Te Ara Mua 2016
Te Ara Mua 2016 1 Kō koe ki tēnā, ko au ki tēnei CONTENTS Te Ara Mua – the pathway, kīwai ō te kete is a plan developed by the 03 Introduction With you on one handle Tauranga Moana and Te Arawa 04 Council’s Statutory Obligations and I on the other, we ki Takutai Partnership Forums. 05 Planning Linkages carry the kete together It signifies the efforts of the INTRODUCTION two Partnership Forums to NGĀ WHETU Issues of Significance Framework meet the aspirations of Māori and the Western Bay of Plenty 06 Te Ara Mua - Treaty Principles The Tauranga Moana and Te Arawa ki Takutai issues of significance, capacity building opportunities Flowchart Partnership Forums were established by Western and Treaty issues that have been identified, are District Council when it comes Bay of Plenty District Council in 2014 as governance addressed in the decisions Council makes. entities focused on kaupapa Māori. Each of the The Partnership Forums acknowledge the importance to kaupapa Māori. Te Ara Mua Partnership Forums has representatives from Iwi of the Long Term Plan, Annual Plan and District Plan NGĀ KAIHOE and Hapū in the Western Bay of Plenty together symbolises a waka on a journey as major drivers of Council business. Te Ara Mua aims Work Programme with the full complement of Elected Members from to inform and influence those plans and processes and Western Bay of Plenty District Council. The objectives using “Ngā Whetu” – the stars, by way of Ngā Kaihoe will drive actions through them of the Partnership Forums are to address issues of that will help the Partnership Forums to achieve their as a guide and “Ngā Kaihoe” significance for Māori, recommend ways to enhance 09 Tino Rangatiratanga and objectives. As the Partnership Forums are comprised of Māori capacity and capability to contribute to Council both Elected Members and representatives of Hapū and – the paddlers, as it heads Kawanatanga decision making, ensure Council is meeting its Iwi within the District, Te Ara Mua seeks to reflect the legislative obligations to Māori and to build Council aspirations of all parties. towards the horizon. 11 Whānaungatanga understanding of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Partnership Forums need to prioritise the issues of – He Here Ki a Mohio Te Ara Mua has been developed to provide the means significance identified in this plan and continually review by which the Partnership Forums will achieve their them. This can be done through annual discussions. The 13 Ōritetanga and objectives. This plan provides Ngā Whetu - a framework Partnership Forums will also develop a robust means for identifying issues of significance for Māori in line with Kaitiakitanga of evaluating the performance of this plan to ensure Treaty of Waitangi principles that have been adopted by the objectives of the Partnership Forums are being Council and the clear statutory obligations Council has to addressed. The members of the Partnership Forums see Māori. The plan also outlines Ngā Kaihoe, an annual work this plan as a tool that provides strong direction and programme for the Partnership Forums to drive actions leadership to Council. Te Ara Mua is a living document that address issues of significance. The aim is to assist that the Partnership Forums will work on continually Māori to form effective partnerships with Council so that and review and revise where needed.
2 Te Ara Mua 2016 Te Ara Mua 2016 3 COUNCIL’S STATUTORY OBLIGATIONS PLANNING LINKAGES TO MĀORI Long Term Plan
Local Government Act 2002
Section Provisions Hapū /Iwi Long Term Plan Section 4 Treaty of Waitangi Management Plans Representation In performing its role, a local authority must act in accordance with the principle Section 14 (1)(d) of providing opportunities for Māori to contribute to its decision making processes. Planning for the Future Communities Section 82 (2) Principles of consultation – must have processes for consulting Māori. Regulatory Services Section 14 (1)(d) Building capacity. National, Regional, Recreation and Leisure Sub-Regional Schedule 10, Clause 8 Long term planning to build capacity. Policies Transportation Water Supply Resource Management Act 1991 Stormwater TE ARA MUA Natural Environment Section Provisions Wastewater Section 2 Treaty of Waitangi Sub-Regional Strategies e.g. Western Bay of Plenty District Council Solid Waste Defining and having regard for kaitiakitanga i.e. kaitiakitanga means the exercise of SmartGrowth Elected Members together with Economic Section 6 (e) guardianship by the Tangata Whenua of an area in accordance with tikanga Māori in relation representatives of Hapū and Iwi in to natural and physical resources; and includes the ethic of stewardship. Outcomes, levels of service, the Western Bay of Plenty District performance measures, projects, Section 7 (a) Having particular regard to kaitiakitanga. financial projections, funding, Treaty of Waitangi - all persons exercising functions and powers under the Act, in relation to rating tools. Section 8 managing the use, development, and protection of natural and physical resources, shall take into account the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti ō Waitangi). Town Centre Plans Transfer of powers – where one or more functions, duties or powers can be transferred, Section 33 including to an Iwi authority. Annual Plan Section 74 (2A) Taking into account Iwi management plans when preparing or changing the District Plan.
