Forestry Subcommittee
Te Kōmiti Āpiti, Ngahere
Held in the Council Chamber, Floor 2A, Civic House, 110 Trafalgar Street, Nelson on Tuesday 20 September 2022, commencing at 9.07a.m.
Present: Mr J Murray (Chairperson), Councillors K Fulton, T Skinner, Independent Forestry Expert P Gorman and Group Manager Infrastructure A Louverdis
In Attendance: Councillor R Sanson, PF Olsen representative (S Nuske), LandVision Limited representative (L Grant), Governance Adviser (T Kruger) and Governance Assistant (A Bryce-Neumann)
Apology: An apology has been received from Her Worship the Mayor R Reese
1. Apologies
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That the Forestry Subcommittee 1. Receives and accepts an apology from Her Worship the Mayor R Reese. |
2. Confirmation of Order of Business
There was no change to the order of business.
There were no updates to the Interests Register, and no interests with items on the agenda were declared.
There was no public forum.
5.1 22 March 2022
Document number M19338, agenda pages 5 - 7 refer.
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That the Forestry Subcommittee 1. Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Forestry Subcommittee, held on 22 March 2022, as a true and correct record. |
5.2 21 June 2022
Document number M19570, agenda pages 8 - 8 refer.
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That the Forestry Subcommittee 1. Confirms the minutes of the meeting of the Forestry Subcommittee, held on 21 June 2022, as a true and correct record. |
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The Chairperson gave a verbal update, acknowledged the work undertaken and input provided from the Subcommittee members and thanked the current members, past Councillors, officers, contractors and independent forestry advisor for their outstanding contributions. |
7. Forestry Update - Number 19
Document number R27034, agenda pages 9 - 22 refer.
Group Manager Infrastructure, Alec Louverdis, took the report as read and noted that this report which was to be presented on 21 June 2022 had been superseded by Report Number 20 (also on the agenda).
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That the Forestry Subcommittee 1. Receives the report (R26970) and its attachments (A2896464, A2896757 and A2897597). |
8. Forestry Update - Number 20
Document number R26970, agenda pages 23 - 90 refer.
Group Manager Infrastructure, Alec Louverdis, took the report as read and answered questions on the staff recommendation to retire three Matai commercial forestry blocks specifically on replanting options and the reasons for recommending grass pending the outcome of the Forestry high level review.
Council officers were asked to identify a way of considering alternative indigenous species for the three Matai blocks to be retired from commercial forestry.
Alec Louverdis also noted that the indigenous forestry application to MfE would be submitted sometime after December 2022.
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That the Forestry Subcommittee 1. Receives the report (R26970) and its attachments (1833911234–19, 1833911234-20, 332184083–4470, 1133911234-21, and 1986768459-1897); and 2. Notes the damage incurred to Council’s blocks following the August 2022 extreme weather event. |
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Skinner/Murray Carried |
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That the Forestry Subcommittee 3. Approves that approximately 24Ha of commercial forestry recently harvested in the Maitai block be retired from commercial forestry for the reasons provided in report R26970. |
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There being no further business the meeting ended at 10.04a.m.
CONFIRMED AS A TRUE AND CORRECT RECORD BY THE CHAIRPERSON AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE UNDER STANDING ORDER 26.4:
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