24th February 2021 / 10:00 AM at Franklin: The Centre, Stevenson Room, Harris Street, Pukekohe Attendees

Jan Wallace	Bridget Davis	Marisa Mencarelli Skilton	Debbie Whiteside
Danielia Jansen Van Rensburg	Sally Warrender	Coral Timmins	Orrin Kapu
Judith Tucker Apologises	Lynne Richardson	Natia Tucker	Cherie Milne
Robyn Hoffman Andrew Beyers	Helen Pullman Jill Lomas	Anne Doddrell	Yvonne Buchan-Harvey

Welcome

Natia Tucker and Jan Wallace welcomed everyone to the meeting.

Guest Speaker – Natia Tucker

Natia spoke on her community development work for Auckland Council. She has recently completed her Master of Philosophy on Pacific Development. Natia presented the 6 key elements of Pacific Development:

• ●  Environmental, social, spiritual realms
• ●  Communal relationships
• ●  Pacific history, identity and interconnectedness
• ●  Mana, self-determination, self-reliance
• ●  Strong subsistence/ sustainable economy
• ●  Traditional science and technology & indigenising modernity

She also spoke on her experienced as part of the team on traditional Waka’s Hourua and Aotearoa One, double-hulled ocean-going sailing canoes, and how this can teach us about addressing modern humanitarian issues in a relevant and sustainable way. Natia was also part of a team that sailed to Samoa and more recently completed a voyage around the top of the north island, go tohttps://www.facebook.com/tetokiwakahourua/ to see these journey.

Jan Wallace thanked Natia for the assistance that she has provided to Community Networks Franklin and presented Natia with a bouquet of flowers.

COMMUNITY NETWORKS FRANKLIN 24th February 2021

1

Leadership

All completed an exercise on what leadership means to them: –

• ●  One size does not fit all, need to listen to the audience
• ●  Traditional models of leadership no longer exist
• ●  Perception of who are leaders
• ●  Person who has the knowledge regardless of culture or ageCNF Meeting themes March to June 2021March

• ●  AGM
• ●  Guest speaker – (TBC)April
• ●  Fundraising – Department of Internal Affairs (TBC)
• ●  Have local funding charities & possibly Foundation North to attendMay
• ●  Community Expo – Wednesday May 24thJune
• ●  Matariki event – including making a craft
• ●  Community sustainability event, growing your own food, handling waste or have a compost bin.
• ●  Arbour DayCNF Plan 2021COMMUNITY NETWORKS FRANKLIN 24th February 2021

2

Jan presented the plan for Community Networks Franklin for 2021, this was generated from the workshops that were held at last year’s community meetings.

1. Communication
Need to enhance communication to members via emails. Not everyone will see posts on social media or will check on a regular basis.

Next meeting: 24th March 2021 at The Franklin Centre, The Stevenson Room, 12 Massey Avenue, Pukekohe

Meeting closed at 11.35