Meeting of the Hawke's Bay Regional Council Maori
Committee
Date: Tuesday 20 June 2017
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Venue:
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Ruawharo Marae
Opoutama Village Road
Mahia
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Time: Please arrive by 9.45am – Powhiri will begin at 10.00am
with the Committee meeting immediately following
Agenda
Item Subject Page
1. Welcome/Notices/Apologies
2. Conflict
of Interest Declarations
3. Short Term
Replacements for 20 June 2017 Meeting 3
4. Confirmation of
Minutes of the Maori Committee held on 11 April 2017
5. Follow-ups from
Previous Māori Committee Meetings 5
6. Verbal update on
the Māori Committee Charter and Terms of Reference
7. Call for Any Minor
Items Not on the Agenda 7
Decision Items
8. Māori
Committee Input into Long Term Plan 2018-2028 9
Information or Performance Monitoring
9. Verbal Update on
Current Issues by HBRC Chairman
10. OECD Environmental Performance
Review and Public Perception Survey of NZ’s Environment 2016 15
11. June 2017 Statutory Advocacy
Update 23
12. HBRC Staff Work Programme
through June 2017 33
13. Minor Items Not on the Agenda 39
HAWKE’S BAY REGIONAL COUNCIL
Māori
Committee
Tuesday 20 June 2017
SUBJECT: Short Term Replacements for 20 June
2017 Meeting
Reason for Report
1. The Māori
Committee Terms of Reference makes allowance for short term replacements
(proxy) to be appointed to the Committee where the usual member/s cannot attend
a scheduled meeting.
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Recommendation
The
Māori Committee agrees that ______________ be appointed as member/s of the Maori Committee of the
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council for the meeting on Tuesday 20 June 2017 as
short term replacements(s) for ________________
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Authored by:
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Judy Buttery
Governance Administration Assistant
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Approved by:
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Liz Lambert
Group Manager
External Relations
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Attachment/s
There are no
attachments for this report.
HAWKE’S BAY REGIONAL COUNCIL
Māori
Committee
Tuesday 20 June 2017
SUBJECT: Follow-ups from Previous Māori
Committee Meetings
Reason for Report
1. Attachment 1 lists items
raised at previous meetings that require follow-up, who is responsible, when it
is expected to be completed and a brief status comment. Once the items have
been reported to the Committee they will be removed from the list.
Decision Making Process
2. Staff have assessed the requirements of the Local Government Act
2002 in relation to this item and have concluded that, as this report is for
information only, the decision making provisions do not apply.
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Recommendation
That the Māori Committee receives the
“Follow-up Items from Previous Māori Committee
Meetings” report.
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Authored by:
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Judy Buttery
Governance Administration Assistant
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Approved by:
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Liz Lambert
Group Manager
External Relations
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Attachment/s
There are no
attachments for this report.
HAWKE’S BAY REGIONAL
COUNCIL
Maori
Committee
Tuesday 20 June 2017
SUBJECT: Call for Any Minor Items Not on the Agenda
Reason for Report
1. Under standing order, 9.13:
“A
meeting may discuss an item that is not on the agenda only if it is a minor
matter relating to the general business of the meeting and the Chairperson
explains at the beginning of the public part of the meeting that the item will
be discussed. However, the meeting may not make a resolution, decision or
recommendation about the item, except to refer it to a subsequent meeting for
further discussion.”
2. The Chairman will request any items committee members wish to be
added for discussion at today’s meeting and these will be duly noted, if
accepted by resolution, for discussion as Agenda Item 13
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Recommendations
That the Māori Committee accepts the following minor items
not on the agenda, for discussion as item 13.
1.
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Authored by:
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Judy Buttery
Governance Administration Assistant
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Approved by:
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Liz Lambert
Group Manager
External Relations
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HAWKE’S BAY REGIONAL COUNCIL
Māori
Committee
Tuesday 20 June 2017
Subject: Māori Committee
Input into Long Term Plan 2018-2028
Reason for Report
1. To seek
confirmation from the Māori Committee members that the attached memo is
ready to be forwarded to the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council for the 26 July
meeting.
