M C Farnsworth 48 Cullen Street Mangawhai Mangawhai / E Mail

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1 Curriculum Vitae M C Farnsworth Name: Mark Christopher Farnsworth MNZM, JP Address: 0505 / E Mail markcf@xtra.co.nz Nationality: New Zealander Marital Status: Married Michelle Kathryne (42 years) Children: Kathryne Marie Farnsworth LLB/BSc Christopher Verdun Farnsworth BSc, MSc (Hons) Interests; Family, Diving, Golf, Surfing, Boating, Orchards & Reading markcf@xtra.co.nz Page 1

2 Education Judicial Justice of Judicial Training and Court Assessment the Peace 2015 Accredited Hearings Commissioner OPUS/ Ministry for the Environment/Local Government New Zealand 2013 Making Good Decisions Re-Accreditation Chair s Endorsement LEADR Mediation Auckland, March 1999 Civil Defence National Civil Defence Training School 1990 Controller s Course Rural Fire Ministry of Forestry 1990 Rural Fire Officer s Course Tertiary Massey University papers of extra mural study (Accounting, Marketing and Business Management) Technical Correspondence Institute 1976 Certificate of Agricultural Pesticides (Ia and Ib) Auckland University Bachelor of Science Degree Master of Science Degree (Geomorphology Hydrology, Biogeography, Industrial Geography, Transport Geography) markcf@xtra.co.nz Page 2

3 Achievements and Awards 1966: Queen Scout Award 1967: World Scout Jamboree- USA 1983: Elected Member Hobson County Council ( ) 1984: Principal Rural Fire Officer, Pouto Rural Fire District Inaugural Chairman Northland Rural Fire Co-ordinating Committee ( ) 1986: Deputy Chairman Hobson County Council ( ) 1990: National Council Member School Trustees Association ( , ) President Northland School Trustees Association ( ) 1992: Elected Member Northland Regional Council Kaipara Area ( ) Kellogg s Rural Leadership Fellowship, Lincoln University 1993: Member of School Consultative Group (Education) 1994: National President School Trustees Association ( ) Alternative Candidate Fullbright Study Award Minolta Japanese Study Award Member of the Ministerial Reference Group (Education) Member of the National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee NAEAC ( ) 1995: Chairman of the Hearings Committee Northland Regional Council ( ) 2000: Chairman of Northland Regional Animal Health Committee NRAHC ( ) 2001: Chairman of Northland Regional Council NRC ( ) 2007 Zone One Representative National Council of Local Government New Zealand ( ) 2011: Queen s Birthday Honour Member New Zealand Order of Merit - for Services to the Community 2011: Justice of the Peace for New Zealand markcf@xtra.co.nz Page 3

4 Work Experience Chair Hearing Committee Thames-Coromandel District Plan Hearings Auckland Council Duty Commissioner for notification decisions Committee Member Kaipara District Licensing Committee OPUS Educational Trainer/moderator/marker Making Good Decision Professional Development Programme for RMA decision makers EPA Board of Inquiry New Zealand King Salmon Applications Independent RMA Hearings Commissioner Auckland Council Member of a Ministerial Advisory Panel on Aquaculture Member of Aquaculture Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Interim Director Northland Port Corporation Ltd Director of Accelerating Aotearoa 2008 Chair of Pouto 2F Ahu Whenua Trust Member of the Ministry for the Environment s Making Good Decisions Advisory Board Chairman Northland Regional Council Principal Partner Farnsworth Management Services and Farnsworth Bishop and Associates ( ) National President New Zealand School Trustees Association 1984 Maori Land Court appointed Trustee of Te Uri O Hau s Tapu Bush Forest Manager - Pouto Forest Farm Ltd Assistant Manager - Pouto Forest Farm Ltd Environmental Scientist - Pouto Forest Farm Ltd markcf@xtra.co.nz Page 4

5 Mark Christopher FARNSWORTH MNZM, JP Resume Mark is the principal partner of Farnsworth Management Services, a based partnership providing independent hearing commissioner services and specialist Resource Management Act (RMA) policy advice and training. He has brought to the role a strong management/technical focus predicated on 35 years of hands on experience of working in, or for local government. In October 2010 Mark completed a 9 year term on the Northland Regional Council as Chairman of the Council. Mark was first elected to the Council in October During his time on council he has played a very active part in the Resource Management Act functions of the Council, having been involved in the preparation of all of the Council s four, operative, regional planning documents. Mark has considerable RMA hearing experience involving hearings of all types - plan hearings; plan change hearings; joint hearings with the local district councils; sub-division applications; restricted coastal activities; designations (Notices of Requirement) and applications for major new projects. He has chaired; been a member of the panel; drafted the written decision and contributed to the drafting of the written decision for a considerable number of hearings. Mark is totally committed to quality decision making and prides himself on his ability to write decisions. Recent hearings over the last 12 months have included: Chairing the Thames-Coromandel District Plan Hearings; making decisions on 250 nonnotified decisions for Auckland Council and sitting as a panel member on hearings for Auckland Council. Mark has a Master of Science Degree 1 in Geography from Auckland University. He has maintained an on-going, strong professional development ethic, completing extra-mural papers in business management, business law and accounting from Massey University; he is a graduate of the Kellogg s Leadership programme; completed the LEADR mediation course and has recently been re-accredited as a, s39a hearings commissioner (Chair s endorsement) under the professional development programme for RMA decision makers. Mark s hearing expertise, and commitment to professional development, was recognized nationally in 2003 by an appointment to a Ministry for the Environment s Advisory Board which has had responsibility for overseeing the development and implementation of the Making Good Decisions Professional Development Programme for RMA Decision Makers. Mark completed his term on the Advisory Board in October Mark continues be contracted by OPUS to provide training/tutoring/assessment marking under the Making Good Decision Professional Development Programme. In 2009 Mark s considerable RMA knowledge and hearing experience has been recognized by: a ministerial appointment to the Aquaculture Technical Advisory Group (TAG) in November 2010; by an appointment to a Ministerial Advisory Panel on Aquaculture in November 2010 and in July 2011 to the EPA s Board of Inquiry for the King Salmon applications. Mark was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for service to the community in the 2011 Queen s Birthday Honours and made a Justice of Peace in August Master s papers: Biogeography, Geomorphology- Hydrology, Transport Geography and Industrial location markcf@xtra.co.nz Page 5