Palmerston North City Council

 

Minutes of the Infrastructure Committee Meeting Part I Public, held in the Council Chamber, First Floor, Civic Administration Building, 32 The Square, Palmerston North on 24 November 2021, commencing at 1.02pm

Members

Present:

Councillors Vaughan Dennison (in the Chair), Brent Barrett, Susan Baty, Rachel Bowen, Zulfiqar Butt, Lew Findlay QSM, Billy Meehan, Karen Naylor, Bruno Petrenas, Aleisha Rutherford and Orphée Mickalad.

Non Members:

Councillors Renee Dingwall, Patrick Handcock ONZM, Leonie Hapeta and Lorna Johnson.

Apologies:

The Mayor Grant Smith (on Council Business).

Councillor Billy Meehan entered the meeting at 1.09pm during consideration of clause 15. He was not present for clause 14.

 

14-21

Apologies

 

Moved Vaughan Dennison, seconded Susan Baty.

The COMMITTEE RESOLVED

1.   That the Committee receive the apologies.

 

Clause 14-21 above was carried 14 votes to 0, the voting being as follows:

For:

Councillors Vaughan Dennison, Brent Barrett, Susan Baty, Rachel Bowen, Zulfiqar Butt, Renee Dingwall, Lew Findlay QSM, Patrick Handcock ONZM, Leonie Hapeta, Lorna Johnson, Orphée Mickalad, Karen Naylor, Bruno Petrenas and Aleisha Rutherford.

 

 

Declaration of Interest

 

Councillor Vaughan Dennison declared an interest in item 8 (clause 18) but acknowledged there was no conflict and that he would consider the item with an open mind.

 

15-21

Presentation – Kāinga Ora

Graeme Broderick, Regional Director and Renee Regal, Community Engagement and Partnerships Manager made a presentation to the Committee to share about their build projects across multi sites in the city.

Kāinga Ora is still a relatively new Crown agency established on 1 October 2019, which brought together Housing New Zealand, KiwiBuild and Home, Land, Community (HLC). Kāinga Ora manages the State Housing portfolio and support their customers to live well. They also fill the gaps in the private sector in terms of affordable and market housing.

Kāinga Ora own or manage more than 67,980 properties and house 190,000 people. Their two key roles are to be a world-class public housing landlord and to partner to deliver urban development projects of all sizes.

Mr Broderick presented a graph showing the Ministry of Social Development’s social housing register over the last five years with 72 registered applications in June 2016 and 729 in June 2021. Their ability to house people on the register is quite challenging as the number of customers moving out of their homes has almost halved over that period.

More state homes are being built in Palmerston North for the people and families most in need of housing. To date they have built over 80 new homes in Palmerston North City and have another 200 homes in their development pipeline, either under construction or in the planning/feasibility stages.

Councillor Billy Meehan entered the meeting at 1.09pm.

 

Moved Vaughan Dennison, seconded Susan Baty.

The COMMITTEE RESOLVED

1.   That the Infrastructure Committee receive the presentation for information.

 

Clause 15-21 above was carried 15 votes to 0, the voting being as follows:

For:

Councillors Vaughan Dennison, Brent Barrett, Susan Baty, Rachel Bowen, Zulfiqar Butt, Renee Dingwall, Lew Findlay QSM, Patrick Handcock ONZM, Leonie Hapeta, Lorna Johnson, Billy Meehan, Orphée Mickalad, Karen Naylor, Bruno Petrenas and Aleisha Rutherford.

 

16-21

Confirmation of Minutes

 

Moved Vaughan Dennison, seconded Patrick Handcock ONZM.

The COMMITTEE RESOLVED

1.   That the minutes of the Infrastructure Committee meeting of 27 October 2021 Part I Public be confirmed as a true and correct record.

 

Clause 16-21 above was carried 14 votes to 0, with 1 abstention, the voting being as follows:

For:

Councillors Vaughan Dennison, Brent Barrett, Susan Baty, Rachel Bowen, Zulfiqar Butt, Lew Findlay QSM, Patrick Handcock ONZM, Leonie Hapeta, Lorna Johnson, Billy Meehan, Orphée Mickalad, Karen Naylor, Bruno Petrenas and Aleisha Rutherford.

Abstained:

Councillor Renee Dingwall.

 

17-21

Papaioea Place Redevelopment Six-Monthly Update

Memorandum, presented by Bryce Hosking, Manager - Property.

 

Moved Vaughan Dennison, seconded Aleisha Rutherford.

The COMMITTEE RESOLVED

1.   That the report titled `Papaioea Place Redevelopment Six-Monthly Update’ presented to the Infrastructure Committee on 24 November 2021 be received for information.

 

Clause 17-21 above was carried 15 votes to 0, the voting being as follows:

For:

Councillors Vaughan Dennison, Brent Barrett, Susan Baty, Rachel Bowen, Zulfiqar Butt, Renee Dingwall, Lew Findlay QSM, Patrick Handcock ONZM, Leonie Hapeta, Lorna Johnson, Billy Meehan, Orphée Mickalad, Karen Naylor, Bruno Petrenas and Aleisha Rutherford.

 

18-21

Tamakuku Terrace Six-Monthly Update

Memorandum, presented by Bryce Hosking, Manager - Property.

 

Moved Vaughan Dennison, seconded Leonie Hapeta.

The COMMITTEE RESOLVED

1.   That the report titled ‘Tamakuku Terrace Six-Monthly Update’ presented to the Infrastructure Committee on 24 November 2021, be received for information.

 

Clause 18-21 above was carried 15 votes to 0, the voting being as follows:

For:

Councillors Vaughan Dennison, Brent Barrett, Susan Baty, Rachel Bowen, Zulfiqar Butt, Renee Dingwall, Lew Findlay QSM, Patrick Handcock ONZM, Leonie Hapeta, Lorna Johnson, Billy Meehan, Orphée Mickalad, Karen Naylor, Bruno Petrenas and Aleisha Rutherford.

Note:

Councillor Vaughan Dennison declared an interest in the above clause but acknowledged there was no conflict and that he would consider the item with an open mind.

 

19-21

Committee Work Schedule

 

Moved Vaughan Dennison, seconded Bruno Petrenas.

The COMMITTEE RESOLVED

1.   That the Infrastructure Committee receive its Work Schedule dated November 2021.

 

Clause 19-21 above was carried 15 votes to 0, the voting being as follows:

For:

Councillors Vaughan Dennison, Brent Barrett, Susan Baty, Rachel Bowen, Zulfiqar Butt, Renee Dingwall, Lew Findlay QSM, Patrick Handcock ONZM, Leonie Hapeta, Lorna Johnson, Billy Meehan, Orphée Mickalad, Karen Naylor, Bruno Petrenas and Aleisha Rutherford.

 

The meeting finished at 1.50pm

 

Confirmed 16 March 2022

 

 

 

 

Chairperson