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7. Committee
Updates
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Reference Te Tohutoro:
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24/1293820
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Presenter(s) Te Kaipāhō :
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Murray
Griffin, Interim CWMS Facilitator (Environment Canterbury)
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1. Purpose of Report Te Pūtake Pūrongo
1.1 The
purpose of this report is for the Christchurch West Melton Water Management
Zone Committee to receive updates of relevance to their current work programme
and Action Plan priorities.
2. Officer
Recommendations Ngā Tūtohu
That the Christchurch
West Melton Water Management Zone Committee:
1. Receives the information in the Committee Updates Report.
2. Confirms it will continue to use its 2021-2024 CWMS Action Plan,
with any required amendments, until the requirements for a 2024-2027 CWMZ
Action Plan are clarified.
3. Environment Canterbury Updates
3.1 CWMS
Action Plan Budget 23/24 – Request for a grant variation: Dry
Bush Gorge Enhancement project – Port Hills Park Trust Board
Earlier this month the committee
received a request for a variation to the original project budget for this
enhancement project from Chair Alan McDonald of the Port Hills Park Trust
Board. This variation is to the grant allocation for the Dry Bush Gorge Enhancement
project, supported through the Christchurch West Melton Action Plan Budget
allocation for 2023/24.
Request for variation of the
original project budget:
· The committee was
asked to confirm its support of this variation to the budget allocation for
this project, and/or any questions the committee may have.
· This variation
will enable the Port Hills Park Trust Board to advance this project to meet
their goal of a community planting day on Sunday 25 August 2024.
· The committee
confirmed its support for this variation by email on 11 June 2024.
· The
committee will also receive confirmation of this project variation request at
its 27 June 2024 meeting, so that it is recorded as part of the
committee’s actions and decision making.
Project Overview
This project received $26,500
supporting the following outputs –
· Fencing approx.
4ha of steep loess hillside, bluffs, and a large riparian margin above the
gorge on dry bush stream in an area between the Farm Track and Gorge Track,
· Funding is for
fencing supplies and for installation by skilled contractors,
· Once
this area is fenced it will enable the establishment of a significant native
forest through the planting of native plants - an application for funding has
been made for 3,000 native plants to Trees That Count
Reason for the variation
to this grant allocation
· Volunteers from Port Hills Park Trust Board have contributed
considerable volunteer effort to help reduce the cost by the fencing
contractor.
· Work done by the Trust’s volunteers has included threading the
lines of wire and a lot of preparatory work. This has resulted in
approximately $5,000 in savings for this enhancement project. The Port
Hills Park Trust would like to use this unutilised $5K of funding to engage a
contractor to undertake weed control and site preparation which will enable a
planting day to occur in late August within the new fenced area.
· This aligns with the original project purpose which focused on
reduction of sedimentation, engagement with the local community, community
education, and biodiversity improvements. The Port Hills Park Trust Board
would like these works to occur shortly to allow time for it to be completed in
time for the August planting day.
Supporting
information provided
The
committee received the following supporting information by email to review in
consideration of this request:
· A
flier for the August Planting Day showing how the support from ECan and the
CWMZC has supported the project, highlighting the project’s fenced area
on the Port Hills.
· A
quote for the additional woody weed control work to be undertaken.
3.2 CWMS
Action Plan Budget 23/24 – Erosion and sediment control and
soil conservation on the Port Hills project – Te Hapū o Ngāti
Wheke Inc.
Confirming for the committee that this project, which will focus on
documenting and sharing practical knowledge, is a joint project between Banks
Peninsula Zone and Christchurch West Melton Zone Committee, and Whaka-Ora
Healthy Harbour.
Since the
committees last meeting it become apparent to the CWMS Facilitation Team that
this project needed an appropriate recipient for the two committee’s
Grant Agreements. The management team at Te Hapū o Ngāti Wheke have
agreed to be the recipients for the two zone committee supported contributions,
$5,000 per committee.
Te
Hapū o Ngāti Wheke Inc. are also directly supporting Whaka-Ora
Healthy Harbour, so they are an ideal partner to support and ‘host’
this project.\
3.3 Christchurch
West Melton CWMS Action Plan 2021-2024
This update provides the
committee with an opportunity to discuss and confirm if any amendments are
required currently to the committee’s 2021-2024 CWMS Action Plan.
With the current review of Zone
Committees and the future needs for local leadership on freshwater management
underway, it is recommended that the committee continue to use the 2021-24
Action Plan until the requirements for a 2024-2027 CWMS Action Plan are
clarified.
3.4 Environment
Canterbury Water and Land Committee – 27 June 2024
Please find the link below for
the upcoming Environment Canterbury Council and Water and Land Committee
meetings in June.
· The next Water and
Land Committee meeting to be held on Thursday 27 June 2024. It includes
two papers of direct relevance to the committee.
o Agenda item 8.2 –
Provides an overview of all the CWMS Action Plan Budget projects supported by
Zone Committees in Canterbury in 2023-24.
o Agenda item 8.3 –
Provides an update on the CWMS Zone Committee Review.