Section 1 s 3 Schedule specifically refers to consultation with Iwi authorities. RELATIONSHIP KEY Drives District Plans and Community Plans Structure Plans Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 Informs
Section Provisions
Part 4 Rating of Māori freehold land.
4 Te Ara Mua 2016 Te Ara Mua 2016 5 TINO RANGATIRATANGA AND KAWANATANGA WHĀNAUNGATANGA, HE HERE KIA MOHIO ŌRITETANGA AND KAITIAKITANGA Enhanced leadership and meaningful Vibrant empowered Māori communities Our future is sustainable and secure participation Māori communities are strong and healthy Tangata Whenua protect and maximise Tangata Whenua participate in decisions that affect the the use of their resources lives of their people, rohe, land resources and taonga WAITANGI NGĀ WHETU Te Ara Mua OF TREATY Issues of Significance DESIRED OUTCOMES DESIRED OUTCOMES DESIRED OUTCOMES Framework • Tangata Whenua are represented in local • Good quality, affordable housing • Healthy and strong whānau, Hapū and Iwi. government and are actively involved in increased TREATY PRINCIPLES decision making • A genuine partnership between Tangata • Rates are fair and equitable for Māori land Whenua and Council based on equity • Tangata Whenua participate and vote in local and fairness body elections • Whānau wellbeing and resilience is KAWANATANGA strengthened WHĀNAUNGATANGA TINO ŌRITETANGA SOCIAL – HE HERE KI A MOHIO RANGATIRATANGA The Government has • Tangata Whenua participate in the decisions AND KAITIAKITANGA of Council that affect their lives • Develop vibrant, connected and safe A duty on both Hapū/ Iwi The right of Māori to the right to make laws The right of Tangata Whenua to fair communities and the Council to interact in the exercise under the law, for the good order and equal treatment under the law. best possible way with reason, authority and control and security of the respect and in good faith. over their rohe, land, country, subject to the The right of Māori to exercise guardianship over their ancestral rivers, resources and duty imposed (on the • Māori cultural heritage is protected To listen to what others have to say, lands, water, sites, waahi tapu • Marae are used and sustainable taonga. Crown) to Māori and preserved consider their responses and then and other taonga. • Treaty of Waitangi principles are intergrated under the Treaty. in all Council planning and training • Use of te reo Māori is promoted decide what will be done. • Improved Tangata Whenua participation • Tangata Whenua expectations are met • Importance of urupā is recognised in resource management processes regarding the Treaty of Waitangi • Acknowledge papakainga as a traditional
CULTURAL • Māori arts and culture are promoted lifestyle community
MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS Council management team, Takawaenga unit, Policy team, This flowchart provides a mechanism Utilities team, Long Term Plan, Annual Plan, District Plan. for assessing whether issues of • Tangata Whenua are involved in planning • Māori values are reflected in the built and • Support kaitiakitanga obligations to the significance can be progressed through processes natural environment environment having due regard to the Te Ara Mua. The proposed issue of importance of land and water resources significance will identify which of the • Tangata Whenua are involved in resource • Space is available for recreation and leisure consent processes • Tangata Whenua are involved in the above Treaty Principles it relates to • Opportunities provided for mahinga kai and development of reserve management plans (these Treaty Principles having already wāhi rongoa been adopted by Council). It then
SOCIAL CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENTAL needs to be determined whether the issue of significance is one that can be addressed by Management and Operations of Council. If so, it then • Māori make the most of their people, land, asset and resource base needs to be categorised under one of • Tangata Whenua are supported to effectively • Tangata Whenua have access to essential the four wellbeings of Social, Cultural, participate in the decisions of local government infrastructure and utilities • Tangata Whenua are encouraged to undertake to develop that affect their lives (capacity building) contract work within their cultural landscapes Environmental or Economic IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION • Tangata Whenua are assisted in the an action. The issue will then be ready • Support Māori economic development development of their land • Develop tourism opportunities by establishing for Implementation and Evaluation. cultural heritage trails through reserves in ECONOMIC collaboration with other crown agencies
