Minutes of a meeting of the Governance Committee
Held in the Council Chamber, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
On Thursday 27 July 2017, commencing at 1.00pm
Present: Councillor I Barker (Chairperson), Her Worship the Mayor R Reese, Councillors M Courtney, B Dahlberg (Deputy Chairperson), P Matheson, M Rutledge and T Skinner
In Attendance: Councillor S Walker, Acting Chief Executive (D Hammond), Group Manager Community Services (C Ward), Senior Strategic Adviser (N McDonald), Team Leader Administration Advisers (R Byrne) and Youth Councillor Jamie Morgan.
Apology: Councillor G Noonan
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Resolved GOV/2017/044 That the Committee Receives and accepts an apology from Councillor Noonan. |
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 Nelson Cycle Lift Society
Jo Rainey, Matt Griffin, Martin Mangan of the Nelson Cycle Lift Society and consultant Darron Charity, tabled and presented a progress report on the Nelson Gondola. They answered questions on the proposed location, liaising with Council on future planning and costs associated with the project.
Mr Charity noted it was too early to advise a proposed route, the current project was to determine market demand, understand gaps in the market and review if the project matched growing tourism interests. He noted that the next stage was to have an open dialogue with willing partners; this could be a commercial enterprise enabled by a small amount of public funding, or it could be not for profit operation.
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1 A1801687 Nelson Cycle Lift Public Forum presentation |
5.1 20 April 2017
Document number M2508, agenda pages 7 - 13 refer.
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Resolved GOV/2017/045 That the Committee Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Committee, held on 20 April 2017, as a true and correct record. |
6. Status Report - Governance Committee - 27 July 2017
Document number R8088, agenda pages 14 - 15 refer.
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Resolved GOV/2017/046 That the Committee Receives the Status Report Governance Committee 27 July 2017 (R8088) and its attachment (A1160658). |
There was no Chairperson’s Report.
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8. Sister City Co-ordinator's Report
Document number R8087, agenda pages 16 - 23 refer.
Sister City Coordinator Gail Collingwood presented her report. She noted that Eureka Park was in the area discussed by the previous presenters and asked Council to ensure that due care was given to the redwood trees in the park, which acknowledged Nelson’s relationship with its sister city Eureka.
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Resolved GOV/2017/047 That the Committee Receives the report Sister City Co-ordinator's Report (R8087) and its attachment (A1786626). |
9. Adoption of final Statements of Intent 2017/18: Nelson Regional Development Agency and Bishop Suter Trust
Document number R8056, agenda pages 24 - 86 refer.
The Group Manager Community Services Chris Ward presented the report and added that recruitment of a trustee for the Bishop Suter Trust was currently in progress.
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Resolved GOV/2017/048 That the Committee Receives the report Adoption of final Statements of Intent 2017/18: Nelson Regional Development Agency and Bishop Suter Trust (R8056) and its attachments (A1790437 and A1724813). |
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That the Council Approves the draft Statement of Intent of the Bishop Suter Trust (A1724813) as the Final Statement of Intent for the 2017/18 year; and Approves the draft Statement of Intent of the Nelson Regional Development Agency (A1790437) as the Final Statement of Intent for the 2017/18 year. |
10. Allocation of Events Funding 2016/17
Document number R8065, agenda pages 87 - 88 refer.
Group Manager Community Services Chris Ward presented the report and noted that this would be an annual item for the Committee Agenda.
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Resolved GOV/2017/049 That the Committee Receives the report Allocation of Events Funding 2016/17 (R8065). |
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Resolved GOV/2017/050 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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Governance Committee Meeting - Public Excluded Minutes - 20 April 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). |
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Nelson Regional Development Agency - Board appointment
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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 2.05pm and resumed in public session at 2.08pm.
12. Re-admittance of the Public
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Resolved GOV/2017/051 That the Committee Re-admits the public to the meeting. |
There being no further business the meeting ended at 2.08pm.
Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:
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