2. The memo
provides an outline of those concepts that the Committee wishes Council to
consider for inclusion within the Long Term Plan (LTP) 2018-2028.
Considerations of Tangata
3. In reviewing
the current LTP 2015-2025, it is very apparent the following aspects are
lightly ‘pepper-potted’ throughout the LTP.
3.1. Te Ao
Māori (Māori world view) including values and language
3.2. Inherent
obligations that Māori have as the indigenous peoples of this land, and
3.3. True
partnership engagements and processes.
4. At a recent
workshop the Māori Committee members agreed that the current writing and
layout of the LTP does not comprehensively include a Māori world view,
which they would expect to see in accordance to the legislative obligations, as
well as the good faith principle within which this Council seeks to operate.
5. Therefore, the
Committee has written a memo, to articulate how they suggest these aspects may
be better addressed and reflected within the LTP 2018-2028.
Decision Making
Process
6. Council is required to make every decision in accordance with the
requirements of the Local Government Act 2002 (the Act). Staff have assessed
the requirements in relation to this item and have concluded:
6.1. The decision does not significantly alter the service provision or
affect a strategic asset.
6.2. The use of the special consultative procedure is not prescribed by
legislation.
6.3. The decision does not fall within the definition of Council’s
policy on significance.
6.4. The decision is not inconsistent with an existing policy or plan.
6.5. Given the nature and significance of the issue to be considered and
decided, and also the persons likely to be affected by, or have an interest in
the decisions made, Council can exercise its discretion and make a decision
without consulting directly with the community or others having an
interest in the decision.
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Recommendations
That the Māori Committee:
1. Receives and notes the “Māori Committee Input into the Long Term Plan 2018-2028”
report.
2. Agrees that the decisions to be made are not significant under the
criteria contained in Council’s adopted Significance and Engagement
Policy, and that the Committee can exercise its discretion and make decisions
on this issue without conferring directly with the community and persons
likely to be affected by or to have an interest in the decision.
3. Forwards the
memo dated 13 June 2017 to the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council for
consideration at the 26 July 2017 meeting.
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Authored by:
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Joyce-Anne
Raihania
Senior Policy and Strategic Advisor- Maori
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Approved by:
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Liz Lambert
Group Manager
External Relations
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Attachment/s
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Māori
Committee Memo LTP 2018-2028
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Māori
Committee Memo LTP 2018-2028
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Attachment 1
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HAWKE’S BAY REGIONAL
COUNCIL
Māori
Committee
Tuesday 20 June 2017
Subject: OECD Environmental
Performance Review and Public Perception Survey of NZ’s Environment 2016
Reason for Report
1. To provide the Committee with a summary of the two recently released
reports on the management of natural resources and the environment in New
Zealand.
2. The first of these reports, released on 17 February 2017 and entitled Public Perceptions
of New Zealand’s Environment: 2016, is
produced by Lincoln University and is based on a biennial survey of New
Zealanders that has been running since 2000.
3. The second report, produced by the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD), summarises the findings of an independent
review of the performance of New Zealand’s environmental management
system, undertaken approximately every 10 years.
4. The paper has been submitted to this Committee, as well as the
Regional Planning and Environment and Services committees, for information.
Decision Making
Process
5. Staff have
assessed the requirements of the Local Government Act 2002 in relation to this
item and have concluded that, as this report is for information only, the
decision making provisions do not apply.
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Recommendation
That the Maori Committee receives the
“OECD Environmental Performance Review and Public Perception Survey of
NZ’s Environment 2016” report.
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Authored by:
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Joyce-Anne
Raihania
Senior Policy and Strategic Advisor- Maori
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Approved by:
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Liz Lambert
Group Manager
External Relations
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Attachment/s
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OECD
Environmental Performance Review and Public Perception Survey of NZ’s
Environment 2016
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OECD
Environmental Performance Review and Public Perception Survey of NZ’s
Environment 2016
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Attachment 1
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HAWKE’S BAY REGIONAL COUNCIL
Māori
Committee
Tuesday 20 June 2017
SUBJECT: June 2017 Statutory Advocacy Update
Reason for Report
1. To report on proposals forwarded to the Regional Council and
assessed by staff acting under delegated authority as part of the
Council’s Statutory Advocacy project since the last update in April 2017.
