Minutes of a meeting of the Nelson City Council
Held in the Council Chamber, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
On Thursday 13 February 2020, commencing at 9.03a.m.
Present: Her Worship the Mayor R Reese (Chairperson), Councillors Y Bowater, T Brand, M Courtney, J Edgar, K Fulton, M Lawrey, R O'Neill-Stevens, B McGurk, G Noonan, P Rainey, R Sanson and T Skinner
In Attendance: Chief Executive (P Dougherty), Group Manager Infrastructure (A Louverdis), Group Manager Community Services (R Ball), Group Manager Corporate Services (N Harrison), Group Manager Strategy and Communications (N McDonald), Acting Group Manager Environmental Management (M Bishop), and Governance Adviser (E-J Ruthven)
Karakia Timatanga
Councillor Sanson led the opening karakia.
Attendance: Councillor Brand joined the meeting at 9.04a.m.
1. Apologies
There were no apologies.
2. Confirmation of Order of Business
There was no change to the order of business.
There were no updates to the Interests Register.
Councillor McGurk subsequently declared an interest in an update provided in the confidential Mayor’s Report, and left the meeting at 10.39a.m. when the item was discussed.
There was no public forum.
5.1 12 December 2019
Document number M6628, agenda pages 6 - 20 refer.
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1. Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Council, held on 12 December 2019, as a true and correct record. |
Document number R13766, agenda pages 21 - 24 refer.
Her Worship the Mayor presented the report and provided updates regarding the following additional matters:
· drought conditions in the wider region and Council’s plans to work closely with Tasman District Council on this issue;
· novel coronavirus, its impacts on Nelson’s Sister Cities of Huangshi and Yangjiang and how Council could support its Sister City communities; and
· waste minimisation initiatives regarding the collection of food waste from commercial premises, and how Council could potentially support such initiatives.
Officers answered questions and elected members provided feedback on these matters.
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1. Receives the report Mayor's Report (R13766) and its attachments (A2335353); and 2. Updates the Delegations Register to reflect the amended Tenders Subcommittee Delegations (A2335353). |
7. Nelson Tasman Climate Charter
Document number R13757, agenda pages 25 - 35 refer.
Climate Change Champion, Chris Cameron, and Group Manager Strategy and Communications, Nicky McDonald, presented the report.
Mr Cameron and Ms McDonald answered questions regarding the role of the climate change forum, the importance of community engagement for climate change matters, the proposed wording of the Climate Charter and the potential for involvement from other Councils, businesses, organisations and individuals across Te Tauihu in the Climate Change forum.
Elected members discussed the proposed wording of the Charter and gave feedback, including potential minor changes to wording to be considered.
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1. Receives the report Nelson Tasman Climate Charter and its attachment (A2332108); and 2. Authorises Her Worship the Mayor to sign the Nelson Tasman Climate Charter on behalf of Nelson City Council; and 3. Agrees that having signed the Nelson Tasman Climate Charter, Council will participate in the Nelson Tasman Climate Change Forum; and 4. Appoints Her Worship the Mayor, the Chairperson of the Environment Committee and Council’s Climate Change Champion as the Nelson City Council representatives on the Nelson Tasman Climate Change Forum. |
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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: |
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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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Council Meeting - Public Excluded Minutes - 12 December 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)(g) To maintain legal professional privilege
· 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)
· 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
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Appointment of Independent Chair to the Saxton Field Committee
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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)(a) To protect the privacy of natural persons, including that of a deceased person |
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Mayor's Report
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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 confidential session at 10.24a.m. and resumed in public session at 10.56a.m.
Restatements
It was resolved while the public was excluded:
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PUBLIC EXCLUDED: Appointment of Independent Chair to the Saxton Field Committee |
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That the Council 3. Agrees to make the appointment public once the role is accepted by the successful applicant. |
There being no further business the meeting ended at 10.56a.m.
Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:
Chairperson
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