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Strategy and Policy Committee

Meeting information

Committee responsibilities

This Committee is responsible for the following functions, excluding matters that fall within the specific responsibilities of other committees:

  1. Setting Council’s strategic direction and policy responses
  2. Identifying regional issues that require Council intervention
  3. Setting Council’s advocacy position on regional issues
  4. Responding to external agency statutory planning processes
  5. Providing thought leadership on matters of regional significance
  6. Establishing strategic priorities for organisational direction and policy setting

Committee members

Committee Chair: Cr BenDunbar-Smith
Committee Deputy-Chair:
Cr Liz Stolwyk
Membership:

Cr Warren Maher (CouncilChair), Cr Mich'eal Downard (Council Deputy-Chair), Cr Robert Cookson, Cr Kataraina Hodge, Cr Keith Holmes, Cr Chris Hughes, Cr Tipa Mahuta, Cr Gary McGuire, Cr Jennifer Nickel, Cr Garry Reymer, Cr Noel Smith, Cr Angela Strange

Meeting information

The future meeting dates and times published on this page are unconfirmed until the publication of the agenda.

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Livestreaming

Livestreams provide an overview of the proceedings of the meeting and are not intended to clearly identify on all occasions who is speaking or other details. The meeting is webcast from one fixed position and does not move to each speaker or zoom in and out. Those with a particular interest are encouraged to view the Teams recordings available within two working days from the date of the the meeting and the meeting minutes which are available as soon as possible on this page.

2026 Meetings

Date and time Meeting Documents Meeting Recordings

Monday 10 February 2026,
9.30am

 

 

Wednesday 25 March 2026,
9.30am

 

 

Wednesday 6 May 2026,
9.30am

 

 

Thursday 18 June 2026,
9.30am

 

 

Wednesday 5 August 2026,
9.30am

 

 

Wednesday 28 October 2026,
9.30am

 

 

Wednesday 16 December 2026,
9.30am

 

 

 

2025 Meetings (Start of Triennium)

2025 Meetings (End of Triennium)

Date and time Meeting Documents Meeting Recordings

Thursday, 13 February 2025,
9.30am

Agenda 

Presentation 1

Presentation 2

Minutes

Recording 1 

Recording  2

Monday, 14 April 2025,
9.30am

Agenda 

Presentation 

Minutes

Recording 1

Recording 2

Thursday, 19 June 2025,
9.30am

Agenda 

Presentation

Minutes

Recording 1

Recording 2

Recording 3

Recording 4

 

2024 Meetings

Date and time Meeting Documents Meeting Video

Thursday, 15 February 2024,
9.30am

Agenda

Presentation

Minutes

Recording 1

Recording 2 

Recording 3

Wednesday, 3 April 2024,
9.30am

Agenda

Minutes

Recording 1 

Recording 2

Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 9.30am

Agenda

Agenda Addendum

Presentation

Minutes

Recording 1

Recording 2

 

Wednesday, 7 August 2024,
9.30am

(Meeting cancelled)

Wednesday, 2 October 2024,
9.30am

Agenda

Minutes

Recording 

Tuesday, 26 November 2024,
9.30am

 Agenda

7.1. Te Uru Kahika Presentation

7.2, 7.3, 7.4 Presentation

Minutes

Recording 1

Recording 2

 

2023 meetings

Date and time Meeting Documents Meeting Video

Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 9.30am

Agenda 

PowerPoint Presentation

Minutes

Recording 1

Recording 2

Recording 3

Recording 4

Wednesday, 3 May 2023, 9.30am

Agenda 

Minutes 

Recording 

 

Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 9.30am

Agenda 

Additional Document #1
(Correction to page 6 in the agenda) 

Additional Document #2
(WPI: Scorecard 2023)

Presentation

Minutes

Recording 1

Recording 2

Wednesday, 6 September 2023, 9.30am

Agenda 

Minutes 

Recording 1

Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 9.30am

Agenda

Minutes

(Unconfirmed)

Recording #1: 

Recording #2: 

Recording #3: 

Recording #4: