KaPai Kaiti

SUBMISSION ON COUNCIL ANNUAL PLAN

March 2011
KaPai Kaiti is a residents association for people who support the goal of making Kaiti an even better
place to live. We have a growing membership and five Trustees. This submission has been prepared
by the Chairman of Ka Pai Kaiti, Josh Wharehinga with the endorsement of the other trustees.

1. KAITI REVITILISATION
Traffic Calming Measures
Ka Pai Kaiti support the seven streets that have made applications for traffic calming measures in their
areas. We believe that these measures will directly increase traffic safety and indirectly foster
neighbourhood coalescence.
The Gisborne District Council should allocate funds for the express purpose of traffic calming
measures. The Gisborne District Council should ensure that if changes are made to the current
process and criteria for traffic calming measures, then the changes should not make the process or
criteria more difficult to obtain. KPK want to ensure that the ability for residents to acquire action on
slowing traffic in their areas is unhindered.

Planting
Ka Pai Kaiti supports the planting of indigenous trees, flora and fruit trees in the Kaiti area. Gisborne
District Council should focus the planting in the Kaiti area, in the gardens and parks, on greenery that is
indigenous to our country and those that are useable for kai, rongoa etc.

By-laws of Privately Owned Enterprises

Ka Pai Kaiti wishes for the Gisborne District Council to establish some tighter by-laws around the up
keep of privately owned commercial enterprises in the Kaiti area; specifically those areas that are hubs
for community congregation, namely the Kaiti Mall and the port. Council needs to put in place better
policies and protocols that acknowledge the special interest that the public have in certain sites and
companies, so that these commercial enterprises contribute to the well-being of the community, rather
than lowering standards and pride.

Gang Intervention
Ka Pai Kaiti supports interventions with gangs and their affiliates. We believe that through community
engagement and consultation with stakeholders, council, community organisations and the gangs
themselves, that positive intervention is a definite possibility. Gisborne District Council needs to foster
this engagement, administer positive policy and provide support for community organisations like Ka
Pai Kaiti to be able to engage residents and the gangs for positive change.
2. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Gisborne District Council has made some steps toward engagement in public planning and the
decision-making processes with the residents of Kaiti.
GDC needs to continue to build capacity to engage in mutually meaningful ways with all sectors of the
community, particularly Tangata Whenua, Maori, Pacific peoples, young people and other residents
who are not as confident or experienced with public policy, planning and decision-making processes.

Ka Pai Kaiti Summer Pool Project

Ka Pai Kaiti would like the Gisborne District Council to provide half the costs ($5000) for the running of
the Ilminster pool in partnership with KPK for the summer of 2012, in the month of January. The pool
project positively affects 1000-2200 adults, rangatahi and children in just the month of Jan. These
numbers excludes under 5s, because they get in for free. The pool project has been a long standing
project, over the last six summers, in the Kaiti community and has been supported by the GDC
previously. GDC support in the past has been primarily fiscal, but also support in ethos and resourcing
has been given. The project facilitates lessons in water safety provided by paid whanau and
volunteers. The project provides something positive and safe for children and rangatahi to do in a
whanau friendly environment, while fostering positive social relationships between whanau and other
whanau and whanau with community organisations. We would like the Gisborne District Council to
partner this Pool project.

School Buses to and from Kaiti

Ka Pai Kaiti would like to formally acknowledge our support for the proposal from the Secondary
School’s principals, which proposes changes to the school buses to and from Kaiti to the secondary
schools. Gisborne is unique in the fact that all of our secondary schools are located in one area,
namely in the west area. A high school was supposed to have been provided on the Waikirikiri reserve
park but this decision was changed 50 years ago, thus depriving Kaiti of its own secondary school.
KPK believe that the changes the students of Gisborne Girls’ High School and the Secondary School’s
principals have been vocal about are fair changes and that the Gisborne District Council should support
these changes to the fullest of council’s abilities. These changes are specifically, the provision of a free
bus service to all secondary students in the Kaiti region, reconfiguring the bus service to fit the actual
distribution of secondary students in the Kaiti region, streamlining the bus operations to place all
secondary school students onto one bus service instead of separate services for each school and
appropriate shelter in appropriate places.
(Gisborne Girls’ High School, (2011). Kaiti Transport Study 2011-1. Gisborne: New Zealand. Author.)

We wish to be heard on this submission.

Joshua Te Kaha Wharehinga

on behalf of:
KaPai Kaiti Trust
PO Box 3072, Kaiti
www.kapaikaiti.com
josh@kapaikaiti.com
Tel. 027 600 4844