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Resolutions
The Environment and Integrated Catchments
Committee recommends that Hawke’s Bay Regional Council:
1 Receives and notes the “Report and Recommendations from the
Environment and Integrated Catchments Committee”
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 Council can exercise its discretion and make decisions on
these matters without conferring directly with the community and persons
likely to be affected by or to have an interest in the decisions.
Confirmation
of the Environment and Integrated Catchments Committee Terms of Reference
3 Adopts the Terms of Reference for the Environment and Integrated
Catchments Committee, incorporating agreed amendments 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, including for regional parks.
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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A member of the Committee as
elected by the Council being: Councillor Hinewai Ormsby
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Meeting
Frequency:
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Two-monthly
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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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Reports
Received
4 Notes that the following reports were provided to the Environment
and Integrated Catchments Committee.
4.1 Pandora Pond Water Quality Monitoring
4.2 Right Tree Right Place.
Barker/Ormsby
CARRIED
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