The council, which includes new councillors Russell Mawhinney, Trevor Tattersfield and Simon Stamers-Smith, under the guidance of new mayor Vanessa van Uden, has 12 items on the agenda, including the rent review of Skyline Enterprises to be discussed in the public-excluded section.
Publicly discussed items will include. -Elected member remuneration.
Appeal options on plan change 29: Arrowtown boundary.
Commissioners' recommendations on private plan change 35: Queenstown Airport.
QLDC deputy chief executive and finance manger Stewart Burns has recommended Ms van Uden's pay - set by the Remuneration Authority - be $91,900, a 7.72% increase from the previous salary of $85,316.
The proposed allocation method for the total pool of $368,790 would see an increase in pay of "unchanged positions" of about 3.88%.
However, Lyal Cocks may receive a larger rise for holding the "new position" of deputy mayor/community board chairman/standing committee chairman.
His pay is proposed to be $48,997, about 22% more than committee chairs who would get $40,102.
Councillors' proposed pay is $29,165, and community board members' $12,249, per annum.
The council has until January 31, 2011, to confirm how it intends to allocate the pool.
The council will also decide if it is to appeal against itself over the commissioners' decision on the Arrowtown boundary.
Independent commissioners Mike Garland and Andrew Henderson concluded the town's boundary should remain tight around the existing development.
Their decision was adopted by the full council on October 6.
However, in a report, QLDC regulatory and corporate services general manager Roger Taylor says the council had made two "distinct decisions" with regard to the Arrowtown boundary: one was a corporate decision and the other a regulatory one.
The corporate decision was as the landowner for the former sewage-treatment works at Jopp St, requesting the site be included within the boundary.
The regulatory decision was to notify the plan change with the boundary line drawn so only zoned land was included - which excluded the Jopp St land, he says.
The commissioners had "ignored the previous views of the Arrowtown community, expressed through the planning charette that identified the subject site [Jopp St] as one where future urban development would occur", Mr Taylor said.
The period for an appeal to the Environment Court would close 30 working days after the decision was publicly notified - which could happen next week.
"It is therefore appropriate that the council considers whether, in its capacity as landowner of the site, it should appeal the decision to the Environment Court.
In council's regulatory capacity, it would usually defend the commissioner decision in the event of appeals from any party."
Also being discussed today is the commissioners' decision on plan change 35: Queenstown Airport.
The private plan change sought to extend the airport's noise boundaries; manage and mitigate noise; and introduce 11 night flights a week using a new night-time noise boundary.
Commissioners Bob Batty, Stephen Chiles and David Clarke have recommended the council adopt the airport's proposal to extend its air-noise and outer-noise control boundaries and manage and mitigate the noise, while QLDC senior policy analyst Karen Page has recommended the council adopt the commissioners' recommendation.
The meeting begins at 9.30am.
