on Tuesday 19 August 2014

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

The 4445 meeting of the Brisbane City Council, held at City Hall, Brisbane on Tuesday 19 August 2014 at 2pm

Prepared by:

Council and Committee Liaison Office

Chief Executive’s Office

Office of the Lord Mayor and the Chief Executive Officer

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

THE 4445 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,

HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,

ON TUESDAY 19 AUGUST 2014

Dedicated to a better Brisbane AT 2PM

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS _____________________________________________________________ i

PRESENT: ______________________________________________________________________ 1

OPENING OF MEETING: __________________________________________________________ 1

APOLOGY: _____________________________________________________________________ 1

MINUTES: _____________________________________________________________________ 1

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: __________________________________________________________ 1

QUESTION TIME: ________________________________________________________________ 4

CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS: _________________________________________ 14

ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE _________________________________________ 14

A DRAFT CITY CENTRE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN __________________________________________ 21

B DRAFT HEMMANT LYTTON NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN ____________________________________ 22

C DRAFT LOWER OXLEY CREEK NORTH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN ____________________________ 24

D PROPOSED RESUMPTION OF PRIVATE LAND FOR PARK PURPOSES, LOCATED AT 41 LACKEY

AVENUE, COORPAROO ____________________________________________________________ 25

E THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND AMENITY AMENDING LOCAL LAW 2014 _________________________ 27

INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE ___________________________________________________________ 28

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – SIR FRED SCHONELL DRIVE AND MUNRO STREET INTERSECTION

UPGRADE _______________________________________________________________________ 33

B PETITION – REQUESTING A RIGHT-TURN FACILITY AT 20 KIANAWAH ROAD SOUTH, MANLY WEST,

TO ENABLE RIGHT TURNS TO AND FROM TOWNHOUSES _________________________________ 34

C PETITION – REQUESTING SPEED MITIGATION ON SWAN STREET, GORDON PARK _____________ 36

D PETITION – REQUESTING ROAD CLOSURE AT THE NORTHERN END OF ALLEN STREET, WYNNUM, TO

PROHIBIT VEHICULAR MOVEMENTS _________________________________________________ 37

PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE ______________________________________________ 39

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – CITYHOPPER UPDATE ____________________________________ 43

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE ___________________ 45

A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION UNDER SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ACT 2009: PRELIMINARY APPROVAL

UNDER SECTION 241 FOR CARRYING OUT BUILDING WORK AND A DEVELOPMENT PERMIT FOR

MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE FOR THE PURPOSE OF INDUSTRY - SCHEDULE 2 AND

ENVIRONMENTALLY RELEVANT ACTIVITY (CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING AND CHEMICAL STORAGE)

– 180 VIKING DRIVE, WACOL - MAPEI AUSTRALIA PTY LTD ________________________________ 46

ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE ____________________________________ 50

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – UPDATE TO PHELLINUS NOXIUS BIOLOGICAL CONTROL ________ 51

FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE _____________________________________________________________ 53

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – URBAN AMENITIES 2013-14 ACHIEVEMENTS _________________ 53

BRISBANE LIFESTYLE COMMITTEE _________________________________________________________ 54

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – MY COMMUNITY DIRECTORY _____________________________ 56

FINANCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE ______________________ 58

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – BRUNSWICK STREET MALL UPGRADE _______________________ 62

B BUSHLAND PRESERVATION LEVY REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED JUNE 2014 _______________ 63

PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS: ____________________________________________________ 63

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GENERAL BUSINESS: ____________________________________________________________ 64

QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: ________________________________ 71

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: _____________________ 71







PRESENT:

The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR (Councillor Graham QUIRK)

–

LNP

The Chairman of Council, Councillor Margaret de WIT (Pullenvale Ward) – LNP

LNP Councillors (and Wards)

Krista ADAMS (Wishart)

Matthew BOURKE (Jamboree)

Amanda COOPER (Bracken Ridge)

Vicki HOWARD (Central)

Steven HUANG (Macgregor)

Fiona KING (Marchant)

Geraldine KNAPP (The Gap)

Kim MARX (Karawatha)

Peter MATIC (Toowong)

Ian McKENZIE (Holland Park)

David McLACHLAN (Hamilton)

Ryan MURPHY (Doboy)

Angela OWEN-TAYLOR (Parkinson) (Deputy

Chairman of Council)

Adrian SCHRINNER (Chandler) (Deputy Mayor)

Julian SIMMONDS (Walter Taylor)

Andrew WINES (Enoggera)

Norm WYNDHAM (McDowall)

ALP Councillors (and Wards)

Milton DICK (Richlands) (The Leader of the

Opposition)

Helen ABRAHAMS (The Gabba) (Deputy Leader of the Opposition)

Peter CUMMING (Wynnum Manly)

Kim FLESSER (Northgate)

Steve GRIFFITHS (Moorooka)

Shayne SUTTON (Morningside)

Independent Councillor (and Ward)

Nicole JOHNSTON (Tennyson)

OPENING OF MEETING:

The Chairman, Councillor Margaret de WIT, opened the meeting with prayer, and then proceeded with the business set out in the Agenda.

APOLOGY:

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An apology was submitted on behalf of Councillor Victoria NEWTON (Deagon) – ALP, and she was granted leave of absence from the meeting on the motion of Councillor Kim FLESSER, seconded by Councillor Helen

ABRAHAMS.

MINUTES:

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The Minutes of the 4444 meeting of Council held on 12 August 2014, copies of which had been forwarded to each councillor, were presented, taken as read and confirmed on the motion of Councillor Ryan MURPHY, seconded by Councillor Kim MARX.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:

Mr John Mayo – Council partnering with the wider community to meet the vision of the Brisbane Access and Inclusion Plan

File number: 137/220/701/192


Chairman:

Mr John Mayo:

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I would like to call on Mr John Mayo who will address the Chamber on Council partnering with the wider community to meet the vision of the Brisbane Access and Inclusion Plan. Orderly, please show Mr Mayo in.

My Mayo, you have five minutes; please proceed when ready. You may sit or stand.

Madam Chairman, LORD MAYOR, Councillors: afternoon. My theme is simple, and it is simply this: if you deny access to members of the community to be able to participate in that community, in the broader sense it has both social and economic impacts. I am drawn here today because of the publicity that's occurred with regard to people receiving infringements for parking over driveways and parking on walkways and verges in residential streets, and somehow believing that they should not have received that infringement.

I just want to bring the case for those sections of the community who want to have a quality of life in this city but are sometimes denied that quality of life because of either the unthinking or the blatant actions of people who have denied them the opportunity, particularly in residential streets.

We do have a society now that has large numbers of people with what you might call diminished functionality in addition to children who are still learning about how and when to be safe. But we do have populations of people with a medical condition that exceed 20 per cent of the population; we have a disability statistic of 18.5 per cent of the population; and an over 60s statistic of 17 per cent of the population. We have temporary injury at any given time sitting at about 13.2 per cent of the population, and we have parents with prams—that's children aged one to four, about six per cent of the population, and we also have children five to 12—and I don't have an ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) figure for that group.

When people in residential streets are denied access in their streets, they are forced into unsafe situations where they have to move off footpaths or verges onto the road. Parents will think that is highly unsafe when that happens to children. Those who are ageing, those who have some form of mobility difficulty often being forced onto the road is not actually an option for them.

They just may not be able to manage it.

There are also people who have balance issues, which are often associated with ageing, and the moment that you block their normal path of travel, it may well create discontinuance, if you like, of their journey. So I am simply making the point that this Council has moved to develop an access and inclusion policy, an action plan, and my understanding is that every Councillor has shown leadership in endorsing that policy, and perhaps it is time for the wider community to partner Council in meeting the vision of that plan, and perhaps a campaign is required to achieve that.

I have identified some of the issues for residents in their streets. We do have increasing numbers of people with vision impairment, and we do have many instances of people who, for various reasons, are struggling with their mobility as pedestrians. So I would hope that Council might consider some sort of community campaign, an education campaign that identifies the safety issues and the discrimination issues that occur when unthinking actions stop people from being able to have accessible paths of travel in their residential streets.

Some of the remedies that might be considered, apart from an educational campaign are the introduction of what I call lipless driveways. These are driveways which the Redlands Shire Council developed in particular in the early

2000s and received an award for it, so that's a driveway that does not have the

50-millimetre lip at the front of the driveway. It won't solve the problems for all people using mobility devices, but it will certainly allow children on bicycles and many others to make the road to footpath transition easily and safely.

Another consideration would be installing kerb ramps strategically in streets, particularly those residential streets which do not have a footpath on either side.


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That allows people to make that transition again from walkway, footpath, to the road, a distance of 150 millimetres; most of the kerbs in Brisbane are 150 millimetres high.

It might also be the case that Council's development approval department decides that it might more stringently assess the footpath and walkway intentions of proposed developments.

Councillors interjecting.

Mr John Mayo: Can I move now from residential to CBD and—

Chairman:

Mr John Mayo:

Mr Mayo, I am sorry, your five minutes has expired.

Thank you.

Chairman: Thank you. Can I call on the DEPUTY MAYOR to respond?

Response by the DEPUTY MAYOR, Councillor Adrian SCHRINNER, Chairman of the Infrastructure

Committee

DEPUTY MAYOR: Thank you for coming in, Mr Mayo. We really appreciate your time this afternoon and your input. It is very timely that you have come in to talk to us about these issues, particularly when it comes to people parking over driveways or on footpaths and blocking access. This is something that Council also cares a great deal about and something that is consistent with the Access and Inclusion

Plan that you mentioned. We want a city that is accessible for all. To be accessible for all, as you have correctly pointed out, we need to make sure that the unthinking actions of people don't cause a problem for others getting around the city.

One of the situations that we do have quite often in the suburbs is people parking on the nature strip or on the footpath, and they often claim, well, there was no one around; I wasn't causing a problem for anyone. In many cases, that may be correct at that particular time. But the reality is that it has always been illegal to park on the nature strip. There are many reasons for that. The law needs to be applied correctly and consistently, because ultimately one of the challenges for

Council is if we give approval for people to do that in certain circumstances, or turn a blind eye to it, then it simply causes an even wider problem across the city where people think that they can ignore the law. That law exists for a reason.

You pointed out the accessibility reasons, and they are very clear, not only for people in wheelchairs or with mobility problems, but families with strollers; there's a whole range of situations where clear access to the nature strip or the footpath is required.

The other reason also is that that's where the underground infrastructure generally lies. Vehicles repeatedly parking on that section of property can cause damage, and that is also a cost to ratepayers as well. Even situations where people are repeatedly parking with two wheels up on the kerb over time damages that kerb and cause a cost to ratepayers.

So, I think you have raised some very fair points. We do need to have a strong stance on this issue in Council. It is about accessibility; it is about safety, and the last thing we want is for people, particularly those with mobility problems, to be forced out on to the road in a very unsafe situation. We know that, as the city grows, there's going to be more pressure in terms of parking right across the city.

At the moment we have a parking taskforce which is currently looking at submissions from the public on the matter of parking, particularly on-street parking, and this is certainly one of the issues that the taskforce is considering.

So thank you very much for that feedback.

I can also say in relation to your suggestions, we are happy to have those looked at. I know, in terms of driveways, for example, there are some situations where

Council requires a lip, particularly if the property is downhill from the road, so that water doesn’t flow down the driveway. But I am sure that there are other situations where we can encourage those flatter entry points to the driveways.


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Council is also progressively, across the city, upgrading its network of footpaths and kerb ramps as well, and installing new kerb ramps.

There is a situation at the moment where money that is generated from parking meters that were installed in recent years is going to fund footpath improvements. Each local councillor gets a share of that money. They can invest it in footpath improvements across their area, so that is spread across the city in an equal manner and I think it is a very positive thing. During my time as a councillor, in the early days there was often very limited funding for footpaths available. That is certainly not the same situation now. We are spending something like $35 million a year on footpaths across the city, both new and maintaining and improving footpaths as well.

Chairman:

QUESTION TIME:

Thank you, Mr Mayo. Thank you, Orderly.

Chairman:

That is in addition to the money that we are putting into bikeways and shared paths as well. So thank you very much for your time; really appreciate your feedback, and look forward to keeping in touch.

Are there any questions of the LORD MAYOR or a Chairman of any of the

Standing Committees? Councillor MARX.

Question 1

Councillor MARX:

LORD MAYOR:

Thank you, Madam Chairman; yes, my question is to the LORD MAYOR. I understand that last week you launched a new Team Brisbane campaign. Can you please detail why this campaign was created, and why reminding all residents about how well the Brisbane team is performing will boost further business success and create more jobs for now and future generations?

Thanks very much, Madam Chairman, and I thank Councillor MARX for the question. Team Brisbane is something that is for all of us. It is a campaign which celebrates the achievements of this city, through successive administrations, through to the development of the city that we have today, what we describe as an emerging global city.

This campaign celebrates those achievements, but more importantly, also the achievers. It acknowledges some of the world leading residents that we have in our city. Last week I instanced the case of a lady who had gone through

Somerville House, now working at NASA. There are a whole host of examples of achievers in our city.

Importantly, also, we are a city that has gone from 85 th place last year in terms of the world cities index for innovation up to 60 th place this year. To take it a step further, this campaign is very much about a call to arms for the people of

Brisbane saying that, while many people out there promote Brisbane and take the opportunity to promote our city, both interstate and internationally, this is a campaign which is, if you like, asking everybody to become engaged in the campaign.

We all know people, whether they are interstate or overseas, and it is about being conscious of taking the opportunity to sell the Brisbane offering. It is about potentially downloading some information about Brisbane. Brisbane Marketing website is one example. It has a whole host of material which anybody can download on to their smartphones, iPads, whatever, and to take that with them if they are travelling, and show people what Brisbane is about and what we have to offer as a city.

This is very important in terms of our next step as a city. We need to be out of the 'she'll be right, mate' syndrome—and I am not suggesting for a moment that everybody is in that place, but we need to make sure that we grow the number of people that are promoting the city of Brisbane, and by doing that, and not just the city of Brisbane, I might say, but I am a great believer also in the broader


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Councillor DICK:

LORD MAYOR:

Chairman:


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Councillor FLESSER:

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Brisbane offering, because people don't see city boundaries when they come here; they see a regional offering.

So, Madam Chairman, this campaign is very much about ensuring that we get on the front foot that we ask people to be advocates of Brisbane, and through that we hope to continue to grow the tourism to our city and through that tourism ultimately we believe investment in our city as well. In the end it is about securing our city's future. It is about making sure that, through a positive campaign, through making sure that people are engaged in the promotion of

Brisbane, that everybody is involved in the securing of those jobs into the future and securing our city's future as a whole.

People can get more information on this particular campaign by going to hash tag TeamBNE (#teambne) where we invite people to become engaged in the campaign. This is not replacing anything. The Brisbane Australia's new world city slogan obviously remains. This is something that hangs off that. It is a call to arms; it is an engagement, and I want to thank all of those people who have freely given of their time to be a part of this campaign—some of the big names that have made a real impact in Brisbane to be a part of this campaign, to call on

Brisbane people to engage in it.

So, Madam Chairman, I look forward to the campaign going forward, and hope that we will see out of this a renewed opportunity for our city, not just now; it is not about the now, it's about into the future. Thank you, Madam Chairman.

Further questions; Councillor DICK.

Question 2

Thank you, Madam Chair; my question is to the LORD MAYOR. Mr Phil Di

Bella has been a long-time donor to the LNP, including $16,500 of donations in

2012. In addition to being appointed to your Brisbane Marketing Board, you have now appointed him as Chairman of your CBD Economic Development

Board.

Another LNP donor, Mr Mark Brodie, has since 2010 donated thousands of dollars from his Brodie Group company. Mr Brodie has also been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars of ratepayers' money as your Chairman of the City of

Brisbane Investment Corporation. He continues to control millions of dollars of ratepayers' dollars as your paid appointment to this board, even though he has been involved in a massive collapse of his own business, as has been reported.

Is it the case that, to be one of your appointees to a paid or non-paid Council board position, you have to be an LNP donor?

It is a disgraceful question and I am not going to answer it. I will treat it with the contempt it deserves.

I agree with that, LORD MAYOR; I was going to rule it out of order. Thank you. Councillor OWEN-TAYLOR.

It is a disgraceful question, as the LORD MAYOR has said.

Point of order, Madam Chair.

I have made a ruling.

Thank you, Madam Chair; I am asking a question.

Yes, Councillor FLESSER.

Under what rule are you making that ruling, in the rules?

I will find the rule. It is a disgraceful question.

Point of order, Madam Chairman.

I am dealing with one point of order at a time, thanks, Councillor JOHNSTON, as you know the rules apply. Resume your seat.



Chairman:

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Madam Chairman, I just thought you might like an adjournment so we don't eat up Question Time—

No, I wouldn’t like an adjournment; resume your seat.

Councillor FLESSER, I will not uphold your point—I will give you an answer, that being that it is my role as Chairman of this Council to make sure that any behaviour in this place is appropriate. The question was offensive, and the

LORD MAYOR indicated he was not prepared to answer it because he felt the same way. Therefore, I do not allow the question, and it is my right to do that as

Chairman of this Council, and it is about time you all learnt just what the role of the Chairman of the Council is. There are standards. There are standards,

Councillor.


Councillor FLESSER:

Chairman:

But they're not in the rules.

Madam Chair—


Councillor FLESSER:

Dissent motion

Madam Chair, I think it is a very important question that should be answered.

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Councillor Kim FLESSER moved, seconded by Councillor Shayne SUTTON, that the Chairman’s ruling be dissented from. Upon being submitted to the meeting the motion of dissent was declared lost on the voices.

Thereupon, Councillors Steve GRIFFITHS and Milton DICK immediately rose and called for a division, which resulted in the motion being declared lost.

The voting was as follows:

AYES: 7 - The Leader of the OPPOSITION, Councillor Milton DICK, and Councillors

Helen ABRAHAMS, Peter CUMMING, Kim FLESSER, Steve GRIFFITHS,

Shayne SUTTON and Nicole JOHNSTON.

NOES: 19 - The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR, Councillor Graham QUIRK,

DEPUTY MAYOR, Councillor Adrian SCHRINNER, and Councillors

Krista ADAMS, Matthew BOURKE, Amanda COOPER, Margaret de WIT,

Vicki HOWARD, Steven HUANG, Fiona KING, Geraldine KNAPP, Kim MARX,

Peter MATIC, Ian McKENZIE, David McLACHLAN, Ryan MURPHY,

Angela OWEN-TAYLOR,

Norm WYNDHAM.

Julian SIMMONDS, Andrew WINES and

Chairman: Let me make it very clear to all of you, that you do not have parliamentary privilege in this place. Furthermore, as I said before, there are standards of common behaviour that are expected in this place. Furthermore, when it comes to asking questions like that about members of the public who have no opportunity to respond in this place, as long as I am in this chair, I will rule them out of order.

Councillor OWEN-TAYLOR.

Question 3

Councillor OWEN-TAYLOR: Thank you, Madam Chairman; my question this afternoon is to the Chairman of

Finance, Economic Development and Administration Committee, Councillor

SIMMONDS. It is important for all of us in Brisbane to understand what we are achieving as individuals and collectively what we offer as a city to the rest of the world. I also understand that there is a strong link between confidence and business activity, and this Administration is keen to show off Brisbane to the world by attracting events and conferences. Could you please update the

Chamber on Brisbane's recent conference wins and major events?

Councillor SIMMONDS: Thank you very much, Madam Chairman, and thank you to Councillor OWEN-

TAYLOR for the question. As the LORD MAYOR said previously, as part of


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Team Brisbane, we do have a lot to be proud of as a city. This includes our reputation as a world class convention and investment destination.

I am pleased to advise the Chamber that our Convention Bureau, which is operated within Brisbane Marketing, has hit the ground running in the new financial year, already securing bids to bring six conferences to the city. This is a fantastic start to the year for just a few weeks' work. The flying start comes following a bumper year in 2013-14 financial year for the bureau, which worked in partnership with the Convention and Exhibition Centre, as well as the Royal

Exhibition Centre, to net more than $76 million in conference activity for our city.

This helps, as you said, Council generate business confidence because so many businesses across our city benefit when conferences and major events are in town. Hotels, restaurants, cafes, all types of shops and retail facilities, and even our transport and travel providers, share in the opportunity to grow business on the back of new customers. A bustling and busy city is also one that the community takes pride in being a part of.

The recently secured conferences already in the last few weeks include the national Solace Conference 2015, the Hazards Australasia Conference, the

Australian Local Government Women's Association (Queensland branch)

Annual State Conference, the Highlands Senior Executive Forum and the Eighth

International Conference on Population Geographies.

So far this calendar year Brisbane has welcomed several large scale business conferences, including the EduTECH National Conference which had 5,270 delegates and an estimated economic benefit to the city of $8.6 million in one event alone. The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver in 2014 had over 3,000 delegates, worth more than $7.5 million in investment to the city, and the World Congress of Audiology 2014 had 1,700 delegates and contributed

$4.7 million in economic development into the city.

Councillor OWEN-TAYLOR, you also mentioned in your question that it is not just our reputation for hosting conventions that is leading to greater investment but also our reputation as a destination for major events. In fact, I can advise the

Chamber that major events supported for either financially or in-kind by

Brisbane Marketing in this Council last financial year contributed over $82 million in economic benefit directly to the city. The latest exhibition at GOMA

(Gallery of Modern Art), for example, contributed $14.5 million and secured over 115,000 visitor nights for Brisbane hotels over the course of the exhibition.

In fact, 44 per cent of all visitors who saw that exhibition came from outside

Brisbane to visit our city.

This year's Brisbane International—this is the tennis tournament—contributed almost $10 million to the Brisbane economy. Intrastate visitation, as a direct result of our Christmas in the City campaign, contributed in excess of $25 million. Musicals such as The King and I and The Rocky Horror Show , each contributed in excess of $4 million to the Brisbane economy, and international rugby games like the Wallabies verses France test accounted for approximately

$7 million.

The good news is that the 2014-15 events calendar is looking incredibly strong, with international events including the Asia Football Cup, the ICC Cricket

World Cup, standing alongside musical blockbusters including The Lion King and Wicked , and another hit season from Cirque de Soleil. Our cultural institutions will also present strong offerings including a new exhibition titled

Undressed , hosted at the Queensland Museum, which was originally from The

Victoria and Albert Museum, and also GOMA, which is hosting Future Beauty:

30 years of Japanese Fashion .

Other sporting events this coming financial year will include the Australia verses

India test match, the Bledisloe Cup and, of course, Four Nations Rugby. So, as the LORD MAYOR rightly pointed out earlier, residents have had and have a lot to look forward to in terms of being proud in our city, and through getting


Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

LORD MAYOR:

Councillor interjecting.

LORD MAYOR:

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Councillor FLESSER:

Chairman:

Councillor FLESSER:

Chairman:

Councillor FLESSER:

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By joining with Team Brisbane, they can also make sure that they talk up our city to these guests so that when they go home to either the other capitals or the other cities around Australia or internationally, that they in turn continue to talk up our city. They can do that by getting involved in the Team Brisbane initiative which includes a series of events and activities across the city, including an advertising campaign presented in partnership with local media outlets and our social media engagement.

To be part of Team Brisbane conversations and events, simply use hash tags like

Team Brisbane (#teambne) and Brisbane Any Day (#brisbaneanyday) or www.visitbrisbane.com.au. I would encourage Councillors in this Chamber, on the back of those outstanding results, to encourage their residents to be part of the Team Brisbane campaign. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Further questions; Councillor DICK.

Question 4

Thank you, Madam Chair; my question is to the LORD MAYOR. Publicly available documents published on the Electoral Commission of Queensland's website show Mr John Cotter personally donated $5,200 in 2012 to the LNP, and his business donated a further $2,000. As you know, you have appointed Mr

Cotter as the Chairman of the Fortitude Valley Economic Development Board, and as a Director to Queensland Urban Utilities Board, which is 85 per cent owned by Council.

