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30 APRIL 2017 Tumutumu Tui Pa Marae Trustees Annual General Meeting

Sat, 01 Apr 2017 23:06:07 +0100

There is an Annual General Meeting to be convened Sunday 30 April 2017 at Tui Pa for Reporting by the current Marae Trustees and for any matter in General Business, that any beneficiary or associate with the marae wants to raise about the governance and operations to date.
In March Mapuna Turner was appointed as a permanent Marae Trustee. All of the others were to attend a Trustees Training Course before permanent appointment. Notification of the permanent appointmen,t was not received at the time of writing this blog.
At the last AGM a Charter for the marae was adopted. A revision of the rules listed in the document is underway namely:
the terminology and roles and responsibilities of Trustees. The Charter does not use the terminology of Chairman Secretary and Treasurer. There are five responsible Trustees. Therefore there are five positions of responsibility. The Charter works with Managerial roles and responsibilities incorporating all Trustees to assume a rostered role of Chairman initially per month but with expansion to a yearly role [given the training and skills]. Similarly this rostered rotational perspective could be applied to the other four roles.
The 5 year appointment was intitiated as a succession plan for future governance and operations. In the last two years of the appointment no less than 5 interested personnel would be trained in the kawa of the Trustees for Tumutumu Tui Pa.
The suggestion that a 5 year term only, meaning that the same Trustees could not be re-elected consecutively, has been met with horror. Merely reflect that a person could be re-elected five times for a period of 25 years. It really is dependent on the skill of the person for that to occur. It could also reflect the apathy of beneficiaries who will only be motivated if there is a dollar to be gained.
The Charter embodies the eligibility of Mana Whenua participation in the elections of responsible and advisory Trustees of Tumutumu Tui Pa. There are 3 categories: 1. Land owners in TE AROHA BLOCK 9 Sections 41C4A AND Section 31D3A. Only these land owners [ and now their registered by Succession descendants] agreed to form and register the 2 acre section in the Maori Land Court for a marae in 1963. Whangai are recognised.
2. Registered beneficiaries to the Hauraki Maori Trust Board Act 1988 who have indicated their voting preference for Ngati Rahiri Tumutumu in the election for Iwi Representation.
3. Resident Ratepayers of Te Aroha and District within the local authority territory of Matamata Piako District Council. Note that this category of beneficiary will not be entitled to a whakapapa financial gain pursuant to the Treaty of Waitangi Settlement of the Hauraki Wai100 and other claims.

The areas of responsibility are:
A. Trustee Consensus for Meeting Code of Conduct.
B. Communications Manager
C. Financial manager
D. Wharenui Manager
E. Wharekai Manager
F. Whenua Manager

Each responsible Manager is to engage a committee of not less than 3 people to assist.
Each Manager and Committee is to formulate a budget for endorsement of execution by the Trustee Monthly Meeting.
Each Manager will report at the Trustee Monthly meeting.
If you are in favour of the Charter or wish to discuss and participate more, please attend the AGM. The meeting start time has been delayed to 11am so that people travelling can attend. Better still, arrive Saturday and help with cleaning and preparation and stay the night to catch up.

Almost 5 years on to the day

Thu, 14 May 2015 10:50:38 +0100

Down at the pa- Iwi Politics

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:40:22 +0100

After two long years of nothing we had finally have had two meetings of Trustees. But attendance has been poor with only four out of ten Trustees there. A special resolution was passed so that the meeting could continue given that people had travelled long distancees to ge to it. From now on there shall be a meeting down at the pa the third Sunday of every month at 10am. The issues to be resolved are:
1. Trustees attendance
2. A Marae Committee to be established by ruby and Barbara to support bookings
3. An Iwi Committee to be established to manage tribal affairs of Ngati Rahiri-Tumutumu
The next monthly meeting of Trusteees is to be held at 10 Leslie Place Otara, 10am the residence of JessiePakura

In December 2009 the Crown initiated a Treaty of Waitangi Direct Negotiation process. All of the 12 iwi named in the Hauraki Maori Trust Board Act 1988, were invited to call a hui-a-iwi to discuss whether or not the iwi would sit at the table together or collectively and to elect two people to act as the mandated Interim Iwi Negotiators. Jill Taylor and Mapuna Turner were duly elected. To date there have been fourteen hui. The meetings have been held fortnightly since March the main purpose being to formulate a Framework Agreement to work with Crown to settle the 54 Claims of the Waitangi Tribunal Hearings from 1998 to 2002- within the 12 iwi structure!!! The Hauraki Maori Trust Board is no longer recognised by the Crown and indirectly by 9 of the 12 iwi, as the entity with which the Crown will negotiate the settlement. So another collective in Hauraki has been established for Hauraki whanui to add to the existing Hauraki Maori Trust Board, the Hauraki Culture Festival Commitee, the Tikapa Moana Marae Mussel Farms and Te Kaunihera Kaumatua o Hauraki. Please tell everyone that the Hauraki Maori Trust Board prosecuted the Wai 100 assisted by other claimants. The Hauraki Collective is the group mandated by the individual iwi to settle those same claims. Since five of the Board members are also Interim Mandate Negotiators and the Marutuahu faction and the 3 Tara, Hako and Tamatera iwi collective, within the larger collective, much confusion is abounding amongst the whanui. We need to be able to develop an environment where the best Hauraki minds sort what is best for every person who can whakapapa to the 12 tribes and claim to be a beneficiary to that tribe of Hauraki and therefore be eligible for cultural and commercial redress. The fact that the Crown acknowledged the 12 tribes of the Hauraki Maori Trust Board as the starting point, provides some truth to the concept that we need to take the best from the past to help us move positively forward into the future. I have no compunction in declaring that if it wasnt for the wisdom and guidance of the kaumatua in setting up the Hauraki Maori Trust Board and the work undertaken by the Trustees and Staff over the past twenty years, there would not be a settlement table today, working for the whole of Hauraki. The kaupapa is the same, the table and some of the people are different. Work together for each other. The meeting last Friday was so long. After a kauwhau about watching what we say according to Jepther, harsh words were uttered from both sides. I am mindful of the whakatauki that says 'one can parry the thrust of a spear but one cannot parry the thrust of words'. Thank goodness te reo is on the agenda for the next meeting.