Review the TIORI Constitution and introduce a new Kahui Trust Deed to align with Tātau Tātau draft Unit Model
25th & 26th May 2018 Tanenuiarangi Marae
Whānau Feedback – Draft Trust Deed
Questions
- How will the Marae benefit – how can we ensure the Marae will receive a benefit from the initial drop to Rakaipaaka?
- Should members on the committee be of the same mind, thinking the same?
- What if it’s a brother or sister or husband and wife on the committee?
- What does Ratification mean?
- How many members should Rakaipaaka have on its committees for the Kahui, Charitable, and Commercial?
- How will the voting process happen given TIORI has its own registered database and Tatau has its own for the Rakaipaaka Kahui / Charity / Commercial arms?
- What would C & T Suggest is a good Legal Entity for Rakaipaaka?
Responses
- Strategies will guide Marae benefits and how decisions will be made
- Not necessarily, but hopefully, in the end, they will come to a common decision – it’s a good thing to have diverse personalities, skills, knowledge, ideas, aspirations
- Managing conflicts of interest process would organize that
- Formally agreeing to a process, e.g. voting on a decision
- Suggesting maybe the Chair of the Kahui on each and members with expertise in charitable and commercial decision making
- TToTW Trust are discussing and developing a strategy for this to happen safely for all Clusters
- The Unit Trust is a good place to start for future development if Rakaipaaka is looking at Charitable purposes and Commercial development in the future
Where to next? – Actions
- Strategic plan to ensure Marae are included
- The appointment process will inform appropriate membership
- Ensure a conflict of interest policy is established
- Definitions are important – ensure to include in the new Trust Deed
- Suggestion 5-7 Kahui; Charitable and Commercial Arm members are yet to be determined
- Pauline and Johnina to take this to the TToTW Trust table
- TIORT is to change from Incorporated Society to a Trust that caters for what it’s beneficiaries are asking for and the tax implications on the decision are important
- When receiving units from TToTWTrust there will be no tax attached, but when allocating for purposes a robust tax regime needs to be considered.
Proposing a new structure for Te Iwi o Rakaipaaka Trust – TIORT
Outcome of review
- Use of Common Law Trust
- Continuation of TIORI as a second structure
- Issues regarding Charitable Status
- Restructure of TIORI to streamline the two structures
- Liability issues
- Future structures
Information Sharing Hui – Napier/Wellington
Reviewing the past 20 years of TIORI
- Some acknowledgement of past challenges but general agreement to leave the past in the past
- Address any issues as they arise within the whānau hapu iwi – take the learnings from them and move forward
- Let things go
- Review the current strategic direction
- Identify and confirm the new strategic direction
What does the future of Rakaipaaka look like?
Social
- Healthy mind and body
- Living longer
- Mahitahi
- Inclusive decision making
- Positive energy
- Maara kai
- Learn through doing and seeing
- Walking beside each other – tamariki – pakeke – learning and walking beside one another
- Initiatives that suit our whanau i.e. kapa haka, rugby, creativeness
- Drop-in centre – Hub
- Young whanau are stepping up
- Panui
- No park – need a skatepark
- Education opportunities
- Our unique way of how we love our neighbour – kai, awhi
- Unity, respect, Manaaki wananga
Cultural
- Te reo
- Restoring maintaining taonga
- Upgrade kohanga, marae
- Capture and learn stories, whakapapa, tikanga, waiata
- Paepae
- It takes a village to raise a child
- Live good values – ngakau mahaki, good kaitiaki
- Know the tikanga
- Rongoa
- Whanau kotahi
- Whanau kaupapa
- Matariki marae event
- Mixing with other whanau at each marae
- Learn about taonga and locations Moumoukai etc
- Creative arts – weaving, painting, sculpture, carving
- Performing arts
- Manaaki Kaumatua
- Not enough speakers etc..