Publicly available documents also published on the Electoral Commission

Queensland website also show Ms Jenny Parker donated $5,500 to the LNP early last year and was then in October appointed to your Field Services Advisory

Board with a remuneration of $19,600. Why are you refusing to answer the question: do LNP donors get preferential treatment to your Council board positions?

Madam Chairman, they don't, and I am not going to play stupid Labor Party campaign textbook games that Councillor DICK wants to involve himself in. I suggest Councillor DICK, if you have any interest in this city, rather than running around trying to destroy good people's reputations, why don't you spend—

—some time on some policy development? Why don't you spend some time—

Councillor DICK!

Why don't you spend some time on developing a few good ideas to advance the city of Brisbane? You've been a State Secretary of the Labor Party; you've come out of a history of being in the backroom of the Labor Party, and can I just say this: if it is that Councillor DICK simply wants to come here and play politics, I think he is completely out of touch with the people of Brisbane.



Madam Chair, if the LORD MAYOR is not prepared to answer the question here, he has an opportunity to take it on notice and answer the question later. Is that what is happening, because—

The LORD MAYOR—

—he did not answer the question.

Councillor FLESSER, had you been listening—I do not uphold your point of order. The LORD MAYOR answered the question right at the very beginning of what he said. I hope there are no more questions like that, because you are making assertions about the behaviour of people who are members of the public who are not in this place.



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Councillor KING:

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Oh yes you are. well, that is certainly how it sounds, and I will not allow further questions of that nature.

Order! Further questions; Councillor KING.

Question 5

Thank you, Madam Chair; my question is to the Chairman of Environment,

Parks and Sustainability Committee, Councillor BOURKE. We have some amazing parks across our city, and I understand that this week is Parks Alive.

Can you please explain what residents can expect across our city this weekend, and explain how every resident has a role to play in keeping our city a clean and green city for now and for future generations?

Thanks very much, Madam Chairman, and I would like to thank Councillor

KING for the question because, as Councillor KING said, we do have some amazing parks and open spaces right across our city. Suburban parks, like

Calamvale District Park, Rocks Riverside Park, Ken Fletcher Park, White's Hill

Reserve, as well as many others, service high quality attractions for the residents of Brisbane.

But this weekend is the Parks Alive Festival which is the first of its kind park festival that we are hosting in Brisbane highlighting some of the premier parks across the CBD. We are talking about Roma Street Parklands, South Bank, the

City Botanic Gardens and, of course, the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens as well.

The reason we are able to pull together this event is because of the deal that has been done between the State and Council with the management now of Roma

Street Parklands and the South Bank Parklands coming over and the work that we are able to do to tie together those four wonderful assets that we have for the people of Brisbane and, indeed, tourists as well.

Why this week, Madam Chairman? Well, because there are 3,000 international and local delegates here for the International Horticultural Congress in Brisbane, which is only the second time ever that the International Horticultural Congress has been held in the Southern Hemisphere. That is in no small part to the good and hard work by Brisbane Marketing and this Council in terms of driving economic growth and the economic agenda in the city of Brisbane.

So, for the residents of Brisbane, if you go to the Roma Street Parklands this weekend, there is a plethora of activities for you to do. There are three guest speakers—Annette McFarlane, who is the author of Organic Vegetable

Gardening as well as a well-known TV and radio personality; Jerry Coleby-

Williams, who is a presenter on, of course, Gardening Australia, one of my favourite programs, will be doing talks and presentations in Roma Street; as well as Lawrie Smith AM. Lawrie, for a lot of residents, you would not know, and a lot of Councillors would not know, he was one of the original landscape architects for the Roma Street Parklands when it was being developed many years ago. I had the chance to catch up with Lawrie the other night at the opening of the International Horticultural Congress, and he has some really interesting facts about the development and the growth of the parklands over the last 10 years.

There is also a range of activities for kids. There's Making your own Seedling

Pot, face-painting, there will be storytelling, traditional backyard games, treasure hunts, as well as entertainment and other presentations targeted at some of the younger members of our community.

There will, of course, be our wonderful guides in Roma Street taking people around, talking about various aspects of the gardens as well, as well as a unique installation that we've got just for the two-week period, which is beehives. In this


Chairman:

Councillor BOURKE:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

LORD MAYOR:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

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Spectacle Garden, which is looking an absolute treat, we have installed beehives, and there will be people there doing presentations and talks about keeping bees, as well as talks about bush tucker as well as the water dragons and the unique aspects that we have in the parkland when it comes to that.

There is also going to be musical performances, so there will be roving entertainers going through the Roma Street Parklands as well as bands and other performances on the Albert Park amphitheatre.

Turning over to South Bank, the LORD MAYOR this morning opened the

Epicurious Garden which is, for want of a better way of putting it, our newest community garden, and I pay tribute to the 14 volunteers as part of our first volunteer gardening program at South Bank who have taken their time to do the initial plantings in this wonderful new space.

There will be guided walks and tours across South Bank on the weekend as well, as well as a closure in Albert Street. So a section of Albert Street, taking the idea from the Ideas Fiesta, where we closed down a section of Albert Street and activated that space with performances and pop-up restaurants. That will be happening as well this weekend, really to drive that green spine between the City

Botanic Gardens as well as Roma Street Parklands, and encourage people to walk and take in some of the finer points of our city.

In the City Botanic Gardens, not to be left out, there will be Picnic Unplugged, which is acoustic performances throughout the parklands as well as guided talks and a circus workshop on Sunday, as well as the CitySmart stand handing out free plants and talking to residents about sustainability information.

Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens will have the Amadeus Orchestra as well as tours, as well as operators from pop-up coffee carts as well as roving entertainment.

What does this all do? Well, Madam Chairman, this is about activating and encouraging our residents to get out into our open spaces and take advantage of the wonderful spaces that we have right across the city, but also getting some pride. It is a great opportunity, with 3,000 delegates here, to highlight the wonderful parks and open spaces that we have, and also to send a message to the world as part of Team Brisbane for the wonderful parks that we have, the wonderful offering that we have in this city of Brisbane, but also, most importantly, it highlights the great lifestyle that we enjoy; it highlights the parks that we have, and it highlights how we can make the most of those—

Your time has expired, Councillor BOURKE.

—in a growing city.

Councillor DICK.

Question 6

Thank you, Madam Chair; my question is to the LORD MAYOR. A person who was the Managing Director of a major lobbying firm in Brisbane has approved a donation of $14,000 to the LNP, including a personal donation of $1,000 in

September 2012. A month later, you appointed this person to the Brisbane

Transport Advisory Board, with a remuneration of $19,600.

Also, another person made a donation of $4,000 to the LNP early in 2013, and then you appointed this person to your Urban Futures Board on 23 July that year.

Will you agree to an independent review on how people are appointed to Council appointments to ensure that there is no perception that LNP donors do not get preferential treatment?

Madam Chairman, it is a baseless question and I am not even going to entertain it.

Councillor DICK, if you ask any further questions that are imputing motive in that way, I will sit you down and I will warn you.


Yes, Councillor DICK.


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MOTION FOR SUSPENSION OF STANDING RULES:

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At that juncture, Councillor Milton DICK moved, seconded by Councillor Helen ABRAHAMS, that the

Standing Rules be suspended to allow the moving of the following motion



That this Council urgently undertakes an independent inquiry into the process of Brisbane City Council’s paid and non-paid board appointments.

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

You have three minutes to establish urgency.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. It is urgent today that this Council sends the clearest possible message to the community that we, as an entity, are not showing preferential treatments to donors. We are seeing a pattern of behaviour across the city, and I believe across the State, and now across Australia, where there is a perception in the community where there is favouritism done for appointments and decisions as a result of who donates to which political party.

Councillor MURPHY:

Chairman:

Councillor MURPHY:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

This is urgent, because we have just heard the LORD MAYOR say that he is going to continue to have business as usual and not open the books up to the people of Brisbane. These appointments are well-paid positions. None of them come to the decision of this Council, none of them. My urgency motion today is to ensure that there is transparency in these appointments, so that there can be no decision whatsoever in the public's mind that there is any ‘jobs for the boys’ going on here.

Time and time again the public are getting fed up with political parties right across Australia, whether it be in the New South Wales State Government with the ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) inquiry, whether it be with the perception in the reporting yesterday by the Queensland State

Government—


Point of order against you, Councillor DICK; yes, Councillor MURPHY.

Simply saying the word urgency is not establishing urgency. I would ask that you draw Councillor DICK back to establishing why this is urgent.

Thank you, Councillor; yes, urgency, thank you, Councillor DICK.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Three questions, the LORD MAYOR refused to answer the most basic of questions and provide relevant information. All the

LORD MAYOR needs to do is get up today and say that he will agree to an independent inquiry to remove any doubt whatsoever. The ratepayers pay their rates. They pay their bills. They deserve an open and transparent process. The

LNP continue to hide that information, and today is the opportunity. If this is above board, if there aren't any favours being done, then the LNP will vote for this motion today. This is a straight-forward motion that all councillors should be proud of, and actually saying, you know what, people are made on merits.

There are plenty of people out in the city that are prepared to serve this city, and they do a great job. What my issue today, and what the ratepayers want very clear answers on is: if you make a donation to the LNP, are there any special treatment done? That's the question, Madam Chair. This is not about imputing motive on individuals. All of these people are entitled to make donations to political parties. What my issue is: who makes the decision? What is the recourse in terms of how people apply for these jobs? Where is the open and transparency when it comes to actually ratepayers' money being spent on these lucrative and expensive appointments?

Madam Chair, it is not good enough for the LORD MAYOR to simply say—or anyone on that side of the Chamber—we don't want to answer those questions.

We have a right and a responsibility as the people who pay the bills—

Councillor DICK, your time has expired.


Councillor DICK:

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—to make sure that we are using their money effectively.

Chairman: I will put the motion for the suspension of the Standing Rules.

The Chairman submitted the motion for the suspension of the Standing Rules to the Chamber and it was declared lost on the voices.

Thereupon, Councillors Helen ABRAHAMS and Milton DICK immediately rose and called for a division, which resulted in the motion being declared lost.










Angela OWEN-TAYLOR, Julian SIMMONDS, Andrew WINES and

Norm WYNDHAM.

Chairman:

Councillor SUTTON:

Councillors, before we continue, just to answer an earlier question, my direction given to Councillor DICK and his failure to comply with that comes under section 21, Acts of Disorder by councillors: A councillor commits an act of disorder at a meeting of council or a committee if the councillor—makes a statement reflecting adversely on the character or motives of a councillor, a council officer, a member of the public or any committee of the council.

Further questions, Councillor WINES.


Chairman:

Dissent motion

Yes, Councillor SUTTON.

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Councillor Shayne SUTTON moved, seconded by Councillor Helen ABRAHAMS, that the Chairman’s ruling be dissented from. Upon being submitted to the meeting the motion of dissent was declared lost on the voices.

Thereupon, Councillors Shayne SUTTON and Steve GRIFFITHS immediately rose and called for a division, which resulted in the motion being declared lost.










Angela OWEN-TAYLOR, Julian SIMMONDS, Andrew WINES and

Norm WYNDHAM.

Chairman: Councillor WINES.


Councillor WINES:

Councillor ADAMS:

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Question 7

Thank you, Madam Chairman; my question is to the Chairman of the Brisbane

Lifestyle Committee, Councillor ADAMS. Creating and fostering pride in our city helps inject confidence, drives investment, spending and self-belief. Can you please outline to the Chamber why Brisbane residents can be so proud of their libraries and the fact that they have become more than mere book depositories and are now vibrant community spaces?

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, Councillor WINES, for the question. I think it is very important for us to recognise the role our libraries play in providing a thriving platform for our Brisbane residents to learn, connect and, of course, now, to socialise as well. Our team is very proud of our vibrant and connected and accessible community hubs that we are now developing right across the city.

We are committed to a Better Brisbane, and this future growth is evident in our

$1.7 million refurbishment we have just done of Coopers Plains and the recently launched $1.3 million at the Grange Library as well. So, under the Lifestyle portfolio, we recognise that our libraries play an integral role in facilitating the growth in our New World City. We are proud of our success of the recent

Mitchelton refurbishment, 12 months down. We have seen an increase of visitors yet again, month-on-month; in June, 15,000 plus visitors compared to 7,500 the month before, and actually 164 new members actually getting their library cards for the first time, which I think is a fantastic outcome as well.

But basically, on Mitchelton and Grange and Coopers, the upgrades that we have seen include new ramp accesses, PWD (Persons With Disability) toilets, wheelchair-friendly tables, upgraded children corners which are definitely the highlight of your libraries now if you have been to any of those new libraries, and extended wi-fi areas. Coffee carts are becoming a norm on the decks of our libraries—you can't be in the library without a coffee, and of course our meeting rooms during library hours and out of hours, with the important hearing loops that we are putting into those meeting rooms as well for fully accessible use.

We are very, very proud. We are looking forward to this Saturday actually opening Coopers Plains Library. I know Councillor GRIFFITHS will be there. It is going to be a great morning, following on the opening recently of the Grange

Library upgrade as well.

On one of the points that Councillor WINES mentioned in the question, yes, we are definitely more than a book depository now. Our children's literacy programs are produced to over 200,000 children and parents in the last year. That is a vital role in our community on making sure that we encourage literacy and learning through play, continue to foster creative and open spaces for our children, they can grow and explore and learn that books can be fun. It is more than just books, as we said. Interactive play can be fun, building blocks can be fun, but all within the context of literacy as well.

In the Grange in particular, we saw ramps for the car parks to the library, a 24/7 automated returns facility, so that is that great RFID (Radio-frequency identification) automated returns, new toilets for people with a disability and fold-down nappy change facility within the refurbishment.

Coopers Plains has also got the PWD toilets and facilities for parents and carers, the meeting room with the hearing loop, the AV (audio visual) equipment and kitchenette, the interactive floor which I have seen some of the adults get involved in as well, you can run around chasing things from the ceiling as well.

Can I say a very important part of our library upgrades is our seating options as we go forward. We have to make sure that our library refurbishments are including designs for comfortable chairs, because people are spending so much more time in the libraries. So we are really going beyond the drop in, pick a book, walk out; they are staying, they are interacting. It is becoming a place to socialise as well.


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Madam Chair, Team Brisbane on this side is very proud that our network of libraries attracted over 360,000 people to our programs over the last year. The new upgrades are definitely designed to encourage more and more people through those library doors as well. We have got an accessible and inclusive platform for residents, places for new skills and hobbies. So, rather than just the literacy for children, you can do your Brown Owls craft, you can do your origami, you can do your Japanese flower arranging, there is knitting, there is writing, there is iPad basics, email basics, photography—the list is endless on what you can actually do in our workshops.

It is about creating conversations between people, and it may be about creating conversations with people with English as a second language to make sure that they get very conversant with the type of language they would use in everyday life, to the point where we are running programs for successful businesses—how to become an e-business, how to set up your own business. If you have a craft that you would like to then market, how do you even get involved in that type of work as well.

Of course, then we also link in with our Writers in Residence, which is going from strength-to-strength, and the very shortly upcoming 2014 Brisbane Writers

Festival, which is working closely with our Writers in Residence. Coming up very shortly, we have got Geoffrey Robertson from the Hypotheticals fame coming to City Hall in a couple of weeks, and Andy Griffiths. He is coming back because he is so popular as a Writer in Residence.

Madam Chair, 94 per cent of people say they love our libraries, and we can see why. They are an integral part of our connected smart thinking, easily developed—

Councillor ADAMS, your time has expired.

—New World City.

Chairman: That ends Question Time.

CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS:

ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE

The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR (Councillor Graham QUIRK), Chairman of the Establishment and

Coordination Committee, moved, seconded by the DEPUTY MAYOR (Councillor Adrian SCHRINNER), that the report of the meeting of that Committee held on 11 August 2014, be adopted.

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Is there any debate?

Yes, thanks very much, Madam Chairman. I just want to acknowledge Eidfest which occurred last weekend. It was a wet old Saturday for them, unfortunately, but it was a good event, well attended. Many dignitaries also attended, which was great to see.

On Sunday the Carindale Rotary again hosted the Brisbane Billycart

Championships. Commiserations, DEPUTY MAYOR, but it was a good event.

It was one which continues to grow. There was probably a bit of speculation this year that it was going to be cancelled, with the wet weather on Saturday, but it went ahead and it was a great day for those that were able to attend.

United Nations World Humanitarian Day is on 19 August, today. It is, of course, a day that is used to increase public awareness about humanitarian assistance activities across the world, and we give thanks to all of those service clubs and other entities, other organisations, not-for-profits, that provide a terrific service in terms of humanitarian aid on an ongoing basis.

I also want to note the Epicurious Garden launched this morning in South Bank.

I certainly would invite people to go and have a look at that. Everything in the garden apparently is edible; flowers and all. There are I think some 17 volunteers


- 15 - aged between their mid-20s and mid-70s that are working in that garden. As I say, it is certainly worth recommending to people if they are regular South Bank visitors or not to go and have a look at that particular new offering.

Today I also wanted to announce the site of the Wynnum Library facility. This is the Wynnum Central State School. As councillors would be aware, it was a site that Council purchased some time back, and we are now in a position to announce that we will be constructing a 2,000 square metre library at that site. It will replace the current library which is at a different site, which is just

650 square metres in area. So this will be an exciting new opportunity for

Wynnum. It is a vote of confidence on this Council's part in relation to the

Wynnum area. The library will feature meeting rooms, a parents' room, a children's area; it will have wi-fi internet, and obviously there will be other facilities there as well.

Part of this development will involve the establishment of a major retail development as a component of that structure. It is a $4.25 million project. It is a self-funding project. As well as that, of course we will be spending some money on doing up the Wynnum Central State School itself. For the main building structure there we will be formally calling for expressions of interest a little later this year so that building can again be re-housed as part of a total redevelopment of the site.

So it is a piece of exciting news for the Wynnum area. It is one where we want to enhance the whole CBD environment down there as well. Again, the beauty of this arrangement is that it will be a self-funding outcome. There has been a lot of work putting together the proposal that delivers real value-for-money for the ratepayers of this city. That will be a proposal that will be taken forward from here.

I also just quickly acknowledge all of those winners of the Spotless Suburbs this morning—Keep Australia Beautiful through the Queensland section of that organisation. They were very helpful in terms of organising the event, but recognition and a thanks and congratulations to all of those people involved, right across Brisbane, who were engaged in keeping our city a beautiful place.

The five items today relate to different aspects—the first three being neighbourhood plans: the City Centre Neighbourhood Plan, the Hemmant-Lytton

Neighbourhood Plan, and the Lower Oxley Creek North Neighbourhood Plan.

These are the same story as applied last week. This is the remaining three. There are no more to come after these three today. But they are the six neighbourhood plans in total now that relate to that change in the State arrangements.

Item D is a proposed resumption of private land for park purposes. This is located at 41 Lackey Avenue, Coorparoo. It is part of a neighbourhood planning process where we have indicated that we wanted to facilitate some additional corridor linkages, linking up the parkland parcels within the Coorparoo area. So this is, if you like, making good on part of that neighbourhood plan, and making sure that we continue to edge forward in terms of the creating of that corridor of parkland through this particular area. So, a total of 792 square metres in this case. That is there for the consideration of councillors.

There was an objection received in relation to it. I should note that. Councillors would have received the details around that. A response was provided to the property owners in respect of it.

Item E is the Health, Safety and Amenity Amending Local Law. The

Environmental Protection (Waste Management) Regulation 2000 will be repealed by the Queensland Government, and that will take effect in September of this year. Parts 2A and 3 of that regulation contain provisions that are essential to the operation of Council's waste collection services.

So what we have had to do is to transfer those regulations that were contained within the Environmental Protection (Waste Management) Regulation 2000 into that of our Health, Safety and Amenity Local Law 2009 . This simply means there is no change to the law. There is change to the structure of the law, but no actual changes in terms of the way in which things are done, no changes to the delivery


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Health, Safety and Amenity Local Law 2009 . So it is an administrative change. It will not reflect in any material change or make any material difference to people out there in the suburbs of Brisbane.

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Further debate; Councillor DICK.

Thanks, Madam Chair; I rise to speak on all items today of the E&C Report.

Seriatim - Clause E

Councillor Milton DICK requested that Clause E, THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND AMENITY AMENDING

LOCAL LAW 2014, be taken seriatim for voting purposes.

Councillor DICK: This is the second week in a row where we have neighbourhood plans I guess that have started but are re-starting in one way or the other with the State

Government's new requirements and, as I described last week, another layer in terms of the decision-making process where the Council needs to pass a resolution and then the State Government needs to agree to that resolution. I understand particularly with a number of these plans, we have already begun the consultation, and now I guess in some ways they are on hold while we get that approval back from the State Government.

The draft Lower Oxley Creek North Neighbourhood Plan that I was briefed on about this change, over the recess, I know that this one has been I guess a longtime coming. It started back in 2009, I understand, and was placed on hold in

2010 pending the results of the Willawong Air Quality Health Risk Assessment.

In late 2013 and late 2014, the preparation was under way, and now we need to go through this process as well.

The Hemmant-Lytton Neighbourhood Plan is, of course, straddling—well, I know both councillors have been consulted on that, the Councillor for Doboy and Councillor Peter CUMMING, and I understand feedback on the draft neighbourhood plan strategy has closed, and it was available for public comment between 12 May and 30 May this year. So I guess it's a bit strange to be asking for approval from the State Government in a formal sense when we've sort of started and that process has been finished, but nonetheless that's the law.

I know I raised some concerns last week about I guess the extra time that this layer puts into our planning process. I guess from my point of view, and Labor councillors, we see it as some of our rights being eroded, particularly given that the cost in time involved with the planning process—not just for this Council but across the whole-of-Queensland—I certainly don't want these changes to have any impact on the timelines. We have seen, for example, item C, that has been bubbling around for a number of years now, some three or four years, and whilst this is a technical item which we will be supporting today, it certainly doesn’t give a blanket support for everything inside those neighbourhood plans.

Item A is the draft City Centre Neighbourhood Plan, and as fallout of the City

Centre Master Plan itself, it is anticipated that this neighbourhood plan will also make amendments to the New Farm and Teneriffe Neighbourhood Plan and the

Milton Neighbourhood Plan to annexe the Quay Street Precinct, as I read through the documents.

What I would like to know from the LORD MAYOR particularly regarding the draft City Centre Neighbourhood Plan, has there been any discussions or any further advice regarding negotiations with the Australian Government and other relevant stakeholders? I think it was last year that there was a discussion about increasing the height limits from 274 metres—this is the building limit in the

CBD. Have there been discussions? Perhaps it is time the LORD MAYOR could give an update.

There were a number of media stories surrounding that. I know the aviation authorities came out against the proposal to lift heights, and the Airport

Corporation I think in their submission also gave some strong comments about that as well. So that is just, I guess, in the interests of that issue, if the LORD


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Councillor GRIFFITHS:

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MAYOR did have any advice to perhaps provide to the Chamber and to the public today. Has there been any further discussion or movement on that issue, which is a significant one? Obviously there are the economic and growth needs for our city, but also the safety issues as well regarding building height limits.

Item D is the proposed resumption of private land for some park purposes located at Lackey Avenue, Coorparoo. I know Councillor ABRAHAMS, as a fierce advocate for open space and particularly parkland, on an ongoing basis will have some comments briefly to make on this, and I know always would be keen to see more parkland, not less parkland, as Councillor BOURKE can attest.

Item E is the Health, Safety and Amenity Amending Local Law. As the LORD

MAYOR said, we know that the State is repealing the Environmental Protection

(Waste Management) Regulation 2000 in September 2014. Parts 2A and 3 dealt with the waste collection by local councils. I note the next phase will be 15 business days for a period of public consultation. I certainly hope the LORD

MAYOR and/or the Chair will be engaging with the relevant unions and also the workers to make sure that their views are heard as part of this process.

