Harbour ‘stakeholder’ sought

A ‘‘COMMERCIALLY focused representative’’ could be a fourth addition to the Waitaki District Council’s harbour area committee as a draft master plan for Oamaru Harbour is drawn up this autumn.

The council agreed to include four stakeholder representatives in the harbour area committee workshops where the draft is to be created.

The Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust and the North Otago Yacht and Powerboat Club were named as two of the four stakeholders last month.

In a report to the committee published yesterday, council assets group manager and deputy chief executive Neil Jorgensen has asked the committee to confirm the memberships of Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust chairman Graeme Clark, North Otago Yacht and Powerboat Club commodore Kevin Murdoch and Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony science and environmental manager Philippa Agnew.

The report asks the committee to seek nominations for a representative from the commercial sector, specifically recommending a representative from the Otago Chamber of Commerce.

A ‘‘full list’’ of harbour stakeholders was not available at the time the report was written, but it states others would be invited to the workshops, saying the planned ‘‘investment logic mapping’’ process to be used would work best with 20 participants.