7:00 pm Tuesday 23 May
Kohimarama Presbyterian Church
34 Kohimarama Rd

Mission Bay Kohimarama Residents Association will hold its Annual General Meeting on 23 May. At the meeting, we will outline our activities over the past year, and present our financial statements.  Our local Councilor Desley Simpson, and the Deputy Chair of the Orakei Local Board Sarah Powrie will also speak.

We have a special guest speaker, Inspector Lyle Norriss from the NZ Police. Lyle has been doing a lot of work on reducing the noise and behavioural problems on Selwyn Reserve, even making it the focus of her thesis for her master's degree, and so is well placed to inform us of what has been done and where we now stand.

The AGM Agenda and all supporting information can be found below:
Agenda
Minutes of 2022 AGM
Chair's report
Financial statements

We will be electing a Committee to run the Association. We are losing a number of our current committee members this year and would really welcome new people to keep us moving forward and to bring new ideas.  Generally, there is not a lot of work involved, although this does depend on the nature of issues that we deal with, and who chooses to be involved in specific issues.  We meet monthly for an hour or so to discuss new and ongoing issues, and various members are assigned roles with respect to some of the issues raised.  These roles could be as simple as writing a letter, undertaking a mail drop, or for those interested, ongoing heavy involvement in a major issue.  The degree of time you put in and the areas you want to be involved in are up to you.

So if any of you would like to be involved and join the Committee, please just let us know by return email with your name, address and contact phone number.  Alternatively, we accept nominations from the floor on the night.

The combined Residents Associations of Orakei, St Heliers/Glendowie and Mission Bay/Kohimarama are hosting a public meeting to give you the opportunity to meet the candidates for Mayor of Auckland. With Phil Goff gone, we will have a new mayor, but we have no idea who that will be. Not many people know anything about the candidates or their positions on important issues, so this is a chance to find out who they are and what they stand for.

We need your help!
​Auckland Council propose selling Tagalad Reserve in Mission Bay. Come and view this reserve and have your say as a member of our community. Should this reserve be retained and developed into a local park for our community to use? Or should it be intensified for development?

We held a very successful public meeting to discuss several important projects in Mission Bay and Kohimarama:

• Future use of Tagalad Reserve (old Bowling club land)
• Latest information on the Ryman Retirement Village Proposed for Kohimarama Rd
• Update on the Mission Bay development proposal

Here is a copy of the presentation.

Thanks to Orakei Local Board for supporting us

Two key projects that we have been working on are approaching a critical phase, and we are holding a public meeting to update the community and to let people know what they can do to support us.

The two projects are:

• The proposed 8 storey development in Mission Bay on the corner of Patteson and Tamaki Drive
• Our project to retain the Mission Bay Bowling Club land in community ownership rather than selling it for apartment development

You will recall that the Mission Bay development was turned down by the Council, in large part due to our opposition. The developer, however, has appealed the decision to the Environment Court, and the hearings will start on 24 May. The developers have changed the design slightly, retaining or even increasing the maximum height slightly, and removing most of the aspects of the development which would have provided benefits for our community. This includes the movie theatre, all second level restaurant and bar space, and all public space. The new proposal is simply for an apartment block with a few ground floor restaurants.

At the meeting, we will explain the process we have been going through, and summarise the arguments being presented.

The Bowling Club land project is less advanced but also approaching a critical phase. Panuku (the Council's development arm) want to sell the reserve for apartment development. We believe that with Mission Bay set to become more and more intensified, we need to retain all the green space and community facilities we can to ensure that our quality of life does not deteriorate. Our view is that the buildings on the reserve would make an ideal community centre to provide a venue for all kinds of local groups to use, from pilates to meetings to hobby groups. In addition, we believe that the grounds would make a great park for locals, serving a totally different group of people than Selwyn Reserve.

We have struggled to make progress on this, but seem to be getting traction now. We will update you on the latest.

We would love to see you there.  We think it will be a very interesting and informative evening on topics which may well help define how attractive Mission Bay will be going forward.

We will be holding our AGM at 7pm on Tuesday 11 May at the Kohimarama Presbyterian Church, 34 Kohimarama Road, and would love to see you there.

​Apart from the routine AGM business, we have two guest speakers, Desley Simpson, our Orakei Ward Councillor, and Scott Milne, Chair of the Orakei Local Board.  They will talk about the Council and Orakei Local Board plans for the future, with specific reference to projects in our area.

The AGM is a formal process to provide members with assurance that the Association is headed in the right direction.  As such, there are several formal documents that we have included here for your review.

• Agenda
• Minutes from 2020 AGM
• Chair's report
• Financial report

Please feel free to review these prior to the meeting.  We would be happy to answer any questions you may have at the meeting.

We will be electing a new committee at the AGM, and would love to get some new people onto the team. We all find it very easy to complain about things, but joining our committee provides you with an opportunity to actually do something about your concerns.  Most of the current committee members are standing again so you will have plenty of support.  Just let us know of your interest to stand for the committee by emailing  [email protected] or by standing up when we ask for nominations at the AGM meeting.

We look forward to seeing you at the AGM.
Don Stock
​Chair

We held a very successful meeting with around 200 people attending. We covered 3 main topics: AT proposals for safety improvements in Mission Bay; noise and fireworks issues in Mission Bay, and the proposed retirement village at John Rymer Place. We also gave updates on the Mission Bay 8 storey development and our plans to convert the old Mission Bay Bowling Club land and buildings into a community asset.
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The meeting was lively and occasionally a bit unruly, but that simply confirmed that these are issues that local residents feel strongly about. We are pleased to have been able to provide a forum where information and concerns could be shared.

For anyone who was unable to attend the public meeting on 30 November, here is a link to the presentation.

We will be holding a Public Meeting to discuss several issues of current concern for Mission Bay and Kohimarama residents. These include:

• the current AT proposals for safety improvements at Mission Bay
  
• noise problems at Mission Bay
  
• the proposed retirement village to be built between Selwyn College and John Rymer Place in Kohimarama.
• an update on other projects we are working on such as the Mission Bay 8 storey development and the use of the old Mission Bay bowling club land and buildings