Ngā Maunga Whakahii o Kaipara Development Trust

Ngā mihi o te tau hou kia koutou, oti rā kia tātou katoa, kia rātou kua mene ki te pō, kua okioki rātou i roto i o rātou mahi katoa.

Nā reira moe mai koutou, moe mai i roto i ngā Ariki, koutou kia koutou ko mātou rā ēnei ngā maramara o rātou ma, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa.

Creative space

Another year, another journey, time to do things differently.  Following the signing of our deed of settlement at Aotea we held four inspiring hui on our marae involving about 100 whānau working in small groups.  People said ‘this is great but let’s get everyone together and share their thoughts about what’s next, what do we want to do with the settlement’.  So see the panui for our next creative space on Sunday 12 February, from 1-4pm in the Helensville War Memorial Hall.  Come along and have some fun, exercise your right brain – give it a go!  Let’s see what you see, and what I see.  Let’s paint a picture, create a vision!  It’s all about engaging, having lots of conversations, and in the end - making it happen!

Here are some of the ideas put forward from our hui last year:

• Ko te tirohanga, kia kaha te iwi, whānau, ko wai te iwi, ko Ngātiwhātua o Kaipara!
• Put Kaipara on the map!
• Create an organisation that provides strategic resources, that projects accountability, policies and structure that encompass education, housing, health and employment for now or future generations, to regenerate better opportunities and wellbeing for whānau, hapū, iwi.

• Promote te reo & tikanga Ngāti Whātua
• Invest in our people: reconciliation & restoration of our people, shift from victim to victorious!
• Encourage Business for employment: gardening, poultry farming, biofuels, nursery, bee keeping, tangihanga- funeral directing - waka wairua, tourism, aquaculture, fishing, cooperative farming, camping, hospitality, health & healing
• Set up Ngāti Whātua TV, airport, buses, trains, Kaipara Cat, 5 star hotel, museum
• Invest in: solar, gas, wind, geothermal power, communications,
• Provide for ourselves: social services, hauora, rongoa, whare wānanga, kohanga, kura kaupapa, scholarships, apprenticeships, training centre, nohoanga, transport between venues
• Invest in our Marae – complete all marae projects, ‘for our marae by our marae’, so marae are living and activities on marae complement one another
• Bring our whānau back!  Link whānau to ancestral lands & kaitiakitanga
• ‘own this land again’
• Build better lives underpinned by good values
• Create sustainable wealth with creative business thinking, & good returns on investments, for the long term
• ‘The time has come, to wear with pride the Ta Moko of our tribe’
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Trustee mahi

Currently the Trustees are in the process of advertising for a Tumuaki Kaiarahi who will be in charge of an executive.  We are also seeking independent directors for the commercial subsidiary, and members for the investment and audit, risk and finance committees.  Trustees are working on their own brand of best practice governance with the Institute of Directors early February. 

Please note that the proposed AGM/SGM is postponed from 1 April to 1 September 2012.  We are waiting for Crown approval of the proposed amendments to our Trust Deed.  Parliamentary Counsel is finalising our Settlement Bill due to be introduced into Parliament early this year.  We’ll keep you posted as to its progress. 

Look forward to seeing you on 12 February - we’ll get what we see!