· Also noting
Environment Canterbury will adopt its Long-Term Plan for 2024-34 at its 26 June
Council meeting.
Council Meeting agendas can be
viewed and downloaded from this link:
· Council and committee meetings: Current
month | Environment Canterbury (ecan.govt.nz)
3.5 Our
Future Canterbury – the Canterbury Regional Policy Statement
Environment Canterbury is
reviewing the Canterbury Regional Policy Statement.
We spoke to the community about this review last year and have now prepared a
draft which we are sharing and consulting on.
Who are we consulting with?
This phase of our consultation
is broadly according to Schedule 1, clause 3 of the Resource Management Act
which defines both the process and the specific entities we must consult with,
including local government, tangata whenua and Government Ministers.
So that we hear from a broad spectrum of interested groups, we have
opted to consult more widely than required. Our hope is to take our communities
with us and create the best CRPS we can through a more inclusive approach. For
that reason and in appreciation of your connections within your communities, we
are informing you of this consultation, noting that you will likely hear from
catchment groups, industry bodies, NGO’s and other community groups.
We are contacting key
stakeholders directly and ask that you support us in keeping the consultation
targeted to the organisations and groups we have identified. To that end, we
ask that you don't share the draft document outside of the Zone Committee.
This
stage is intended to help us work with key stakeholders to refine the draft
document so that when we share it widely later in the year, the community will
see a document that reflects the best information available. When we notify the
Regional Policy Statement (currently scheduled in December) everyone in the
community will have the opportunity to make submissions and be heard.
For
those CWMS Zone Committee members who would like to find out more about this
stage of the Regional Policy Statement review process, and its associated
consultation, an online drop-in session has been arranged on Friday 12 July
(from 12:00 – 1:00pm). All zone committee members have been emailed the
details for this session.
4. Christchurch City Council Updates
4.1 Christchurch
City Council Draft Long term Plan (LTP) 2024-34
CCC Senior Advisor, Diane
Shelander, notes the City Council is scheduled to adopt its 2024-2034 Long Term
Plan as its Wednesdays 26 June
4.2 Plan for
Ōtākaro Avon waterway
CCC Senior Advisor, Diane
Shelander, has provided the committee with the following Newsline article about
the Ōtākaro Avon stormwater management plan, which was adopted by the
Council at Council’s 19 June meeting. Public consultation on the SMP ran
from 22 February to 22 April 2024.
Plan for Ōtākaro
Avon waterway article
https://newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/plan-for-otakaro-avon-waterways
5. Ministry for the
Environment – Our Land 2024 report
5.1 Our land 2024
explores the current state of our natural assets and natural infrastructure,
the benefits they provide us, and how we’ve placed them under pressure.
The report is produced jointly by the Ministry for the Environment and Stats
NZ.
5.2 This
report produced by the Ministry for the Environment can be downloaded from the
following link: https://environment.govt.nz/publications/our-land-2024/
5.3 The
Ministry has also produced a snapshot document of the report’s key
findings. This document is provided as Attachment A. It can also be
downloaded from the following link: https://environment.govt.nz/publications/our-land-2024-a-snapshot/
6. Parliamentary Commission for the Environment – Going with the
grain: Changing land uses to fit a changing landscape
6.1 How do we
respond to the environmental challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss
and water quality while looking after the economic, social and cultural life of
our regions?
6.2 This is the
pressing question addressed in the Commissioner’s new report, Going with
the grain: Changing land uses to fit a changing landscape, sets out the
multiple environmental problems facing rural New Zealand and makes suggestions
on how to approach the land use change needed to prevent further degradation.
6.3 The Commissioner
draws on six years of research to present practical suggestions on how to
manage land use change. His key recommendations are:
6.4 We must take an
integrated approach to environmental management that focuses on the catchment
rather than one-size-fits-all national regulation. This will make it easier to
understand how environmental policies on water, climate, and biodiversity
interact.
6.5 We need to
rethink the roles of central government, regional councils, mana whenua and
communities in decision making and involve catchment groups more in
environmental management.
6.6 Central
government must enable farmers and regulators to have access to inexpensive,
high-quality environmental information and underwrite it as a public good.
6.7 Alternative
financial tools can help fund land use transitions. The report discusses
examples such as loans and grants, resource rentals on the commercial use of
water and pricing biogenic methane.
6.8 The costs of
successful transition would be lower if we removed the barriers that are
impeding progress, such as progressively removing forestry from the NZ ETS and
creating a separate mechanism (or ETS) to manage biogenic methane.
6.9 In a companion
report – Exploring land use change under different policy settings in
two case study catchments, the Commissioner details an investigation into
how current and alternative approaches to environmental regulation could affect
land use change in the Wairoa catchment in Te Tai Tokerau Northland and the
Mataura catchment in Murihiku Southland.
