Minutes of a meeting of the Infrastructure Committee

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

On Thursday 3 June 2021, commencing at 9.00a.m.

 

Present:              Councillor B McGurk (Chairperson), Councillors Y Bowater, T Brand, M Courtney, J Edgar, K Fulton, M Lawrey, G Noonan, R O'Neill-Stevens (Deputy Chairperson), P Rainey, R Sanson and T Skinner

In Attendance:    Chief Executive (P Dougherty), Group Manager Infrastructure (A Louverdis) and Governance Advisers (J Brandt and K McLean) and Youth Councillors (G Rollinson and C Rainey)

Apologies :          Mayor R Reese

 

 

1.       Apologies

 

Resolved IC/2021/015

 

That the Infrastructure Committee

1.        Receives and accepts the apology from Her Worship the Mayor R Reese for attendance, and from Councillor P Rainey for early departure.

McGurk/O'Neill-Stevens                                                                 Carried

2.       Confirmation of Order of Business

A change in the order of items was noted, with agenda items 7 and 8 being considered first.

3.       Interests

There were no updates to the Interests Register, and no interests with items on the agenda were declared.

4.       Public Forum 

There was no public forum.

5.       Hearing of Submissions - Review of the Water Supply Bylaw (agenda item 7)

Document number R25876, agenda pages 10 - 32 refer.

Bill Gilbertson, Trustee of the Nelson Tasman Cycle Trails Trust, spoke to the submission. He highlighted main points by way of a PowerPoint presentation (A2671590). He answered questions about the research that had informed the submission.

Attendance: Councillors Brand and Bowater joined the meeting at 9.04a.m., followed by Councillor Fulton at 9.07a.m. and Councillor Skinner at 9.09a.m.

It was noted that questions from Elected Members regarding submissions received for the review of the Water Supply Bylaw would be considered in a deliberations report at a future Infrastructure Committee meeting.

Attendance: Councillor Rainey left the meeting at 9.52a.m.

 

 

Attachments

1    A2671590 - Nelson Tasman Trails Trust Powerpoint Presentation 3Jun2021

 

6.       Hearing of Submissions - Review of Wastewater Bylaw (agenda item 8)

Document number R25877, agenda pages 33 - 45 refer.

It was noted that questions from Elected Members regarding submissions received for the review of the Wastewater Bylaw would be considered in a deliberations report at a future Infrastructure Committee meeting.

7.       Confirmation of Minutes (agenda item 5)

7.1      8 April 2021

Document number M16540, agenda pages 5 - 9 refer.

Resolved IC/2021/016

 

That the Infrastructure Committee

1.    Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Infrastructure Committee, held on 8 April 2021, as a true and correct record.

Courtney/Edgar                                                                            Carried

  

8.       Chairperson's Report (agenda item 6) 

Councillor McGurk acknowledged the success of the Innovative Streets project in Nelson South and congratulated officers for receiving the 3M Traffic Safety Innovation Award for this project. Certificates from Waka Kotahi were presented to Team Leaders Capital Projects, Rebecca Dawkins, Team Leader Transport Operations, Matt Bruce, Manager Community Engagement, Paul Shattock, Manager Transport and Solid Waste, Marg Parfitt, and Team Leader Transport Activity Management, Sue McCauley (in absentia).

9.       Infrastructure Quarter Three Report

Document number R22709, agenda pages 46 - 112 refer.

Manager Transport and Solid Waste, Marg Parfitt, Manager Capital Projects, Lois Plum, and Manager Utilities, David Light, presented the report and answered questions.

Resolved IC/2021/017

 

That the Infrastructure Committee

1.    Receives the report Infrastructure Quarter Three Report (R22709) and its attachments A2617656 and A2629920.

 

Noonan/O'Neill-Stevens                                                                Carried

       

 

 

There being no further business the meeting ended at 10.30a.m.

 

Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings:

 

 

 

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