APOLOGIES
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Noelene Raffills
That the apologies from Councillors Hay, Mulholland and Lister for
non-attendance be accepted.
CARRIED
CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Noelene Raffills
That the minutes of the Avondale Community Board meeting held on Tuesday,
28 October 2008 be confirmed as a true and correct record.
CARRIED
EXTRAORDINARY BUSINESS
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Kathryn Davie
That the item "Liquor Bans" be considered as extraordinary business at item 17
for the reason that complaints have been received about the subject and the
Board does not meet again until February 2009.
CARRIED
PUBLIC FORUM
4.1. STATE HIGHWAY 20 (SH20) WATERVIEW CONNECTION
There were no requests to speak in public forum.
4.2. BLOCKHOUSE BAY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL - COLIN ANDREWS
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Kathryn Davie
That Colin Andrews, Principal of Blockhouse Bay Intermediate School be thanked
for his presentation.
CARRIED
4.3. URBAN UNITY AVONDALE - VEI VEA
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Noelene Raffills
That Vei Vea, Programme Co-ordinator for Urban Unity Avondale and his team be
thanked for their presentation.
CARRIED
4.4. ECOMATTERS ENVIRONMENT TRUST - THERESE MANGOS
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Lily Ho
That Kevin Healy, General Manager and Therese Mangos, Manager, Sustainable
Living Centre, EcoMatters Environment Trust be thanked for their presentation.
CARRIED
4.5. ROSEBANK SCHOOL - ANNETTE TATE
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Kathryn Davie
That Annette Tate from the Rosebank School be thanked for her presentation and
that the Board consider the application at item 6.
CARRIED
4.6. ALCOHOL BANS ON SPORTS FIELDS - MIKE SMITH
Mike
Smith was not able to attend the meeting.
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Noelene Raffills
That the letter provided by the Bay Roskill Sports Club Incorporated be referred
to the Group Managers ACR Services and ACR Policy for investigation.
CARRIED
REQUEST FOR DISCRETIONARY FUNDING - LIONS CLUB AVONDALE
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Catherine Farmer
- That the discretionary funding application
from the Lions Club Avondale, seeking funding towards the cost of a Christmas
afternoon tea for the elderly to be held on 14 December 2008, be received.
- That the Board grants $500 from its 2008/2009
discretionary fund budget to the Lions Club Avondale, seeking funding towards
the cost of a Christmas afternoon tea for the elderly to be held on 14 December
2008.
- That the Lions Club Avondale be requested to
provide an accountability statement to the Board following expenditure of the
discretionary funding grant of $500.
CARRIED
REQUEST FOR LOCAL EVENT FUNDING - ROSEBANK SCHOOL
Moved: Kathryn Davie / Paul Davie
- That the local event funding application from
the Rosebank School, seeking funding towards the cost of running a series of
four Talks about Books Home School Partnership meetings at the Rosebank School
in Term 1, 2009, be received.
- That the Board grants $1,000 from its
2008/2009 discretionary fund budget to the Rosebank School, seeking funding
towards the cost of running a series of four Talks about Books Home School
Partnership meetings at the Rosebank School in Term 1, 2009.
- That the Rosebank School be requested to
provide an accountability statement to the Board following expenditure of the
discretionary funding grant of $1,000.
CARRIED
GREAT NORTH ROAD CYCLE IMPROVEMENTS
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Noelene Raffills
- That the Great North Road Cycle Improvements
report from the Transport planner, dated 12 November 2008, be received and that
Ina Stenzel and Melanie Alexander be thanked for their presentation and
information provided.
- That the Avondale Community Board endorses the
proposal for the cycle improvements along Great North Road for detail design in
2008 / 2009 and construction in the financial year 2009 / 2010.
CARRIED
SLIPS PROGRAMME SCHEDULE AND FUNDING ALLOCATION
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Catherine Farmer
That the report from Helen Alcock, SLIPs manager, dated 3 November 2008 be
received and that the Board confirms that it will be considering the approval of
SLIPs projects in January 2009 by way of an Urgent Decision.
CARRIED
SLIPS DECISIONS NOVEMBER 2008
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Kathryn Davie
- That the report of the SLIPs project portfolio
leader, dated 12 November 2008, be received.
- That the Board recommend the following new
proposals from stage 1 which should proceed for vetting by relevant Council
officers and allocate the named spokespersons to those proposals:
|
Project Name |
Spokesperson |
| Blockhouse Bay Community Centre - curtains for
the building. |
Kathryn Davie |
| Park bench on Elm Street |
Kathryn Davie |
- That the Board delegates authority to the
spokesperson to provide guidance and advice to the SLIPs team regarding their
allocated proposals and delegates authority to the spokesperson and chair of the
board, to be exercised together, to make additional funding decisions where a
variation to a project scope is needed due to unforeseen circumstances.
