Nelson City Council Minutes - 2 July 2018

Minutes of an extraordinary meeting of the Nelson City Council

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

On Monday 2 July 2018, commencing at 2.05 p.m.

Present:              Her Worship the Mayor R Reese (Chairperson), Councillors L Acland, I Barker, M Courtney, B Dahlberg, K Fulton, M Lawrey, P Matheson, B McGurk, G Noonan, M Rutledge, T Skinner and S Walker

In Attendance:   Chief Executive (P Dougherty), G Group Manager Community Services (R Ball), Group Manager Strategy and Communications (N McDonald) and Team Leader Governance (R Byrne) and Paul Bell (External Adviser)

Apologies :          Nil

Opening Prayer

Councillor Dahlberg gave the opening prayer.

1.       Apologies

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.

4. Public Forum

4.1 Jace Hobbs from Nelson Co-housing Group
	Mr Hobbs spoke about a co-housing initiative and why it was a good fit for the community. He tabled a document from Cohousing Nelson and explained this was a popular concept gaining attraction in Europe and US and was now in Christchurch and Dunedin. This was a dense housing structure with co-governance similar to condominium management, where people can buy and sell their properties however they do not own the land.  He felt it was a big draw for childcare, children were secure in and around a village atmosphere.  Mr Hobbs advised that the group were looking for land however this was difficult in Nelson, particularly as they wanted to find somewhere large enough but within walking and biking distance to the CBD.
	Attachments 1    A2000562 Jace Hobbs Co-housing Presentation Council 02Jul2018

5.       Exclusion of the Public

Paul Bell, of Intepeople, will be in attendance for the Public Excluded agenda to answer questions and, accordingly, the following resolution is required to be passed:

Resolved CL/2018/161

That the Council

Confirms, in accordance with section 48(5) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987, Paul Bell remain after the public has been excluded, for all of the Public Excluded agenda, as he has 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 Paul Bell possesses relates to description.

Courtney/Walker Carried

Resolved CL/2018/162

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:

Courtney/Walker 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	Chief Executive's Performance Report - six month update	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
2	Mayor's Report – Chief Executives Performance Plan 2018/19	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 2.25pm and resumed in public session at 4.18p.m.

There being no further business the meeting ended at 4.18p.m.

Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:

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