Minutes of a meeting of the Works and Infrastructure Committee

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

On Thursday 24 August 2017, commencing at 9.02am

 

Present:              Councillors S Walker (Chairperson), L Acland, B Dahlberg, M Lawrey, P Matheson (Deputy Chairperson), G Noonan, and T Skinner

In Attendance:   Councillors I Barker and B McGurk, Group Manager Infrastructure (A Louverdis), Senior Asset Engineer – Utilities (P Ruffell), Administration Adviser (L Canton), and Youth Councillors (S Cronin and L Amos)

Apology:             Her Worship the Mayor R Reese

 

 

1.       Apologies

Resolved WI/2017/043

That the Committee

Receives and accepts the apology from Her Worship the Mayor Reese.

Skinner/Noonan                                                                         Carried

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.

Attendance:  Councillor Lawrey joined the meeting at 9.03am.

4.       Public Forum

4.1   Rodney Laing and Heather Agnew - New Zealand Post

Rodney Laing, New Zealand Post Area Manager Nelson/Tasman, and Heather Agnew, New Zealand Post Paxster Implementation Specialist, gave a presentation (A1817728) on behalf of New Zealand Post about using Paxsters (motorised vehicles) for delivery on Nelson footpaths.  They tabled a document (A1817717) and answered questions relating to the use of Paxters in other centres.

Resolved WI/2017/044

That the Committee

Requests an officer report to a future Committee meeting on New Zealand Post’s application for the footpath operation of electrical vehicles in Nelson.

Walker/Noonan                                                                           Carried

Attachments

1    A1817717 - tabled document - New Zealand Post Integrated Delivery Agent Summary

2    A1817728 - presentation - New Zealand Post Application for Footpath Operation of Paxster Electric Vehicle

5.       Confirmation of Minutes

5.1      29 June 2017

Document number M2727, agenda pages 7 - 11 refer.

Resolved WI/2017/045

That the Committee

Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Works and Infrastructure Committee, held on 29 June 2017, as a true and correct record.

Matheson/Dahlberg                                                                    Carried

6.       Status Report - Works and Infrastructure Committee - 24 August 2017

Document number R8237, agenda pages 12 - 14 refer.

Group Manager Infrastructure, Alec Louverdis, answered questions about the Church Street Improvement item.

 

 

 

Resolved WI/2017/046

That the Committee

Receives the Status Report Works and Infrastructure Committee 24 August 2017 (R8237) and its attachment (A1150321).

Noonan/Dahlberg                                                                       Carried

  

7.       Chairperson's Report

Document number R8246, agenda pages 15 - 16 refer.

Resolved WI/2017/047

That the Committee

Receives the Chairperson's Report (R8246).

Walker/Dahlberg                                                                        Carried

     

8.       Draft Utilities Asset Management Plans 2018-28 (Water Supply, Wastewater, Stormwater and Flood Protection)

Document number R8117, agenda pages 17 - 136 refer.

Senior Asset Engineer – Utilities, Phil Ruffell, presented the report and answered questions relating to flood modelling, wastewater budget, and the water supply testing regime and leakage index.

Resolved WI/2017/048

That the Committee

Receives the report Draft Utilities Asset Management Plans 2018-28 (Water Supply, Wastewater, Stormwater and Flood Protection) (R8117) and its attachments (Draft 2018-28 Water Supply Asset Management Plan (A1813747 and A1620958), Draft 2018-28 Wastewater Asset Management Plan (A1810562 and A1611752), Draft 2018-28 Stormwater and Flood Protection Asset Management Plan (A1809215 and A1711433)).

Dahlberg/Skinner                                                                       Carried

 

 

Recommendation to Council WI/2017/049

That the Council

Approves the Draft Utilities Asset Management Plans 2018-28 (Water Supply (A1620958), Wastewater (A1611752), Stormwater and Flood Protection (A1711433)) as the versions to inform the Long Term Plan 2018-28.

Dahlberg/Skinner                                                                       Carried

        

9.       Exclusion of the Public

Resolved WI/2017/050

That the Subcommittee/Committee/Council

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:

Skinner/Dahlberg                                                                       Carried

 

Item

General subject of each matter to be considered

Reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter

Particular interests protected (where applicable)

1

Status Report - Public Excluded - Works and Infrastructure Committee- 24 August 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)

2

Road Stopping - Lud Valley

 

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)(h)

     To enable the local authority to carry out, without prejudice or disadvantage, commercial activities

The meeting went into public excluded session at 10.03am and resumed in public session at 10.22am. 

10.     Re-admittance of the Public

Resolved WI/2017/051

That the Committee

Re-admits the public to the meeting.

Acland/Noonan                                                                           Carried

 

 

There being no further business the meeting ended at 10.22am.

 

Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:

 

 

 

                                                       Chairperson                                     Date