- That the Board allocates scoping budgets to
the following proposals on the stage 2 scoping list so that proposals can
proceed to be scoped:
|
Project Name |
Indicative Scoping Cost |
| Avondale Community Centre Courtyard Upgrade
stage 1 Concept Design |
$800 |
| Blockhouse Bay Rec Reserve - install litter bins
around fields 3 and 4 |
$500 |
| Blockhouse Bay Rec Reserve - training lights on
field 3 Stage 1 design and consents |
$1,500 |
| Blockhouse Bay Recreation Reserve Footpath
Repairs / Upgrade |
$1,500 |
| Blockhouse Bay Shopping Centre Rubbish Bin
Refurbishment / Replacement |
$500 |
| Endeavour Street Road Reserve Upgrade Stage 2
Detailed Design & Consent |
$500 |
| Heron Park Landscape Development |
$1,000 |
| Seating and Rubbish bins at Eastdale Reserve |
$800 |
| Solar Lighting on 'Spirit of Blockhouse Bay
sculpture' Stage 1 lighting design |
$2,000 |
| Tait Street Bank Upgrade |
$800 |
- That the Board note the pending project
proposals and their status when allocating funding.
- That the Board allocates budgets to the
following proposals on stage 3 implementation:
|
Project Name |
Budget |
| Arawhata Reserve Community Re-vegetation
Stage 2 of 3 |
$13,175 |
| Blockhouse Bay Rec Reserve fence and gate
Exminster St car park |
$31,190 |
| Kurt Brehmer Walkway (Charann
Esplanade)Community Re-vegetation Stage 2 of 3 |
$20,535 |
| Oakley Creek / Te Auaunga Walkway Signage
Stage 1 Avondale |
$3,267 |
| Oakley Creek Walkway Volunteer Re-vegetation
Project |
$15,041 |
| Waterview Park Maintenance |
$27,038 |
- That officers be requested to provide the
Board with further details of the Blockhouse Bay Beach Reserve Historic public
toilet upgrade project to enable them to make a decision on funding of the
project.
CARRIED
MAINSTREET PROGRAMME FUNDING
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Noelene Raffills
That the memorandum from the Mainstreet advisor, dated 18 November 2008, be
received.
CARRIED
STATE HIGHWAY 20 (SH20) WATERVIEW CONNECTION
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Noelene Raffills
That the tabled minutes from the Waterview Connection Reference Group meeting of
25 September 2008 be noted.
CARRIED
CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED - ST DOMINIC'S PRIMARY SCHOOL
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Kathryn Davie
That the correspondence from St Dominic's Primary School thanking the Board for
its 2007/2008 discretionary funding grant of $766 to the South West Cluster of
Schools Gymnastic competition be received and the unspent balance of $116.25 be
credited to the Board's discretionary funding account.
CARRIED
CHAIRPERSON'S REPORT
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Kathryn Davie
That the verbal report of the Chairperson regarding the following be received:
- New Zealand Transport
Agency Meeting - Waterview Connection Reference Group
- Community Board Funding Workshop
- Community Board Chairs Forum Meeting
- Rosebank Business Association Meeting - bridge over Whau River
- Community Board Chairs
Workshop on delegations - trees on Council land
- Incident in Town Centre - PI wardens helped
- Citizen's Advice Bureau - Quarterly Report
CARRIED
COUNCILLORS' REPORTS
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Kathryn Davie
That the verbal report of Councillor Noelene Raffills regarding the following be
received:
- Lights Blockhouse Bay
Recreation Reserve - update on outcome requested
- Property Enterprise Board - Avondale allocations
- Rubbish on streets in Avondale update
CARRIED
BOARD MEMBERS' REPORTS
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Kathryn Davie
- That the verbal report of Board member Lily Ho
regarding the following be received:
- Blockhouse Bay Mainstreet meeting and 10th birthday celebration
- That the verbal report of Board member Kathryn
Davie regarding the following be received:
- Light party - Diwali Festival
- Children Story Writing - Avondale College
- Network Meeting - 25 November 2008
- Parent Aid Group
- That the verbal report of Board member Paul
Davie regarding the following be received:
- Cycleway / footpath upgrade on Great North Road
- That the verbal report of Board member
Catherine Farmer regarding the following be received:
- Older Persons Story Writing Event- 17 November 2008
CARRIED
GROUP ACTIVITY REPORTS
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Paul Davie
That the activity reports for the month of October 2008 be received.
CARRIED
LIQUOR BANS
Moved: Paul Davie / Kathryn Davie
- That officers be requested to investigate the following:
- A liquor ban at the Blockhouse Bay
Recreation Reserve within 50 m of the Bay Roskill Sports Club playing fields.
- A liquor ban between 5pm and 8 am at the
Avondale West Reserve and a full time liquor ban in the cul de sac at the end of
Avondale Road.
- A full time liquor ban in all Auckland City
Council owned reserve car parks.
Moved: Duncan Macdonald / Noelene Raffills
- That officers be requested to investigate
whether the Avondale shopping and business areas liquor ban can be extended so
that it applies 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
CARRIED
Board member Catherine Farmer requested that her vote against the above
resolutions be recorded.
There being no further business the Chairperson declared
the meeting closed at 9.47 pm.
