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Lauren
Simmonds introduced the item, and sought feedback on the documents presented
to enable amendments and finalising the Proposal (consultation document) and
supporting information for Council adoption 29 June and consultation
commencing 1 July. Feedback included:
· An
executive summary would be useful and should provide enough information to
provide ‘time poor’ with enough information to allow people to
decide whether or not they want to submit
· Use bullets
points instead of long paragraphs to shorten the document
· John
Simmons suggested that if possible some examples of funding impacts for
particular sectors e.g. farmers, should be included, potentially 4 scenarios.
It was reiterated though, that the rating impacts on individual property
owners cannot be calculated until Council has finished its Revenue &
Financing Policy (rates) review and then the 2024 Long Term Plan consultation
has considered the ‘new’ rating levels, splits, etc with any
accuracy
· Credit
to the team for adding sub-headings to help with the readability of the
document
· Page 1
– summation needs to be clearer. If that can be made more clear then
there may not need to be an ‘executive summary’
· Reminder
that Council decided to go down this path – to Council-led large scale
contractor model – after considering the outcomes of the 2019 section
17 review of Council’s biosecurity activities and programmes
· Cost
benefit analysis and BA s70 & 71 now going to be attached so that the
consultation document (proposal) is shortened rather than having them
included
· Pre
consultation has been with key stakeholders including Ministry
for Primary Industries, Federated Farmers, Forestry groups and Beef &
Lamb and will continue, in particular with forestry groups
· Iain
Maxwell agreed to add table of potential rates for four scenarios
· DoC will
be reviewing the Wildlife Act 1953 –may take a number of years and will
likely only affect operational matters, not policy
· Proposed
change won’t preclude any changes in future to align to the updated
Wildlife Act
· Possum control
on forestry blocks is planned to commence in 2024, with progressive roll-out.
Forestry owners will not be able to opt out or control operations
· Trying
to take costs out of the rural environment to some extent, and put more of
the costs onto the urban community, which needs to be clearly informed of the
proposal, which is ultimately about more biodiversity in their backyard
· Cognisant
of community sentiment around methods of control, particularly mana whenua
opposition to the use of 1080
· Biosecurity
Act requirements are a contributing factor to the length of the Consultation
Document, which is the proposal and has been legally reviewed to ensure it
meetings those requirements
· Targeted
messaging will go out, for people to then read more in the Proposal and
supporting information
· Statistics
on the consultation and number of responses to be included in the
deliberations papers to enable ‘assessment’ of how successful the
consultation has been
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Next
step is finalising the documents for consultation before Council adoption on
29 June 2022. Public consultation period will be from 1 – 31 July
followed by public hearings mid-August. Final Council approval of the change
is scheduled for 28 September 2022 as/if recommended by the BWP.
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