• Rob Martinson telephoned Tim and indicated that he resigns from WCCC
• Land use and hazards re land around the Pumphouse. Waihi Gold received a letter from Hauraki District Council advising that HDC intends to commission a risk assessment of the ground around the Pumphouse with the intention of assessing the appropriate land use. The letter invites Waihi Gold to participate in the preparation of this assessment. After reading the letter from HDC, Dave Ingle indicated that it is Waihi Gold’s intention to join with HDC in this exercise. Gary Patterson made the comment that dependent on the outcome of the risk assessment, when the lake reached the level of the hazard area, the area could comprise a wetland if necessary to reduce risk. This can be looked into when research has been carried out.
• The Waihi Rugby Union have made a proposal to get back land they had previously leased. The Union were advised that they could not renew the lease because of the assessed risk but now believe they are entitled to extend the lease. The land is at the northern end of rugby ground and having this lease renewed would reinstate the Rugby Union to the level of facility it had before.
• Kirsten Hume from LINZ and Guy Duckworth from DTZ (LINZ’s property management consultants) attended the meeting. LINZ owns some of the land that is the subject of the Golden Legacy discussions. LINZ doesn’t wish to retain ownership of the property long term. The land represents surplus property which the Crown aim to divest and LINZ are looking at options of the best way to do this. LINZ are at an early stage of their investigation and if a proposal is made to LINZ about options for land use / ownership LINZ are eager to listen. There is no specific requirement for a public consultation process, however, LINZ attended this meeting to get a sense of where things are at.
  LINZ is required to work through a process regarding divesting ownership of the land. Other government departments will be asked whether they are interested first, if not then LINZ will work from there.
  LINZ is not required to turn a profit with disposal. It likes to cover the cost of consultants in the process but is not driven to sell to the highest bidder. LINZ will consider criteria other than financial return.

2. Presentation by youth representatives from Waihi College
As agreed by the WCCC, a group of students from Waihi College were invited to make a presentation to the WCCC regarding their thoughts and ideas for the future of Waihi.

Helen Shaw, Holly Dove, Selena Small, Megan Bainbridge, Josh Martyn, Jarryd Rautenbach, Sophie Rosevear, Josh Garret and Brendan Bullard West worked together for a week to put together their presentation to the WCCC. The ideas and enthusiasm portrayed were an inspiration and at the conclusion of the presentation the group were invited to continue to participate in the WCCC on an ongoing basis.
The group used PowerPoint to convey their presentation and copies of that presentation are available on request.

A summary of the Youth team’s ideas are outlined in the December 23 “Update” which was handed out at the meeting. Copies of that document are also available on request.

At the conclusion of their presentation the group were invited to continue to be an active part of the WCCC.

3. Pumphouse Stability
Dave Ingle gave a presentation of the process used for the measurement of movement of the Pumphouse and the factors affecting the movement and its analysis. A copy of that presentation is available on request. A summary of the information that Dave provided is:

• Monitoring indicates Pumphouse and surrounding land has been moving and settling throughout monitoring period (1983 to present)
• In terms of effects, differential settlement of land beneath Pumphouse (leading to tilting) is more significant than uniform movement of land beneath the Pumphouse.
• The Pumphouse had tilt of 1.0 degree in 1983
• The Pumphouse has tilt of 1.08 degree in 2003 ( confirmed today15/12/03)
• Measurement of movement of the Pumphouse is taken from a prism mounted on the Pumphouse.
• .2 mm per day is a vector sum measurement,
• vector sum measures the x, y and z axis movement
• The sum of those vectors is .2 mm per day in the direction from Pumphouse towards the Martha pit.
• All prisms on the south face show the same sort of “translational” movement towards the Pit.
• Despite earlier concerns about the general rate of movement of the Pumphouse prisms, it should be noted that overall movement rates have now reduced to 0.2 mm/day.
• Movement that causes differential settlement of the Pumphouse foundations leading to tilting of the structure is more significant than gradual movement over a wider area.
• Differential settlement has caused an increase in tilt of 0.1 degrees in the last 20 years.
• NWO attached a wire to the Pumphouse at 3:30pm today (15.12.03) to facilitate measurement of the movement of the Pumphouse.

Further information regarding the Pumphouse Decision
A discussion was held regarding what is now required to be able to progress the Pumphouse decision. One suggestion was that there needs to be an evaluation of strengthening the existing Pumphouse structure including whether there is a need to, what options exist, what sort of timeframe applies, the cost of strengthening and what sort of lifetime predictions the Pumphouse has based on various options.
The committee then discussed who would pay for this evaluation and in the face of there being no immediate offer of funding a vote was conducted as to whether to continue working towards the evaluation or whether to await the outcome of the risk assessment that will be carried out by HDC and NWO. The risk assessment will enable the WCCC to work through options once the land use limitations around the Pumphouse are known.
The committee voted 7 to 2 (with some abstaining) to sit with the assessment of risk of land use by HDC and NWO as the next stage, and to leave the issue of the evaluation of the Pumphouse and its strengthening to one side for now. There was some concern about this vote and whether people understood fully what they were voting on. When it was revisited it was clear that given the lateness of the hour, the hot and cramped room, and the refreshments calling, it was better to shelve this discussion for a later time.

4. Where to from here

• The list of ideas has been circulated and people have been given the opportunity to add any other thoughts. This list is not exclusive and the committee and others will have the opportunity to continue to add and refine thoughts as they unfold.
• A new list will be circulated, including the Youth ideas, and some of the criteria / next steps that are necessary to starting making decisions about WCCC recommendations.
• As you consider this list (Committee and others) you are invited to look at:
  • What priority you would give each of the ideas; and
  • What sort of support and funding might be available to make them happen. (As you think the funding issue through, give some thought to the question of whether the WCCC would allow / support foreign investment).
• Other ideas that were mooted for consideration by the WCCC were:
  • Whether the next stage in the process is to fund a funding manager to organise the next stages, find funding options etc? If this is seen as a good idea, who will employ this person?
  • If the WCCC should set up some sort of legal entity such as a trust or company or incorporated society as an agency that could receive funding and oversee the next stages of the Golden Legacy process? (Including Iwi involvement).
  • Whether the WCCC want to have a smaller group in a project management role / a smaller working group to manage ideas and work through the details

5. Next meeting:
The next meeting of the WCCC is Monday 2 February 2003
Agenda will include:

• Feedback on the HDC / NWO land use risk assessment of area around the Pumphouse.
• What needs to happen next with the WCCC coming to a conclusion regarding its recommendation for the Pumphouse.
• Where to now with the discussion of ideas for Golden Legacy including:
• Prioritising the list of ideas,
• Criteria for selection of ideas
• Building a business case for the ideas that should be promoted, and
• Sources of funding.
• Discussion regarding setting up a trust or other such entity to further the Golden Legacy initiatives.
  

Tim and Sharon