6 Te Ara Mua 2016 Te Ara Mua 2016 7 TINO RANGATIRATANGA AND KAWANATANGA Enhanced leadership and meaningful participation NGĀ KAIHOE Desired Budget Key Policy Work Programme Action By Who 2016 2017 2018 Outcomes Resource Outcomes
• Identify and implement ways of supporting Tangata Whenua to participate in local body Policy and Planning Review elections (includes standing and voting – Partnership Forums (PF), Within Budget representation newsletters, information from other Community Relationships arrangement Elected Members)
• Tangata Whenua • Support Māori input into Council policy are represented in and planning development and reviews Review local government Policy and Planning, PF Within Budget representation and are actively • Workshop of policy with Partnership Forum arrangement involved in decision members making • Tangata Whenua Policy and Planning, participate and • Review Partnership Forums Within Budget vote in local body Takawaenga, PF SOCIAL elections
• Tangata Whenua • Investigate Māori representation on Council participate more committees with voting rights in the decisions of Policy and Planning, PF $16,000 Council that affect • Investigate the establishment of their lives Māori wards as part of the review of representation arrangements
Policy and Planning, • Investigate the establishment Community Relationships, Within Budget of a Rangatahi Forum PF
• Develop a system to monitor Council’s Treaty and statutory obligations to Māori and establish the link between all Council policy and the Treaty of Waitangi Consultant Needs Budget • The Treaty of Waitangi principles • Ensure Council is meeting its Treaty shall be integrated and statutory obligations to Māori by in all Council implementing a monitoring system planning and training • Tangata Whenua CULTURAL expectations are • Provide ongoing Treaty of Waitangi met regarding the training and updates to Elected Members, Treaty of Waitangi Community Board Members, Partnership Takawaenga, PF Within Budget Forum members, Council staff, Council contractors and consultants
8 Te Ara Mua 2016 Te Ara Mua 2016 9 TINO RANGATIRATANGA AND KAWANATANGA WHĀNAUNGATANGA Continued – HE HERE KIA MOHIO Vibrant, empowered Māori communities
Desired Budget Key Policy Action By Who 2016 2017 2018 Outcomes Resource Outcomes
• Actively include appropriate Tangata Key Desired Budget Whenua in consent processes, including Action By Who 2016 2017 2018 Performance Outcomes Resource notification processes Environmental Consents Indicators team, Policy and Planning, Within Budget • Monitor Tangata Whenua inclusion in PF consent processes, including notification • Continue to contribute funding to the Joint Agency Group • Policy, Planning and processes (JAG) responsible for papakainga initiatives Regulatory Group Manager, $40,000 • Continue work to improve housing affordability for Māori PF • Council take account of Iwi and Hapū management plans in the development • Expand Healthy Whare Project to improve housing quality • Healthy Whare Working of new plans • Good quality, affordable $10,000 pa Resource Management in other areas Group, PF housing is increased • Council review the way in which Hapū team, Western Bay of and Iwi management plans are funded, Plenty District Council • Rates are fair and • Tangata Whenua Within Budget • Continue to advocate for an equitable approach to the funding of emphasising the need for those Hapū and Takawaenga, Tauranga equitable for Māori land are involved in infrastructure - e.g. review of financial contributions on papakainga planning processes Iwi to reflect their tikanga within those City Council Takawaenga, • Policy and Planning, documents PF • Whānau wellbeing and and advocate to Te Puni Kokiri for infrastructure funding Resource Management, PF, Within Budget resilience is strengthened • Tangata Whenua SOCIAL Project Waiora • Consider a protocols/relationship document • Continue to provide advice and support around planning for are involved in papakainga and Māori housing development resource consent with Hapū and Iwi • Communities that are processes vibrant, connected and safe are developed ENVIRONMENTAL • Seek Partnership Forum advice on how to • Investigate building safe and vibrant papakainga in traditional • Policy and Planning Resource Management Within Budget engage Hapū and Iwi in the development Within Budget areas of Māori occupation Manager, SmartGrowth, PF team, PF of plans
