Minutes of a meeting of the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit

Held in Rūma Waimārama, Floor 2A, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson

On Wednesday 4 December 2019, commencing at 11.00a.m.

 

Present:              Tasman District Councillors K Maling and T Tuffnell, Nelson City Councillors B McGurk and T Skinner, Mr B Silcock (Independent Member) and Mr P Wilson (Industry Representative)

In Attendance:    Nelson City Council Group Manager Infrastructure (A Louverdis), Tasman District Council Engineering Services Manager (R Kirby), Acting General Manager NRSBU (D Clifford), Acting NRSBU Operations Manager (N Clarke), and Nelson City Council Governance Adviser (J Brandt)

Apology:             F Hippolite (Iwi Representative)

1        Appointment of Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson (agenda item 4)

The Nelson City Council Group Manager Infrastructure welcomed those present to the first Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit (NRSBU) meeting of the triennium and called for nominations for the two vacancies.

Resolved NRSBU/2019/001

 

That the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit

1.       Appoints Tasman District Councillor Kit Maling as Chairperson of the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit for the triennium 2019-2022; and

Tuffnell/McGurk                                                                            Carried

Tasman District Cr Maling assumed the Chair for the rest of the meeting.

Resolved NRSBU/2019/002

2.       Appoints Nelson City Councillor Tim Skinner as Deputy Chairperson of the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit for the triennium 2019-2022.

Maling/Tuffnell                                                                              Carried

 

2.       Apologies

Resolved NRSBU/2019/003

 

That the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit

1.        Receives and accepts the apology from Mr F Hippolite.

Maling/McGurk                                                                                 Carried

 

3.       Confirmation of Order of Business (agenda item 1)

           There was no change to the order of business for the remaining items on the agenda.

4.       Interests (agenda item 2)

           There were no updates to the Interests Register, and no interests with items on the agenda were declared. However, Tasman District Councillor Maling noted that a beneficiary of the piece of land to be discussed in the confidential part of the meeting was known to him.

5.       Public Forum (agenda item 3)

There was no public forum.

 

6.       Exclusion of the Public (agenda item 4)

 

Resolved NRSBU/2019/004

 

That the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit

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:

McGurk/Tuffnell                                                                            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

Land Purchase report

 

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 confidential session at 11.06a.m. and resumed in public session at 12.22p.m.

 

There being no further business the meeting ended at 12.22p.m.

 

Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:

 

 

 

                                                       Chairperson                                     Date