Annual Plan and Long Term Plan Committee Meeting 31 May 2021 Deliberations Long Term Plan 2021 - 2031 Comments (including Diversions) These are the other matters arising from community feedback where a proposed response has been prepared for elected member consideration. Comments for the Long Term Plan 2021-2031 Sorted by :Submitter ID ID Name Topic Issue Summary Response 36 FEEHAN, Wastewater General Strongly support the increased standards and compliance for wastewater. It is important to Council aims to meet compliance requirements for wastewater as set by Bay of Plenty Regional LOUISE comments look after the environment. Council to ensure that Council is doing it's part in preserving the natural receiving environment. 38 ELLIS, WENDY Regulatory Comments Take away the parking warden in Te Puke. We need to get into the town to purchase Council provides a Parking Officer in Te Puke and Katikati to enable maximum car park availability DAWN Services things. Entice people to shop without restraints. (and park turnover) in the Katikati and Te Puke town centres (and seasonally at Waihi Beach) during working/shopping hours by checking adherence to parking restrictions. If parking time restrictions were not monitored this would impact the availability of on- street parking spaces in particular on Jellicoe St and adjoining side streets and would compromise the commercial viability of retail activity in the Te Puke CBD. Council provides long term parking in Te Puke at the Jubilee carpark for all day shoppers. The Parking Officer also ensures vehicles are registered and display current warrants of fitness, ensuring that car parks (e.g. mobility and vehicle loading parks are used appropriately) and issuing infringement notices where appropriate. Transportation General Employ full-time graffiti removal person or group to remove all graffiti as quickly as it Graffiti removal on Council structures occurs through existing contracts. There are no plans to comments appears. extend the service. Footpaths are maintained under existing contracts. Concerns around standards Employ someone to clean (maintenance) main street (like we used to have) so that should be lodged via a service request to the Council. footpaths start looking cleaner. 57 KATIKATI Community Katikati The Katikati Community Centre (KCC) have been the heart of the community for over Council enjoys working with and appreciates the work put in by the Katikati Community Centre COMMUNITY Building Community twenty-seven years delivering a range of health and social services, youth programmes, impacting on the greater Katikati area. RESOURCE Centre information and advice and space for our community to meet and connect. CENTRE The services and programmes we deliver could not come to fruition without the dedication We are conscious of increasing costs for organisations and are pleased to advise of a $10,000 and commitment of our team. Board and management are committed to supporting our increase to your annual Service Delivery contract. team and this has resulted in KCC implementing the living wage for all permanent employees which has equated to an ongoing circa $9,000 investment per annum. Deliverables will be confirmed as a normal part of the Service Delivery contract negotiation. Any increase in financial support from council would be greatly appreciated and would be invested back into the Katikati-Waihi Beach community. 58 SOCIALINK Community Socialink SociaLink, an umbrella organisation for the social and community sector in the western Council enjoys a good working relationship with SociaLink and looks forward to this relationship Building Bay of Plenty, works to strengthen community organisations so they are able to deliver continuing and developing over the years to come. Support will continue from Councils Community effective services to their communities and to bring community organisations together so and Policy teams to understand the social service sector and to assist where we can. they can achieve greater impact on local social issues. SociaLink is seeking Council funding of $30,000 per annum for the next ten years to Council is conscious of increasing costs for organisations and is pleased to advise of a $30,000 per enable continued support of social service providers and community organisations who annum investment. deliver a range of essential services in the western Bay of Plenty. SociaLink will provide the following: Organisational support, Learning and Development, Deliverables will be confirmed as a normal part of the Service Delivery contract negotiation. Collaborative practice, Advocacy and research. 