While I know there are no major changes, given that this authority I guess is being handed back to the local government of Brisbane, we want to make sure that it is as smooth ride as possible. I certainly hope in section 9 on page 7, which gives the power to fine contractors $4,600 for 'when a person who is a contracted or employed to empty a waste container must immediately pick up any waste spill when the waste container is emptied and put in the collection vehicle.'

I certainly don't want to see that section enforced incorrectly. The last thing we want to see is huge fines for innocent mistakes. Obviously we need to ensure that our hard-working waste officers are supported. They do a tremendous job servicing the residents and businesses of the city. It is not an easy job. Those frontline workers deserve our support, and I know from meeting with some of them over the years, how hard that job is.

So today, through you, Madam Chair, to the LORD MAYOR, it would be great that if, as a Council, we recognise that. Also, I offer my support to their daily work which is important for our city. The last thing we want to see is any further stresses, particularly to those employees, now that we will be controlling this amenity local law, and that it is in our hands. With those remarks, I will leave it at that, and hand over to other councillors.

Further debate; Councillor GRIFFITHS.

Yes, thanks, Madam Chair, I rise to talk about item C, the draft Lower Oxley

Creek North Neighbourhood Plan, and in particular to some of the issues that have been raised in this paper that is going forward to the State Government.

My concern as a representative of part of this area relates to the future use of this site and the future growth of this site. While I am not opposed to economic development for the area, it makes sense certainly to have industry in this area and to look after the environment in this area, we need to also be aware that there are numerous residents who live around this area, and there are roads that will service the Lower Oxley Creek North as it develops, in terms of industry, that run through other areas.

For me, one of the big concerns is the conflict of land use; the tension between industry versus residential land use. With an increasing amount of industry in the area, there is obviously going to be increasing freight using the area, which of course you can understand, which we must then mitigate by ensuring that it stays to routes that are away from residential areas.

I really believe in this particular study that, what needs to be looked at—and it talks about looking at facilitating economic development and delivering integrated infrastructure and land use, that we need to be getting heavy vehicles, particularly off Mortimer Road between Beatty Road and Ballam Road, and off

Watson Road. Both of these areas that I have described are actually residentialuse areas, but they are currently carrying significant numbers of heavy vehicles.


Chairman:

Councillor ABRAHAMS:

Chairman:


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These are heavy vehicles past schools, churches, community centres, sporting fields and residential homes. Obviously it's time that we dealt with this issue, particularly as we develop this plan.

I believe that there can be some sensible outcomes with this, and one of the first outcomes I hope we can achieve is getting B-Doubles off Mortimer Road so that we are getting them away from our residential areas and into our industrial areas.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Further debate; Councillor ABRAHAMS.

Thank you, Madam Chair; very quickly I will talk on items A, B, C and then item D. Just to re-state, this is another tier of administration that is required by legislation for Council to advise the State Government before we undertake a neighbourhood plan and this process is in the process of catch-up, which is what happens with the recent introduction of this requirement and those plans currently under way.

If you review the State Interest table that has been provided on all of these, it is an excellent table; it lists items that we need to assess when we're doing a neighbourhood plan, but it really offers no information except that the CBD probably doesn’t have any biodiversity and natural resources, nor rural land, but every other criteria. The outer edge neighbourhood plans have biodiversity and natural resources and possibly some rural land to consider. So, Madam Chair, my point is, it is such a tick and flick process, one wonders why the State

Government believes it is adding any value.

But finally, I would like to speak on item D which is the acquisition of a park in

Lackey Avenue, Coorparoo, and it is for what is to be called the Coorparoo Park.

It is always distressing when the property owner objects to an acquisition for parkland; but it is parkland that I totally support. I would love a lot more of it to be out of any creek floodplain, but I certainly support this park and the acquisition of this land. Madam Chair, I have spoken previously to this matter, and both times I have said why does Coorparoo get its park so quickly and not

South Brisbane or West End, and I say that today with even more passion and determination.

But my other comment is that I do believe that in spite of the time I have been in

Council I remain naïve.

I do believe that the park that we are acquiring at 41 Lackey Avenue, Coorparoo will be a green park, a park that people understand: green grass, trees and a park that we identify, not a park that is concrete.

Further debate; Councillor JOHNSTON.

Yes, I rise to speak on item D, the proposed resumption of private land for park purposes at 41 Lackey Avenue, Coorparoo. I note the very interesting response from Council to the objector's concerns. I guess I think it bears reading into the record, because it is quite an extraordinary statement from Council in terms of the explanation of why this land is being purchased, particularly when it is not the same explanation you get for other areas.

From what I can tell, the owners of this land, which is about the size of a residential block—it looks like its being used for sort of light-industrial purposes, I guess, but it's 780 square metres, so it's not very big. They objected to the acquisition of the land and outlined their reasons in a letter to Council.

That was, there is other parkland in the area, that there's no evidence Council has sought to talk to the owners about whether the park could be held in private purposes rather than public hands, that they'd like to develop the land ultimately, and there's no evidence that Council is actually intending to resume the land, which I think is probably a bit of a misreading of this process more than anything else.

The thing that is really interesting is the response from Council’s Senior Land

Acquisitions officer of Council. I note—and I am going to read some sections of it into the record. They have responded to the concerns of the owner of the property, and this is the explanation that they have given us to why this land is


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Chairman:

Councillor JOHNSTON: being purchased: “Development of the land will add to the current flooding in this corridor; therefore the most suitable use for this land is parkland. The use of this area as parkland is consistent with the objectives of the Eastern Corridor

Neighbourhood Plan.” Now, that might be true. It's the first sentence of this letter that I find interesting.

“Development of the land will add to current flooding in this corridor; therefore the most suitable use for this land is parkland.” I am delighted that Council is setting a new precedent here because I can say now that if this is the basis for acquiring land, then this Council should be buying back land across the city because it is not appropriate for development purposes. That is the very submission that I have made to this Council in response to the flooding incidences that we've had.

It is interesting that Council now appears to be taking that point of view, or is it just it's a convenient argument for this particular piece of land? I don't know. I don't see evidence of that statement being borne out in either the planning regime of this Council or the broader buy-back regime of this Council—

Councillor JOHNSTON, this is not about the broader buy-back regime of the

Council; it's about a particular piece of land. Please confine your comments to the item.

—which we are acquiring as part of the broader Council planning regime, which is the neighbourhood plan, which is part of the City Plan, Madam Chairman. So this is the context in which I am speaking.

It is interesting in my view that we have this statement made in the response to the objector's concerns. It goes on to say when they again raise this issue—and this is another quote from Council: “The land is subject to flooding and overland flow, and therefore the most suitable area for the provision of parkland.” Again, this Council is making a statement that the reason they are buying back this land is because it floods and is subject to overland flows.

If this is the position that Council has come to, it is incumbent upon this Council to do this in all instances where there is land that is not suitable for development purposes. It is very interesting that it is being done to expedite a park in a particular area for a neighbourhood plan, yet where these issues are raised elsewhere in the city, they are ignored.

Further debate; Councillor McLACHLAN. Chairman:

Councillor McLACHLAN: Thank you, Madam Chair; I rise to speak to item E, the Health, Safety and

Amenity Amending Local Law 2014. I would like to thank Councillor DICK for his words of support for the hard-working workers that are involved in rubbish collection and management in this city. I do believe he spoke more words in his contribution to the debate on this item than he has at any time since I have heard him speak in this place about waste management, and it is pleasing that he has finally realised that this is one of the most important elements of the services we can provide in this city.

To the beat-up points that he was attempting to make about the changes that are occurring as a consequence of this amendment, I can only reiterate the facts that this is the wording that is currently contained in the State legislation that is being transferred across to a Council regulation, so there has been no change at all to the words. There is no need for him to engage in his attempt at scaremongering about the implications of item 9, the standards for servicing waste containers.

They were there before; they are there now. The contractors and their staff are well aware of that. In fact, it is contained within their contracts and their award.

So these are matters that are well known to all involved in our Waste Collection

Services which, I remind the Chamber, sees some 32 million bins lifted each year in this city. They make a fantastic contribution to our city, and our city wouldn’t be able to develop as it has without the contribution that is made by our

Waste Collection Services. I reiterate, and sit down on this point, that the regulations here are necessary because the regulations will no longer be contained in State legislation. Instead, they come across and sit under the


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Chairman:

Councillor BOURKE:

Council's local laws, and they are exactly the same as were contained in the State legislation.

Further debate; Councillor BOURKE.

Thanks very much, Madam Chairman. I just rise on item D. There has been a bit of confusion, and seeing we are going to play, ‘let's read things into the record' today, I just want to read paragraphs 26 and 27 from the E&C Report that we have before us: “In 2011 Council introduced the Eastern Corridor

Neighbourhood Plan which upgrades town planning provisions for parts of

Coorparoo. The neighbourhood plan will see an increase in housing density”—I will read that again, “an increase in housing density with new developments ranging from three to 25 storeys. The resultant increase in population will require increases in public parkland in Coorparoo in the vicinity of Coorparoo

Creek.

Over time, much of Coorparoo Creek has been piped and filled but still suffers from regular flooding. The proposed construction of the Coorparoo Creek Park provides an opportunity to restore parts of Coorparoo Creek to a more natural state, reduce flooding, and ensure the community needs for public park infrastructure are met into the future.”

Madam Chairman, our policy hasn’t changed. We continue to implement the neighbourhood plan that we've introduced and the consultation that we did with the community around the Coorparoo Creek Park planning, as well as facilitating development and helping to reduce flooding and improving the drainage for the residents of Coorparoo with the provision of item D today.

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Further debate; LORD MAYOR.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairman. I thank councillors for their contribution. Again, I just want to, in relation to item E, assure people that it won't mean any change. I am certainly happy to make sure that we do have an engagement with our employees and I am happy to have an engagement with the representative unions there as well, making sure that they understand that it won't mean any changes relative to the workforce, and more specifically, it won't mean any changes relative to the people that we serve here, the ratepayers of

Brisbane, and the residents of Brisbane, and for that matter, the businesses in

Brisbane as well that would be dependent upon those services.

In relation to the issue around the City Centre Master Plan, we are continuing engagement around the issue of heights in Brisbane. I have made no secret of the fact that I want to see opportunity of an increased height in our CBD. The reality is we've had no great pressure up until now in relation to those heights, but the reality is that will change in the future, and we do always have to serve this city in the interests of what is coming, not just today, but what is coming in the years ahead. I will continue to advocate and be engaged in that advocacy towards creating a greater flexibility within our CBD in terms of building height.

I will put the motion for items A, B, C and D. Chairman:

Clauses A, B, C and D put

Upon being submitted to the meeting the motion for the adoption of Clauses A, B, C and D of the report of the

Establishment and Coordination Committee was declared carried on the voices.

Chairman: I will put the motion for item E.

Clause E put

Upon being submitted to the meeting the motion for the adoption of Clause E of the report of the Establishment and Coordination Committee was declared carried on the voices.

Thereupon, Councillors Milton DICK and Helen ABRAHAMS immediately rose and called for a division, which resulted in the motion being declared carried .



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The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR, Councillor Graham QUIRK,





Angela OWEN-TAYLOR, Julian SIMMONDS,

Norm WYNDHAM and Nicole JOHNSTON.

Andrew WINES,

ABSTENTIONS: 6 - The Leader of the OPPOSITION, Councillor Milton DICK, and Councillors

Helen ABRAHAMS, Peter CUMMING, Kim FLESSER, Steve GRIFFITHS and

Shayne SUTTON.

The report read as follows



ATTENDANCE:

The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor (Councillor Graham Quirk) (Chairman); Deputy Mayor

(Councillor Adrian Schrinner) (Deputy Chairman); and Councillors Krista Adams, Matthew Bourke,

Amanda Cooper, Peter Matic, David McLachlan and Julian Simmonds.

1.

2.

A DRAFT CITY CENTRE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN

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The Divisional Manager, City Planning and Sustainability, provided the information below.

On 14 March 2014, Council adopted the Brisbane City Centre Master Plan 2014 (the Master

Plan), after undertaking extensive community engagement during 2013. As part of the implementation of the Master Plan, a draft new City Centre Neighbourhood Plan (draft

Neighbourhood Plan) is proposed.

3.

4.

It is proposed to amend the Brisbane City Plan 2014 to include the draft Neighbourhood Plan and to make consequential amendments, including amendments to the New Farm and

Teneriffe Neighbourhood Plan (to annex the Howard Smith Wharves precinct) and the Milton

Neighbourhood Plan (to annex the Quay Street precinct). A map depicting these proposed boundary changes is included in Attachment C, submitted on file.

The planning scheme commenced on 30 June 2014. The inclusion of the draft Neighbourhood

Plan will be a major amendment to the planning scheme. Statutory Guideline 02/14 ( the

Guideline) sets out the process for making a major amendment.

5. Should Council decide to proceed with the proposed amendment, the Guideline requires

Council to provide the Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning with the following:

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- a copy of the Council decision; a written statement about the nature and details of the proposed amendment, as set out

- in Attachment B submitted on file, which includes an indicative map of the draft

Neighbourhood Plan area, as set out in Attachment C, submitted on file, and; a written statement of the state interests expressed in the South East Queensland

Regional Plan 2009-2031 (the Regional Plan) and the State Planning Policy (SPP) that Council considers relevant and how those state interests are integrated within the proposed amendment, as set out in Attachment D, submitted on file.


6.

7.

8.

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Extensive community engagement was undertaken in 2013 to inform the Master Plan and subsequent preparation of the draft Neighbourhood Plan. Statutory consultation with the community is anticipated in late 2014 following the state interest review.

The Divisional Manager provided the following recommendation and the Committee agrees.

RECOMMENDATION:

THAT COUNCIL RESOLVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ATTACHMENT A, hereunder.

Attachment A

Draft Resolution

TO AMEND BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2014 TO INCLUDE THE DRAFT CITY

CENTRE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN

THAT COUNCIL RESOLVE THAT

1.

2.

Council decides, pursuant to Step 1.1 of Stage 1 of Part 2.4A.1 of Statutory Guideline

02/1: Making and amending local planning instruments (the Guideline) made under the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 , to amend Brisbane City Plan 2014 to include the draft new City Centre Neighbourhood Plan (proposed amendment) and to make consequential amendments.

Council directs, pursuant to Step 1.4 of Stage 1 of Part 2.4A.1 of the Guideline, that the Minister be provided with:

(a)

(b)

A written statement advising of this decision;

A copy of Attachment B, as submitted on file, and Attachment C, as submitted on file, which set out the nature and details of the proposed amendments; and

(c) A copy of Attachment D, as submitted on file, which sets out the state interests expressed in the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009-2031 and the State Planning Policy (July 2014) which Council considers relevant and how Council proposes to integrate those in the proposed amendments.

ADOPTED

B DRAFT HEMMANT LYTTON NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN

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9. The Divisional Manager, City Planning and Sustainability, provided the information below.

10. It is proposed to amend the Brisbane City Plan 2014 (the planning scheme) to include the draft Hemmant Lytton Neighbourhood Plan (draft Neighbourhood Plan). The draft

Neighbourhood Plan will supersede parts of the Australia Trade Coast Neighbourhood Plan and the Wynnum Manly Neighbourhood Plan.

11. The planning scheme commenced on 30 June 2014. The inclusion of the draft Neighbourhood

Plan is a major amendment to the planning scheme. Statutory Guideline 02/14 (the Guideline) sets out the process for making a major amendment.


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12. Amendments will also be required to be made to the Priority Infrastructure Plan (PIP) in Part

4 of the planning scheme. Recent amendments to the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 deem the

PIP to be the local government infrastructure plan (LGIP).



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- a copy of the Council decision; a written statement about the nature and details of the proposed amendment, as set out in Attachment B submitted on file, which includes an indicative map of the draft

Neighbourhood Plan area, as set out in Attachment C, submitted on file, and;

- a written statement of the state interests expressed in the South East Queensland

Regional Plan 2009-2031 (the Regional Plan) and the State Planning Policy that

Council considers relevant and how those state interests are integrated within the proposed amendment, as set out in Attachment D, submitted on file.

14. The Guideline introduces a new process for amending a planning scheme for a LGIP. Council is required to decide to make an amendment to the LGIP.

15. The Divisional Manager provided the following recommendation and the Committee agrees.

16. RECOMMENDATION:


Attachment A


TO AMEND BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2014 TO INCLUDE THE DRAFT HEMMANT

LYTTON NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN


1.

Council decides to amend Brisbane City Plan 2014:

2.

(a) Pursuant to Step 1.1 of Stage 1 of Part 2.4A.1 of Statutory Guideline 02/14

(the Guideline) under the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 , to include the draft

Hemmant Lytton Neighbourhood Plan and to make consequential amendments; and

(b)


(a) A written statement advising of this decision;

(b) pursuant to Step 1.1 of Stage 1 of Part 2.4B.1 of the Guideline to make an interim local government infrastructure plan amendment to the local government infrastructure plan in Part 4 of the Brisbane City Plan 2014 .


(c) A copy of Attachment D, as submitted on file, which sets out the state interests expressed in the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009-2031


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Council proposes to integrate those in the proposed amendments.

ADOPTED

C DRAFT LOWER OXLEY CREEK NORTH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN

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18. It is proposed to amend the Brisbane City Plan 2014 (the planning scheme) to include the

Lower Oxley Creek North Neighbourhood Plan (draft Neighbourhood Plan) and to make consequential amendments.

19. The planning scheme commenced on 30 June 2014. The inclusion of the draft Neighbourhood

Plan is a major amendment to the planning scheme. Statutory Guideline 02/14 (the Guideline) sets out the process for making a major amendment.

20. Amendments will also be required to be made to the Priority Infrastructure Plan (PIP) in Part

4 of the planning scheme. Recent amendments to the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 deem the

PIP to be the local government infrastructure plan (LGIP).



- a copy of the Council decision;

- a written statement about the nature and details of the proposed amendment, as set out in Attachment B, submitted on file, which includes an indicative map of the draft

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Neighbourhood Plan area, as set out in Attachment C, submitted on file, and; a written statement of the state interests expressed in the South East Queensland

Regional Plan 2009-2031 (the Regional Plan) and the State Planning Policy that

Council considers relevant and how those state interests are integrated within the proposed amendment, as set out in Attachment D, submitted on file.

22. The Guideline also introduces a new process for amending a planning scheme for a LGIP.

Council is required to decide to make an amendment to the LGIP.




Attachment A


TO AMEND BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2014 TO INCLUDE THE DRAFT LOWER

OXLEY CREEK NORTH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN


1.

Council decides to amend Brisbane City Plan 2014:

(a) Pursuant to Step 1.1 of Stage 1 of Part 2.4A.1 of Statutory Guideline 02/14

(the Guideline) under the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 , to include the draft


2.

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Lower Oxley Creek North Neighbourhood Plan and to make consequential amendments; and

(b)


(a) A written statement advising of this decision;

(b) pursuant to Step 1.1 of Stage 1 of Part 2.4B.1 of the Guideline to make an interim local government infrastructure plan amendment to the local government infrastructure plan in Part 4 of the Brisbane City Plan 2014 .


(c) A copy of Attachment D, as submitted on file, which sets out the state interests expressed in the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009-2031 and the State Planning Policy (July 2014) which Council considers relevant and how Council proposes to integrate those in the proposed amendments.

ADOPTED

D PROPOSED RESUMPTION OF PRIVATE LAND FOR PARK PURPOSES,

LOCATED AT 41 LACKEY AVENUE, COORPAROO

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26. In 2011 Council introduced the Eastern Corridor Neighbourhood Plan (the Neighbourhood

Plan), which upgrades town planning provisions for parts of Coorparoo. The Neighbourhood

Plan will see an increase in housing density with new development ranging from three to

25 storeys. The resultant increased population will require an increase in public parkland in

Coorparoo in the vicinity of Coorparoo Creek.

27. Over time, much of Coorparoo Creek has been piped and filled but still suffers from regular flooding. The proposed construction of Coorparoo Creek Park provides an opportunity to restore parts of Coorparoo Creek to a more natural state, reduce flooding and ensure that future community needs for public park infrastructure are met. The proposed park will play an important role in meeting the informal recreation needs of residents, workers and visitors in this growth area of the city.

28. To facilitate the proposed park it is necessary to acquire private land located at 41 Lackey

Avenue, Coorparoo. On 20 December 2013, the Divisional Manager, City Planning and

Sustainability Division, gave authority to the issue of a Notice of Intention to Resume in respect of the land listed in the Property Description Schedule at Attachment B, submitted hereunder. Council issued the Notice of Intention to Resume to the affected property owner and all registered parties on 10 January 2014.

29. An objection was received from the property owner in response to the notice. The owner did not request to be heard in support of their objection. On 13 June 2014, Council provided a response to the objection and no further submissions were received from the objector. The objection is set out in Attachment C, submitted on file, and Council’s response of 13 June

2014 is set out in Attachment D, submitted on file.


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30. Upon the completion of the formal resumption process, the owner’s interests in the resumed land are converted into a claim for compensation, pursuant to the provisions of the

Acquisition of Land Act 1967 . Negotiations concerning compensation will continue concurrently with the formal resumption process.




Attachment A


THE PROPOSED RESUMPTION OF PRIVATE LAND FOR PARK PURPOSES,

LOCATED AT 41 LACKEY AVENUE, COORPAROO

THAT COUNCIL RESOLVE

1.

As:

(a) on 10 January 2014, Council in accordance with the provisions of the

Acquisition of Land Act 1967 issued a Notice of Intention to Resume the privately owned land set out and identified in Attachment B hereunder, to this

2.

recommendation;

(b) an objection in writing was received to that Notice as set out in Attachment

C, submitted on file; and

(c) Council has considered the objection and made recommendations for the treatment of the objection as set out in Attachment D, submitted on file; then Council is of the opinion, having regard to the objection that:

(i) the land described in Attachment B, hereunder, is required for park and recreation grounds purposes; and

(ii) it is necessary to take that land.

As Council is of the opinion specified in paragraph 1, Council direct that application be made to the Minister for Natural Resources and Mines under the provisions of the

Acquisition of Land Act 1967 for park purposes.

That Council authorise the removal of all improvements. 3.

Attachment B

Property Description Schedule

OWNER LOCATION

REAL PROPERTY

DESCRIPTION

AREA REQUIRED

FOR PARK AND

RECREATION

PURPOSES

M 2

QS & LTN Dang

41 Lackey Avenue,

Coorparoo

Lot 8 on RP69511 792

ADOPTED


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E THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND AMENITY AMENDING LOCAL LAW 2014

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33. The Acting Executive Manager, Field Services Group, Brisbane Infrastructure Division, provided the information below.

34. The Environmental Protection (Waste Management) Regulation 2000 (Regulation) will be repealed by the Queensland Government in September 2014. Parts 2A and 3 of this

Regulation contain provisions that are essential to the operation of Council’s waste collection service.

35. The Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (DEHP) has advised

Council that as these provisions relate solely to local government waste operations they should be managed by local governments through a local law. Council’s Waste Services

Branch, in consultation with Brisbane City Legal Practice and the Compliance and Regulatory

Services Branch, has determined which provisions of the Regulation should be added to the existing waste provisions in the Health, Safety and Amenity Local Law 2009 (Local Law) to provide for the continued efficient operation of Council’s waste collection services after the repeal of the Regulation.

36. The provisions to be transferred to the Local Law address matters such as keeping bins clean, covered and within property boundaries, as well as Council’s power to give directions and notices to property occupiers about where bins should be placed for collection. Other provisions in the Regulation requiring people to obey directions and notices at Council waste disposal facilities have also been included.

37. The transfer of the provisions will be affected by the amendments contained in the proposed

Health, Safety and Amenity Amending Local Law 2014 , as set out in Attachment B, submitted on file. The amendments are designed to replicate the current regulations and have created no new powers. Changes have only been made where necessary to reflect current industry practices and terminology.

38. If Council resolves to propose to make the amending local law it will undergo a 15-business day period of public consultation. During that time it will also be sent to relevant State agencies for a State interest check.

