Dunedin city councillor Michael Guest this week approved the progression of plans for closed-circuit television cameras for the city, as long as a detailed document setting out protocols for their use was available before they were put in place.
Last Friday, Cr Guest said he would seek an amendment at Monday's council meeting asking that the cameras not be made operational until a written report was received on the protocols and security for the use of their images.
His concerns followed reports that Queenstown police had posted images from the town's cameras on Facebook, a social networking website.
Cr Guest said he was concerned images might end up on a "world's funniest videos" section of video-sharing site YouTube, or a similar site, and raised questions about the privacy of people on a night out in the Octagon.
But he said on Monday he was happy to support it, as long as detailed documents on protocols were produced, documents he hoped would be presented to the planning and environment committee, of which he is chairman.
Cr Teresa Stevenson called for the council's electricity fund to be returned to a value of $200,000, as it had run out before the end of the financial year.
The consumers' electricity fund is administered by the Anglican Family Care Centre, and provided by the centre and other church and community organisations, for people who struggle to pay their electricity bill.
Cr Stevenson was last year behind a move to cut the fund from $200,000 to $167,000, a compromise after suggestions it be cut back to $100,000.
Mayor Peter Chin suggested she raise the matter at next year's annual plan meetings.
Mr Chin thanked councillors and staff for a year that "hasn't been an easy journey", at Monday's meeting, the last council meeting for the year.
Despite "some of the issues we've created", staff had been willing, and given their best, he said.