2. The Statutory Advocacy project (Project 196) centres on resource
management-related proposals upon which the Regional Council has an opportunity
to make comments or to lodge a submission. These include, but are not limited
to:
2.1. resource consent applications publicly notified by a territorial
authority,
2.2. district plan reviews or district plan changes released by a
territorial authority,
2.3. private plan change requests publicly notified by a territorial
authority,
2.4. notices of requirements for designations in district plans,
2.5. non-statutory strategies, structure plans, registrations, etc
prepared by territorial authorities, government ministries or other agencies
involved in resource management.
3. In all cases, the Regional Council is not the
decision-maker, applicant nor proponent. In the Statutory Advocacy project, the
Regional Council is purely an agency with an opportunity to make comments or
lodge submissions on others’ proposals. The Council’s position in
relation to such proposals is informed by the Council’s own Plans,
Policies and Strategies, plus its land ownership or asset management interests.
4. The summary plus accompanying map outlines those proposals that the
Council’s Statutory Advocacy project is currently actively engaged in.
– Attachment 1.
Marine and Coastal
Areas (Takutai Moana) Act applications
5. In this June 2017 edition of the regular Statutory Advocacy Update
report, staff have assembled a working stocktake of applications lodged for
customary recognition under the Marine and Coastal Areas (Takutai Moana) Act.
The final day for filing applications was 3 April 2017. Under the Act an iwi,
hapu or whanau could apply to enter into direct engagement with the Crown for a
recognition agreement or apply to the High Court for a recognition order. After
3 April 2017, these groups were no longer able to apply to have customary
rights recognised.
6. According to the Minister of Treaty Negotiations, the Crown has
received approximately 380 applications to enter into direct engagement and
that the High Court has received over 200 applications. Many groups are likely
to have applied both to the Crown and to the High Court. These numbers are
subject to change as officials in the Office of Treaty Settlements’
Marine and Coastal Area (MACA) team and at the High Court continue to process
and confirm details of the applications received.
7. Applicant groups are supposed to send copies of their application(s)
to the respective council(s), but not all groups have done this. This has
certainly not helped staff in attempts to compile a list of applications
relating to the Hawke's Bay region.
8. Notwithstanding difficulties associated with applications not being
copied to HBRC and government agencies still working through documentation
before confirming their own lists of applications received, HBRC policy staff
have endeavoured to assemble a working list of applications relating to the
Hawke's Bay region (refer attachment). Staff intend that the list will be
confirmed once the MACA team and High Court officials advise us of their
complete list. Relevant details of the applications (e.g. the area - where this
is sufficiently clearly described; the type of application; the applicant group
etc) will be translated into data suitable for displaying in HBRC’s
online ‘Pataka’[1]
mapping tool. Pataka already displays information about the six or seven
earlier applications lodged.
Decision Making
Process
9. Staff have
assessed the requirements of the Local Government Act 2002 in relation to this
item and have concluded that, as this report is for information only, the
decision making provisions do not apply.
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Recommendation
That the Maori Committee receives and
notes the June 2017 Statutory Advocacy Update staff report.
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Authored by:
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Gavin Ide
Manager, Strategy and Policy
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Approved by:
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James Palmer
Group Manager
Strategic Development
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Attachment/s
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Statutory Advocacy Update
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Statutory
Advocacy Update
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Attachment 1
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HAWKE’S BAY REGIONAL COUNCIL
Māori
Committee
Tuesday 20 June 2017
SUBJECT: HBRC Staff Work Programme through June 2017
Reason for Report
1. The table below is provided for information, to
provide the Committee with an indication of issues and activities of interest
over the next month in each area of Council.