Implications of proposal

39. The proposed amendments to the Health, Safety and Amenity Local Law 2009 replicate provisions currently contained within the Environmental Protection (Waste Management)

Regulation 2000 in Part 2A. The provisions have simply been transferred with contemporary wording to the proposed local law. There are no new policy initiatives involved with these amendments.

40. The Acting Executive Manager provided the following recommendation and the Committee agrees.




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Attachment A


TO PROPOSE TO MAKE THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND AMENITY AMENDING

LOCAL LAW 2014

THAT IT BE RESOLVED THAT a).

COUNCIL PROPOSES TO MAKE the HEALTH, SAFETY AND AMENITY

AMENDING LOCAL LAW 2014 as set out in Attachment B, submitted on file, using the procedures specified in Chapter 3 of the City of Brisbane Act 2010 and Council’s

Local Law Making Procedures; and b). COUNCIL DETERMINES that the proposed HEALTH, SAFETY AND AMENITY

AMENDING LOCAL LAW 2014 does not contain any possible anti-competitive provisions within the meaning of section 12 of the City of Brisbane Regulation 2012 .

ADOPTED

INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE

DEPUTY MAYOR, Councillor Adrian SCHRINNER, Chairman of the Infrastructure Committee, moved, seconded by Councillor Ian McKENZIE, that the report of the meeting of that Committee held on 12 August

2014, be adopted.

Chairman:

DEPUTY MAYOR:


Yes, Madam Chair. We have several items coming through today the first was a committee presentation on the Sir Fred Schonell and Munro Street intersection upgrade out at the University of Queensland. That was a good example of a project that was done in partnership with the private sector—indeed, the university also contributed to the costs of that project. Also, there was an opportunity for Council to coordinate some flood recovery work together with this project, and essentially achieve two aims: one was the repair and resurfacing of the road and the second was the upgrading of a congested intersection.

So it was a great outcome in that part of town, and that is a very busy intersection. The upgrade has made a difference. I travel through that intersection quite a lot myself, and it is working really well, and is a great example of Council cooperating with the university to achieve a good outcome.

We also have three petitions. The first, at item B, is a petition requesting a right turn facility at Kianawah Road South, Manly West. This is essentially a request from some townhouse residents. They are requesting direct access through the median into their property. Obviously this particular road corridor forms part of the Tilley Road corridor, although it is not actually called Tilley Road. It is part of that Tilley Road corridor, and has been designated for many, many years as an arterial road.

Arterial roads are roads that carry a significant amount of traffic or are expected in the future to carry a significant amount of traffic. For that reason, they are often designed with median strips in place which restrict turning access in and out of individual properties, but are designed to ensure safe and efficient traffic flow. So that's the challenge we've got here. The solution that has been put forward is to create a U-turn facility at the nearby set of traffic signals which will provide residents for that townhouse facility with access. I think that is a positive compromise in terms of the outcome that they requested.

The next item is a petition requesting speed mitigation on Swan Street in Gordon

Park. Councillors would be aware of the notes and the background to this issue. I


- 29 - won't dwell on that. Finally, there is a petition requesting a road closure at the northern end of Allen Street, Wynnum. Once again, the notes are selfexplanatory.

But I did want to touch on one other issue that relates to the portfolio before I sit down, and that is the issue of parking. We heard the public speaker today talk about the negative impacts that people illegally parking can cause. I think it was very pertinent, because in this Chamber, just very recently—I think it was last week, even—Councillor FLESSER got up and he complained that people were being fined for parking on the footpath. The reality is that these sorts of actions have consequences. If everyone makes a judgment saying, well, it's my footpath, it's not really affecting anyone, I can park there; then, right across the city we would have accessibility blocked for a whole range of residents trying to get around the city.

What that does is that forces people on to the street and into potentially dangerous situations. The approach that some people should be exempt from the rules sets a very dangerous precedent because, in the end, these rules have existed for a very long time and while people may claim ignorance of those rules, it has long been illegal to park on the nature strip. It is not something that this Administration has introduced. It is something that has been in place for a very, very long time, and there is a good reason, or several good reasons, why those rules exist.

Once again we see Labor councillors playing politics with a serious issue. We see advocacy groups, we see individuals like Mr Mayo, raising concerns with

Labor's approach.


DEPUTY MAYOR:

Chairman:

DEPUTY MAYOR:

They see the need for these things to be enforced.

Order!

I am sure they also see Labor's cynical approach to this matter, which is all about political point-scoring. So they are prepared to put people's safety at risk in order to score a few points. That is the reality of it. I think it is absolutely disgraceful,

Madam Chair—


Chairman:


Chairman:


Chairman:


Chairman:


Chairman:


Chairman:


Order!


Point of order, DEPUTY MAYOR; yes, Councillor JOHNSTON.

Madam Chairman, not only is that statement imputing motive; it is also offensive, and on the basis of your rulings today, I would ask you to have that matter withdrawn.

I don't uphold your point of order, Councillor JOHNSTON. I don't find it offensive. It is not involving members of the public who have no opportunity to respond. DEPUTY MAYOR.


Yes, Councillor JOHNSTON.

I just refer you to the fact that I said that it is imputing motive. You read that rule out to us—

I don't care what you said. I've made a ruling. Resume your seat.

—and Madam Chairman, that ruling applies to councillors, and the DEPUTY

MAYOR was saying this about councillors as well as members of the public, that ALP councillors were putting members of the public—

Councillor JOHNSTON—

—at risk.


Chairman:


Chairman:

DEPUTY MAYOR:

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—I have told you I do not uphold your point of order. Resume your seat, or I will warn you.

Fascinating! Thank you so much.

DEPUTY MAYOR.

Thank you, Madam Chair; it is interesting that we have heard from the ALP defence force of one over there who sees a need to defend the ALP on every occasion because apparently they can't defend themselves. Unbelievable that we've seen this type of approach from someone who publicly claims to be a

Liberal. It's just obviously another example of saying one thing and doing another.


DEPUTY MAYOR:

Chairman:


Yes.

Just a minute, DEPUTY MAYOR. Councillor JOHNSTON, you will refer to people in this place as councillors, and I ask you to withdraw that comment.

Okay, Madam Chairman, he can insult me all he likes—

Chairman:


Chairman:


Councillor JOHNSTON—

—but I will withdraw—

—I asked you to withdraw the comment.

—at your direction, Madam Chairman. Your authority knows no bounds today.

DEPUTY MAYOR: Thank you, Madam Chairman.

Chairman: No, DEPUTY MAYOR, just a moment.

Order under section 186A o f the City of Brisbane Act 2010 that disorderly conduct by Councillor

Nicole JOHNSTON be noted in the minutes

Chairman: Councillor JOHNSTON, your conduct in this Council meeting is disorderly, and as such it is going to be noted in the Minutes of this meeting, and if it continues I will invoke section 186A.

Chairman:

DEPUTY MAYOR:

DEPUTY MAYOR.

Thank you. I think it is very reasonable to point out that people's safety regarding this issue, and that's what it's all about. Ultimately safety restrictions and regulations in a whole range of fields exist for a reason. Workers may go out on to a site and be safe 99 per cent of the time. Those safety restrictions and regulations exist for the one per cent where they might be in serious danger, and the same goes for parking restrictions.

People can say: oh, there was no one walking down my street at the time when I parked on the footpath, so it wasn't causing a problem. The reality is, as I said, if everyone took that attitude, then the streets and footpaths of our city would be clogged and inaccessible, and unsafe. So we do have to have a consistent approach here.

I wanted to take this opportunity to inform all councillors and members of the public that, if you do park on the footpath or the nature strip, the fine is $113, so there is a serious consequence for that action, and Council will enforce that law.

So I am saying this as I want people to be aware of this. In the past 12 months we received 3,118 complaints about vehicles parked on footpaths—3,118 complaints. In that same year, we issued 3,366 infringements for that offence.

So, as you can see, there's a clear correlation between the complaints that come in and the infringements that are issued.

Council officers don't simply go trawling around the streets looking for people parking on footpaths, but obviously if they do happen to notice that occurring, then enforcement will be carried out, as you would expect it would be. But certainly, where complaints are made, and where people ring up the Council Call

Centre and say, there is a vehicle blocking the footpath in my street, please do something about it, we are obliged to do something, and I think that's only


- 31 - appropriate. As I said, I think the important thing here is that people are aware: this is being enforced.

This is not one of those rules that Council can or should turn a blind eye to. If you park on the footpath, the fine is $113. So it is a very significant fine, and one that I would like to see people avoid. So, Madam Chairman, just putting that out there. If we can all have less complaints coming in about this issue, because fewer people are parking on the footpath, that would be a great outcome for the city. I certainly hope that that is the case going forward.

Chairman: Further debate; Councillor DICK.

Councillor DICK: Thanks, Madam Chair; I rise to speak on the Infrastructure Committee Report, and will be speaking on items A and B.

Seriatim - Clause B

Councillor Milton DICK requested that Clause B, PETITION – REQUESTING A RIGHT-TURN FACILITY

AT 20 KIANAWAH ROAD SOUTH, MANLY WEST, TO ENABLE RIGHT TURNS TO AND FROM

TOWNHOUSES, be taken seriatim for voting purposes.

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Thank you, Madam Chair. As the DEPUTY MAYOR said, we did have a presentation about the Sir Fred Schonell Drive and Munro Street intersection upgrade which occurred, and it was good to see that this upgrade occurred in partnership with the University of Queensland. As paragraph 3 of the report indicates, the University of Queensland identified this as being a major issue, as this is the major intersection or access point. There are, of course, other access points to St Lucia Campus, but this is I guess the major entry point for public transport, staff and students alike. The intersection was also, I understand, identified in the St Lucia Strategic Transport Assessment as being a priority.

We learned in the report also that the intersection was damaged in the 2011 flood, as I know a number of properties were inundated in and around there, and as such it was eligible for the Queensland Flood Recovery Authority funding. It says on page 2 of the report that parts of the intersection upgrade project included pavement remediation works and also those flood recovery project was undertaken simultaneously with the intersection project upgrade.

It was disappointing to see some media coverage to say that students were disadvantaged or interrupted, and I know these projects are never smooth, particularly when you are getting huge volumes of traffic flowing through.

Obviously for a limited time due to weather conditions and a number of other factors, there were some complaints, but I understand that Council did work with the local residents and also the university to ensure that the project was delivered on time. It says that the component of Council's construction costs was

$496,000, and the other some half a million dollars was funded by the QRA

(Queesnland Reconstruction Authority). So it is obviously good to see value for money on that project as well.

Just on item B, which Labor councillors won't be supporting the option today, obviously with 274 signatures, the residents surrounding this point, and also the local residents living particularly in that townhouse section obviously want to see action. We don't believe that the Council has listened to those concerns. The traffic issues are obviously significant in-and-around there. The option being put forward is a Band-Aid solution and doesn’t address those concerns, and as such we will not be supporting it.

Just in conclusion, the DEPUTY MAYOR did make some highly offensive comments regarding the guest speaker. He made no mention of Labor's policy regarding parking issues. It's a poor reflection and the LORD MAYOR—

Councillor DICK, you know full well what the rules are. You don't have the right to speak about anything other than what is in these reports. If you wish to speak on anything else, you do it in General Business.

I've concluded. I wanted to make that point. Thank you.


Chairman:

Councillor SIMMONDS:

Chairman:


Chairman:

DEPUTY MAYOR:

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Well, just obey the rules in future. Further debate; Councillor SIMMONDS.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairman; I just wanted to speak briefly on item

A to put on the record my thanks to Council officers for their assistance in completing the Sir Fred Schonell Drive and Munro Street Intersection upgrade.

This is a significant local project for my ward. It is an intersection which has long been a bone of contention. I remember driving through it myself when I was at university, and thinking, this is silly to have us all merge into one lane only to come back out to two lanes at the other side of the roundabout, and wishing that something would be done about it.

The design was a collaborative approach from both the University of Queensland and Brisbane City Council officers, and then again the entire project continued in that vein. It was an excellent example of Council working with the private sector to drive ratepayers' dollars further. Council was able to contribute to the intersection upgrade, but it was managed through the University of Queensland who were able to bring it in on time and under budget.

It will add significantly to the removal of local congestion within this particular university and the St Lucia precinct. Previously we had studies which showed that on Sir Fred Schonell Drive, in peak hour during the university semester, that there could be queues of up to one kilometre long, and that this was going to continue to up to 1.5 kilometres with congestion within the next 10 years or so.

The result of the upgrade, and the modelling from the upgrade, demonstrates that it reduces that congestion down to between 100 and 150 metres. Such is the power of these local projects in reducing congestion in local areas. Again, I just want to conclude by thanking the Council officers for working so closely and so diligently with the University of Queensland to complete a much-needed and very gratefully received joint project. Thank you.

Further debate; Councillor JOHNSTON.

Yes, just a few comments on item B, Madam Chairman. I am concerned that the

LNP councillors have not responded to the concerns of 274 petitioners. The LNP councillors' failure to address the practical traffic issues that they have raised will put the lives of residents at risk, and that is unacceptable. I think it is quite appalling that they have simply failed to acknowledge and refer to the concerns that these residents have in terms of access to their property. When 274 people tell you there is a problem and you fail to act, that is not good enough.

Further debate; DEPUTY MAYOR.

Just briefly, Madam Chair; on item B, we heard some suggestion that this is some kind of safety issue. It is not. It is a convenience issue; that's what it is. It is a request for enhanced convenience for the residents that live in a townhouse estate. They want a cutting made through the median strip so they can access their property rather than driving a little bit further up the road to do a U-turn.

That is a convenience issue, not a safety issue; I want to make that very clear.

So what we have done in response is we have agreed to install a U-turn facility at the nearest set of traffic signals which will achieve the same outcome. It will improve accessibility to that property. It is important to note, as I said earlier, that on an arterial road, you simply cannot provide direct property access to every property. These median strips exist for a reason, and as I said, if you had right turn pockets for every single property along an arterial road, you would have massive congestion and you would also have increasing accidents because you're increasing the conflict points between traffic moving in different directions.

So, if there is any safety related issue here, having a median strip in place does make it safer. As I said, this is about convenience, and I think we've put forward what is a reasonable compromise which helps achieve improved property access by installing the U-turn bay to help improve that convenience for the local residents.

I will put the motion for items A, C and D.


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Clauses A, C and D put

Upon being submitted to the meeting the motion for the adoption of Clauses A, C and D of the report of the

Infrastructure Committee was declared carried on the voices.

Chairman: I will put the motion for item B.

Clause B put

Upon being submitted to the meeting the motion for the adoption of Clause B of the report of the Infrastructure

Committee was declared carried on the voices.

Thereupon, Councillors Milton DICK and Helen ABRAHAMS immediately rose and called for a division, which resulted in the motion being declared carried .


AYES: 19 - DEPUTY MAYOR, Councillor Adrian SCHRINNER, and Councillors




Angela OWEN-TAYLOR, Julian SIMMONDS,

Norm WYNDHAM and Nicole JOHNSTON.

Andrew WINES,

NOES: 6 - The Leader of the OPPOSITION, Councillor Milton DICK, and Councillors

Helen ABRAHAMS, Peter CUMMING, Kim FLESSER, Steve GRIFFITHS and

Shayne SUTTON.


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ATTENDANCE:

Deputy Mayor, Councillor Adrian Schrinner (Chairman), Councillor Ian McKenzie (Deputy

Chairman), and Councillors Margaret de Wit, Milton Dick, Victoria Newton and Norm Wyndham.

1.

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – SIR FRED SCHONELL DRIVE AND

MUNRO STREET INTERSECTION UPGRADE

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Mark Jones, Principal Engineer, Civil and Transport, City Projects Office, attended the meeting to provide an update on the Sir Fred Schonell Drive and Munro Street intersection upgrade. Mr Jones provided the information below.

2. An image of the site of the proposed intersection upgrade on Sir Fred Schonell Drive and

Munro Street in St Lucia was displayed.

3. The location was described as being a four-way, single lane roundabout that was identified as being at capacity, resulting in traffic queues of one kilometre along Sir Fred Schonell Drive during peak times. The University of Queensland identified this as being a major issue as this intersection is at the major access route into the St Lucia campus. The intersection was also identified in the St Lucia Strategic Transport Assessment as being an area to be upgraded as a priority. There was also a need to have a safe pedestrian crossing.

The design scope of the project was outlined. The improvements included:

- replacement of the roundabout with a signalised T-intersection

- installation of signalised pedestrian crossings


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- widening of Sir Fred Schonell Drive to provide a four-lane cross section at the intersection installation of a double right turn on Coldridge Street closure of vehicular access, while providing for emergency vehicle access for Munro

Street improvements to the Laurence Street intersection.

5.

6.

An image of the proposed intersection upgrade was displayed and discussed.

An explanation was given for the proposed closure of Munro Street. The presenter noted that this would improve efficiency and safety due to the simplified operation of the intersection.

The low traffic volumes that have been recorded on Munro Street (approximately

600 vehicles per day) support the closure with local residents having alternative signalised access via Laurence Street.

7. Sir Fred Schonell Drive was damaged during the 2011 flood event and was eligible for

Queensland Flood Recovery Authority (QRA) funding. Parts of the intersection upgrade project scope included pavement remediation works. The flood recovery project was undertaken simultaneously with the intersection upgrade project.

8. The presenter outlined how the project was delivered. It was noted that this was a jointly-funded project with the University of Queensland (UQ). The project was managed by

UQ and Council provided design review, project communications and approvals. Council also sub-contracted out the asphalt works to the Field Services Group.

9. Images of the construction sequence for the Sir Fred Schonell Drive and Munro Street intersection upgrade were shown. Photographs of the completed projected were also displayed.

10. In summary, the presenter noted the following statistics:

- construction started 2 April 2014 and was completed 23 June 2014 (original target date set as 30 June 2014)

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- original project estimate – $1.6 million

Council budget of $880,000 (50 per cent of estimated cost) intersection construction cost $992,000 (Council’s component was $496,000) total cost of flood recovery works $532,000 (funded by QRA) total project cost – $1.524 million

The presenter advised that despite the addition of flood recovery works, this project was still delivered on time and under the original project estimate.

11. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chairman thanked Mr Jones for his informative presentation and congratulated his team for the great outcome that was achieved with this project.


THAT COUNCIL NOTE THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE ABOVE

REPORT.

ADOPTED

B PETITION – REQUESTING A RIGHT-TURN FACILITY AT 20 KIANAWAH

ROAD SOUTH, MANLY WEST, TO ENABLE RIGHT TURNS TO AND

FROM TOWNHOUSES

CA13/854363

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13. A petition from residents of Manly West and surrounding suburbs, requesting that Council resolve the traffic issue on Kianawah Road South, Manly West, was presented to the meeting of Council held on 3 December 2013, by Councillor Ryan Murphy, and received.

14. The Branch Manager, Transport Planning and Strategy, Brisbane Infrastructure Division, supplied the following information.

15. The petition contains 274 signatures and requests that Council construct a median break on

Kianawah Road South to provide a right-turn facility to and from the townhouses located at

20 Kianawah Road South. Of the 274 signatures, 46 were from 33 of the 55 townhouses within the development, and 228 were from residents who are not directly affected by the proposal.

16. Kianawah Road South is a median-divided four lane road which was completed in 2011.

Kianawah Road South has daily volumes of around 8,200 vehicles per day. It is currently classed as a Suburban Route within Council’s road hierarchy, however under the Brisbane

City Plan 2014 it is classed as an arterial route.

17. The townhouse development was constructed in 2012 after Kianawah Road South was completed. It has a single access point which leads onto Kianawah Road South that permits left turns in and out only. To gain access from the south, the townhouses residents have a number of access options. These include:

- continuing north to Wondall Road and using a U-turn facility on Wondall Road (to the east or west) to get back to Kianawah Road South for a left turn into the development (730 metre round trip)

- using Wondall Road or Radford Road instead of heading northbound onto Kianawah

Road South.

18. However, to head to the north from the development, residents must drive to the south end of

Kianawah Road South where a U-turn northbound is permitted at the Manly Road signalised intersection.

19. The development approval for the townhouses took into account the existing road conditions and its long-term function by maintaining the median and restricting access to the current arrangement. Kianawah Road South will ultimately form a continuous north-south corridor when the Tilley Road Extension project is completed. The purpose of the corridor is to maximise safety and efficiency by having limited frontage access given the substantially higher future traffic volumes anticipated.

20. It is believed that the provision of a right-turn pocket would increase the amount and type of conflicting traffic movements thereby increasing the likelihood of crashes. It would also partially offset the surrounding intersections by the reduced volume resulting from the more direct access. The volumes are expected to be no more than 12 right-turn movements per hour in the peak hour, either to or from the townhouses. However, such a break in the median is likely to be used for U-turns from other road users, particularly as it would provide an alternative means of accessing the Bunnings store (currently under construction on the west side of Kianawah Road South) for traffic from the west on Wondall Road.

21. Council’s Congestion Reduction Unit (CRU) has provided advice on options to permit

U-turns at the adjacent traffic lights at Wondall Road and Kianawah Road South (for north to south movements) and also at the Hargreaves Road/Moreton Bay College access traffic lights

(south to north movements).

22. While not desirable, CRU has indicated it would accept the permitting of the southbound

U-turn at the Wondall Road/Kianawah Road South interactions. However, it should be noted that this facility would be removed at the time of the Tilley Road Extension project, which would create a northern fourth leg to the intersection, for capacity reasons.


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23. At the Hargreaves Road/Moreton Bay College access intersection, a permitted northbound

U-turn would have significant capacity impacts in school peaks for traffic exiting the college as the phasing would need to be altered to accommodate the U-turn. Therefore, the use of a

U-turn sign is not recommended, given the increased safety and capacity concerns.

24. In summary, given the impacts to the wider road network for both now and in the longer term, it is recommended to maintain access as left-in/left-out only, but to permit the southbound

U-turn at the Wondall Road/Kianawah Road South intersection to improve access convenience for the residents of and visitors to the townhouses at 20 Kianawah Road South.

Funding

25. There is currently no funding available in the current budget within Program 2 – Moving

Brisbane, Schedule 61, for a right-turn pocket and funding would need to be sought in future year budgets. Funding is available to permit the U-turn at the Wondall Road/Kianawah Road

South intersection.

Consultation

26. The Councillor for Doboy Ward, Councillor Ryan Murphy, has been consulted and supports the recommendation below.

Customer impact

27.

The recommendation does not immediately address the petitioners’ concerns regarding convenient access. If the petitioned changes (right-turn facility to and from the townhouses) were implemented, it would adversely impact the flow of traffic along Kianawah Road South and increase the safety concerns to motorists.

Preferred option

28. It is therefore the preferred option that Council provide a permitted U-turn at the Wondall

Road/Kianawah Road South traffic signals to the north to aid access to 20 Kianawah Road

South.

29. The Branch Manager recommends as follows and the Committee agrees, with Councillors

Milton Dick and Victoria Newton dissenting.


THAT THE HEAD PETITIONER BE ADVISED OF THE INFORMATION

CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT, AND THAT COUNCIL ENDORSE THE

PREFERRED OPTION ABOVE.

ADOPTED

C PETITION – REQUESTING SPEED MITIGATION ON SWAN STREET,

GORDON PARK

CA14/246906

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31. A petition from residents of Gordon Park, requesting that speed mitigation devices be installed on Swan Street was presented to the meeting of Council held on 1 April 2014, by

Councillor Fiona King, and received.


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33. Of the four signatures contained in the petition, three represent households of a possible

177 properties in Swan Street.

34. Swan Street is currently being considered for traffic calming as part of the Richmond Street,

Gordon Park Stage 2 project. Consultation with residents has already begun and will continue with those property owners that are directly affected by proposed traffic calming devices.

Funding

35. Funding is currently available for design only in the 2013-14 financial year. Funding for construction has been requested in the 2014-15 financial year budget.

