Minutes of a meeting of the Works and Infrastructure Committee

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

On Thursday 27 June 2019, commencing at 11.09a.m.

 

Present:               Councillor S Walker (Chairperson), Her Worship the Mayor R Reese, Councillors L Acland, P Matheson, M Lawrey, G Noonan, T Skinner and M Rutledge (Deputy Chairperson)

In Attendance:     Councillors K Fulton, B McGurk and I Barker, Group Manager Infrastructure (A Louverdis) and Governance Adviser (E Stephenson)

 

Apologies :           Nil

 

Adjournment of Meeting

The meeting convened at 11.09a.m. and was adjourned until the conclusion of the Council meeting.

Resolved WI/2019/040    

 

That the Works and Infrastructure Committee

1.       Adjourns the meeting to allow the Council meeting to conclude its business.

Walker/Lawrey                                                                                 Carried

 

The meeting was reconvened at 1.44p.m.

 

 

 

 

1.       Apologies

 

          There were no 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       Clare Scott - presented regarding Speed reduction measures for Kawai Street South after the public excluded item.

 

5.       Exclusion of the Public (Agenda Item 7)

Resolved WI/2019/041

 

That the Works and Infrastructure Committee

1.       Excludes the public from the following parts of the proceedings of this meeting.

2.       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:

Rutledge/Noonan                                                                              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

Works and Infrastructure Committee Meeting - Public Excluded Minutes -  23 May 2019

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

·    Section 7(2)(b)(ii)

     To protect information where the making available of the information would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information

·       Section 7(2)(g)

     To maintain legal professional privilege

·    Section 7(2)(i)

     To enable the local authority to carry on, without prejudice or disadvantage, negotiations (including commercial and industrial negotiations)  

2

Part of Princes Drive - proposed road stopping

 

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)

 

 

The meeting went into public excluded session at 1.46p.m. and resumed in public session at 2.23p.m.

6.       Confirmation of Minutes (Agenda Item 5)

3.1       23 May 2019

Document number M4236, agenda pages 6 - 15 refer.

Resolved WI/2019/042

 

That the Works and Infrastructure Committee

1.     Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Works and Infrastructure Committee, held on 23 May 2019, as a true and correct record.

Matheson/Skinner                                                                             Carried

     

 

7.       Chairperson's Report   

     There was no Chairperson’s Report.

8.       Public Forum (Agenda Item 4.1)

 

Clare Scott - Speed reduction measures for Kawai Street South

 

Kawai Street South resident, Clare Scott, accompanied by Melanie Barker, provided a PowerPoint presentation and spoke about the problems caused by traffic speed on Kawai Street South. Ms Scott asked for political support and funding for a living streets community initiative to change design speed on the road to make the road safer for residents and their children. The proposal included plantings, chicanes and a colourful pedestrian crossing.

Ms Scott and Ms Barker answered questions regarding the proposal and the effect of speeding vehicles on the street.

A suggestion was made that the Committee write to the Nelson Police and request greater monitoring of vehicle speeds down that street. The Chairperson thanked the presenters and noted that this would be followed up within the constraints Council had in its work programme going forward.

 

Attachments

1    A2215517 - Clare Scott PowerPoint presentation

 

There being no further business the meeting ended at 2.56p.m.

 

Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:

 

 

 

                                                         Chairperson                                    Date