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28. 5. 97
HAGLEY/FERRYMEAD COMMUNITY BOARD
5 MAY 1997
A special meeting of the Hagley/Ferrymead Community Board
was held on Monday 5 May 1997 at 4.30 pm
PRESENT: Anna Crighton (Chairperson), Richard Boulton, Heather Brown, David Cox, John Freeman,
Liz McRostie, Aaron O'Brien, Denis O'Rourke
and Bob Todd
APOLOGIES: Apologies for lateness were received from
Liz McRostie and Richard Boulton.
Richard Boulton arrived at 4.37 pm
Liz McRostie arrived at 5.02 pm
David Cox withdrew from the meeting at 5.50 pm and was present for clauses 1 and 3.
The Board reports that:
PART A - MATTERS REQUIRING A COUNCIL DECISION
Nil
PART B - REPORTS FOR INFORMATION
1. TRANSPORT VISION
Councillor Denis O'Rourke, Chairman of the City Services Committee, together with Chris Kerr, Acting City Streets Manager and Paul Roberts, Transport Planning Engineer gave a presentation on the Transport Vision that had recently been presented to the Transfund Board.
Board members were extremely supportive of the strategy and requested that the video of the presentation be circulated to the various residents associations.
The Board resolved to support the Transport Vision Strategy.
2. REVIEW OF BASIS OF 1998 LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS
The Board at its 2 April meeting considered a report by the Legal Services Manager drawing attention to the legal requirement for the Council to review, by 31 August 1997, the basis upon which the 1998 elections are to be held for the Council and to review the membership of Community Boards.
The Board at that meeting resolved to hold a special meeting to discuss the review.
(a) REVIEW OF BOUNDARIES
A report which provided comments from the other Community Boards and detailed any suggested boundary changes was presented for discussion.
The Spreydon-Heathcote Community Board mooted a number of boundary changes and Oscar Alpers, Chairperson of that Board, was in attendance at the meeting to explain his Board's views.
The Board, after extensive discussion resolved to suggest to the Spreydon/Heathcote Community Board:
1. That because of the common community of interest the block between Moorhouse Avenue, Waltham Road, Brougham Street and Antigua Street, shown as area (a), be relinquished and incorporated into the Heathcote Ward.
(Aaron O'Brien requested that his vote against the adoption of this resolution be recorded.)
2 (i) That the area bounded by Wilsons Road, Hastings Street and Waltham Road and described as mesh blocks 2624700 and 2624800 be incorporated into the Hagley Ward in order to reunite Waltham as a community of interest.
(ii) That areas (b) and (c) as shown on the submitted plans remain in the Hagley Ward and that the changes proposed by the Spreydon/Heathcote Community Board not be supported.
3. That the suggested boundary changes to incorporate the area shown as (e) into the Ferrymead Ward be declined.
4. That the proposal to incorporate the area between the Lyttelton railway line and Moorhouse Avenue into the Hagley Ward not be supported.
5. That should any boundary changes be progressed, then the affected residents be advised by way of a letterbox drop.
Members were advised that the Council would not normally agree to proposed alterations to community board boundaries unless all community boards affected consent to such an alteration.
The Board further resolved to establish a committee with power to act and comprising all Board Members to meet, if necessary, with the Spreydon-Heathcote Community Board to further discuss the proposed boundary changes.
(b) REVIEW OF THE NUMBER OF ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
The Board considered the views of the other Community Boards with regard to the number of elected members and resolved to recommend to the Strategy and Resources Committee that the total number of members on a Community Board be reduced to 8 and that the four Ward Councillors each serve a period of 18 months on the Community Board with no more than one Councillor from each Ward serving at any one time.
PART C - REPORT ON DELEGATED DECISIONS TAKEN BY COMMUNITY BOARD
3. ORAL DECLARATION
Due to the resignation of Charles Manning from the Board, Denis O'Rourke made an oral declaration which he signed and which was subsequently attested by the Board Chairperson.
The meeting closed at 7.43 pm
CONFIRMED THIS 4TH DAY OF JUNE 1997
ANNA CRIGHTON
CHAIRPERSON