Consultation

36. The Councillor for Marchant Ward, Councillor Fiona King, has been consulted and supports the recommendation below.

Preferred option

37. It is the preferred option that Council investigate the installation of traffic calming in Swan

Street as part the Richmond Street, Gordon Park Stage 2 project.

38. The Branch Manager recommends as follows and the Committee agrees.





ADOPTED

D PETITION – REQUESTING ROAD CLOSURE AT THE NORTHERN END

OF ALLEN STREET, WYNNUM, TO PROHIBIT VEHICULAR

MOVEMENTS

CA14/320930

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40. A petition from residents of Allen Street, Wynnum, requesting Council install a traffic management device at the closure of the northern end of their street to prohibit vehicular movements, was received during the Autumn Recess 2014.


42. The petition contains 12 signatures. The petitioners believe that the installation of this device will prohibit the movement of vehicles between Allen Street and Uplands Terrace, and restrict the potential instance of rat running following the planned development of townhouses at 400

Tingal Road, Wynnum.

43.

Allen Street is classed as a Neighbourhood Access Route within Council’s road hierarchy.

Allen Street provides a link between Glenora Street and Uplands Terrace, but it is considered a relatively indirect route for any traffic heading between the Wynnum Central Business

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44. Given its residential nature and lack of direct access to large numbers of dwellings, Allen

Street is expected to carry low volumes of traffic. However, it does provide for convenient and efficient access for service vehicles such as emergency services and waste collection.

45. An overlay of the proposed development at 400 Tingal Road is shown in Attachment A,

Figure 2, submitted on file. The proposed development site will include 85 townhouses and three vehicular accesses, with two of these located on the southern boundary at Upland

Terrace. There are no proposed accesses for the Allen Street intersection. It is expected that the townhouses will generate a total of 572 vehicles per day, and 57 vehicles per hour in the peak hours.

46. Only half of this traffic (less than 30 vehicles per hour) is expected to be moving between the development and Wynnum CBD. Given the location and proximity of the proposed accesses, it is expected that very few of this traffic would use Allen Street over the direct route of

Tingal Road. Any additional traffic would be related to access to the townhouses, and would not constitute rat running.

47. A review of the crash record around this area of Allen Street indicates there have been no crashes in the past five years.

48. By installing a traffic management device within the northern end of Allen Street, residents would see less traffic flow and possibly remove any current through traffic. However, it is considered that this would also increase traffic on adjacent roads to the detriment of other local residents.

49. Given the very low volumes of additional traffic that would be expected to occur, the inconvenience and loss of capacity to the road network for other road users, and the low crash risks, it is recommended that Council not install any traffic management devices within Allen

Street.

Funding

50. Funding to undertake the work is not available in the current budget and would need to be sought in a future budget from Program 2 – Moving Brisbane, Schedule 61.

Consultation

51. The Councillor for Wynnum Manly Ward, Councillor Peter Cumming, has been consulted and supports the recommendation below.

Preferred option

52. It is the preferred option that Council maintain the existing road network configuration.

53. The Branch Manager recommends as follows and the Committee agrees.





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PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

Councillor Peter MATIC, Chairman of the Public and Active Transport Committee, moved, seconded by

Councillor Steven HUANG that the report of that Committee held on 12 August 2014, be adopted.

Chairman:

Councillor MATIC:


Thank you, Madam Chairman. Before I get to the report, I just wanted to speak briefly on some of the major works being undertaken around our terminals around our city, and just to update the Chamber on some of the status and the significant amount of work that is currently going on, and the planning that has gone behind that.

As some councillors might be aware, the Milton Ferry Terminal, which was a commitment of the LORD MAYOR and is so important to the local community within Milton and the Lang Park Suncorp Precinct, is well under way. The first concrete pour of some of the landings has already commenced. Some of the structural works dealing with the DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) compliance have also started its installation process today.

The works undertaken at this location will not only address the issue of future flood resilience but importantly also access and inclusion. Mr Mayo's attendance today was quite indicative of the importance of the Access And Inclusion Policy across our city, and his words quite clearly reflect what this Administration is committed to, and that is access and inclusion for all our residents, irrespective of their disabilities or infirmity. So, making sure that the terminal that we have at

Milton complies with those is absolutely core to our outcomes, and that is being undertaken.

There is also work being undertaken at the QUT (Queensland University of

Technology) Terminal. At the moment full pedestrian and cyclist detours through QUT car park have been put in place, and there are a number of works being undertaken around the concrete blade being removed and access and such other issues being addressed; new paths being laid with the laying of asphalt and concrete to accommodate the proposed works for the closure of the existing facility and then the construction of the new. Once again, this is funding made available through the NDRRA (Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery

Arrangements) in the Federal Government, and I would like to acknowledge the tremendous contribution that they have made towards that, making sure that we have the money there in place to undertake the necessary flood resilient works there as well.

UQ (University of Queensland) Terminal is next on the list, and the land-based preparation works for the piling is continuing at the moment. We are making sure that we are working very closely with the university to minimise the impacts on pedestrians and users of the public transport there. It is important to note that, as part of the process of going through there, and looking for the best location, where the terminal currently is located, there will be a movement of that terminal further down and closer to the bus stop to ensure that there is a closer knit between all forms of public transport, and once again to add accessibility for DDA compliance, and also making sure that we are dealing with flood resilience issues.

As to Bulimba, all councillors are aware that works have well and truly begun at

Bulimba, with 8,000 movements a week being our busiest residential terminal. It is important, as part of the overall process of the construction, that we also continue to meet the needs of all of the residents and the public transport users.

So we have had an ongoing dialogue with residents and, Councillor SUTTON,

I'd like to thank her for her continual feedback to our office on behalf of residents. That feedback that we're getting is absolutely important in being able to minimise the amenity transport impacts on residents while this work is being conducted.

Importantly, also, we are dealing with and engaging with the traders in Bulimba, along Oxford Street, and working closely with them and residents to minimise


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Moving to the report, there was a presentation on the CityHopper, and it was an update on the project from its inception. It was a commitment by the LORD

MAYOR at the last election to look at how we can continue to improve our public transport facilities, to make them more accessible, to find ways of being able to activate different parts of our city along the river. As a river city, I think it is important that all of these opportunities are provided to residents in a ready fashion.

So from that, the CityHopper was created and announced, and it has continued to grow from strength to strength. The initial service that it replaced was the Innercity Ferry which followed the same route primarily as the existing service, between Holman Street, Thornton Street and Eagle Street Pier. The service in itself was a traditional service, and it carried on an average about 868,000 people a year. So, in the overall scheme of things, it was not a service that was heavily populated. This was one of the things that the LORD MAYOR wanted to look at.

By putting together this freely-accessible service, we have seen an enormous change in the uptake of the use of that particular service. What was primarily initially focused is an activation of the river, something of interest for tourists to have a look at some of the key spots. The service was also primarily focused on a public transport option, an alternative to residents to get from one side of the river to the other, to get from one point of the river down to the same side of the river, thereby reducing the amount of traffic congestion that residents might have caused by taking their car.

It has proven to be highly successful. From an initial patronage where the old

Inner-city Ferry service carried, as I said, around 868,000 passengers a year, we now have a service that carries over 1.5 million. We have an average take up of passenger movements of about 35,000 trips a week. So it clearly shows that, when you offer such a service, there is a genuine and obvious encouragement and need by local residents to be able to utilise that service.

In some of the survey work that we have conducted on the service, just to get an understanding of the users, 53 per cent of those are just the day-to-day commuters, getting across the river and doing their work; the balance of 47 per cent is made up of residents using the service on the weekends, using it for leisure purposes, and there is also a component of tourism in there as well. It clearly shows that this service hits the mark as far as being able to address the public transport needs of the city.

It also clearly shows that this side of the Chamber continues to be innovative and continues to listen to the needs of residents when it comes to public transport.

This side of the Chamber is clearly committed to the growth of our public transport needs, to making sure that we come up with innovative solutions while still running a proper and efficient service. What we don't see from those opposite, though, is any support for those kinds of innovations; any support of efficiency.

We see politics unfortunately for the sake of politics. Unfortunately that is all the

Labor Party is renowned for, and they continue to do that. If that is what they want to do, go right ahead, but this side of the Chamber continues to meet the real needs of this city, continues to meet the challenges of providing public transport in a meaningful and affordable way, and making sure that we address the longer term needs of our city as we continue to grow, as we become an even bigger city, and as we continue to take our place rightfully across Australia as a new world city. Thank you.

Further debate; Councillor ABRAHAMS.



Chairman:


Chairman:


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Thank you, Madam Chair. I was delighted to read the report on the CityHopper update, and that the services have quadrupled since it was the former Inner-city

Ferry service. This is a major achievement, and I humbly and respectfully acknowledge that that has been an initiative of the LORD MAYOR, and I congratulate him on this initiative. I know from the residents, many of which are local, many of which are going about their business and commuting, find this service with its cheery colours, its reliable service, something that they are very proud of and something that they believe is quintessential Brisbane which, of course, these monohull ferries are.

But Madam Chair, while we clap ourselves on the back today in this report, let's be very aware that, if it weren't for the residents and Labor councillors being very clear on what was important to this city, the LORD MAYOR, then as the

Chair of Transport, would have had his way and—

No, Councillor ABRAHAMS, you know that is not part of this report.

The jaws of destruction was a word that I was looking desperately for in the report—

Councillor ABRAHAMS—

—and it wasn’t there, Madam Chairman.

Councillor ABRAHAMS, speak about the CityHopper service or resume your seat.

Madam Chair, no one would be more delighted than me in respect of supporting the LORD MAYOR and his Cabinet on this successful report than the former

Lord Mayor Sallyanne Atkinson who also has had a very strong association with the CityHoppers, and I will pass this report on to her.

But, Madam Chair, I listened very carefully to the Chair, and he said that that

Administration councillors sitting over there continue to listen to the need of the residents while still running efficient public transport services. I am delighted to hear that, because I am asking the LNP Administration, if that is the facts, then perhaps they should look at the two services that the Inner-city Ferry are continuing to run with pay for the ride, that are inefficient, being underutilised, because there is a free service that runs on exactly the same route.

If we have an efficient service that just happens in this circumstance to be free, and an inefficient service that one is paying for, I would suggest that, taking the words of the Chair, he immediately should incorporate those into the CityHopper services. Because the residents come to me, as I know they would have come to the Chair, scratching their heads saying, we don't understand why all the crossriver ferries may not have been included in this extremely successful CityHopper project.

If those two were taken off those routes, just imagine how many more people we could have in the next report. It might not be a quadrupling; it may be that we have a five times the increase in patronage, and I am sure that the councillors on this side of the Chamber would welcome such a report. So, Councillor MATIC, I think you should really look at efficiency and see if further changes are necessary.

Chairman:

ADJOURNMENT:

Further debate; Councillor MURPHY.

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At that time, 4pm, it was resolved on the motion of Councillor Ryan MURPHY, seconded by Councillor Kim

MARX, that the meeting adjourn for a period of 15 minutes, to commence only when all councillors had vacated the Chamber and the doors locked.

Council stood adjourned at 4.02pm.

UPON RESUMPTION:


Chairman:

Councillor SUTTON:

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Further debate on the Public and Active Transport, Councillor SUTTON.

Yes, Madam Chair, I rise to talk about this Committee presentation on the

CityHopper. Can I just say that as a councillor that has four ferry terminals in my ward and my ward being one that is largely bounded by the Brisbane River, I pay acute attention to anything that comes into this place with regard to ferry services. I would like to thank the chairperson for the informative presentation on the City Hopper.

I note in the report, and as has been discussed and debated in this Council before, that this is in fact a free service that was put into place to revive the Inner-city

Ferry service. Since the service has been made free; patronage has more than quadrupled from the previous levels of patronage. That we're now seeing an average weekly patronage of around 35,000 trips with 1.27 million trips during the 2012-13 period and 1.9 million trips in the 2013-14 period.

I think they're amazing results and I think that any initiative that increases public transport use and use of our ferry services should be supported. I think that the success of this trial should be expanded. I also note that 81 per cent of

CityHopper customers have rated the services as very good. I have no doubt in my mind at all that if this was expanded to other ferry services throughout the city, that we would see similar results.

As I have suggested in the past, I think making the Bulimba Teneriffe Crossriver Ferry service free would be a good next phase and extension to this service, particularly now we're getting that new-you-beaut upgraded Bulimba Ferry

Terminal with increased capacity. If we want to encourage more people to use the city ferry services, the cross-river services are very popular there and would only encourage more people to use our ferry services in the city. In the case of the Bulimba Teneriffe route, it would encourage more people to use the

CityGlider service into the city.

I just think that whilst these results should be congratulated—the other important thing that I would like to highlight is that whilst this free service is a service that is popular with leisure, recreation and tourism, 53 per cent, or the majority of users of this service are actually commuters. I think that is also something that shouldn't be ignored.

So I have made the pitch once before about making the Bulimba Cross-river

Ferry service free. I think on the back of these results, that suggestion combined with the upgraded ferry terminal that we're getting, that there's cause to relook at that service. If I can ask as politely as I possibly can during this section of today's Council meeting because I was highly interested in these results. I think that we're ready for CityHopper mark 2 out at Bulimba. Thanks.


Chairman:



Councillor GRIFFITHS: Here we go, Madam Chair, here we go. The crying. A lot of very privileged people in the inner city who can afford those million dollar apartments, we're giving them a wonderful free service that they can access.


Further debate. Councillor GRIFFITHS.

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to add to this debate by saying that we welcome, of course, the CityHopper and what it does and Labor was, of course, always behind this proposal. But, Madam Chair, it is of concern that the people—and I suppose what we didn't get today was a breakdown on the people, who are using this service. We did hear that 53 per cent use it mainly for work purposes; the remainder use it for leisure purposes. But it didn't give us the breakdown of maybe the incomes of those people using it.

So some of the concern for me relates to this is a free service, for inner-city people, and potentially a lot of very wealthy people in the inner city. What we need to—



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Oh, it's all right, they're the ones that don't use this service apparently, Madam

Chair, it's the poor people who are using this service, but we haven't got any stats on that. But, Madam Chair, I suppose—



Chairman:


Chairman:


Chairman:

Councillor MATIC:

Oh, Madam Chair, I—

Order.

I think what we need to, as a city, is looking at what we are actually doing for people on the fringes of the city, in—

Councillor GRIFFITHS, you speak about the CityHopper or resume your seat.

Oh, Madam Chair, I'm happy to speak about the CityHopper but I'm just saying,

I think we're looking after one very small part of the city. One very privileged part of the city and we're forgetting a lot of other parts of the city. Thank you,

Madam Chair.

Further debate. Councillor MATIC.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. I'd like to thank—sorry, I'm kind of stunned by

Councillor GRIFFITHS' comments. But I'd like to thank Councillors

ABRAHAMS and SUTTON for their comments about the service. I certainly note the comments of Councillor ABRAHAMS in regards to the necessity for efficiency in a public transport service. As to Councillor GRIFFITHS' comments about a breakdown between rich and poor, Madam Chairman, Brisbane City

Council doesn't do those kinds of surveys.

Public transport is for all residents and visitors, rich or poor, irrespective of where they come from, Madam Chairman. That's what public transport is about.

At the end of the day, the people that use that are entitled to do so. We don't, as an Administration, ever judge any person, Madam Chairman, or look at their bank balance before we allow them to utilise the public transport network of our city.


Councillor MATIC: We're all about accessibility and inclusion for the whole city, Madam Chairman, unlike Councillor GRIFFITHS who seems to be about access and inclusion for only those who can afford it.

Chairman: I will put the motion.

Upon being submitted to the Chamber, the motion for the adoption of the report of the Public and Active

Transport Committee was declared carried on the voices.


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ATTENDANCE:

Councillor Peter Matic (Chairman), Councillor Steven Huang (Deputy Chairman), and Councillors

Steve Griffiths, Kim Marx and Ryan Murphy.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE:

Councillor Nicole Johnston.

1.

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – CITYHOPPER UPDATE

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Brett Turville, Branch Manager, Transport Planning and Strategy, Brisbane Infrastructure

Division, attended the meeting to provide an update on the CityHopper ferry service. Mr

Turville provided the information below.


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The CityHopper ferry service commenced on Sunday, 1 July 2012. The CityHopper service rejuvenated the Inner City Ferry (ICF) service by revitalising Brisbane’s monohull ferries.

Travel on the CityHopper service is free, thereby encouraging residents and visitors to use the river to access inner-city destinations.

3. The ICF service operates seven days a week, between North Quay and Sydney Street,

Kangaroo Point. In addition, the Cross River ferry service operates in a triangle, between the stops at Holman Street, Thornton Street and Eagle Street Pier. The annual patronage of the

ICF was 868,000.

4. The CityHopper ferry service concept was formed within the Transport Planning and Strategy

Branch. This Branch worked in partnership with the City Projects Office for a design concept,

Brisbane Transport Workshops for design finalisation and installation, the Trim shop for the specially-designed go card reader cover and Corporate Communication for marketing and promotion. Transdev Brisbane Ferries also partnered with Council to provide operations services for the CityHopper ferries.

5. The CityHopper ferry replaces the ICF service that operated up and down the Brisbane River.

It is a free service that operates every day of the week in half-hourly intervals between the hours of 6am and 11.30pm. There are three dedicated monohull ferries in the distinctive

CityHopper livery.

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A public transport network map of Brisbane was displayed.

Patronage of the CityHopper ferry service has more than quadrupled from the levels of the previous ICF patronage. The presenter noted that the average weekly patronage is now around

35,000 trips, with 3,333,200 CityHopper trips being recorded from 1 July 2012 to 25 July

2014.

In a year-to-date comparison, the CityHopper ferry service recorded 1,276,964 trips during the 2012-13 period, and 1,916,074 trips in the 2013-14 period.

8. The presenter noted that there was record patronage on CityHopper ferries recorded on two single days. The highest recorded patronage day was Friday, 29 November 2013 where 9,068 trips were taken on CityHopper ferries. The second highest recorded patronage day was

Saturday 29 March 2014, with 8,722 trips being recorded. In comparison, the average patronage was recorded as being 4,609 trips taken per day since 1 July 2012. In the current

2014-15 period the patronage level has been recorded as being 5,049 trips per day.

9. Three images of the double-deck CityHopper vessels were displayed.

10. There is currently a high level of satisfaction for the CityHopper ferry service. The presenter noted that 81 per cent of CityHopper customers have rated the services as ‘very good’.

11. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chairman thanked Mr Turville for his informative presentation and acknowledged the hard work of the Transport Planning and

Strategy team in the delivery of the CityHopper ferry service.



REPORT.

ADOPTED


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NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT

COMMITTEE

Councillor Amanda COOPER, Chairman of the Neighbourhood Planning and Development Assessment

Committee, moved, seconded by Councillor Vicki HOWARD, that the report of the meeting of that Committee held on 12 August 2014, be adopted.

Chairman:

Councillor COOPER:


Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, at Committee last week, we had a development application. This is an application for 180 Viking Drive at

Wacol in Councillor DICK's ward. So it's in Richlands Ward. This particular application was debated by Committee. I note Councillor SUTTON was unwell, so she was an apology, but the remaining members of the Committee were able to look at this application and felt that it was an excellent result for that particular site.

This is a preliminary approval and material change of use for a new warehouse building of nearly 6,300 square metres. It includes an office building, a vertical powder plant tower and car park. The company, Mapei, is Italian based. It doesn't sound very Italian but I am assured it is and that they have a base here in

Brisbane at Archerfield. So they've outgrown that space, Madam Chair, and this will be their new premises. So great to see business being very successful in our fantastic city and looking to continue with Brisbane as a home base.

The site adjoins existing industry to the north, east and west and is in the Wacol

Industrial Precinct under the Richlands Wacol Corridor Neighbourhood Plan.

The site itself is currently vacant and sits just 300 metres from the railway station, just 180 metres form the Ipswich Motorway and Ipswich City Council is approximately 660 metres to the south. They made the right choice, Madam

Chair, they stuck in Brisbane.

So as we heard at Committee last week, the nearest residential dwelling is about

320 metres to the north-west of the site and across the four-lane Ipswich

Motorway. So that potential impact was very carefully considered by officers in their assessment. The application triggered the highest level of assessment under

City Plan. It was impact assessable. Council issued an information request on

19 March asking for further information on restrictions relating to operational airspace, how that would be complied with, how landscaping would occur, including what shade trees for the car park area would be planted. A complete list of the dangerous goods that would be stored and used on site.

The applicant responded on 10 April and the application then proceeded to public notification. There was a 15 business-day period from 15 May to 6 June and during this period, Council did not receive a single formal submission. In fact, we received no informal submissions either. The local councillor was asked for his comment. He provided feedback to the officers on 24 February saying that he supported the application provided it complies with Council's requirements.

The application triggered referral to the Department of Environment and

Heritage as concurrence agency who approved an ERA (Environmentally

Relevant Activities) permit with conditions that require mitigation of any potential air and noise emissions. Archerfield Airport also was requested to provide comment and they noted in a letter dated 26 March that the proposed development would not impact on the airport's activities. QUU (Queensland

Urban Utilities) set conditions in relation to water and sewer.

This application will include an innovative world first, as I understand, vertical powder plant with a maximum height of 33 metres above ground level. The warehouse is just under 13 metres above ground level and the office building in front of the warehouse is proposed to be two storeys, including a rec (recreation) room, a laboratory, training room and maintenance room. There will be 80 car spaces provided on site, including 21 for disability parking and this is certainly in excess of requirements under the industry provisions.


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The assessment team were presented with a number of planning challenges for this application, not just the use. But also the flooding from Sandy Creek. So while not subject to flooding in January 2011, the flooding from Sandy Creek meant officers had to condition to ensure that minimum flood immunity levels would be met by this application. The application also provided a site-based stormwater quality management plan to show compliance with the water quality guidelines.

There are a number of trees protected under NALL (Natural Assets Local Law) that were impacted by the development and the officers had to consider those in their assessment. So as we heard at Committee last week, nine trees will be removed, Melaleucas, I believe, in the north-east corner of the site. There's a specific condition in place to ensure that there will be either an offset paid or replanting will occur on an approved site at a ratio of three to one.

The company will be producing plastics and adhesives on the site and will see a development of approximately $13.5 million with 15 employees. The tower itself, being vertical, means the applicant will save about $0.5 million each year on electricity by using two and a half times less electricity than their pervious factory. So certainly a great outcome. The plant will also cut on cleaning and maintenance costs due to the state-of-the-art design.

This facility will significantly increase production capabilities for Mapei who are a world leader in the production of adhesives and chemical products for the building sector. I also am advised the plant will accommodate the head of operations for the company in Australia. I'd particularly like to thank the officers for their hard work on this application. It's an excellent outcome and certainly shows that people are very keen to continue to invest in our beautiful city. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Chairman: Further debate. I will put the motion.

Upon being submitted to the Chamber by the Chairman, the motion for the adoption of the report of the

Neighbourhood Planning and Development Assessment Committee was declared carried on the voices.

The report as follows

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ATTENDANCE:

Councillor Amanda Cooper (Chairman), Councillor Vicki Howard (Deputy Chairman), and

Councillors Helen Abrahams, Geraldine Knapp and Andrew Wines.


Councillor Shayne Sutton.

1.

