Environmental Performance Committee

Committee responsibilities

This Committee is responsible for:

1. Oversight of the Region’s information gathering, monitoring and reporting on the state of the environment.
2. Overseeing the effectiveness of and compliance with Council’s regulatory responsibilities including:
   1. Monitoring the effectiveness of Council’s Resource Management Act, navigation safety by-law and Building Act implementation responsibilities.
   2. 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.
   3. Receiving information on the state of the environment monitoring, and to direct the use of this information to inform policy review.
   4. 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.
   5. Receiving the reports of resource consent hearing committee decisions as constituted under the Resource Management Act.
3. Reporting how our activities are giving effect to Te Ture Whaimana o Te Awa o Waikato.

Committee members