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Resolutions
1. That the Environment and Integrated Catchments Committee:
1.1. Receives and considers the “Confirmation of the
Environment and Integrated Catchments Committee Terms of Reference”
staff report
1.2. Confirms the Terms of Reference for the Committee, including
amendments agreed at the 4 December 2019 meeting.
2. The Environment and Integrated Catchments Committee recommends
that Hawke’s Bay Regional Council:
2.1. Agrees that the decisions to be made are not significant and that
Council can exercise its discretion and make these
decisions without consulting directly with the community or others having an
interest in the decision.
2.2. Adopts the Terms of Reference for the Environment
and Integrated Catchments Committee, incorporating amendments agreed by the
Committee at its 4 December 2019 meeting, for the 2019-22 triennium as
follows.
Environment
and Integrated Catchments Committee
Terms of Reference
The purpose of the Environment and
Integrated Catchments Committee (EICC) is as follows.
1)
Policy
To consider and recommend to Council:
1.1
carbon
reduction and Climate Change adaptation and mitigation policies and strategies developed to guide the
establishment of work plans
1.2
policies
with regard to Council responsibilities and involvement in flood protection
and drainage
1.3
policies
with regard to Council’s responsibilities for biosecurity, biodiversity
and pest management
1.4
policies,
strategies, and by-laws and compliance and enforcement programs relating to
maritime and navigational safety under the Maritime Transport Act.
2)
Environmental
Monitoring and Research
2.1
To
consider and recommend to Council environmental monitoring strategies and
research and investigation programmes, including the State of the Environment
Reports.
2.2
To
consider technical reports on the findings of research and investigations
into the impact of activities on the receiving environments and recommend to
Council the development of new policy frameworks based around such
information.
3)
Policy/
Plan Implementation
3.1
To
periodically review the effectiveness of Council's non-regulatory resource
management operational work programmes within the ambit of the Committee and
make recommendations to Council for any changes.
3.2
To
recommend to Council management plans or any similar such documents for the
effective implementation of environmental enhancement and improvement
programmes of Council.
3.3
To
assist staff, where appropriate, in identifying a preferred option and/or
funding mechanism for Council consideration of biosecurity/ biodiversity
initiatives, proposals for new or expansion of existing open spaces and
regional parks, and infrastructure asset construction or improvement work;
and in promoting the preferred option to the beneficiaries/ community.
3.4
To
consider and recommend to Council all other policy implementation issues of
Council.
4)
Financial
Authority
4.1 To
recommend to Council, consideration of possible financial implications of
specific initiatives.
5)
Use
of Delegated Powers for the Environment & Integrated Catchments Committee
This Committee may, without confirmation by the local
authority that made the delegations, exercise or perform them in the like
manner and with the same effect as the local authority could itself have
exercised or performed them, provided that the decision deserves urgency and
the decision to make the resolution a decision of Council is carried
unanimously.
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Members:
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· All Councillors being: Rick Barker, Will
Foley, Craig Foss, Rex Graham, Neil Kirton, Charles Lambert, Hinewai
Ormsby, Jerf van Beek and Martin Williams
· One appointed member of the
Māori Committee, being
· One appointed member of the
Regional Planning Committee, being
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Chair:
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A member of the Committee as
elected by the Council being: Councillor Rick Barker
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Deputy
Chair:
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Meeting
Frequency:
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Staff
Executive:
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Group Manager Integrated Catchment
Management
Group Manager Asset Management
Group Manager Strategic Planning
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Kirton/Ormsby
CARRIED
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