CS/2017/041 That the Committee Receives and accepts the apologies from Her Worship the Mayor and Councillors Lawrey and Matheson. |
Attendance: Councillor Fulton joined the meeting at 9.06am.
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 Steve Cross - Nelson Residents Association
Steve Cross, of the Nelson Residents Association, tabled a document outlining the Nelson Residents’ Association preferred governance structure for the Nelson Arts Festival (A1788894). He spoke to the document and answered questions.
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1 A1788894 - Nelson Residents Association - Public Forum - Nelson Arts Festival Governance |
5.1 1 June 2017
Document number M2643, agenda pages 7 - 13 refer.
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Resolved CS/2017/042 That the Committee Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Community Services Committee, held on 1 June 2017, as a true and correct record. |
6. Status Report - Community Services Committee- 13 July 2017
Document number R8023, agenda pages 14 - 15 refer.
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Resolved CS/2017/043 That the Committee Receives the Status Report Community Services Committee 13 July 2017 (R8023) and its attachment (A1157454). |
Document number R8040, agenda pages 16 - 17 refer.
The Chairperson presented the report and answered questions.
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Resolved CS/2017/044 That the Committee. Receives the Chairperson's Report (R8040). |
Community Development
8. Adoption of the Youth Strategy
Document number R8017, agenda pages 18 - 74 refer.
Policy Advisor, Gabrielle Thorpe, presented the report. She tabled the draft Strategy that had been released for consultation (A1762721).
Ms Thorpe and Manager Community Partnerships, Shanine Raggett, answered questions.
The Committee discussed the proposed amendments to the draft Youth Strategy set out in Attachment 1 to the officer report and agreed the following additional amendments:
· Agenda page 27, Goal 1, first bullet point: Add “whanau/family relationships” after “positive choices”.
· Agenda page 27, Goal 1, third bullet point:
o Add “and their whanau’s/family’s” after “young people’s”; and
o Add “which will support positive youth development” after “available services”.
· Agenda page 27, Goal 3, third bullet point: Remove ‘local’.
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Resolved CS/2017/045 That the Committee
Receives the report Adoption of the Youth Strategy (R7924) and it’s attachments w(A1770987, A1786478 and A1580206); and Amends the Youth Strategy, as appropriate, based on community feedback. |
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1 A1732721 - Draft Youth Strategy released for consultation |
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Recommendation to Council CS/2017/046 That the Council Adopts the Youth Strategy (A1580206). |
There was no Youth Council update.
10. Nelson Youth Council - 12 May 2017
Document number M2563, agenda pages 75 - 82 refer.
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Resolved CS/2017/047 That the Committee Receives the minutes of a meeting of the Nelson Youth Council, held on 12 May 2017. |
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Resolved CS/2017/048 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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Community Services Committee Meeting - Public Excluded Minutes - 1 June 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)(a) To protect the privacy of natural persons, including that of a deceased person. |
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Status Report - Community Services Committee - Public Excluded - 13 July 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)(a) To protect the privacy of natural persons, including that of a deceased person |
The meeting went into public excluded session at 10.13am and resumed in public session at 10.20am.
Please note that as the only business transacted in public excluded was to confirm the minutes, receive the status report, and release the status report item to the public, 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 CS/2017/049 That the Committee Confirms the minutes of part of the meeting of the Community Services Committee, held with the public excluded on 1 June 2017, as a true and correct record. |
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Resolved CS/2017/050 That the Committee Receives the public excluded Status Report Community Services Committee 13 July 2017 (R8024) and its attachment (A1787067). |
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Resolved CS/2017/051 That the Committee Releases to the public the Status Report item from 1 June 2017 “Community Investment Funding Panel Membership” as, in accordance with the Local Government Official Information Meetings Act 1987, no reason for withholding this information from the public exists: That the Committee Requests that a report be brought to the Community Services Committee following the completion of funding allocations for the 2017/18 year, considering the efficacy of the allocation process, the performance of the Community Investment Funding Panel, and any other relevant issues. |
12. Re-admittance of the Public
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Resolved CS/2017/052 That the Committee Re-admits the public to the meeting. |
There being no further business the meeting ended at 10.18am.
Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:
Chairperson
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