76 ROISLEUX, Transportation General Please can you improve Te Puke side road with small tree or shrub or bigger tree to make The request for more amenity planting within the Te Puke Highway has been referred to the MAURINE comments the city more appealing. Community Board for their consideration with other priorities. JEANNE People from outside say all the same: it's ugly. Front road of new eastpack warehouse, from the mill and a lot more. Recreation and Comments Instead of huge empty parks, so hot in the summer and so windy and cold in the winter. Council has a policy on fruit and nut trees being planted in reserves. Fruit trees have been planted Open Space Can you plant edible fruit trees for in street and people (or at least some part of the park). in Gilfillan Reserve, Katikati and Wilson Park, Waihi Beach. 77 FILM BAY OF Community Film Bay of With WBOPDC as our "Hero" Film Bay of Plenty has been able to continue our mission to Council has a strong relationship with Film Bay of Plenty and appreciates the results that you have PLENTY Building Plenty build and grow screen media in the Bay of Plenty for the past 4 years. Together, our been able to achieve. region offers a strong and credible package to producers and content creators and we are now seeing all this hard work and support coming to fruition. Production in a time of COVID is an environment where we can put a strong emphasis on We have noted the request for funding surety and the need to increase the capacity of your team. growing our local crew base and supporting locally made. Our foresight in this area means we have already begun targeted industry training to build up crew base for when the large Council is conscious of increasing costs for organisations and is pleased to advise of an $18,200 productions arrive. annual investment. With New Zealand one of the few places in the world that can undertake proper film production and the Auckland and Wellingtion Film Studios full to capacity, large Deliverables will be confirmed as a normal part of the Service Delivery contract negotiation. By ($15,000,000+) productions from around the world are looking for new locations and moving to a Service Delivery contract this funding is confirmed, per annum, for a three year cycle. studios. In line with the 3 year support we have from Rotorua Lakes Council we would like to ask for $0.75 per capita / $40,000 support from WOBDC. This is with a view to increase the capacity of our team (which at the moment is 1.5 people) and continue to servicing the Comments for the Long Term Plan 2021-2031 Sorted by :Submitter ID ID Name Topic Issue Summary Response districts from Waihi to Opotiki to Taupo. We do also understand however the financial pressure that many councils are under at the moment and are open to conversations on the amount of support that WBOPDC could help provide. 80 TOI TE ORA Planning for Comments We have encolsed a briefing paper from Toi Te Ora Public Health (Toi Te Ora) for council Council's Wellbeing Plan sets out the actions Council will take to promote social, economic, cultural PUBLIC HEALTH the Future to consider as part of its deliberations. The briefing paper is in place of a formal written and environmental wellbeing. This is included in the Long Term Plan. The Wellbeing Plan submission from Toi Te Ora and focuses on recommended priorities and opportunities for recognises the impact Covid-19 has had on the community, in particular those who were already community health and wellbeing in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. vulnerable. The actions in the Wellbeing Plan focus mainly on Council activities and how those can Key points: be delivered to best meet community needs. The plan also identifies local priorities, which include COVID-19 has already had major social and economic consequences for communities. food security, pathways to employment for youth, community safety, and growing community Some groups have been particuarly affected, including Maori, Pasifika, women, young connections. Council will be working with local community networks who will lead the people and older people. implementation of these priorities. We would welcome further engagement with Toi Te Ora on this Toi Te Ora recommends focusing and achieving equity to maximise health and wellbeing. work. Resilience and equity pathways include employment, housing, food, security, mental wellbeing and environmental health protection. 84 NGAI Community Youth Our Marae is on land that will be subject to inundation as sea levels rise over the next 100 Tena koutou mo enei whakaaro i puta TAMAWHARIUA Building initiatives years. To mitigate this, we are proposing Rereatukahia Pa be relocated to higher ground. We thus submit that the relocation of our traditional papakainga, in its entirety, be included in the Long Term Plan from 2021-2031. We acknowledge that sea level rise and inundation are of concern to the hapu and that relocating We are seeking suitable Council or Department of Conservation land of about 120 acres your traditional papakainga will be a huge undertaking. This will require significant work to to relocate our traditional papakainga. This includes all communal buildings associated determine what this entails and what support can be provided to the hapu in achieving this.