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Group
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Area of
Activity
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Activity Status Update
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External Relations
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Communications
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1. June monthly focus: coastal marine
environment
2. Water Symposium (1-2 June)
3. Billboard – Farm Plan focus,
location: Otane
4. National Horticulture Field Day (29
June)
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Transport
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5. Regional Transport Committee meeting 9
June, where Regional Land Transport Plan strategic direction will be
reviewed.
6. Installation of the new bus ticketing
system is commencing in earnest. The first step is to progressively rewire
all the buses. The system will go live May 2018.
7. An electric vehicles promotional
plan is under development, after a successful meeting was held with a number
of stakeholders in late May.
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Governance
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8. Admin associated with submissions
hearings and deliberations on 12 June for Annual Plan adoption 28 June.
9. Continued support for adoption of updated Regional
Planning Committee and Maori Committee Terms of Reference.
10. Receipt, registration and collation of LGOIMA requests
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Resource Management
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Hydrology
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11. Complete installation of Telemetered recorders in Papanui and
Tutaekuri-Waimate streams. Complete routine site visits at all sites. Install
backup recorders where necessary.
12. SOURCE modelling of surface water flow and transport of nitrogen will
continue during June, to inform the TANK Stakeholder Group.
13. A draft report will be completed during June on the location of
springs in Heretaunga Plains, along with flow losses from spring-fed streams
to groundwater
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Resource Management
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Groundwater
Science
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14. The transient Heretaunga groundwater model has been recalibrated to
more accurately simulate observed trends in spring discharges. The
groundwater model will then be re-integrated with the SOURCE (surface water)
model, for full simulation of groundwater and surface water interaction.
15. The Heretaunga groundwater model is being used to simulate stream
depletion scenarios and mitigation options. Augmentation from groundwater to
lowland streams is being simulated for the Heretaunga Plains and further
results will be presented to TANK stakeholders in June.
16. Development of the Heretaunga groundwater nutrient transport model
continues under contract to GNS Science. In June, the model will be
calibrated using the NeSI supercomputer cluster.
17. A presentation on the Heretaunga aquifer system will be delivered to
the Water Symposium on 1 June. This will include modelling results that have
previously been presented to the TANK Stakeholders.
18. GNS have used the HBRC groundwater model to simulate the effects of
sea level rise on the groundwater resource. A presentation of results has
been proposed for 15 June at HBRC (to be confirmed).
19. A draft report on a region-wide survey of shallow groundwater quality
is scheduled to be completed in June.
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Water
Quality and Ecology
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20. Chasing up
macroinvertebrate sampling which summer floods have prevented
21. Preparing Tutira Water
Quality Update Report
22. Producing water quality
and land management options for TANK stakeholder discussion
23. Preparing lakes and
river data for upcoming LAWA update
24. LakeSPI report being
reviewed and finalised
25. Maintenance and fill-in
planting of shading trial sites being undertaken, along with development of
weeping willow pole trial for shading along council maintained Louisa drain
26. Finalising website
publishing of Tutira webcameras
27. Appointing senior water
quality and ecology technician and finding a replacement junior technician
28. Sandy Haidekker promoted
to senior scientist, Heli Wade moved into junior science position
29. US interns arriving to
help with monitoring riparian plantings and identifying fish barriers
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Resource Management
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Marine &
Coastal Science
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30. Finalising the publication of the National Estuarine Trophic Index
Tool (HBRC Championed this project). The online calculators are now
available.
31. Completing sediment monitoring of Hawke Bay, which has been delayed
by poor weather opportunities.
32. Continuing to support
policy through the TANK stakeholder discussions in terms of estuarine health.
33. Replace HAWQi coastal monitoring buoy out to sea after its biennial
servicing.
34. Appointing senior water
quality and ecology technician and finding a replacement junior technician.
35. Continuing work on the HBMaC group strategy. First draft for July 1.
36. Continuing support to the Napier City Councils stormwater team, and
the TANK Stormwater working group.
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Air &
Climate Science
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37. Roadside air quality monitoring of traffic related pollutants starts
in Napier and Hastings in late June and finishes at the end of August.