A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION UNDER SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ACT

2009: PRELIMINARY APPROVAL UNDER SECTION 241 FOR CARRYING

OUT BUILDING WORK AND A DEVELOPMENT PERMIT FOR

MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE FOR THE PURPOSE OF INDUSTRY -

SCHEDULE 2 AND ENVIRONMENTALLY RELEVANT ACTIVITY

(CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING AND CHEMICAL STORAGE) – 180

VIKING DRIVE, WACOL - MAPEI AUSTRALIA PTY LTD

A003811288

88/2014-15

The Team Manager, Planning Services Team South, Development Assessment Branch, City

Planning and Sustainability Division, reports that a development application has been submitted by DTS Group QLD Pty Ltd, on behalf of Mapei Australia Pty Ltd and was properly made on 19 February 2014, as follows:


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Development aspects:

General description of proposal:

Land in the ownership of:

Address of the site:

Described as:

Containing an area of:

Carrying out building work – preliminary approval (under section 241 of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009) (SPA)

Material change of use – development permit (under section 243 of SPA)

- A new warehouse building with a gross floor area

(GFA) of 6,260 square metres and height of

12.86 metres above ground level

- Ancillary office building at the front of the proposed warehouse with a combined GFA of 1,435 square metres and a height of two storeys. This ancillary office building includes recreation, storage, mezzanine area, maintenance room, laboratory and training room

- A vertical powder plant tower with a maximum height of 33 metres above ground level

- An overall site cover of 6,874 square metres (42 per cent of the site area)

- 80 onsite car parking spaces (two disabled spaces)

- Plant operating hours 6.00 to 22.30 (five days per week)

Mapei Australia Pty Ltd

180 Viking Drive, Wacol

Lot 4 on SP255899

16,290 square metres.

The subject site has frontage to Viking Drive and is currently vacant. The site adjoins existing industry and warehouse uses to the north, east and west. Under the Brisbane City Plan 2000

(City Plan) the site is included within the General Industry Area and the Richlands Wacol

Corridor Neighbourhood Plan, Wacol Industrial Precinct. The Wacol Industrial Precinct supports high impact industry where it achieves the required separation from sensitive land uses and can demonstrate mitigation of environmental impacts.

The subject site is affected by flooding from Sandy Creek with the 100-year Average

Recurrence Interval (ARI) flood level of 20.5 metres Australian Height Datum (AHD). The development has been conditioned to achieve a minimum flood immunity level.

The purpose of the facility will be to relocate and expand Mapei Australia’s current operations located at 12 Parkview Drive, Archerfield, for manufacturing powder and liquid products used in construction materials. The powder products will be manufactured using the proposed 33-metre high, vertical powder plant tower, which is to be located at the rear of the new warehouse building.

The proposal generally complies with the relevant provisions of the City Plan, including the

Impact Assessable Criteria and the Richlands Wacol Corridor Neighbourhood Plan, Wacol

Industrial Precinct.

The proposed operation will not have any adverse impact on the amenity of the nearest residential use, which is approximately 320 metres away from the site.

The height of the powder plant tower is greater than the acceptable solutions of the Industrial

Design Code. The applicant has sought a performance solution to allow the design of the tower to meet international standards and to significantly reduce carbon emissions, energy consumption, noise and dust emissions created in the manufacturing process. The location of the tower at the rear of the site supports a performance solution as the impact of the height on adjoining properties is limited and would not be out of character with the surrounding industrial development.


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The application does not conflict with the relevant State Planning Policies and State Planning

Regulatory Provisions, which include:

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Module 4 – Environmentally relevant activities (section 4.1)

Module 12 – Contaminated Land (section 12.1).

The proposal was subject to impact assessment. Public Notification was carried out for a period of 15-business days between 15 May and 6 June 2014. The Notice of Compliance was lodged and no formal or informal submissions objecting to the proposal were received.

10. The Richlands Ward Councillor, Councillor Milton Dick, was notified of the application by email on 21 February 2014. On 24 February 2014, Councillor Dick emailed a response advising that he had no additional comments regarding the proposed development provided all compliance issues are adhered to.

11. The application was referred to Department of State Development, Infrastructure and

Planning (DSDIP) as a concurrence agency for the following technical matters:

- Environmentally Relevant Activities (ERA) - Chemical Manufacturing (Schedule 7,

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Table 2, Item 1)

Contaminated Land – (Schedule 7, Table 2, Item 23) – (A site identified on the

Contaminated Land Register).

12. The Department of Environment and Heritage issued an approval for an ERA (Chemical

Manufacturing) through the above concurrence response process. This approval includes conditions that mitigate potential noise, dust and contamination issues. The concurrence agency development conditions include the requirement for investigation and mitigation of potential contaminated land issues.

13. Queensland Urban Utilities set conditions in relation to the connection of water and sewerage services to the proposal.

14. Archerfield Airport Corporation has provided written advice that the proposed development and tower will not impact on the operations of Archerfield Airport or protected airspace.

15. The Team Manager advises that relevant reports have been obtained to address the assessment criteria and decision process prescribed by SPA appropriately justifying the proposal and outlining reasonable and relevant conditions of approval.

16. The Team Manager recommended that the application be approved subject to the approved plans and conditions included in the Development Approval Package submitted on file and marked Attachment A. The Committee agrees unanimously.


(i) That it be and is hereby resolved that whereas—

(a) A development application was properly made on 19 February 2014, to the

Council pursuant to section 260 of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 (SPA), as follows:

Development aspects:

General description of proposal:

Carrying out building work – preliminary approval

(under section 241 of SPA)

Material change of use – development permit (under section 243 of SPA)

- A new warehouse building with a Gross Floor

Area (GFA) of 6,260 square metres and height of 12.86 metres above ground level

- Ancillary office building at the front of the


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Land in ownership of: the proposed warehouse with a combined GFA of

1,435 square metres and a height of two storeys.

This ancillary office building includes recreation, storage, mezzanine area, maintenance room, laboratory and training room

- A vertical powder plant tower with a maximum height of 33 metres above ground level

- An overall site cover of 6,874 square metres

(42 per cent of the site area)

- 80 onsite car parking spaces (two disabled spaces)

- Plant operating hours 6.00 to 22.30 (five days per week)

Mapei Australia Pty Ltd

Address of the site: 180 Viking Drive, Wacol

Described as: Lot 4 on SP255899

Containing an area of: 16,290 square metres.

(b) The Council is required to assess the application pursuant to Chapter 6,

Part 5, Division 2, section 314 of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 (the Act) and decide the application under Division 3, Subdivision 1, section 318 and

Subdivision 2 of the Act; the Council—

(c) Upon consideration of the application and those matters set forth in sections 314, 318 and Subdivision 2, section 326 of the Act relevant to the application considers that:

1. the applicant has demonstrated that the proposal does not cause

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6. conflict with the State planning policies, planning regulatory provisions or South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009-2031 ; the proposal is consistent with the relevant provisions within the

Brisbane City Plan 2000 ; the proposal facilitates the growth of the city’s economy and employment through the provision of industry; the proposal will not create adverse amenity or environmental impacts on the surrounding area; the proposal does not have an adverse impact on the nearest sensitive land uses (residential zoned land) located 320 metres from the site; and the development can be accommodated within the existing essential infrastructure networks;

(d) Accordingly considers that were the reasonable and relevant conditions submitted on file and marked Attachment A, imposed on the development, it would be appropriate that the proposed development be carried out on the subject land; and

(e) Issues a Brisbane City Council Infrastructure Charges Notice for the development pursuant to the Act and the Brisbane Adopted Infrastructure

Charges Resolution (No.4) 2014, for the transport, community purposes and stormwater trunk infrastructure networks.

(ii) Whereas the Council determines as in (i) hereof, THE COUNCIL APPROVES

THE DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION referred to above and subject to the


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ADOPTED

ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE

Councillor Matthew BOURKE, Chairman of the Environment, Parks and Sustainability Committee, moved, seconded by Councillor Fiona KING, that the report of the meeting of that Committee held on 12 August 2014, be adopted. conditions in the Development Approval Package, submitted on file and marked

Attachment A, and directs that:

(a) the applicant be advised of the decision;

(b) the applicant be given the Infrastructure Charges Notice for Community

Purposes, Stormwater and Transport;

(c) the Central SEQ Distributor-Retailer Authority be advised of the decision;

(d) the concurrence agency, the Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning, be advised of the decision;

(e) the Archerfield Airport Corporation, as advice agency, be advised of the decision; and

(f) the Councillor of the Richlands Ward, Councillor Milton Dick, be advised of the decision.

Chairman:

Councillor BOURKE:


Thanks very much, Madam Chairman. Madam Chairman, just before I get to the formal Committee report, there's just a couple of items that I want to touch on relating to my portfolio. I had the pleasure on Sunday afternoon to attend the opening ceremony of the International Horticultural Congress which is being held in Brisbane at the moment. It's running all week. There are 3,000 delegates, as I said in the answer to my question earlier this afternoon, who have come to

Brisbane to be a part of that congress.

It is, as I said earlier, the second time only in the nearly 150 year history of this association that it's being held in the southern hemisphere. So we're very privileged to be able to secure this event through the help of Brisbane Marketing and numerous other organisations by putting forward a winning bid to have that event here. We are using the opportunity to highlight, as I said earlier, Roma

Street, South Bank, other parklands across the city with guided tours and special tours during the week.

There was this morning a special function put on up at Roma Street for members of the congress who could attend and obviously get some insight into how the park's run and some of the initiatives that we're delivering in that space. So if any councillors see individuals walking round with a green lanyard on or an orange lanyard on, they're probably some of the 3,000 people who are visiting our city.

So make sure that they feel welcome, make sure if they look a little bit lost that you're providing directions to where they need to be.

Madam Chairman, just turning very quickly to one other item before I get to my report. I am very pleased to announce, Madam Chairman that consultation opens tomorrow, 20 August, for the City Botanic Garden Master Plan. Madam

Chairman, as the Chamber might remember, this document is being done as part of our Land Conservation Management Plan, which is our legal requirement through the State legislation to help protect and preserve the City Botanic

Gardens going forward.

So this is a copy of the document here, Madam Chairman, consultation will be open from 20 August to 26 September. It is a very detailed document, Madam

Chairman, it looks at some opportunities in the short term, opportunities in the longer term on how we can not only enhance the gardens but also bring back to the gardens some of those heritage or lost history items, Madam Chairman. It's had a very potted history and there is a wonderful double page in the middle of the document, Madam Chairman, which lists out from 1820 through to today the various aspects and the various, I guess, elements of the gardens.


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There was days when there was a zoo there and I'm sure some councillors in this place would probably remember the zoo. Not you, Councillor COOPER, you would probably be too young to remember the zoo at the City Botanical

Gardens. But, Madam Chairman, it's played a very rich and a very valuable part in the history of our city. This document will aim to hopefully protect and preserve the gardens into the future so it can continue to provide a valuable space.

We know that there's 9,000 people moving into our CBD over the next 20 years and the pressures on the gardens are going to be increased with those additional residents. But, Madam Chairman, we shouldn't be afraid of the challenges; we should be looking to this document and to the opportunities that are presented by these changes, Madam Chairman. So I encourage all councillors to go online, it will be live at midnight tonight, hard copies will be available as well. I encourage everyone to get involved and have their say.

We do have a community reference group, Madam Chairman, that have been working diligently behind the scenes and I want to pay tribute and thank them for all their hard work up to this point. Madam Chairman, turning to the

Committee report, there was one item on the Committee report from last week which was a Committee presentation by a Council officer. Madam Chairman, the

Senior Arboricultural Coordinator, Madam Chairman, who provided a

Committee presentation on that very interesting topic, Phellinus Noxius , Madam

Chairman, which I'm sure the Chamber is well aware of.

It was a detailed presentation and I like to bring these presentations through on a regular basis because the work that our Council officers do, leading the world when it comes to the research and the ability to deal with Phellinus Noxius ,

Madam Chairman, is something that we as an organisation should be very proud of. Because we've saved or managed to be able to save a number of very historical, very significant trees right across the city.

The officers were able to provide an update on a tree in particular, down at

Sandgate, where over the last six years; we've seen a marked improvement in the health of that tree since our first intervention methods. Our ongoing research and the work that we're doing in collaboration with international partners, Madam

Chairman, means that we are leading the way and we should celebrate the good work that our Council officers do in this space.



Environment, Parks and Sustainability Committee was declared carried on the voices.

The report as follows

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ATTENDANCE:

Councillor Matthew Bourke (Chairman), and Councillors Peter Cumming, Kim Flesser, Geraldine

Knapp and Ryan Murphy.


Councillor Fiona King (Deputy Chairman).

1.

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – UPDATE TO PHELLINUS NOXIUS

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

89/2014-15

Keith Foster, Senior Coordinator Arboriculture, Branch Manager’s Office, Asset Services,

Field Services Group, Brisbane Infrastructure Division, attended the meeting to provide an


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2. Photographs of trees affected by Phellinus noxius were displayed showing the ‘brown stocking’ appearance that demonstrates the fungus is active and the white margin which indicates that the fungus is highly active (meaning it is drawing moisture from its host). The pathogen spreads from one host to the next via root-to-root contact. Photographs of affected roots and the fungus’ fruiting bodies were displayed.

3. Trichoderma fungi have been trialled by Council as a natural biological control for this disease. Species of fungi from the Trichoderma genus are present in nearly all soils; they frequently are the most prevalent culturable fungi.

Many species from this genus can be characterised as ‘opportunistic’.

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Trichoderma species used in the trial were:

- Trichoderma reesei

Trichoderma harzianum

Trichoderma ghanense

- Trichoderma atroviride.

Photographs of Trichoderma reesei and Trichoderma harzianum colonising Phellinus noxius in petri dishes during the trial were displayed. During propagation Trichoderma harzianum , a locally occurring species of this fungus, proved the most effective.

5. A case study was detailed in which Trichoderma was trialled in 2011 on a Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) infected with Phellinus noxius in Moora Park, Shorncliffe. The methodology for introducing the fungus and soil structure improvements made to the growing environment were explained. Photographs of this process and the growing Trichoderma (at four weeks and eight weeks after inoculation) were displayed.

6. Eight weeks after inoculation the Banyan tree was producing new root growth and by

12 weeks prolific new root growth was evident. After a 20-week period (in February 2012), the new tree root diameter had increased up to 10 millimetres. At the 32-week stage new roots had increased in size up to 20 millimetres, and the tree was producing flowers and fruits.

Photographs showing each stage of root development and the new roots growing over the

Phellinus noxious contaminated roots were displayed.

7. A series of photographs were also displayed showing the significant improvement in the tree’s canopy that was evident over this time. Another location has since been identified, in

Bradman Park, Lutwyche, where a tree was affected by Phellinus noxius and this was being naturally addressed by Trichoderma.

8. Council has developed a cost-effective management strategy to address the problem of

Phellinus noxius , but at this stage it has only been trialled for fig trees. A range of soil structure improvement measures are being implemented for other tree types affected by the disease.

9. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chairman thanked Mr Foster for his very informative presentation.



REPORT.

ADOPTED


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FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE

Councillor David McLACHLAN, Chairman of the Field Services Committee, moved, seconded by Councillor

Norm WYNDHAM, that the report of that Committee held on 12 August 2014, be adopted.

Chairman: Is there any debate?

Councillor McLACHLAN: Thank you, Madam Chairman. Just briefly, the item before us at item A was another in the series of presentations coming before our Committee on the various branches of the Field Services Group. Last week we had a presentation on the Urban Amenities Branch’s 2013-14 achievements. Very good outcomes as well, a great opportunity to remind the Field Services Committee about the important work that's undertaken within this group on behalf of the Field

Services Group.

Some of the specific things that were mentioned which are probably not covered by budget debates includes the reduction in lost-time injuries by 20 per cent, reduction in WorkCover costs by 35 per cent in the context of delivering some significant achievements in the course of the year. All of which all councillors in this place are aware of, as these are the teams that we see most in our wards, delivering various programs to repair and deliver our parks and gardens, horticultural maintenance, the Urban Response Teams that do the clean ups, the stormwater gulley cleansing, graffiti removal and various other cultural services.

So this was a good presentation and some very good outcomes as presented by the Urban Amenities Branch in Field Services Group. Thank you, Madam Chair.


Upon being submitted to the Chamber, the motion for the adoption of the report of the Field Services Committee was declared carried on the voices.


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ATTENDANCE:

Councillor David McLachlan (Chairman), Councillor Norm Wyndham (Deputy Chairman), and

Councillors Peter Cumming, Kim Marx and Ian McKenzie.


Councillor Nicole Johnston.

1.

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – URBAN AMENITIES 2013-14

ACHIEVEMENTS

90/2014-15

Matt Anderson, Branch Manager, Urban Amenities, Field Services Group, Brisbane

Infrastructure Division, attended the meeting to provide information on the achievements of the Urban Amenities Branch for the 2013-14 financial year. Mr Anderson provided the information below.

2. The Urban Amenities Branch structure consists of six work units covering, five regional delivery areas in parks and gardens, urban response and arboriculture, maintenance services in urban and road cleansing, mosquito and pest services, and signs.

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20 per cent reduction in lost time injuries;

35 per cent reduction in WorkCover costs; programmed works delivered.

The Regional Operations work unit delivers parks and gardens horticultural maintenance,

Urban Response teams, stormwater gully cleansing, graffiti removal and arboricultural services.

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The presenter outlined the achievements of this work unit from July 2013 to June 2014. The highlights included: removal of 142,000 square metres of graffiti; over 147,000 stormwater gully cleansing services, and over 41,000 parks services conducted; acquisition of new equipment to enhance operations; delivery of a $600,000 Landscape Rejuvenation project to target high profile sites across the city;

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Botanic Gardens.

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The achievements of the Maintenance Services work unit from July 2013 to June 2014 were outlined. The presenter noted that the significant achievements included a 20 per cent reduction in road sweeper maintenance, introduction of iPads to field-based pest teams, and the revised delivery of a bus stop cleansing program and ground-based mosquito services program.

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The other notable achievements of Maintenance Services include:

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Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chairman thanked Mr Anderson for his informative presentation.



REPORT.

ADOPTED

BRISBANE LIFESTYLE COMMITTEE

Councillor Krista ADAMS, Chairman of the Brisbane Lifestyle Committee, moved, seconded by Councillor

Andrew WINES, that the report of that Committee held on 12 August 2014, be adopted.

Chairman:

Councillor ADAMS:


Thank you, Madam Chair. A couple of exciting things that have happened and are coming up before I get to my actual Committee report from last week. This week we are leading into seniors' week. We had a very, very successful Lord

Mayor's Senior Gala Cabaret on Sunday afternoon, which I know several


- 55 - councillors here attended. We had over 1,000 people came along to hear the wonderful talent that we have in our senior residents in Brisbane.

We had quite an eclectic mix of performers, as Councillor KNAPP pointed out to me today. We had the Happy Dancing Group which was six female Chinese dancers which did a wonderful performance with fans. We had Peter Vance who is actually a blind senior gentleman who did a fantastic version of Feeling Good.

Actually pulled out his cane and twirled it above his head as he was actually performing, which was great to see. The first magician that we've had at a gala cabaret who was very talented and a bit of a comedian himself as well.

So this was the culmination of our 10 master classes. The time that the seniors spent with their mentors, I think they made it very clear that they loved it. We had Simon Gallaher, Rachael Beck, Angela Toohey, and Gregory Moore; just to name a couple of mentors there, performing on Sunday as well. It was a fantastic platform for these seniors to be involved. It now means they can't be involved in the concert next year but I can tell you the list of people that were there last year can't wait to get back in so that they can be involved again. So looking forward to it next year. If you haven't been yet, I strongly suggest, councillors, to get along and see the talent that we've got.

Another exciting opening coming up this weekend, of course, as I mentioned earlier in question time today is the Coopers Plains Library. So we have it's the official launch this Saturday morning with the LORD MAYOR. We have a very special event happening which we haven't done at any other library; we do like to make each of our libraries just a little bit different. This usually focuses around the children's corner and the theme that we've got.

So in the playground out the back—which I have to thank Councillor

GRIFFITHS for his Ward Footpath and Parks Trust Fund contribution to the playground upgrades to link with the library refurbishment. We are getting the installation of a—and this is a contradiction of terms—six foot tall gnome. So a gnome that is actually a lot taller than me. As I said, contradiction in terms. But an art installation being done by a local artist. Again, being shared between the refurbishment and the Ward Footpath and Parks Trust Fund.


Councillor ADAMS:

Chairman:

Councillor ADAMS:

We're opening a competition—

Order.

We're opening a competition at 10am on Sunday morning called Name The

Gnome. So anybody who's a resident in Brisbane can come and join. You can get online for the event or enter an online form that will be made on our corporate website. Or if you're there on the day, you can pop your name in the box. I'm sure I'll have some very interesting discussions with Councillor

GRIFFITHS about what we'll end up naming the gnome.

So if you have a vision of what Ronald McDonald kind of looks like in the playgrounds, the big Ronald McDonalds that the kids run over, that type of thing in a gnome. It does feed back into the theme that we have in the children's library as well. So it's going to be a great morning. But after Saturday morning at

10 o'clock, if you have an idea for the name of the gnome at the Coopers Plains

Library, please give us some ideas. It'll be a great way to get the community involved and make it a little bit more personal connection to the local library as well.

Onto the presentation that we saw last week, Madam Chair. My Community

Directory is one that we are promoting very heavily across Brisbane City

Council. It revolves around our community and everybody that works within our communities across a raft of different avenues. It's about making sure that people in Brisbane, residents and even the South East Queensland corner, My

Community Directory, I must say, goes wider, right across Queensland, know about the services in their community that are available.

So it's a community-centred portal which is produced in partnership with the

Community Information Support Service. It's a one-stop-shop, an online


- 56 - community directory that contains up-to-date information on community services and organisations. It makes it very easy for people to find organisations or services by searching and viewing under service headlines and categories. It's available to ward officers, community organisations, businesses, residents, anybody. It also has a link from Council's website.

So there are a lot of benefits, too, for our community organisations in this one. It assists them with their clients so they can use it as a referral system as well. It's very comprehensive and as we know with any corporate website or any directory, it's only as relevant as up-to-date it is. The beauty about this is if you are on there as a community service, it is up to you to keep your information upto-date. So it is something that is up-to-date because the community groups keep their information up-to-date.

We've been doing some work with the Endeavour Foundation; the staff there currently stated that they can spend up to 30 minutes trying to research information in areas that they need, whereas they can get onto My Community

Directory and in less than two minutes they can have the information they want, they can interact with the clients and it's far more productive and efficient. On top of that they just received a grant in the last six months.

There's actually an aspect there for those who have less ability in literacy or even in mobility of your hands to be able to use the swipes, if you're using it on a tablet. It's a very accessible website to use which is a fantastic thing for those most vulnerable in our community that want to access these services as well.

So in the previous financial period, we've seen a 48 per cent increase in the numbers of services listed. We're averaging around 34,182 visits per month in the Greater Brisbane area, which is fantastic for the entire portal. You can walk through using a map; you can go to your local area and find out what's local as well.

I think it goes to show why the Access My Community was a finalist in the

Premier's Awards for Open Data in December 2013. It is a great directory, I encourage all councillors to get online and have a look at it, make sure their ward staff know about it as well. It can be a great tool to use if residents come to see you about services in their local area. Thank you, Madam Chair.



Brisbane Lifestyle Committee was declared carried on the voices.


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ATTENDANCE:

Councillor Krista Adams (Chairman), Councillor Andrew Wines (Deputy Chairman), and Councillors

Steve Griffiths, Vicki Howard, Steven Huang and Victoria Newton.

1.

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – MY COMMUNITY DIRECTORY

91/2014-15

Vanessa Fabre, Acting Healthy and Vibrant Communities Manager, Connected Communities,

Brisbane Lifestyle Division, attended the meeting to provide a presentation on My

Community Directory, an online, web-based community services directory that is produced through a partnership with Community Information Support Services (CISS), a not-for-profit organisation. She provided the information below.

2. Community Information Support Services are based at the Maida Lilley Community Centre in

Fortitude Valley. The CEO of CISS, Brentyn Parkin, has been the passionate driver behind


- 57 - building this comprehensive, online, information tool of community services and organisations for government, businesses and the community over the past three to four years.

3. My Community Directory is best described as a community-centred response to the need for up-to-date information about community services and organisations.

4. Council has committed an annual membership to deliver the directory for a two-year period from 14 February 2013 to 13 February 2015, at which point Council will assess the benefits of extending the membership. As a member of My Community Directory, Council can view a real-time service database of all My Community Directory listed services located in the region straight from the My Community Directory dashboard. It is simple and up-to-date because community organisations that enter their details remain in control of the information and can make changes as they occur.

