Minutes of a meeting of the

Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit

Te Rōpū ā-Rohe Para, Whakatū / Te Tai o Aorere

Held in the Council Chamber, Floor 2A, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson on Friday 13 May 2022, commencing at 9.30a.m.

Present:              Tasman District Councillor K Maling (Chairperson), Nelson City Councillor B McGurk, T Skinner (Deputy Chairperson), Tasman District Councillor T Tuffnell, Independent Member T Mehmood and Industry Representative (non-voting) P Wilson

In Attendance:    Group Manager Infrastructure (A Louverdis), Tasman District Group Manager Community Infrastructure (R Kirby), General Manager Regional Services (N Clarke), Senior Governance Advisor (M Macfarlane) and Governance Adviser (T Kruger)

Apologies :          Nil

1.       Apologies

2.       Confirmation of Order of Business

           There were no changes to 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

There was no public forum.

5.       Confirmation of Minutes

5.1      11 March 2022

Document number M19303, agenda pages 7 - 11 refer.

Resolved RSBU/2022/008
	That the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit 1.    Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit, held on 11 March 2022, as a true and correct record.
McGurk/Skinner Carried

Attendance: Industry Representative P Wilson joined the meeting at 9.35a.m.

6.       Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit General Managers Quarterly Report

Document number R26871, agenda pages 12 - 26 refer.

General Manager Regional Service, Nathan Clarke, presented the report and answered questions in relation to addressing odour notifications, a small overflow from the network, the regional pipeline rehabilitation project, the biosolids consent, capacity to deliver capital works, the Green Acres Golf Course resource consent, financial performance and recruitment.

Resolved RSBU/2022/009
	That the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit 1.    Receives the report Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit General Managers Quarterly Report (R26871); and 2.    Notes that a report to approve projected carryovers from 2021/22 to 2022/23 will be presented to the first Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit Board Meeting in 2022/23
wMcGurk/Skinner Carried

7.       Exclusion of the Public

Resolved RSBU/2022/010
	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	Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit Meeting - Confidential Minutes - 11 March 2022	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)(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)(h)         To enable the local authority to carry out, without prejudice or disadvantage, commercial activities

The meeting went into confidential session at 10.22a.m. and resumed in public session at 10.23a.m.

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.

1.       Confirmation of Minutes

1.1      11 March 2022

Document number M19310, agenda pages 3 - 5 refer.

Resolved RSBU/2022/011
	That the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit 1.    Confirms the minutes of part of the meeting of the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit, held with the public excluded on 11 March 2022, as a true and correct record.
McGurk/Tuffnell Carried

There being no further business the meeting ended at 10.24.

Confirmed as a correct record of proceedings by resolution on 01 July 2022.

Resolved RSBU/2022/012
	That the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit 1.    Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit, held on 13 May 2022, as a true and correct record.
McGurk/Skinner Carried