Nelson City Council Minutes - 24 May 2018
Minutes of an extraordinary meeting of the Nelson City Council
Held in the Council Chamber, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
On Thursday 24 May 2018, commencing at 10.30am
Present: Her Worship the Mayor R Reese (Chairperson), Councillors I Barker, M Courtney, B Dahlberg, K Fulton, M Lawrey, P Matheson, B McGurk, M Rutledge, T Skinner and S Walker
In Attendance: Chief Executive (P Dougherty), Group Manager Infrastructure (A Louverdis), Group Manager Environmental Management (C Barton), Acting Group Manager Community Services (R Ball), Group Manager Corporate Services (N Harrison), Acting Group Manager Strategy and Communications (N McDonald), Team Leader Governance ( R Byrne) and Governance Adviser (E Stephenson)
Apology: Councillors L Acland and G Noonan
Opening Prayer
Councillor Dahlberg gave the opening prayer.
1. Apologies
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Resolved CL/2018/117 That the Council Receives and accepts an apology from Councillors L Acland and G Noonan. |
2. Confirmation of Order of Business
There was no change to the order of business.
There were no updates to the Interests Register. Councillor Rutledge declared an interest in the Public Forum item in relation to Natureland.
4.1 Martin Rodd, Director Partnerships, Department of Conservation - Funding spoke to Council about the reduction in funding for Natureland and its impact. He was supported by Devon McLean, Trustee of Project Janzoon.
Attendance: Councillor Rutledge had declared an interest and left the meeting at 10.34a.m.
Mr Rodd gave an outline of the work of the Department of Conservation and discussed strategic partners, which included top of the south local government and Ngāi Tahu. He outlined current projects and advised that with Natureland breeding threatened species in captivity this was an important support for the programmes. He noted species restoration was an expensive process and having the ability to access this in Nelson was a distinctive advantage.
Mr McLean updated Council about Project Janzoon and noted that they worked closely with Natureland whose facilities played a key part in incubating and raising threatened species. He said should Natureland close, then Christchurch would be the closest facility which could provide similar facilities and expertise. Mr McLean answered questions on the funding Project Janzoon provided to Natureland in the form of investment in incubation facilities and support of staff costs and the ability for Natureland to increase the number of breeding programmes.
Mr Rodd answered questions on funding available through the Department of Conservation and the focus on biodiversity.
Garry Ward (President), June Eyles, Ian Allport, Keith Swift and Eric Davy from Tahuna Beach Camp Society, will be in attendance for Item 1 of the Public Excluded agenda to speak to Council and, accordingly, the following resolution was required to be passed:
Attendance: Councillor Rutledge returned to the meeting at 11.18a.m.
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Resolved CL/2018/118 That the Council Confirms, in accordance with section 48(5) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987, Garry Ward (President), June Eyles, Ian Allport, Keith Swift and Eric Davy from Tahuna Beach Camp Society remain after the public has been excluded, for Item1 of the Public Excluded agenda (Tahuna Beach Holiday Park), as they have knowledge that will assist the Council; Notes, in accordance with section 48(6) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987, the knowledge that Garry Ward (President), June Eyles, Ian Allport, Keith Swift and Eric Davy possess relates to Tahuna Beach Holiday Park. |
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Resolved CL/2018/119 That the 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: |
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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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Tahuna Beach Holiday Park
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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)(h) To enable the local authority to carry out, without prejudice or disadvantage, commercial activities · 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 11.22a.m. and resumed in public session at 12.56p.m.
There being no further business the meeting ended at 12.56p.m.
Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:
Chairperson
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