Economic
- Unemployment
- No education
- Space visitor centre
- Whare taonga
- Our future nurture and grow
- Employment opportunities at home
- Building blocks for a sustainable future
- Land development for Maori landowners
- Help fill in funding applications
- Opportunities so whanau can stay or come back home
- Owning own homes, housing scheme
- Nuk te mahi
- Solar power and filter water in whare
- Warm insulated homes
- Restoration of marae
- Financial literacy
Environmental
- Native birds and plants
- Bees
- Water/land
- Recycling-zero waste
- Eco-village
- No blackberry
- No waste rubbish
- Healthy land and sea
- Nuhaka awa
- Wai Maori
- Clean healthy water supply
….in 50 years…
Social
- Remember the old people
- To be full of aroha
- Children achieving dreams
- Educated
- Happy sober memories
- To have faith, be confident
- Not to fat
- Resilience
- Te wairua o tenei wahi
- Youth programmes to prepare rangatahi for the workforce
- Lifestyle hub – Tuturu Rakaipaaka
- Always love one another
- Ngakau mahaki
- Transitioning with non-Maori
Cultural
- Speaking te reo Maori
- Mokopuna running marae
- Incorporating church tikanga with marae tikanga
- Whakawhanaungatanga
- Know our whakapapa, tikanga etc…
- Retain our reo
- Hold steadfast to identity – so mokopuna can stand strong and flourishing for all generations
Economic
- Papakainga attached to every marae
- Marae well maintained and managed effectively
- More whanau housing
- A stable iwi
- Financially secure
- Morere governed and owned by us
- Mokpuna employed and servicing our community
- Own homes-minimal struggle
- Community looking after itself- business supporting each other
- Sustainable living
Environmental
- Healthy land and water
- Clean village and river –recycling
- Utilise the river more – waka ama, raft racing
- Protect our swamps
- Native plants
- Canopy view of ngahere
Strategic Themes that our whanau came up with
- Manaaki Whanau – building strong and nurturing whanau
- Nurturing tamariki/mokopuna to be confident, resilient and successful
- Establish a central Hub to support whanau to develop healthy lifestyles
- Develop a strategy to ensure Rakaipaaka Hold steadfast to our Reo and Tikanga
- Plan and create business opportunities for our whanau to achieve Financial security and freedom
- Ensure Kaitiakitanga responsibilities govern all future decision making to create Sustainable solutions for the natural resources and environment
- Whanau Housing solutions are identified and implemented
- All marae are thriving – buildings, tikanga, roles and responsibilities
Next Steps
- Next round of information hui
- Confirm draft strategic framework and goals
- Advise changes to TToTW legal structure
- Consult on changes to TIORI and establishing a Kahui unit trust
- Trust Deed review
Governance Capability Training
7th July 2018
24th & 25th August 2018
4th, 5th & 6th October 2018
Implementing parts of the new Strategic Direction
SOCIAL: – The Trustees are clear about growing Rangatahi Leadership. Positive activities are organised often:
Marae Contribution
Economic – The Trust is recognizing the hard work over many years that the Marae Trustees and whanau have endured to keep our Marae functioning. Therefore, the TIORT Trustees have discussed and endorsed a one-off payment of $10,000.00 that is hoped will help reduce some of the pressures that all our Marae have experienced over the years.
Rakaipaaka Building Pakake Leadership Programme
What was achieved?
The aim of this project was to instigate the development and preparedness of new and upcoming leaders who will be engaged to participate in;
- Future development of asset management;
- Learning’s that encourage collective, collaborative and individual development and asset management;
- Whanau enterprise and political relationship approaches;
- Whakapapa and mana whenua interests;
- Methods to support cultural and traditional values from and for assets;
- Growth and subsequent sustainability;
- Succession planning to provide a resource for the future;
Conclude with a three-day hikoi visiting successful Maori Business venues to share learning’s with participants and certificates will be presented for participating.
And we can safely say that this was achieved successfully.
What other community benefits or outcomes were achieved?
We developed and formed new relationships and networks. The ideas that whanau have come away with will begin to form what could potentially be established in our rohe kainga. The relationships formed Ruatahuna, Minginui and Rotorua around sustainable use of whenua; potential housing and biodiversity projects are happy to come and show us how we can assimilate the projects established in Nuhaka.
