Minutes of a meeting of the Environment and Climate Committee

Te Kōmiti Taiao / Āhuarangi

Held in the Council Chamber, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson on Thursday 29 July 2021, commencing at 9.06a.m.

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

In Attendance:  Manager Environmental Management (C Barton) and Governance Advisers (K McLean and J Brandt)

Apologies :        Mayor R Reese, Councillor Noonan (lateness)

Karakia and Mihi Timatanga

1        Apologies

Resolved EC/2021/030
	That the Environment and Climate Committee 1. Receives and accepts an apology from Her Worship the Mayor R Reese and from Councillor G Noonan for lateness.
Bowater/McGurk Carried

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.      Mike Fielding - ever-changing climate and the increasing need for households to be prepared for natural and non-natural events, withdrew his public forum request.

4.2  John Higginbotham - Parking Policy and Improvements to Parking

John Higginbotham tabled document A2724826 and spoke to the presentation, noting:

· infringements

· warnings

· community reputation.

Attachments

1    A2724826 - John Higginbotham - Tabled Document

5.       Confirmation of Minutes

5.1       10 June 2021

Document number M18693, agenda pages 6 - 13 refer.

Resolved EC/2021/031
	That the Environment and Climate Committee 1.    Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Environment and Climate Committee, held on 10 June 2021, as a true and correct record.
Courtney/McGurk Carried

6.       Chairperson's Report

Document number R26052

There was no Chairperson’s Report.

7.       Draft Whakamahere Whakatu Nelson Plan Engagement Update

Document number R26018, agenda pages 14 - 16 refer.

Manager Environmental Planning, Maxine Day, presented the report and outlined the engagement process and timeline. Ms Day answered questions around engagement, Port Nelson and the Nelson Environment Action Group.

Resolved EC/2021/032
	That the Environment and Climate Committee 1.    Receives the report Draft Whakamahere Whakatu Nelson Plan Engagement Update; and 2.    Notes the proposed next phase of engagement for the Draft Whakamahere Whakatu Nelson Plan as outlined in Report R26018.
Brand/Sanson Carried

8.       Exclusion of the Public

Resolved EC/2021/033
	That the Environment and Climate 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:
Brand/Fulton 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	Environment and Climate Committee Meeting - Confidential Minutes -  10 June 2021	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)(c)(i)     To protect information which is subject to an obligation of confidence or which any person has been or could be compelled to provide under the authority of any enactment, where the making available of the information would be likely to prejudice the supply of similar information or information from the same source and it is in the public interest that such information should continue to be supplied.

The meeting went into confidential session at 10.02pm and resumed in public session at 10.03pm.

The only business transacted in confidential session was to confirm the minutes. In accordance with the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act, no reason for withholding this information from the public exists, therefore this business has been recorded in the open minutes.

9.       Confirmation of Minutes

9.1       10 June 2021

Document number M18692, agenda pages 3 - 5 refer.

Resolved EC/2021/034
	That the Environment and Climate Committee 1.    Confirms the minutes of part of the meeting of the Environment and Climate Committee, held with the public excluded on 10 June 2021, as a true and correct record.
Edgar/Courtney Carried

10.     Re-admittance of the Public

Resolved EC/2021/035
	That the Council 1. Re-admits the public to the meeting.
Brand/Fulton Carried

There being no further business the meeting ended at 10.03p.m.

Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings by resolution on 4 November 2021.

Resolved EC/2021/037

That the Environment and Climate Committee

1. Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Environment and Climate Committee, held on 29 July 2021, as a true and correct record.