Draft Long Term Plan 2012-2022 - Hurunui District Council

Hurunui Community Long Term Plan 2012 - 2022involved when making a judgment about significance of aparticular decision also needs to be considered.ProceduresEvery agenda will include a statement of “SignificanceConsideration” which will include the questions whichdetermine the level of significance. (Refer to the appendices.)Every report to the Council must include a statement indicatingthat the issue of significance has been considered, and including arecommendation where necessary.When the Council is considering the significance of an issue,proposal, decision or other matter, in the event one or moreelected members consider it to be significant, but are in theminority, the Council will:(a)(b)Reconsider the significance questions, and/or;Consider whether a view should be sought fromthe relevant Ward if appropriate to do so.If a decision to be made is considered to be significant, thereport will also include a statement addressing what has beendone to ensure compliance with sections 77, 78, 80, 81 and 82 ofthe LGA as applicable.Strategic AssetsIntroductionThe Council is required pursuant to section 90(2) of theLGA, to list all strategic assets as defined in section 5 of the LGAand set out under the ‘Legislative Framework’ of this policy. Theschedule of the strategic assets set out on the next page is notexhaustive but includes those which are considered significant inensuring the Council’s capacity to achieve or promote importantoutcomes.It is important to note that the Council manages a number ofstrategic assets as a whole. This is because these asset classesas a whole, deliver the service. Strategic decisions in theseareas, therefore only concern the whole asset class and notindividual components, unless those components substantiallyaffect the ability of the Council to deliver the service. It is theprinciple of the provision of the services that makes these assetgroups strategic, not the individual roads, individual toilet blocks,individual halls, etc.253