5. One of the useful tools in the directory is the service map. This resource provides the community and Council officers with an easy way to identify the various community-service providers and community groups based in a particular suburb at a glance.

6. The Brisbane Community Directory allows visitors to easily find organisations and services by: searching and viewing services by category; viewing individual listing information and contact details for each service; directly contacting individual organisations from the listing by email or linking to their website; and accessing demographic statistics by clicking within the ‘grey’ Council boundary. The website can also be searched by categories.

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The presenter then showed the Committee through a short demonstration of the directory.

Achievements for My Community Directory in 2013-14 include:

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3,665 services currently displayed as at 7 July 2014 for the Brisbane region

410,194 visits originating from within the Greater Brisbane area

34,182 visits per month

976,261 pages viewed

81,355 page views per month.

In September 2013, My Community Directory provided a new way to measure and interpret the website statistics, where Council officers can access the member dashboard to analyse, search, visit and service data, to make informed decisions regarding planning and community needs. One helpful data set is the ability to view the top ten ranking of services that are being searched. Since the inception of the ranking, the top three services have been: Information and Counselling, Health Services and Disability Services.

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My Community Directory is currently being trialled by staff at five Endeavour Foundation sites across Brisbane and Redlands to achieve cost and time saving benefits when searching for information on activities and services. By reducing the time required to locate information there is a potential to make interactions with clients and stakeholders more productive and effective.

11. The Brisbane Community Directory is being used by a range of Council business units as a searching and planning tool, as well as to deliver community engagement and provide information.


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12. The presenter described examples of the various areas of Council that use the directory and the reasons that it is used.

13. ‘Access My Community’ is an innovative online resource that was developed in conjunction with Westside Community Services through funding from Council’s Access and Inclusion

Partnership grant program. It provides a mapping tool, focusing on people with low literacy and intellectual disabilities, to ‘walk through your local community’, and see what services and activities are located nearby.

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‘Access My Community’ allows My Community Directory and local facilities information to be overlayed on a map within the Brisbane City Council area. The presenter explained that the directory has begun to display new data-sets that have been provided by councils, such as parks, swimming pools, barbeques and even boat ramps to provide information that helps improve social inclusion outcomes for all residents.

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16. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chairman thanked Ms Fabre for her informative presentation.



REPORT.

ADOPTED

FINANCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE

Councillor Julian SIMMONDS, Chairman of the Finance, Economic Development and Administration

Committee, moved, seconded by Councillor Angela OWEN-TAYLOR, that the report of that Committee held on 12 August 2014, be adopted.

Chairman:



Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman. I had the pleasure, Just before I move to the report, I had the pleasure last week of meeting on the LORD MAYOR's behalf with the Honourable Mike Reynolds, ex-Labor State Minister, but we don't hold that against him because he's also a good local council man as well, being the exdeputy mayor of Townsville. He was specifically talking to us about his involvement in the YWAM (Youth With A Mission) Medical Ships Australia.

So this is a charity that's been operating since 2010 and brings medical care to impoverished PNG (Papua New Guinea) communities via an old fishing vessel that they have. It's based out of Townsville and they take it over to PNG with volunteer medical staff. They take it up the various rivers and tributaries of PNG to find these impoverished communities and then spend some time providing basic medical care which isn't available to them.

They've just signed on for a brand new, larger boat. It's an ex-charter tour boat. It can carry some 100 staff and includes its own dental clinic and facilities for lectures and the like. They've just signed this lease and it's going to significantly


- 59 - expand their operations. Anyway, they're currently undertaking a public awareness tour along the east coast; they're taking the boat into various ports.

They will be in Brisbane from 9 to 15 September.

I tell the Chamber this because it's a very worthy charity to which we should give our support. Time is short so we are looking to pull together in a very short period of time a civic reception for those volunteers when they are docked in

Brisbane and we are hopeful of getting that together. But also Mike has extended an invitation to all councillors who wish to tour the ship while it's here in

Brisbane. If you'd like to take that up, please let me know because it is a wonderful charity and wonderful work they provide, all off the back of volunteers.

The other thing I just wanted to give an update to the Chamber about was the

BaSE (Business and System Efficiency) project. I know how eager the Chamber is for updates on this particular item. The Chamber would be aware that we have recently been talking about significant testing that's been underway for the release 2a which includes the new payroll system. This has now been activated; this week will be the second week of the payroll system in full operation. Last week, all pays were processed through the new payroll, the SAP payroll system.

All has gone very well.



Chairman:


Chairman:

Councillor HOWARD:

We had a small hiccup with the awards for the councillors' payslip—

Order.

But considering there are some 7,500 employees with numerous awards, this has been a remarkably good result.

So my update is not by any means to say that all the work is done. There is still a lot of hard work ahead of this project. But it was more to acknowledge this milestone within the Chamber and to thank very much the many staff who are working on this particular project and have worked on it significantly over the last year and a half. A lot of those officers who have been seconded from their standard duties in Council to work on this BaSE project, with the finalisation of this release, which is the most significant of the three, will now return to their standard roles and leave the BaSE project.

So I wanted to take this opportunity to thank them very much for the hard work and the way that they have approached the job. I did have the opportunity to address them on Friday and I tried to point out to them that while a new IT

(information technology) system can seem to some people quite a dry thing, that what they have in fact done is set this Council up with a very firm foundation going forward to continue to deliver the services that we need to provide to ratepayers. That as a local councillor, I am very grateful for their efforts.

Because through their efforts, they have saved money on the back-of-house operations which can now be reinvested into front-line services.

They have, through their efforts, provided better resources for the front-line services, such as mobile devices, which is going to allow them to better deliver for residents. They should be rightfully proud of those efforts to improve services for Brisbane residents.

Madam Chairman, finally, the Committee had a presentation on the Brunswick

Street Mall last week. I have spoken previously about the success of that redevelopment and I know other councillors are keen to speak on it. So I will hand the floor over to them. Thank you.

Further debate. Councillor HOWARD.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. Well of course, Madam Chairman, I couldn't but stand to support this wonderful upgrade of the Brunswick Street Mall. The presentation of course highlighted the tremendous amount of work done by

Council officers, in consultation with the local businesses, to ensure the objectives of the refurbishment of the mall were met. Indeed they have been,

Madam Chairman.


Chairman:

Councillor WINES:

Chairman:

Councillor WINES:

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Those objectives were to rejuvenate the mall and improve the surfacing, to improve the functional space for formal events, to promote the space for congregating and socialising, to activate the day and night-time economy and to promote and unlock private investment. The construction was compacted into six months. That's a tremendous effort just in itself, Madam Chairman. With weekly newsletters and face-to-face liaison with the businesses, to deliver the upgrade in the quickest and least disruptive manner.

While there is always some pain during this process, there will be ultimate gain for the businesses with a positive future for day-time businesses in our valley.

The unique public artworks were created by Sandra Selig and Jennifer Marchant.

They celebrate the energy and vitality of Fortitude Valley. It's the diverse fabric of the mall which attracts everyone from musicians to diners, to shoppers and it also recognises the important creative industries which populate and enhance the

Fortitude Valley area.

The opening celebrations saw live music performances, breakdancing, circus and street art as well as many street performances. The hula-hoop lessons brought back many memories and my granddaughter particularly enjoyed creating huge bubbles with the buckets of soap suds and the fun activities available for all ages.

Madam Chairman, the fun continues this weekend with Valley Fiesta. I encourage everyone to come down and enjoy a great weekend of live music and to showcase our local businesses and of course our wonderful mall upgrade.

I'd just like to mention one of the traders, Monique Gregory, who is the owner of the Trash Monkey store and I think that she's encapsulated what a lot of people have said to me about the mall. “We understand not everyone is happy with the mall. Not everyone wants to see change. We need to keep our local people employed and see some life injected back into the precinct in the daytime.”

She goes on to say: “Rome wasn't built in a day and we know we can't expect miracles overnight. This is the best chance for us to showcase the creative precinct that we are. What looks great to some will become a kaleidoscope of colour this weekend for Valley Fiesta and it's free, so no reason not to attend.”

Monique is just one of the many fabulous people who are part of the Fortitude

Valley community and I look forward to joining her to celebrate this weekend.

Madam Chairman, the upgrade is the result of two years of consultation with

Valley traders that began in May 2012 and is a positive for the future of the

Valley and its businesses. I thank Councillor SIMMONDS and Council officers for their ongoing commitment to delivering a precinct that can unlock economic benefits for the whole city of Brisbane. Thank you.

Further debate? Councillor WINES?

Thank you, Madam Chairman. I rise in support of item A. What a fantastic outcome it was. I took the opportunity to head down to the formal launch on my way to the wonderful RNA Exhibition and while I was there I really did admire the great pieces of public art that really do engage and open the space.

While we were there, there was 3D chalk artwork being made on the ground but also some ice sculptures, and one thing I always appreciate about art or I am increasingly appreciative of about art is that it seems to those of us who don't do art that it's a gentle and subtle thing, yet while I was watching it there was a man hacking at a piece of ice with a chainsaw. But he did have a skill and it was turning out the way he had intended it to do as a treble clef.

Brisbane is the only city—

Councillor WINES sorry?

Yes.

Did you—what are you speaking on because you were talking about—I thought you were talking about the Ekka?

The Brunswick Street Mall upgrade as well as the public art item A and it was the public street art that—


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Okay.

—was a part of the—at the launch and it was included in the presentation. Thank you. So it was a treble clef.

The Brisbane City is the only city in this country that attempts to have three pedestrianised malls in such close proximity, and you can see this Council's support for those through the current rejuvenation project for Queen Street Mall, the Chinatown Mall upgrade that occurred some years ago, three or four years ago now, and now this, the Brunswick Street Mall, which is about attracting and bringing people in both day and night into what is a leading centre of this city, but it is also of a night time the premier entertainment district of Queensland and arguably one of the best in this country.

You can see that this investment in the area is about making that even more attractive to be in and for people to come and have a safe and enjoyable night out doing what is a legal activity, enjoying themselves in swinging hotspots of the evening.

I wanted to talk about the new pathways that were there. I am often assured that the old brick system of doing things was a neat and easy way for ladies to get their high heels trapped between the grooves. Well that is no more. Now it is a smooth and concrete surface that is much harder to get the stilettos caught in. I must take advice; I will admit I've never worn stilettos out in Brunswick Street.

So look it is fantastic—it really is. Go and have a look at the public art, it's fantastic. It's true that many of the bands that are represented in the art were famous before I was born, but that doesn't diminish their contribution to the city's art space. Please take the opportunity to go down and have a look at the upgrade, it really is fantastic, and it is one more example that this Council is investing in the inner-city and in the people of Brisbane.

Further debate? DEPUTY MAYOR?

Yes, Madam Chairman, I rise to speak to item B, the Bushland Preservation

Levy Report for the period ending June 2014.

I always enjoy seeing these reports come through and the report that came through to the Committee lists all of the bushland purchases over the years that have been made through the bushland levy.

As councillors would be aware, the bushland levy is something that people pay on their rates notice specifically for environmental purposes and also for the acquisition of parcels of bushland across the city to protect it for the future of our residents.

Apart from yourself, Madam Chairman, who has a large percentage of bushland in your ward, the Chandler Ward is a big beneficiary of this program. In the eastern suburbs, particularly in the suburb of Burbank, we've seen big investment by this Council and consecutive administrations on purchasing bushland to protect it as part of Council's conservation program.

So in my own ward since the program started there's been more than 880 hectares of land purchased by Council. As I said, a lot of that is in the suburb of

Burbank and I recently wrote out to Burbank residents, only to discover that there were only 343 households in the suburb. I asked myself why are there so few residents in that area, and then I realised that's because we're buying all the land up in the suburb.

Every time a house comes on the market Council buys it and it's all part of connecting that bushland corridor all the way through. It joins in with the

Redlands and Logan bushland corridors which is home to a large population of koalas and one that we want to see protected, one that's under threat, and also a range of other wildlife in particular, such as wallabies and a whole range of important Australian flora and fauna.

I would point out that this program was initiated back in 1990 by the Sallyanne

Atkinson administration and is something that we're very proud of initiating and one that's been continued through successive administrations of both colours,


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Further debate? Councillor SIMMONDS want to wrap up? I'll put the motion. Chairman:

Upon being submitted to the Chamber, the motion for the adoption of the Finance, Economic Development and

Administration Committee was declared carried on the voices.


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ATTENDANCE:

Councillor Julian Simmonds (Chairman), Councillor Angela Owen-Taylor (Deputy Chairman); and

Councillors Kim Flesser and Ryan Murphy.


Councillors Fiona King and Shayne Sutton.

1.

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – BRUNSWICK STREET MALL UPGRADE

92/2014-15

Shawn Day, Acting Economic Development Manager, City Planning and Economic

Development, City Planning and Sustainability Division, attended the meeting to provide an update on the Brunswick Street Mall upgrade. Mr Day provided the information below.

2. The completed Brunswick Street Mall upgrade was launched on 9 and 10 August 2014.

Construction was undertaken following extensive consultation with local businesses to identify the priorities for the upgrade.

3. A slide was shown that displayed images of how the mall was being used before the refurbishment commenced.

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The objectives of the refurbishment of the mall were to:

- rejuvenate the mall and improve surfacing improve functional space for formal events promote the space for congregation and socialising activate the day and night time economy promote and unlock private investment.

The construction process commenced in January 2014 and was compacted into six months with practical completion by July 2014. This timeframe was identified in consultation with traders.

6. Engagement was undertaken with businesses throughout the construction process and liaison was provided face-to-face and in a weekly newsletter update. The weekly newsletters were provided to the impacted businesses as well as the surrounding precinct. Measures were put in place to notify the public that the mall remained opened.

7. Public art is a central feature of the refurbished Brunswick Street Mall. Two patterned roof structures have been suspended from eight poles to celebrate the energy and vitality of the

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8. The presenter discussed the benefits of the rejuvenation, including:

- the space being more functionally designed and capable of hosting events

- increasing interest in the vacant tenancies.

9. Live music performance, street performances, breakdancing, circus and street art were some of the activation events held. Images of these events were displayed.

10. The Brunswick Street Mall is an economic precinct that can unlock economic benefits for the city of Brisbane. The last side of the presentation showed images of how the space has evolved over time from the 1890s through to 2014.

11. The Chairman thanked Mr Day for his informative presentation.



REPORT.

ADOPTED

B BUSHLAND PRESERVATION LEVY REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED

JUNE 2014

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13. The Divisional Manager, Organisational Services Division, provided the Committee with a report on expenditure for bushland purposes for the period ended June 2014.

14. The Bushland Preservation Levy Report is prepared on a quarterly basis in order to show the balance of funds held for environmental bushland purposes along with details of environmental bushland expenditure.

15. The Committee noted the information contained in the report (submitted on file) and that the balance of the funds held for environmental bushland purposes for the period ended

June 2014 is $322,383.

16.

RECOMMENDATION:

THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE REPORT, SUBMITTED ON

FILE, BE NOTED.

ADOPTED

PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS:

Chairman:


Chairman:

Councillor CUMMING:

Chairman:

Councillors are there any petitions? Councillor JOHNSTON?

Yes, Madam Chairman, I table a petition on behalf of parents and the Corinda

State School regarding a request for improved pedestrian safety measures around the school.

Councillor CUMMING?

Madam Chair, a petition from 50 residents calling upon Brisbane City Council to do whatever it can to obtain a commercial cinema for the old Wynnum Central

School site.

Further petitions? Councillor MURPHY?


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It was resolved on the motion of Councillor Ryan MURPHY, seconded by Councillor Shayne SUTTON, that the petitions as presented be received and referred to the Committee concerned for consideration and report.

The petitions were summarised as follows:

File No. Councillor Topic

CA14/685962

CA14/684872

Nicole Johnston

Peter Cumming

Requesting that Council improve pedestrian safety around

Corinda State School

Urging Council to obtain a commercial cinema for the old

Wynnum Central School site

GENERAL BUSINESS:

Chairman:

Councillor MARX:

Chairman:


Councillors are there any statements required as a result of a Councillor Conduct

Review Panel order? Are there any matters of general business? Councillor

MARX?

Thank you, Madam Chair. I rise to speak about the Eidfest celebration which, as the LORD MAYOR mentioned earlier in his report, was on Saturday.

Unfortunately as he also mentioned, there was lots of rain so that did diminish the event somewhat, but nevertheless we had a fairly large turnout, particularly of dignitaries. The LORD MAYOR was there and Councillor HUANG was there as well as myself. There were quite a number of ministers there as well which is always good for them to be supporting this particular festival.

I do want to mention that this particular festival did win the LORD MAYOR's

Australia Day event for the best event in 2007. They were initially at the Mt

Gravatt Showgrounds and now they've moved to Rocklea. Like I said, unfortunately the rain did put a real dampener on the event. I know it was good for Councillor SIMMONDS and Councillor BOURKE who took part in a Tough

Mudder project on the Saturday and they certainly enjoyed the rain but not so much Eidfest.

As a result of the rain though Yasmin Khan who's the president of Eidfest decided they would reopen again on the Sunday in order to support the stallholders so that they could get rid of some of their foodstuffs. So that was very successful, the day was beautiful and they were able to have the fireworks as well that night. So in the end it was a success. Let's hope next year's a bit drier though. Thank you.

Further general business? Councillor JOHNSTON?

Yes, Madam Chairman, I rise to speak on—well I'm going to be as broad as possible, but rail station car parks, the Newman State Government, the

Sherwood Indooroopilly RSL (Returned and Services League) Memorial and croquet in Queensland and what is offensive in the Council Chamber.

Firstly, Madam Chairman, can I start with given it's Transport Week and that seems to be the issue for the—I think we all know how Mr Newman—oh well I know how Mr Newman used to operate here at Council and he'd always want to have a practise of an election campaign. So—


Councillor JOHNSTON: —yes—so there's no question that the last couple of weeks and this week are all about having a little trial run about staying on message and talking about—not working no—staying on message and having a little trial run for the election campaign. Now that's how he used to do it when he was here at Council and no doubt he's taken that same method up to George Street.

Madam Chairman, as it is Transport Week I thought I might tell you some of the things that are happening that they don't want to talk about this week with respect to rail station car parks.


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Now it's very interesting. A few weeks ago I was approached by a developer who presented me with plans for a six storey high-rise building in a five storey area of course which is pretty standard now, and I looked at where the building was located and I thought goodness me this looks like it's on the Queensland

Rail (QR) car park at Corinda.

I wrote back to the developer. I said, is this your land? This looks like it's the QR car park and they said, yes, yes, we're in discussions with the Department of

Transport and Main Roads to purchase the car park. I'm like what, that can't be right. I think okay well clearly there's been no announcement about that. There's nothing in the public-sphere about the fact the State Government's selling off commuter car parking which is desperately needed around the city and I thought surely that's just got to be some ambit claim by a developer.

A week later I get approached by the Yeronga-Dutton Park RSL and they said

Nicole we've had an approach from a developer. They want to use the club's car park to do all the staging work for their building project which is going to be across the road in the Yeronga Rail Station car park. I said: what are you talking about?

Yes, yes, they produced a letter from the developer which happens to be the

Brisbane Housing Company saying that they are in discussions with the

Department of Transport and Main Roads to purchase the Yeronga commuter rail car park.

So I will put on the record today, I am aware in my ward alone that the State

Government is selling off two commuter rail stations without announcing it publicly, without consultation with the community and, as every councillor in this place knows, absolutely tearing out critically needed commuter car parking in rail stations from our local community.

Now the most interesting part of this, so I write off—my state member happens to be Scott Emerson, the Transport Minister, so I asked him at an event. I said, gee Scott I've heard this and he goes no, no, that can't be true but I didn't take him at his word and I wrote a letter. Yep, sure enough it comes back, yes we are in negotiations to sell-off these stations; however, we will be requiring commuter car parking to be put back into the site.

I'm like: mmm how's the State Government going to do that after they've sold the land to a private developer who will then apply to Council not the State

Government to build a giant building on the rail station land, and then of course,

Madam Chairman, the relevant development approvals for that will be City Plan.

We all know that this new City Plan allows for less parking closer to train stations than more.

So all of Brisbane should be on alert to the fact that the State Government is planning a sell-off of public transport assets, namely commuter car parking. I am opposed to this decision. The commuter car parks that we have got are absolutely over capacity, we are desperately in need of more of them not less to encourage public transport use, and the fact that the Newman Government is doing this on the quiet without being upfront with the community is disgraceful.

This is why, Madam Chairman, in my view the Newman Government will not be able to address the concerns that exist around its current performance because I am sure it would be described by the Premier as a strong decision and an important decision, and it's something that we need to do.

Well I don't think so and this is where the Newman Government is getting it wrong. They are not making the right decisions, they are not making decisions in the public interest, they are making decisions that are going to hurt our community in the longer term, and they don't even have the courtesy to be upfront and say what they are going to do. So be warned every single councillor in this place, the State Government is selling off your car parks.

Madam Chairman, on Saturday the Sherwood-Indooroopilly RSL held a very special event which was the dedication of a new memorial for Afghanistan war veterans. As we know, some 40 Australians were killed during the Afghanistan


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It's very sad that those young men have lost their lives, and where they were based at Tarin Kowt there was a memorial wall with the names of all of the soldiers who lost their lives including those from the other allied countries. That wall had to be knocked down when the Australians left Afghanistan and I'm delighted to say that the Sherwood-Indooroopilly RSL has replicated the memorial wall and has installed a large plaque with the names of all the 100 including the 40 Australian soldiers who died while on active service in

Afghanistan.

It was a really moving ceremony, we had eight of the families who had lost their husband and their fathers, their brothers and so forth, so it was a really wonderful service. I would like to pay credit to Kevin Alcock, the president of the Sherwood-Indooroopilly RSL. This was completely his brainchild. It was wonderful to see so many of the serving soldiers from 2RAR in attendance where a lot of these young men had served. It was an extremely special event and that memorial will now forever be there for the young veterans who've lost their lives in the Afghanistan conflict.

Also on the weekend, Madam Chairman, the annual Patron's Cup between

Graceville Croquet Club and the Stephens Croquet Club occurred. It rotates between the two organisations and this year I'm delighted to say it was won by the Stephens Croquet Club. It's a highly contested local event which I support, and it is wonderful, even in the pouring rain on Saturday, to see 50 people out playing croquet for the honour of winning the Patron's Cup. So I just want to say thank you to both the Stephens and the Graceville Croquet Clubs. They are wonderful sporting clubs, very community based and it is great to see their dedication to their chosen sport.

Finally, what seems to be offensive in this Chamber and what doesn't. In recent weeks there've been a number of things that have happened in the Chamber that have not been deemed offensive, and those include Councillor McLACHLAN accusing Councillor GRIFFITHS and myself of some sort of impropriety with respect to footpath funding.

Now those allegations were outrageously offensive and they were also untrue, and it is very interesting to see the way in which the word offensive is being interpreted.

A few weeks before that the LORD MAYOR stood up in this place and accused me of being un-Australian. I pointed out that that was offensive, but no not the case. Now in both of those two issues when offensive remarks were made by

Councillor McLACHLAN and the LORD MAYOR, the person who asked for them to be withdrawn, that would be me, was ejected from this place.

Now let's contrast that with what was offensive today. It's very interesting to see that nothing that is said by LNP councillors rises to the definition of offensive, but even minor statements of fact—of fact—made by the ALP councillors apparently are offensive. Certainly saying grow up apparently in this Chamber is also offensive.

So it is really interesting in my view to see that there is this permeable definition of offensive and it seems to be related to the membership—

Councillor JOHNSTON your time has expired.

— of your political party.

Further general business? Councillor KNAPP?

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to speak on three things, the Local

Government Women's Conference in Warwick, Brisbane Sings and the Gap being nominated as the most spotless suburb in Brisbane and the people involved in that.

Madam Chair, the Local Government Women's Association, as you know, has been operating for about 50 years and it was championed by some very brave


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O'Connell was actively involved and there have been a lot of women that have worked enormously hard to keep the Local Government Women's Association

Queensland operational.