• Hold a workshop for Tangata Whenua members of Partnership • Finance, Rates Within Budget • Engage with Hapū and Iwi in the Policy and Planning, Forums regarding rating policies and practices Within Budget development of plans Takawaenga, PF
• Investigate the effectiveness of the Marae Maintenance Fund • Takawaenga, Policy and Within Budget including criteria for use Planning, PF Consent Consents team, Utilities applicant fees team, Takawaenga, PF and charges • Investigate the needs of urupā • Takawaenga, Policy and • Consider contributing reserve land for urupā Planning, Reserves and Annual Plan • Marae are used, Facilities Manager, PF • Tangata Whenua sustainable and cared for • Review the fee structure for plots at cemetery are supported • Investigate support required to effectively to effectively • The use of te reo Māori is participate in Council decision making participate in the promoted • Increase use of marae as venues for engagement between e.g. Council funding Partnership Forum • Partnership Forums, decisions of local Council and the community members to undertake Making Good • Takawaenga, Group • The importance of urupā Takawaenga, Civil Defence government that Within Budget Decisions training Manager Customer Within Budget is recognised • Promote and support marae being used as emergency centres Emergency Management, affect their lives CULTURAL and Community, PF during disasters PF (capacity building) • Hapū and Iwi are provided with information • Promote Māori arts ECONOMIC about the role of Council and how they can and culture • Support Māori contribute to it economic • Develop/review Council’s te reo Māori Strategy with a view to – development • Increase the use of te reo Māori by Councillors and staff • Takawaenga, PF Within Budget • Promote the use of Māori names through signage
10 Te Ara Mua 2016 Te Ara Mua 2016 11 WHĀNAUNGATANGA - HE HERE KIA MOHIO ŌRITETANGA Continued AND KAITIAKITANGA Our future is sustainable and secure
Key Desired Budget Action By Who 2016 2017 2018 Performance Desired Budget Key Policy Outcomes Resource Action By Who 2016 2017 2018 Indicators Outcomes Resource Outcomes
• Review and improve the extent to which Māori values are • Healthy and strong represented in the built and natural environment and advocate • Contractor, Community Community Development these views amongst other organisations who also work in the Relationships, Policy and Annual Plan whānau, Hapū • Ensure Māori needs are considered in • Māori values are team, Government environment (e.g. Regional Council consents to do investigative Planning, PF and Iwi improving community wellbeing reflected in the built and organisations, Healthy mining in Tauranga Moana) Budgeted natural environment • A genuine partnership • Advocate collaboration with other Whare project, between Tangata Whenua government organisations to improve the SmartGrowth, Joint • Space is available for SOCIAL needs of Māori Agency Group, PF • Investigate needs for mahinga kai and wāhi rongoa and ways in and Council based on recreation and leisure • Contractor, Reserves and which Council can contribute to meeting those needs – including Annual Plan equity and fairness Facilities Manager, PF • Opportunities are the use of Council parks and reserves provided for mahinga kai and wāhi rongoa • Stocktake of existing approach to preserving and protecting cultural ENVIRONMENTAL Resource Management, • Investigate recreation and leisure needs of Māori to evaluate • Contractor, Places and heritage sites (including a review of Within Budget PF the extent to which the needs are provided for in Council’s Spaces Strategy, Reserves Annual Plan relevant