Sports and Recreation Committee Minutes - 20 February 2018

 

Minutes of a meeting of the Sports and Recreation Committee

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

On Tuesday 20 February 2018, commencing at 9.05am

 

Present:              Councillor T Skinner (Chairperson), Her Worship the Mayor R Reese, I Barker, M Courtney, B McGurk, M Rutledge (Deputy Chairperson) and S Walker

In Attendance:   Chief Executive (P Dougherty), Group Manager Infrastructure (A Louverdis), Group Manager Community Services (C Ward), Senior Strategic Adviser (N McDonald), Youth Councillors N Rais and U H Cinzah and Governance Advisers (J Brandt and E Stephenson)

Apologies:          

 

1.       Apologies

 

           Councillor McGurk, seconded by Councillor Courtney moved the following motion:

 

That the Sports and Recreation Committee

Receives and accepts an apology from Councillor Fulton.

The motion was put and lost.  

 

2.       Confirmation of Order of Business

There were no changes 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.       Confirmation of Minutes

5.1      21 November 2017

Document number M3152, agenda pages 6 - 15 refer.

Resolved SPO/2018/001

That the Sports and Recreation Committee

Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Sports and Recreation Committee, held on 21 November 2017, as a true and correct record.

McGurk/Courtney                                                                       Carried

  

6.       Chairperson's Report   

          There was no Chairperson’s report.

 

7.       Status Report - Sports & Recreation Committee - 20 February 2018

Document number R8969, agenda pages 16 - 17 refer.

Resolved SPO/2018/002

That the Sports and Recreation Committee

Receives the report Status Report - Sports & Recreation Committee - 20 February 2018 (R8969) and its attachment (A1664423).

Barker/Walker                                                                            Carried

 

Staff undertook to provide an update on the matter of options for the treatment of depreciation within the Nelson Marina Closed Account.

 

Group Manager Alec Louverdis answered a question on progress regarding a resource consent for the Modellers Pond.

 

8.       Nelson Mountain Biking Economic Study

Document number R9004, agenda pages 18 - 18 refer.

 

Property and Facilities Asset Planner Paul Harrington answered questions regarding the reasons for referring the matter to Council. It was noted that the timing of the matter for Long Term Plan deliberations was not impacted by this change.

Resolved SPO/2018/003

That the Sports and Recreation Committee

Receives the report Nelson Mountain Biking Economic Study (R9004); and

Refers the decision to receive the BERL report ‘Nelson Mountain Biking Economic Study’ to Council.

McGurk/Walker                                                                           Carried

 

9.       Supply & Demand - Winter Sports Fields

Document number R8837, agenda pages 19 - 45 refer.

Property and Facilities Asset Planner Paul Harrington and Mr Richard Hutchinson of Global Leisure Group answered questions on the desktop study. It was clarified that the report was a building block to inform future Asset Management Plans.

Attendance: Her Worship the Mayor R Reese left the meeting at 9.21a.m. until 9.31a.m.

Resolved SPO/2018/004

That the Sports and Recreation Committee

Receives the report Supply & Demand - Winter Sports Fields  (R8837) and its attachment (A1896975).

McGurk/Courtney                                                                       Carried

       


10.  Exclusion of the Public

 

Resolved SPO/2018/005

That the Sports and Recreation 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:

Walker/Barker                                                                            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

Sports and Recreation Committee Meeting - Public Excluded Minutes -  21 November 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

Status Report - Sports and Recreation Committee - Public Excluded - 20 February 2018

 

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 10.05a.m. and resumed in public session at 10.12a.m. 

 

 

11.     Re-admittance of the Public

Resolved SPO/2018/008

That the Sports and Recreation Committee

Re-admits the public to the meeting.

Rutledge/Walker                                                                         Carried

 

 

There being no further business the meeting ended at 10.12a.m.

 

Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:

 

 

 

                                                       Chairperson                                     Date