Forestry Advisory Group Minutes - 6 December 2018
Minutes of a meeting of the Forestry Advisory Group
Held in Ruma Mārama, Floor 2A, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
On Thursday 6 December 2018, commencing at 3.00p.m.
Present: Mr J Murray (Chairperson), Her Worship the Mayor R Reese, Councillor L Acland, Mr A Louverdis (GM Infrastructure) and Mr P Gorman (Independent Forestry Expert)
In Attendance: Fletcher Vautier Moore Managing Partner (S Ritchie), LandVision Director (L Grant), PF Olsen representatives (S Nuske, K Richards, G Brown and D Fincham) and Governance Adviser (J Brandt)
Apologies : Nil
1. Apologies
There were no apologies.
2. Confirmation of Order of Business
It was noted that the meeting would consider the public excluded business first.
There were no updates to the Interests Register, and no interests with items on the agenda were declared.
4.1 11 September 2018
Document number M3753, agenda pages 5 - 10 refer.
Attendance: Her Worship the Mayor joined the meeting at 3.03p.m.
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Resolved FAG/2018/012 That the Forestry Advisory Group Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Forestry Advisory Group, held on 11 September 2018, as a true and correct record. |
5. Exclusion of the Public
It was noted that Stuart Ritchie of Fletcher Vautier Moore, Lachie Grant of LandVision, and Sam Nuske, Kit Richards, Gary Brown, Dave Fincham of PF Olsen would be in attendance for Item 1 of the Public Excluded agenda to answer questions and, accordingly, the following resolution was required to be passed:
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Resolved FAG/2018/013 That the Forestry Advisory Group Confirms, in accordance with sections 48(5) and 48(6) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987, that S Ritchie of Fletcher Vautier Moore, Lachie Grant of LandVision, and S Nuske, K Richards, G Brown and D Fincham of PF Olsen remain after the public has been excluded, for Item 1 of the Public Excluded agenda (Tantragee Block Harvesting: Legal Considerations), as they have knowledge relating to the matter that will assist the meeting.
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Resolved FAG/2018/014 That the Forestry Advisory Group 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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Tantragee Block Harvesting: Legal Considerations
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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)(g) To maintain legal professional privilege |
The meeting went into public excluded session at 3.04p.m. and resumed in public session at 4.28p.m.
Attendance: Her Worship the Mayor R Reese left the meeting at 4.29p.m.
6. Chairperson's Report
There was no Chairperson’s report.
7. Forestry Update - Number 6 - December 2018
Document number R9689, agenda pages 11 - 49 refer.
Group Manager Infrastructure, Alec Louverdis, presented the report.
Discussion took place regarding good management practices. The application of the new National Environmental Standards (NES) was considered a minimum requirement for harvesting and that each site should be assessed case by case as to whether there was a need to go beyond the NES.
It was noted that if bridges spanning the rivers in the Maitai and Roding forestry blocks could not be put in place for the 2019 harvest, a revised harvest schedule would be brought back to the Forestry Advisory Group, including revised budgets.
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Resolved FAG/2018/015 That the Forestry Advisory Group Receives the report Forestry Update – Number 6 – December (R9864) and its attachments (A2077577, A2077575, A2077572 and A2090601). |
There being no further business the meeting ended at 4.50p.m.
Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:
Chairperson
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