NZ Shooting Academy

Chairman’s Report November 2011

Executive Committee

Stuart Hayman, Auckland Service Rifle Assn, Auckland Pistol Club etc – Chair;

Roger James, Omni and Central Shooters – Executive Vice-President

Steve O’Donnell, Target Shooting Auckland – Treasurer

Alex Wong, 3 Gun Club, IMAS – Secretary

Garry Warren, 3 Gun Club - Legal Adviser

Activity during 2010/2011

We have actually been pretty busy. Roger and Steve in particular have been beavering away at various contacts, and we have moved significantly forward, in small steps.

(However the caution as usual is that we are going to need serious funding at some point).

Meetings

We have had eight committee meetings.

We have attended a meeting of the Regional Sports Forum, and will go to the next.  We are now in the Auckland Sports Coalition.  Both of these are groups trying to establish the importance of sporting activities within the new Auckland City operation.

I have met with Bruce Pulman of Bruce Pulman Park to discuss possible use of an existing or planned space for air weapons shooting.

I have met with Auckland Councillor for Franklin Des Morrison, and Local Board Chair Andrew Baker.  We have done a presentation to the whole Local Board.

Morrison and the Board think we will have noise issues.

Steve, Roger, and I attended a meeting with Auckland Council’s Ian Maxwell and Mace Ward, who are in the Sports and Recreation management area.  We had a sympathetic hearing and they did accept that Ardmore II is the most suitable location and that they don’t have anything better which doesn’t have other issues.   They will provide us with a single person in the resource consent/ planning area and have provided us with a contact in the finance area.  We will be meeting with these contacts shortly

Now, I don’t expect any immediate great things out of any of these, but at least we are now on the map.  If we are to get anywhere we will need Auckland Council support (unless we move out of Auckland of course), so these first steps are important.

Funding

We have now spent the $30k from the NZ Shooting Federation on consultants, but we have received an initial grant of $50k from Pub Charities to be spent towards Resource Consent and they are already chasing us to spend it.

Resource Consent Process

The bits towards this include –

• Earthworks
• Water Management
• Noise Control
• Safety
• Traffic Management
• etc

We have been using consultants Fraser Thomas to get us towards being able to apply for Resource Consent, and we have directed them to start on the $50 k with noise and traffic, as a start.

Earthworks.

Roger and Steve have previously and severally been talking to the neighbour on Petersons Road who does the landfill, about our project, and he has already down some work for us, on the ground assessment.

Now we have a possibility under discussion by which he would use our site for landfill for some of the huge amount of dirt coming from Auckland projects.  We would end up with a flat platform on which to build the ranges and some contribution towards the Resource Consent.  This is still under discussion but if it comes off will save us a large amount of money, and provide us with an excellent base.  This is moderately confidential until it is sewn up.

We have been working away quietly on range design, and have designs for all the ranges in a reasonably advanced state, in preparation for detailed costing of the buildings (on top of the groundworks).  What we haven’t had until now is anything much to look at.  Steve has recently taught himself to use Google Sketchup to produce a series of models showing what the range complex will look like.

Stuart Hayman

Chairman

NZ Shooting Academy