I remember my first conference was in Rockhampton with you, Madam Chair, which was a very large conference in fact. We also went with a couple of Labor councillors, one made really derogatory remarks about some of the programs that were offered by Rockhampton Council at the time.

The conference was Full, Frank and Fearless and I suppose what surprised me,

Madam Chair, was that the number of women that weren't there this time.

Something happened somewhere along the line with the amalgamation of councils, the forced amalgamation by the previous State Government. I remember the last conference I went to was at Charters Towers where the then

Treasurer, Andrew Fraser, came to address the conference and there were an amazing amount of women at that conference who were part of small councils.

Now they didn't do it for the money; they did it because council, except for us, is a non-political council and it's a community development job for a lot of those women.

In the interim from 2008 to now the number of women who aren't standing as councillors has surprised me, Madam Chair. I suppose there is always these elements of ‘well you compete in a man's world’ and indeed we do. It is who is the best for the job, but the reality is that I think that in some cases, particularly in country towns, it's harder for women in the country to get their profile up than us that live in the city.

The conference was terrific. I really enjoyed listening to Jude Munro who talked about public servants and her role as a CEO. Public servants need to be frank, to politicians telling it like it is, and fearless on the basis of not being sacked and the environment in which you give trusted advice.

It was interesting that she talked about some of the programs that are embedded in Brisbane City Council. The Gold Program actually came out of a women's health program in Bairnsdale in Victoria where a group of women over 50 started this mutual support group which grew into Growing Old Living

Dangerously and it came up and was introduced into our Council.

The same with the BUZ (bus upgrade zone); she spoke about how they'd been down looking at how Melbourne trams operate and the consistency of

Melbourne trams and from that grew the BUZ services that we have.

The keynote speaker was Robyn Moore and I really liked listening to Robyn because I think it's really great to go to conferences and hear somebody talk up positive things in relation to how your life operates to be perfectly honest. She's involved, as Councillor MARX said, with Make a Wish but she talks about change and transformation and how words can empower you.

She talked about her relationship with her mother who had Alzheimer's. I had a mother with Alzheimer's the infuriating thing of dealing with someone with

Alzheimer's is that they don't remember what they've said to you. So each moment that you have with them becomes almost an enriching moment. She talked about her mother being at her granddaughter's wedding and kept repeating: “where am I? You're at your granddaughter's wedding”. To which she replied: “Oh, how lovely that is”. Now that went on for probably four hours, but she transcended the annoyance of it by understanding that it was a great joy for her mother.

Madam Chair, there was an interesting debate about gender called Are Women

Treated Differently to Men in the Workforce? Well, it was an open debate, I mean all the women voted for the affirmative side, but there was a famous female mayor from St George who was on the negative side and said: “no, you've got to make your way in a man's world”. In some ways probably that is quite true.


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On the second morning I thought that the really interesting address was from the

Warwick Council themselves on the ‘Jumpers and Jazz Festival’ by the curator of Warwick Art Gallery. There was the most amazing exhibition at the gallery this year where they knitted a whole kitchen. The whole kitchen was knitted by knitters in Warwick.

It's a great community development this festival where the whole of Warwick is involved. So thank you to the Council for that. There are great problems for all of these councils, they struggle all of them. We're lucky that we're in Brisbane and have this large rate base, but you, Madam Chair, are well aware of the problems that are occurring in Queensland with local governments all across

Queensland of how they remain sustainable.

Brisbane Sings, Madam Chair, Brisbane Sings was fabulous. We give some support to Brisbane Sings and I was lucky enough to be asked to go and represent the Council, along with Councillor HOWARD.

Madam Chair, you had a choir represented. There was a combination of choirs across Brisbane. The Queensland Show Choir which consists of Stella Voce,

Vox Populus and Vivace are More Than Words. There was a QPAC

(Queensland Performing Arts Centre) choir. There was the Multitudinal

Community Choir which was from Redcliffe, All Saints Chamber Choir, Music a la Viva Community Choir, Madam Chair, which I believe resides in your ward and they were terrific. Here were all these older people singing terrific songs of

Appalachian dancers. The Mt Alvernia Choir, the Queensland Academy all came together and all performed.

Now, Madam Chair, as you know that I am a musician and I think that singing is the great art because we can all sing. Some people think that they can't, but in actual fact we can all sing. It is really a commonality from the original traditional owners of this land who communicated through song and dance and art, so do we. It's the greatest of all the abstracts. It's the first of our senses and it's the last sense to go. We pick up a baby and we sing to it and we sing people to death. It is the most fabulous way of making people come together and my congratulations really to all of the choristers, all of their directors, the people who support them and all of the singers that came together, 500 voices.

It was fantastic that the songs were amazing. There were three Michael Jackson songs. Thriller was absolutely wonderful and Heal the World . To hear anything of that, to be able to go to a concert like that was truly amazing and I'm glad we fund it.

Lastly, hooray for The Gap. The Gap, not the ward but The Gap suburb. We think it's something special and indeed it is, Madam Chair, because it's one of the largest suburbs of Brisbane. It's got 16,000 people living in it which is larger than the town of Warwick, and they think they live in a country town. It's pulled together by Enoggera Creek.

So not only did we win this award but we also won for SOWN ( Save Our

Waterways Now) the catchment champion. Also what I'd like to say is well done to my schools. All of the four schools in The Gap back onto either Enoggera

Creek or Fish Creek, and Hilder Road State School won for a very, very innovative website called Fish Creek 4061 which they set up as an information site, a learning tool.

Councillor KNAPP your time has expired.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Further general business? Councillor WINES?

Thank you, Madam Chairman. I just rise to speak to general business for a couple of items. They will be the Alderley Skip, the Brisbane Paralympic

Football Program, Vietnam Veterans Day, Seniors Week events and if I have time I have some further comments on the artwork in Brunswick Street Mall.

Firstly, two weeks ago we had the launch of the Alderley Skip which was the first of the community consultations of the Community Reference Group talking


- 69 - about what will be a fantastic upgrade to north-west Brisbane. Once completed, it will provide a new focal point for the district, and it was great to be in a room with people who are as proud and as optimistic about the future of Alderley as I am. They were people varying in experience of life in Alderley from four years up to 75 years, sat in that committee talking about how they want to see their suburb move forward, how they want to see their suburb and neighbourhood prosper, and it was really a fantastic first step. I remain optimistic about this project as I do the future of the whole suburb.

I also want to talk about the Brisbane Olympic Football Program which is a program run out of the Westside Soccer Club which is in Keperra, and they run a program for people who have physical inhibitants and it's run by a man whose son himself was told that he would not walk. Well not only does his son walk his son plays for the Pararoos, the Australian Paralympic Soccer team.

He takes this group with support from the Brisbane Roar and other European football entities and teaches kids with special needs how to play soccer. They get kids who have never been able to walk walking and kicking soccer balls, and it really is very special and this weekend marks a special event for them, that people from not only all over Brisbane come to participate in the program, but people came from Townsville to participate in the program this weekend just gone at a special festival of football event held.

It was meant to be held in Keperra but for the rain and was held instead at

Newmarket and the indoor facilities, but both in Enoggera Ward and both celebrations of creating an accessible and inclusive city built on the shoulders of volunteers, building things to make our city an even better place to be.

I want to talk about Vietnam Veterans Day which was yesterday, sometimes known as Long Tan Day and there were two events I had the pleasure of representing the LORD MAYOR and the Council at the city event here at Anzac

Square which was attended by more than 500 viewers including a great number of retired veterans and their families.

I then had the pleasure to the Gaythorne RSL event which is at the traditional time of 5:15 in the afternoon for what is one more fantastic local event run by the Gaythorne RSL who are the preeminent club in north-west Brisbane. They do an excellent job with recognising the contributions and the service and the sacrifice of our serving of both current and former servicemen and women.

I also had the pleasure of being invited to view their concert last night that they put on every year. This year we had Little Pattie and she sang He's My Blonde

Headed Stompie Wonky Real Gone Surfer Boy for everybody and then we had

Denise Drysdale for an hour and a half where truly she sang four songs in an hour and a half and then told jokes that made me blush, but everyone else seemed to enjoy it. It was fantastic; it was a really good night.

I also wanted to recognise the efforts of the Oxford Park Retirement Village at their Seniors Week Cocktail Party which was held on Friday which is a great way of getting people active. They were showing their artworks, a number of which were prize winners at the Samford Show and they had a special art and cocktail party in celebration of Seniors Week.

Also I just wanted to make comment about the Seniors Cabaret. That's the second time I've been to it and it was a fantastic event and there was one band that Councillor ADAMS left out, and of course many of us would be aware of a program called The Simpsons and The Simpsons taught us that when naming a musical band the name first has to be very funny and then become less funny each time you say it, which is as Councillor BOURKE recognises, in that program was the B Sharps.

Well on Saturday we had a band called the Four-tunes, F-O-U-R-T-U-N-E-S, and there were four men up on the stage, and I can assure you it was funny at the start. By the end it wasn't so much, but those four gentlemen were very talented and it was an excellent song that they song. But it was a great show and more councillors should take the opportunity to go along and see programs such as the

Seniors Cabaret which was just so much fun.


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Finally, I just wanted to make comment it was pointed out to me after I sat down that there were bands of my time in the Brunswick Street Mall artwork. One of them was of course Regurgitator which is a famous Gap band from Quan

Yeomans, the famous Gap resident who sings what, in my opinion, is the anthem of Brisbane which is The Song Formerly Known As , and of course the anthem of my earlier years by a band called Custard, which is of course Girls Like That

(Don’t Go For Guys Like Us) .

So I just wanted to once again talk about what a fantastic city it is we live in, and thank you for the opportunity.

Chairman: Further general business? Councillor OWEN-TAYLOR?

Councillor OWEN-TAYLOR: Thank you, Madam Chairman. I rise to speak on a Sister School Memorandum of

Understanding, activities in Parkinson Ward and also the Forest Lake

Community Hall.

Madam Chairman, last week I was extremely pleased to have attended

Calamvale Community College for the signing of a Memorandum of

Understanding (MOU) with the Kaohsiung Girls Senior High School. This is a very important Memorandum of Understanding because it also sits under the whole Sister Cities Program and reflects Brisbane's Sister City relationship with

Kaohsiung.

It is interesting, Madam Chairman, that out of the speeches on the day, the

Executive Principal of Calamvale Community College, Ms Kath Kayrooz, actually reflected on how students these days are not just local that they're global and we have been saying that about our businesses here in Brisbane; that businesses are no longer local that they are global.

It is interesting that the connections are being made between these two schools, and the strength of the Memorandum of Understanding is certainly apparent because over Christmas one of the Principals at the school, Mr Glen Beaumont, actually went to Kaohsiung and last week we actually had a number of

Kaohsiung students from the Girls Senior High School and the Principal there for the signing of the MOU. The girls did a wonderful job with a couple of their performances and can I say that these performances have hit the airwaves, and they've been circulated through Taiwan and even over to New York. So Brisbane is certainly getting a large amount of exposure not only through the work that we do here as the City Council, but also that this school is doing—and they are certainly leading at the forefront in many of the aspects that they are introducing in the school.

So congratulations to Kath Kayrooz and all the staff at Calamvale College and particularly all the students from both Calamvale Community College and

Kaohsiung Girls Senior High School. They have made this partnership work and they are putting in a lot of effort to really have these connections which is very important, and particularly for the younger members of our community to have these opportunities it certainly opens a lot of doors for them in the future.

Madam Chairman, Friday night I also had the great opportunity as Patron of the

Calamvale Leopards to attend their presentation evening for their juniors. It's fantastic to see so many young people engaging in an active and healthy lifestyle on the Calamvale District Sports-Fields, and this is a great Council asset contributing to our local community.

Unfortunately on Saturday morning the rain came down and put off the Forest

Lake Junior Rugby Union Wasps presentation day, of which I'm also the Patron.

I am looking forward to seeing all those young people as well because there are hundreds upon hundreds of young people who spend their time going to training and playing in these games and actively being involved, and I think it's really important that we do recognise their efforts to be active and healthy in our city.

Madam Chairman, I would also like to acknowledge a number of students from

St John's College who are also members of the Leo's Club which sits underneath the Forest Lake Lions. One of the important projects that they have undertaken as part of their charter is that they have adopted a road, they've adopted Forest


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Lake Boulevard. Certainly as part of that program they are working and they are a great example of Team Brisbane because they are taking a lot of pride in their local community and trying to make our local area better. Although it's a great local area, they are trying to take it one step better and really show that they have pride in their community and they are not backward in coming forward when it comes to picking up some rubbish to make sure that everything looks spick and span and they can show the rest of the city that they have pride in where we live.

I think these young people working in combination with the Forest Lake Lions really epitomise what Team Brisbane is all about. Given that Forest Lake

Boulevard is a significant stretch of road and the Forest Lake Lions also span over different areas as well, I do acknowledge that Councillor DICK was there as well. I think it's important that where we have a service organisation that support is given in a very bipartisan way, because the strength of our community relies in many ways on the strength of our community organisations.

Madam Chairman, I would also just like to touch on the Forest Lake Community

Hall and can I say to this Chamber that there has been significant positive community feedback as a result of the announcement that this community hall will be going ahead and being built in College Avenue.

I know that there have been difficulties with the former location in respect of this, but now that the word is out there in the community there has been a lot of excitement. I'm receiving a lot of emails and letters through my ward office indicating interest from many different community groups, sporting groups and just general organisations from Girl Guides to Rotary to RSL and many other smaller organisations that don't at the present moment have a permanent home.

This will be a magnificent community asset and particularly where we are servicing those community organisations it really does form a base for them, and this is what we need. It's this type of infrastructure in the community that will serve the community, not just now but for many, many decades to come.

It is going to be a very well used asset and I thank Councillor ADAMS for all her support in getting this to this stage, and particularly all of the Council officers that have been working behind the scenes, because I do know that they put a lot of effort in. There are often times a lot of technical aspects that they have to consider and I do value their efforts getting to this stage.

Obviously as this project proceeds there will be more opportunity to liaise with the community about the status of the project as it goes from one stage to the next, and certainly I'm looking forward to having this very valuable asset in my local area. I do extend my thanks to the LORD MAYOR for ensuring that that is in the budget this year for us to proceed with it, and on behalf of all the residents of Parkinson Ward I do extend a very big thank you.

Chairman: Further general business? I declare the meeting closed.

QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN:

(Questions of which due notice has been given are printed as supplied and are not edited)

Submitted by Councillor Victoria Newton on 14 August 2014

Q1.

Could information be provided to advise of the amount of funding for ‘corporate overheads’ for ‘Roads

Network Resurfacing ($60.062m)’, which for the first time is now included in Program 2 of the

2014/2015 Budget (Service 2.3.3.1 Maintain and Improve the Network)?

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN

GIVEN:

(Answers to questions of which due notice has been given are printed as supplied and are not edited)

Submitted by Councillor Nicole Johnston (from meeting on 12 August 2014)

Q1. Would the Lord Mayor please advise the dates of all meetings or events he and/or his staff attended with developer Cedar Woods or their representatives over the past 12 months?


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A1. Lord Mayor and staff - 28 July 2014 at the Lord Mayor’s Office and met once in Melbourne as part of the Business Roadshow event organised by Brisbane Marketing during the period 27 and 28 February.

Lord Mayor’s staff only – 6 March 2014, 2 July 2014.

Q2. Would Cr Cooper please advise the dates of all meetings and/or events she or her staff attended with developer Cedar Woods or their representatives over the past 12 months?

A2. Councillor Cooper and staff – 28 July 2014 and 28 March 2014.

Councillor Cooper’s staff only – 15 April 2014, 1 July 2014.

Q3. Please provide a list by name and address of infringement notices, show cause notice and enforcement notices and any financial penalties that were issued to owners, builders or developers who partially or fully demolished character houses without approval in 2013-14? Please provide the answer in the following table.

Name Address of

Infringement/offence

Type of Infringement eg fine, show cause, enforcement

Value

A3. The information requested is not immediately available and would take an unacceptable amount of time to collate in a list within a timeframe that accords with the Meetings Local Law 2001 . Retrieval and collation of the material will cause an unacceptable increase in the workload or delay in the performance of normal day to day services of Council officers.

Submitted by Councillor Nicole Johnston (from meeting on 12 August 2014)

Q1. What is the budget allocation for the Business in Brisbane newsletter for 2013-14 and under what programme number the funds are provided?

A1. $15,656.20 - Program 8.

Q2. What is the budget allocation for the Business in Brisbane newsletter for 2014-15 and under what programme number the funds are provided?

A2. This amount is listed in the Council budget which is publicly available.

Q3. Please provide the a breakdown of the following costs for edition two the Business in Brisbane July to

September newsletter:

- production/graphic design

- printing

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- distribution public relations

A3. Printing, design and distribution $12,014.20. Public relations $0.

Q4. How many Business in Brisbane newsletters are produced for each edition?

A4.

A5.

55,500.

Q5. Please provide a list of businesses and other groups that receive the Business in Brisbane newsletter?

The time taken to list all businesses in Brisbane that receive the newsletter is considered excessive and would detract from the normal day to day work of Council officers.

Submitted by Councillor Victoria Newton (from meeting on 12 August 2014)

Q1.

Can information be provided to advise the amount Queensland Urban Utilities owed in loans to Council as at 30th June 2014?

A1. $1,246,432,884.51.

Q2.

Can information be provided to advise the interest rate Council charged Queensland Urban Utilities for loans as at 30th June 2014?

A2. 4.98 per cent.


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Q3.

In the budget information session, Councillors were advised that the 2014/2015 budget supported 8,122

FTE staff and workers on contract. Councillors were advised that the 2013/2014 budget supported

8,325 FTE staff and workers on contract. Could information be provided with a synopsis of the 203

Council positions that have been reduced in this year’s budget?

A3. The majority of the reduction is in relation to contract labour and as a result of Council entering into a contract with HCL to provide IT services, this resulted in a reduction of FTE’s in the Information

Services Branch. This information was disclosed during the Council consideration of the contract and has been subject to media reports.

Also, since the implementation of the bus review Council has not replaced staff who have left Brisbane

Transport through natural attrition.

Q4.

Can information be provided to advise how much revenue Brisbane City Council will receive from telecommunications leases on Council managed land in the 2014/15 financial year?

A4. $3,500,000.

Q5.

Can information be provided to advise the amount of money allocated in the 2014/2015 budget to cleaning:

- Buses

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CityCats

Ferries

A5. $1.1m is the approximate annual cost of products, services and labour for bus cleaning.

Cleaning for ferries and CityCats is included within the contract to operate ferry services. A specific budget for cleaning therefore cannot be provided.

Q6.

Can information be provided to advise how often seats on buses, CityCats and ferries are steamed?

A6. In relation to buses, approximately once every 6 months. However, buses which are soiled or are noted by staff as requiring attention are attended to regardless of when their next upholstery clean is due.

In relation to CityCat and ferry seats, these are inspected as part of the daily cleaning activities performed by the ferry operator. Where seat/s are identified as being soiled, the vessel is taken out of service as soon as possible and the full seat/s is replaced from a pool of spare seats to minimise downtime. The removed seat/s are steam cleaned and/or re-upholstered and kept as spares ready for future seat replacements.

Q7.

Can information be provided to advise the FTE of bus drivers within Brisbane Transport in the following years

- 2010/2011

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2011/2012

2012/2013

2013/2014

2014/2015

A7. An answer to this question was provided last year via an answer to a question on notice. The historical data has not changed. The number of full-time equivalents for 2014-15 is 2,492.

Q8.

Can information be provided to advise the twenty bus routes operated by Brisbane Transport with the highest average weekly patronage?

A8. Note: Patronage data below is based on Quarters 3 and 4 of 2013-14 period (January to June 2014).

Number one is the highest.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

66

199

Inner Busway Route (UQ Lakes – RBWH)

West End – New Farm BUZ

130

150

Parkinson BUZ

Browns Plains BUZ (via Garden City)

Blue CityGlider

412 St Lucia BUZ

196 Fairfield Gardens – New Farm BUZ

8.

9.

10.

11.

140

100

444

330

Browns Plains BUZ

Forest Lake BUZ (via Ipswich Rd)

Moggill BUZ

Bracken Ridge BUZ


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12.

13.

14.

15.

16.

17.

111

333

120

345

340

200

Eight Mile Plains BUZ

Chermside BUZ

Tarragindi BUZ

Aspley BUZ

Carseldine BUZ

Carindale Heights BUZ

18.

19.

20.

222

180

375

Carindale BUZ

Mansfield BUZ

Bardon – Stafford City via City.

Q9.

Can information be provided to advise the twenty bus routes Operated by Brisbane Transport with the lowest average weekly patronage?

A9. Note: Patronage data below is based on Quarters 3 & 4 of 2013/14 period (January to June 2014).

Number one is the lowest.

Funding for Nightlink routes is provided as part of the State Government’s Safe Night Out Strategy.

It should also be noted that although the Sandgate Town Services are subject to low patronage they were considered as part of last year’s bus review and Council recommended to Translink that the routes be retained.

Changes were made to Routes 308 and 329 as part of last year’s bus review.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

1.

2.

3.

4.

314 Sandgate Loop

N310 Sandgate NightLink

193 New Farm Community Route

N385 The Gap NightLink

N199 West End – New Farm NightLink

308 Chermside – Toombul (Sunday Only)

N184 Cavendish Road NightLink

313 Sandgate Loop

N390 Ferny Grove NightLink

N339 Bracken Ridge NightLink

N226 Wynnum NightLink

N111 Eight Mile Plains NightLink

N100 Forest Lake NightLink

N464 Forest Lake NightLink

N200 Carindale Heights NightLink

16.

17.

18.

N130 Parkinson NightLink

P459 Centenary City Precincts

329 Bracken Ridge to Carseldine Local Feeder

19.

20.

312 Sandgate Loop

P458 Centenary City Precincts.

Q10.

Can information be provided to advise the average weekly patronage for each individual bus route operated by Brisbane Transport during June 2014? Can the data please be provided by individual bus route.


Q11.

Can information be provided to advise of the annual patronage figures for each bus route operated by

Brisbane Transport for the following financial years:

ROUTE

NUMBER

2011/10 2012/11 2012/13 2013/14


RISING OF COUNCIL: 5.41pm.


PRESENTED:

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Council officers in attendance:

James Withers (Senior Council and Committee Officer)

Jo Camamile (Council and Committee Officer)

Billy Peers (Personal Support Officer to the Lord Mayor and Council Orderly) and CONFIRMED

CHAIRMAN


on Tuesday 19 August 2014

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

The 4445 meeting of the Brisbane City Council, held at City Hall, Brisbane on Tuesday 19 August 2014 at 2pm

Prepared by:

Council and Committee Liaison Office

Chief Executive’s Office

Office of the Lord Mayor and the Chief Executive Officer

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

PRESENT:

OPENING OF MEETING:

APOLOGY:

72/2014-15

MINUTES:

73/2014-15

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:

QUESTION TIME:

74/2014-15

MOTION FOR SUSPENSION OF STANDING RULES:

75/2014-15

76/2014-15

CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS:

ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE

77/2014-15

ADOPTED

78/2014-15

ADOPTED

79/2014-15

ADOPTED

80/2014-15

ADOPTED

81/2014-15

ADOPTED

INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE

82/2014-15

ADOPTED

83/2014-15

ADOPTED

84/2014-15

ADOPTED

85/2014-15

ADOPTED

PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

86/2014-15

87/2014-15

ADOPTED

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT

COMMITTEE

88/2014-15

ADOPTED

ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE

89/2014-15

ADOPTED

FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE

90/2014-15

ADOPTED

BRISBANE LIFESTYLE COMMITTEE

91/2014-15

ADOPTED

FINANCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE

92/2014-15

ADOPTED

93/2014-15

ADOPTED

PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS:

94/2014-15

GENERAL BUSINESS:

QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN:

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN

GIVEN:

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