policies), identify gaps and recreation spaces and Facilities Manager, PF • Māori cultural heritage is protected and preserved consider ways of improving • Improved Tangata Whenua • Tangata Whenua have • Partnership Forums, participation in Resource • Support Hapū and Iwi to map cultural access to essential Utilities, Policy and Planning Management processes infrastructure and heritage sites and sites of significance Takawaenga, PF $12,000 utilities • Advocate to central and regional government for funding to • Project Waiora • Acknowledge papakainga within Hapū and Iwi management plans CULTURAL contribute to essential infrastructure and services (such as Within Budget as a traditional lifestyle • Tangata Whenua plumbing, high speed internet) • Te Puni Kokiri community are assisted in the
ECONOMIC • Cultural heritage in all its forms should be development of their • Iwi Post Settlement Resource Management, acknowledged including art, whakapapa, land Governance Entities (PSGE) Takawaenga, PF story boards, tikanga exercises activities
• Support Hapū and Iwi to effectively participate in Council processes that Utilities, Takawaenga, PF, Budgeted impact on the environment – e.g. renewal of Reserves and Facilities wastewater discharge consents
• Support kaitiakitanga • Take account of Hapū and Iwi management obligations to the Relevant Council plans in relation to their kaitiaki role for Budgeted environment having due Departments, PF regard to the importance the environment of land and water resources • Hold a workshop for Tangata Whenua Resource Management, • Tangata Whenua members of the Partnership Forum Policy and Planning, are involved in the Within Budget regarding Council’s role in relation to the Community Development, development of Reserve ENVIRONMENTAL natural environment PF Management Plans
• Advocate for Council to develop a policy that decreases energy use by Council and Policy and Planning, PF Within Budget its communities
12 Te Ara Mua 2016 Te Ara Mua 2016 13 ŌRITETANGA AND KAITIAKITANGA PAPAKUPU Continued Glossary
Hapū Subtribe, pregnant Desired Budget Key Policy Action By Who 2016 2017 2018 Outcomes Resource Outcomes He here kia mohio Co-operation and consultation He Mauri Ohooho Māori Economic Development Strategy • Inform Partnership Forum members about He Mauri Ohooho • Community Iwi Tribe, people Budgeted • Collate information on other Māori Development, PF economic development initiatives and Kaihoe Paddler, rower • Māori make the most of present to Partnership Forums their people, land, asset Kaitiaki /tanga Guardian/ship and resource base • Tangata Whenua, Te Kāwanatanga Government • Tangata Whenua are • Hold a workshop for the Partnership Puni Kokiri, invited encouraged to undertake Forums on Māori land development guests, Resource Kete Basket, kit, bag contract work within their Management and Within Budget cultural landscapes • Investigate trade training opportunities on SmartGrowth, New Mahinga kai Garden, food gathering place marae, instigated by marae • Develop tourism Zealand Trade and
ECONOMIC opportunities by Enterprise, PF Ōritetanga Equality establishing cultural heritage trails through all A traditional Māori settlement on ancestral land which includes a • Investigate the potential for paid Council Papakāinga reserves in collaboration marae complex, urupā, horticultural, fishing and farming activities internships being offered to Tangata • Takawaenga, Human with other crown agencies Whenua to build their skills, knowledge Resources, Council Rangatahi Youth and experience and improve Council’s CEO, Council HR Annual Plan understanding of Māori issues (consider Department of Rohe Boundary Dept of Internal Affairs funding for this Internal Affairs, PF purpose). Takawaenga Liaison, mediator
Takutai Coast, foreshore
Tangata Whenua Local people, people born of the land, indigenous people
Te reo Language
Tino Rangatiratanga Autonomy, self determination
Urupā Burial ground, cemetery
Wāhi Rongoā A special place set aside for gathering of medicine
Whakapapa Genealogy
Whānau Family, give birth
Whānaungatanga Relationship, kinship
Whare House
Whetū Star
Taonga Treasure, property
Waahi tapu Sacred place, cemetery
Tikanga Custom, protocol
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