APOLOGIES
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Noelene Raffills
That the apologies from Councillor Hay, Councillor Mulholland and Councillor
Lister for non attendance be accepted.
CARRIED
CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Lily Ho
That the minutes of the Avondale Community Board meeting held on Tuesday, 25
November 2008 be confirmed as a true and correct record.
CARRIED
EXTRAORDINARY BUSINESS
There was no extraordinary business.
PUBLIC FORUM
4.1. STATE HIGHWAY 20 (SH20) WATERVIEW CONNECTION
There were no members of the public to speak to this item.
4.2. WRITING COMPETITION - KAREN KALOPULU
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Kathryn Davie
That Karen Kalopulu - Auckland City Family History Librarian, be thanked for her
presentation.
CARRIED
4.3. STROKE SURVIVORS FISHING CLUB - SAM BENJAMIN
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Kathryn Davie
That Sam Benjamin - Stroke Survivors Fishing Club, be thanked for his
presentation and that the Board consider the application at item 5.1
CARRIED
4.4. AVONDALE UNION PARISH - REV. VAITU'ULALA NGAHE
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Paul Davie
That Rev. Vaitu'ulala Ngahe - Avondale Union Parish, be thanked for his
presentation and that the Board consider the application at item 5.2
CARRIED
4.5. AVONDALE RETURNED SERVICES ASSOCIATION (INC) - DAVE FIELDING
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Noelene Raffills
That Dave Fielding - Executive Committee Member, Avondale Returned Services
Association (Inc), be thanked for his presentation and that the Board consider
the application at item 6.
CARRIED
4.6. SOMALI FEDERATION COMMUNITY INCORPORATED - ABDI KADAR
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Noelene Raffills
That Abdi Kadar - President, Somali Federation Community Incorporated, be
thanked for his presentation and that the Board consider the application at item
5.3.
CARRIED
REQUEST FOR DISCRETIONARY FUNDING
5.1. STROKE SURVIVORS FISHING CLUB
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Noelene Raffills
- That the discretionary funding application
from the Stroke Survivors Fishing Club, seeking funding towards the cost of
attendance at the National Competition to be held in the Coromandel area from 15
April 2009, be received.
CARRIED
Moved: Noelene Raffills/Kathryn Davie
- That the Board grants $1000 from its 2008/2009
discretionary funding budget to the Stroke Survivors Fishing Club, seeking
funding towards the cost of attendance at the National Competition to be held in
the Coromandel area from 15 April 2009.
- That the Stroke Survivors Fishing Club be
requested to provide an accountability statement to the Board following
expenditure of the discretionary funding grant of $1000.
CARRIED
5.2. AVONDALE UNION PARISH
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Lily Ho
- That the discretionary funding application
from the Avondale Union Parish, seeking funding towards the cost of painting the Rosebank Peninsula Church, be received.
CARRIED
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Noelene Raffills
- That the Board grants $1292 from its 2008/2009
discretionary funding budget to the Avondale Union Parish, seeking funding
towards the cost of painting the Rosebank Peninsula Church.
- That the Avondale Union Parish be requested to
provide an accountability statement to the Board following expenditure of the
discretionary funding grant of $1292
CARRIED
5.3. SOMALI FEDERATION COMMUNITY INCORPORATED
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Noelene Raffills
- That the discretionary funding application
from the Somali Federation Community Incorporated, seeking funding towards the
cost of teaching Somalian children their native language, be received.
CARRIED
Moved: Catherine Farmer/Kathryn Davie
- That the Board grants $1530 from its 2008/2009
discretionary funding budget to the Somali Federation Community Incorporated,
seeking funding towards the cost of teaching Somalian children their native
language.
- That the Somali Federation Community Incorporated
be requested to provide an accountability statement to the Board following
expenditure of the discretionary funding grant of $1530.
LOST
Moved: Paul Davie/Kathryn Davie
- That the Board grants $1130 from its 2008/2009
discretionary funding budget to the Somali Federation Community Incorporated,
seeking funding towards the cost of teaching Somalian children their native
language.
- That the Somali Federation Community
Incorporated be requested to provide an accountability statement to the Board
following expenditure of the discretionary funding grant of $1130.
CARRIED
REQUEST FOR LOCAL EVENT FUNDING - AVONDALE RETURNED SERVICES ASSOCIATION (INC)
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Kathryn Davie
- That the local event funding application from
the Avondale Returned Services Association (Inc), seeking funding towards the
cost of covering this year's ANZAC day celebrations, be received.
- That the Board grants $2400 from its 2008/2009
local event funding budget to the Avondale Returned Services Association (Inc),
seeking funding towards the cost of covering this year's ANZAC day celebrations.
- That the Avondale Returned Services
Association (Inc) be requested to provide an accountability statement to the
Board following expenditure of the local event funding grant of $2400.
CARRIED
STATE HIGHWAY (SH20) WATERVIEW CONNECTION
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Lily Ho
That the minutes from the Waterview Connection Reference Group meeting of 25
September 2008 be noted.
CARRIED
ILLEGAL DUMPING TRIAL ALONG GREAT NORTH ROAD
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Kathryn Davie
- That Chris Turnbull, Project manager,
Regulatory planning, ACE and Ellen Schindler, Project officer compliance,
Regulatory planning, ACE, be thanked for their presentation.
- That the information relating to the Rubbish
Patrol pilot project be received.
CARRIED
URGENT DECISION - SLIPS DECISIONS REPORT JANUARY 2009
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Lily Ho
That the urgent decision of the Board, dated 28 January 2009, relating to the
SLIPs Decisions Report January 2009, be noted.
CARRIED
CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED
10.1. AVONDALE CHRISTIAN CENTRE
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Noelene Raffills
That the correspondence from the Avondale Christian Centre thanking the Board
for its 2007/2008 discretionary funding grant of $1,200 towards the cost of the
Light Party held on 31 October 2008, be received.
CARRIED
10.2. YOGA INSTITUTE OF NEW ZEALAND AUCKLAND
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Noelene Raffills
That the correspondence from the Yoga Institute of New Zealand Auckland thanking
the Board for its 2008/2009 community board local funding grant of $1,200
towards the cost of free Yoga classes, be received.
CARRIED
10.3. ATTITUDE PROGRAMME
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Noelene Raffills
That the correspondence from the Attitude Programme thanking the Board for its
2008/2009 community board local funding grant of $900 towards their handbook
production costs, be received.
CARRIED
CHAIRPERSON'S REPORT
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Noelene Raffills
- That the verbal report of the Chairperson
regarding the following be received:
- Chairs
forum
- Public
art works policy
- That the Resource Management (Simplify and
Streamline) Amendment Bill 2009 be received.
CARRIED
COUNCILLORS' REPORTS
There were no reports.
BOARD MEMBERS' REPORTS
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Noelene Raffills
- That the verbal report of Board member Kathryn
Davie regarding the following be received:
- Trucks
on Crayford Street re new railway station and the diesel on the roads.
- That the verbal report of Board member
Catherine Farmer regarding the following be received:
- New
Zealand Deaf Association new logo launch
- Creative
Communities workshop
- Avondale
Community Network meeting
- Council's Future Planning Framework.
CARRIED
GROUP ACTIVITY REPORTS
Moved: Duncan Macdonald/Noelene Raffills
That the activity reports for the months of November, December 2008 and January
2009 be received.
CARRIED
There being no further business the Chairperson declared
the meeting closed at 8:32 pm.