6.10 These reports can be downloaded
from the following link: https://pce.parliament.nz/publications/going-with-the-grain-changing-land-uses-to-fit-a-changing-landscape/
Attachments
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Tāpirihanga
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Our Land 2024 Snapshot
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24/1293907
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8. 2024
Deputy Chair Appointment
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Reference Te Tohutoro:
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24/1306067
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Presenter(s) Te Kaipāhō :
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Muray
Griffin, Team Leader Strategy & Planning (Facilitation),
Murray.Griffin@ecan.govt.nz
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1. Purpose of Report Te Pūtake Pūrongo
1.1 The purpose of this report is to provide the Christchurch West
Melton Water Management Zone Committee to Elect a Deputy Chair for 2024.
2. Officer Recommendations Ngā Tūtohu
That the Christchurch
West Melton Water Management Zone Committee:
1. Determines that the Deputy Chair be appointed by using [System A OR
System B] voting as set out later in this report.
2. Elect {Name} as the Deputy Chair of the Christchurch West Melton
Water Management Zone Committee for 2024.
3. Report Te Pūrongo
The Christchurch West Melton Water Management Zone
Committee is established under the auspices of the Local Government Act 2002 in
accordance with the Canterbury Water Management Strategy 2009 (CWMS).
The Committee is a joint committee of Christchurch City
Council, Selwyn District Council, and Environment Canterbury.
The purpose of the Committee is to uphold the mana of the
freshwater bodies within their zone by facilitating enduring land and water
management solutions that give effect to the Canterbury Water Management
Strategy vision, principles, and targets in their zone.
Committee functions include:
· Facilitating community engagement and
collaboration.
· Facilitating the provision of advice
through to councils and others contributing to freshwater management.
· Enhancing delivery capability and
coalition of the willing – working with stakeholders across all sectors
to extend the resources available to implement the CWMS.
· Progress annual reporting to the CWMS
partners on progress towards delivery of the zone-specific priorities and CWMS
target areas identified in the Committee’s Action Plan.
The purpose and functions of the Committee are fulfilled by
preparing a Zone Committee Action Plan to cover a three-year period that
focuses on 3 to 5 priorities.
The Committee does not have the authority to commit any
council to any path or expenditure and its recommendations do not compromise
the Council’s freedom to deliberate and make decisions.
The Committee does not have the authority to submit on
proposed Resource Management or Local Government Plans.
Operating Philosophy
The Committee will always operate in accordance with the
requirements of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987
and Standing Orders of Territorial Authorities.
The Committee will observe the following principles:
· Be culturally sensitive observing
Ngāi Tahu tikanga.
· Apply a Ki Uta Ki Tai (from the
mountains to the sea) holistic approach that also enables cultural elements
including mahinga kai philosophies held by mana whenua to be encompassed.
· Consider and balance the interests of
all water interests in the region in debate and decision making.
· Work in a collaborative solution-focused
approach using best endeavours to reach solutions that take account of
interests of all sectors of the community.
· Contribute knowledge and perspectives
but not promote the views or positions of any interest or stakeholder group.
· Promote a philosophy of integrated water
management to achieve multiple objectives of the range of interests in water.
· Seek consensus in decision-making. If
neither unanimous agreement can be reached nor a significant majority view
formed, in the first instance seek assistance from an external facilitator to
further Committee discussions and deliberations. Where the Committee encounters
fundamental disagreements, despite having sought assistance and exhausted all
avenues to resolve matters, recommend that respective Councils disband them and
appoint a new Committee.
Election of a new Deputy Chair
Each year, the Committee shall appoint the Chair and Deputy
Chair from the membership by simple majority. There is no limit on how long a
person can be in either of these positions.
The Deputy Chair appointed at the Committee’s 22
February 2024 meeting, Amber Moke, has decided to step down from this position.
Process to Elect a Chair and Deputy Chair
A local authority or a committee (if the local authority
has so directed) must determine by resolution that a person be elected or
appointed by using one of the following systems of voting:
a) [System
A]; or
b) [System
B].
System A
a) requires
that a person is elected or appointed if he or she receives the votes of a
majority of the members of the local authority or committee present and voting;
and
b) has
the following characteristics:
i. there
is a first round of voting for all candidates; and
ii. if
no candidate is successful in the round there is a second round of voting from
which the candidate with the fewest votes in the first round is excluded; and
iii. if
no candidate is successful in the second round there is a third, and if
necessary subsequent round of voting from which, each time, the candidate with
the fewest votes in the previous round is excluded; and
iv. in
any round of voting, if 2 or more candidates tie for the lowest number of
votes, the person excluded from the next round is resolved by lot.
System B
a) requires
that a person is elected or appointed if he or she receives more votes than any
other candidate; and
b) has
the following characteristics:
i. there
is only 1 round of voting; and
ii. if
2 or more candidates tie for the most votes, the tie is resolved by lot.
[cl.
25, Schedule 7, LGA]
Attachments Ngā Tāpirihanga
There
are no attachments for this report.
