Environmental Performance Committee
Committee responsibilities
This Committee is responsible for:
- Oversight of the Region’s information gathering, monitoring and reporting on the state of the environment.
- Overseeing the effectiveness of and compliance with Council’s regulatory responsibilities including:
- Monitoring the effectiveness of Council’s Resource Management Act, navigation safety by-law and Building Act implementation responsibilities.
- Considering emerging environmental issues relating to environmental and regulatory monitoring and performance matters and providing advice on the implications for effective resource management in the region.
- Receiving information on the state of the environment monitoring, and to direct the use of this information to inform policy review.
- Receiving information on regional plan and coastal plan implementation, in particular the implementation of Plan Change 1 and national regulations in relation to Freshwater farm plans.
- Receiving the reports of resource consent hearing committee decisions as constituted under the Resource Management Act.
- Reporting how our activities are giving effect to Te Ture Whaimana o Te Awa o Waikato.
Committee members
Chair - Cr Kataraina Hodge, Deputy Chair - Cr Gary McGuire
Membership: Cr Robert Cookson, Cr Ben Dunbar-Smith,
Cr Keith Holmes, Cr Jennifer Nickel, Cr Liz Stolwyk
Council Chair - Warren Maher
Meeting information
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2025 Meetings
| Date and time | Documents | Recording |
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Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 9.30am
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Agenda |
Recording |
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Tuesday, 27 May 2025, 9.30am
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Item 7.1 Farm Plan Implementation Item 7.2 Progress of the Waste Action Plan 202-2025 Item 7.3 Regional Consents Update |
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| Thursday, 7 August 2025, 9.30am |
Item 8.1 – Regional Consents Update Item 8.2 – Regional Consents Section Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Annual Report 2024-2025 Item 8.3 – Proposed Draft Scope for the state of Environment Report 2028 Item 8.4 – Fish Passage Monitoring in the Waikato Region |
2024 Meetings
| Date and time | Documents | Recording |
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Wednesday, 14 February 2024 at 9.30am |
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Thursday, 9 May 2024 at 9.30am |
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Wednesday, 14 August 2024 at 9.30am |
6.4. Farm Plan Implementation Presentation 6.6. Acid Sulfate Soils – Where Are They And How Can We Manage The Risk? Presentation 6.7. Developing Our Terrestrial Biodiversity Monitoring Presentation |
Recording |
2023 Meetings
| Date and time | Documents | Recording |
| 2 March 2023, 9.30am | ||
| 16 May 2023, 9.30am |
5. Maritime Services Update Presentation 6. Farm Plan Implementation Presentation 9. 2022/23 Recreational Monitoring Presentation |
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| 15 August 2023, 9.30am | ||
| 14 November 2023, 9.30am |
7. Waikato Regional Council Drought Roles and Responsibilities Presentation 8. Regional Consents Update Presentation 9. Regional Consents Regulatory Strategy 2023-24 Presentation 10. Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Update - Consent Monitoring Presentation |
Recording |