38. Ambient concentrations of arsenic and lead are being monitored at
Marewa Park for a period of one year. Samples collected are sent to GNS
for analysis.
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Land Science
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39. S-map (new regional soil data base/soil map) continuing into northern
area of region. Total regional coverage by June 2018
40. SedNetNZ (Sediment model) continuing coverage in to northern area of
region. Total regional coverage by August 2017.
41. Update of nutrient transport model for Mohaka Catchment.
42. Continuing support/advice for TANK stakeholder group.
43. Annual soil quality monitoring report (this year looking at extensive
pasture) being reviewed. Available by the end of June.
44. Start investigating critical source areas for phosphorus in Tutira
Catchment.
45. Preliminary discussion with LINZ regarding possible regional LiDAR
coverage.
46. Land use satellite mapping project across Heretaunga plains and
surrounds, report being reviewed.
47. Shelter belt mapping project underway.
48. Quantification of wind erosion severity across plains areas. Project
in early stages.
49. Regional wetland inventory continuing. One more year until regional
coverage.
50. Regional wetland summary report underway.
51. Regional peat/organic soil characterisation project
52. Critical source area (N&P) investigation in Ahuriri catchment.
53. Regional ecosystem mapping and prioritisation project.
54. Frost flat (northern Mohaka catchment) survey.
55. We welcome replacement resource analyst Jamie Wu to Land Science
team.
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Strategic Development
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RMA Planning
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56. Next TANK Collaborative Stakeholder Group meetings scheduled for 14
June and 27 July.
57. Still awaiting announcements from Special Tribunal about its next
steps for considering application for the Ngaruroro/Clive Rivers Water
Conservation Order.
58. June/July staff reports to RPC likely to cover:
a. framework for outstanding waterbodies in HB
b. scope of Regional Resource Management
Plan effectiveness reporting
c. Update on applications made under Marine and Coastal
Areas (Takutai Moana) Act for customary recognition
d. Overview of recent amendments to the RMA by the
Resource Legislation Amendment Act.
59. Environment Court date to be confirmed to hear part of last remaining
appeal (by Fish & Game) relating to wetlands in the RRMP and Plan Change
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60. Ongoing involvement in HDC District Plan review appeals.
61. Ongoing support to Stage 3 community engagement programme on Clifton
to Tangoio Coastal Hazard Management Strategy project as required.
62. Supporting joint working group for drinking water safety, including
preparing preliminary ‘white paper’ advice.
63. HBRC Councillor workshop on HPUDS 2016 Review scheduled for 21 June.
64. Strategic Plan review continues – refer to separate item on
Council meeting agenda.
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Decision Making Process
2. Council is required to make every decision in accordance with the
Local Government Act 2002 (the Act). Staff have assessed the requirements in
relation to this item and have concluded that as this report is for information
only and no decision is required, the decision making requirements of the Act
do not apply.
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Recommendation
That Council receives the HBRC Staff
Work Programme through June 2017 report.
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Authored by:
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Drew Broadley
Community Engagement and Communications
Manager
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Dr Andy Hicks
Team Leader
- Water Quality and Ecology
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Gavin Ide
Manager, Strategy and Policy
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Dr Kathleen
Kozyniak
Principal Scientist Climate & Air
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Dr Barry
Lynch
Principal Scientist / Team Leader
- Land
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Anne
Redgrave
Transport Manager
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Dr Jeff Smith
Team Leader/Principal Scientist
– Hydrology/Hydrogeology
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Oliver Wade
Environmental Scientist WQ&E
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Thomas
Wilding
Senior Scientist
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Approved by:
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Liz Lambert
Group Manager
External Relations
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Iain Maxwell
Group Manager
Resource Management
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Tom Skerman
Acting Group Manager
Strategic Development
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Attachment/s
There are no
attachments for this report.
HAWKE’S BAY REGIONAL
COUNCIL
Maori
Committee
Tuesday 20 June 2017
SUBJECT: Minor Items Not on the Agenda
Reason for Report
This document has been prepared to assist Committee members
note the Minor Items Not on the Agenda to be discussed as determined earlier in
the Agenda.
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