CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL

MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE CANTERBURY WASTE SUBCOMMITTEE

Held in the No 2 Committee Room, Civic Offices on Thursday 25 July at 12 noon

PRESENT: Councillor Denis O’Rourke (Christchurch City Council) (Chairman), Councillor Bryon Porteous (Banks Peninsula District Council), Councillor Sally Buck (Christchurch City Council), Mayor Tony Arps (Hurunui District Council), Mayor Jim Gerard ( Council) and Councillor Ron Wright (Christchurch City Council).

APOLOGIES: Apologies for absence were received and accepted from Councillor Lee Burdon (Timaru District Council), Councillor Bev Tasker (Ashburton District Council), Councillor Bill Woods (Selwyn District Council), Councillor Len Shaw (Waimate District Council), Councillor Bronwen Murray (Mackenzie District Council), Councillor Bryan Seddon (Kaikoura District Council), Mike Stockwell (Christchurch City Council) and Don Young (Waimakariri District Council).

IN ATTENDANCE: Brian Lester (Ashburton District Council), Chris Hopman (Banks Peninsula District Council) and Zejanja Potgieter (Christchurch City Council).

1. SUBMISSION IN SUPPORT OF KATE VALLEY RESOURCE CONSENT APPLICATIONS

The Subcommittee considered a draft submission in support of the resource consent applications for the regional landfill at Kate Valley as prepared by Buddle Findlay, solicitors.

A copy of the submission had been previously circulated to all shareholder councils and comments received from them were considered at the meeting.

The amended submission (attached) reflects the agreement of the meeting and incorporates the comments made by the Christchurch City Council’s Sustainable Transport and Utilities Committee at its meeting on 9 July 2002 and the comments of the Ashburton District Council in respect to page 4, clause 2.1(h)(iv).

The Subcommittee resolved that the submission as amended be adopted and approved for submission to the Hurunui District Council and Environment Canterbury in support of the resource consent applications for the regional landfill at Kate Valley by Transwaste Canterbury Ltd.

(Note: Mayor Jim Gerard abstained from voting in respect to the above resolution.) -2-

2. TRANSWASTE CANTERBURY LTD - STATEMENT OF CORPORATE INTENT

The Subcommittee considered the Statement of Corporate Intent for the 2002-2005 period developed by Transwaste Canterbury Ltd as separately circulated to members prior to the meeting.

Mr John Orr, Secretary, Transwaste Canterbury Ltd, had advised that the two specific changes in the Statement of Corporate Intent from previous years related to:

• An additional category of performance targets, ‘triple bottom line reporting’ had been added to objectives and performance targets as per clause 4.3(c).

• The wording of the content for the annual Business Plan under clause 9.2 had been updated to clarify that financial projections for landfill operations would be included once resource consent conditions were known and accepted by the Board.

The Subcommittee considered the Statement of Corporate Intent and resolved that pursuant to section 594U of the Local Government Act the Statement of Corporate Intent be confirmed with Transwaste Canterbury Ltd subject to any comments received from participating councils within 14 days.

3. DATE OF NEXT MEETING

It was agreed that no meeting would be required for August and accordingly that the meeting of the Subcommittee scheduled for Monday 5 August 2002 be cancelled.

4. SPECIAL MEETING: WAIMAKARIRI DISTRICT COUNCIL - 17 JULY 2002

Mayor Jim Gerard thanked the Chairman, Councillor Denis O’Rourke, and Councillor Ron Wright for attending the special meeting of his Council on the above date and advised them of a request for details of the costings in respect to the option of transportation by rail to the Kate Valley site.

It was agreed that Zefanja Potgieter, Resource Planner Solid Waste, contact Canterbury Waste Services with a view to obtaining the release of as much information as possible subject to any matters of commercial sensitivity in respect to Tranzrail Ltd.

5. CANTERBURY WASTE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING 11 JULY 2002 - CHAIRMAN’S REPORT: PARTICIPATING COUNCILS’ PARTNERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

Councillor Ron Wright noted that the previous resolution of the Subcommittee in respect to this report had been that the matter lie on the table and it was resolved on the motion of Councillor Wright, seconded by the Chairman, that this report should now be withdrawn.

The meeting concluded at 12.45pm