Is there anything else you would like to tell us?
This project opened our whanau eyes to what could potentially provide, jobs, socio projects, economic projects and instigate the value of kaitiakitanga working for us in our rohe kainga. Whanau are keen to engage experts to come and do some work for us around implementing projects for the revitalization of our environment, establish housing for our whanau and show us how we could instigate tourism at our taonga Morere Hot Springs.
We have a lot to do for the future development of our whanau and rohe kainga, but need real resourcing in the form of funding, people skills to ensure this will come to fruition.
We kicked off the Pakeke Leadership Project at Kahungunu Marae on Friday 17th May with Tina Porau who facilitated a 2-day workshop.
- Results to focus on were to invest in our aging population and our kohanga reo, Internships, directorship learning, succession planning into leadership, do we have enough ringa raupa, creating importance of culture, measuring success.
- Tinas advice is Roadmaps that are easier to follow toward achievement and measuring the successes.
Leaving home from Kahungunu Marae 24th May we reached the Te Wharehou o Waikaremoana (Waikaremoana Community hub) – what a beautiful set up, we had a catch up with the locals who didn’t want to be photographed, toilet stop (flash) – Tamati Krugers daughter is the kaihoutu at the hub.
Tenant Brown Architects designed this building and all other Tuhoe affiliated hubs.
After the beautiful visit with our whanau up the lake and lunch where they gave us a bit of a tour of their building, we were inspired and this could be a model we might consider as a hub design for us in Nuhaka – blending well into the natural native bush surroundings.
Our next stop was Ruatahuna, their Te Kura Whare (Community Hub) much the same design as the Waikaremoana Community Hub, also blending well into the natural native bush surrounding. The same Architect company Tenant Brown parts of the interior build is made out of natural clay from the area and recycled fishnets make up the floor covering. They have chalets coming up for whanau and visitor accommodation and are also getting ground ready for their hauora hub.
The name of their café is part of their whakatauki “KO AU TĒNEI” Pou Temara
“Ko tāna kai he pikopiko 10 he kouka, he Ruatāhuna KFC. Ko te uri o Tūhoe moumou kai moumou taonga moumou tangata ki te pō”
Our next stop Minginui to the Ngati Whare Holdings Nursery Project– This project has been going for two years – Currently 17 Ngati Whare whanau are employed full time to look after the nursery – the plants are locally propagated and the aim is to reinvigorate their native ngahere, they are currently setting up markets, much work to be done in this area, the nursery has a social component to it, Minginui have many whanau on drugs and the nursery helps them to heal from that, getting involved totally in the natural environment seems to be working for whanau. That have partners SCION who assist with funding for new and exciting opportunities for the whanau – internships at the Rotorua plant.
We had a wananga with Te Whatiura representatives – Mathew Heke (Operations Manager) & Bryce Morrison (Chair), This project is still at its early stages – it was focused on elderly housing instigated by their 80-year-old kuia, who wanted to see their own shareholders benefit from their urban lands. The land is currently under development and will eventually see around 40 homes built – shareholders will enter into a licence to occupy and lease the homes for the period of their life time after that the house goes back to the Trust. They have experienced a lot of loops to jump over, for example consents, environment, cultural assessment report costs. They have done this on their own with no help from Government funding, but are now been approached by TPK for assistance from their Maori Housing Network project for infrastructure support. They are going to share their experiences with us and invite us to the opening of their first homes. We will keep an eye on this.
Our last kaupapa was the Mitai Maori Village Experience – Pictures sourced from the website
With our discussions happening with DoC who are keen for us to work with Architects 44 James Blackbourne and Dan King there is opportunity to assimilate the Mitai Maori Village experience at Morere Hotsprings – whanau summed up that we have the natural environment structures – what is required is the expertise to provide the right advice for this to happen, identifying our users, tailoring what the user is interested in seeing – awesome to have a look and get the minds and ideas flowing.