Council minutes for 26 August 2014

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

The 4446 meeting of the Brisbane City Council, held at City Hall, Brisbane on Tuesday 26 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 4446 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,

HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,

ON TUESDAY 26 AUGUST 2014

Dedicated to a better Brisbane

AT 2PM

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS _____________________________________________________________ i

PRESENT: ______________________________________________________________________ 1

OPENING OF MEETING: __________________________________________________________ 1

MINUTES: _____________________________________________________________________ 1

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: __________________________________________________________ 1

QUESTION TIME: ________________________________________________________________ 4

CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS: _________________________________________ 16

ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE _________________________________________ 16

A 2013-14 BUDGET – FINAL AUTHORISATION REVIEW ____________________________________ 28

B CONTRACTS AND TENDERING – REPORT TO COUNCIL OF CONTRACTS ACCEPTED BY DELEGATES

FOR JUNE 2014 __________________________________________________________________ 28

INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE ___________________________________________________________ 36

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – CITY REACH BOARDWALK ________________________________ 39

B PETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL OR ALTERNATIVE TRAFFIC

MANAGEMENT MEASURES TO REDUCE TRAFFIC VOLUMES AND THE ASSOCIATED TRAFFIC NOISE,

AND IMPROVE SAFETY ON DRAKE STREET, WEST END ___________________________________ 40

C PETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL PARKING SPACES FOR RESIDENTS

WHO DO NOT HAVE OFF-STREET PARKING LIVING NEAR DORCHESTER STREET, SOUTH BRISBANE 41

PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE ______________________________________________ 43

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – MAROON CITYGLIDER UPDATE ____________________________ 46

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE ___________________ 47

A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION UNDER THE SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ACT 2009: MATERIAL CHANGE

OF USE FOR MULTI-UNIT DWELLING AND SHOP – 44 BAY TERRACE, WYNNUM – VINCENT PENNISI

AND CARMELA PENNISI ___________________________________________________________ 49

ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE ____________________________________ 52

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – THE VALUE OF COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS _________________ 54

FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE _____________________________________________________________ 55

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – CONSTRUCTION BRANCH ACHIEVEMENTS 2013-14 ____________ 57

BRISBANE LIFESTYLE COMMITTEE _________________________________________________________ 58

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – COUNCIL’S SUBURBAN AMENITIES AND LITTER TEAM __________ 60

FINANCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE ______________________ 62

A ALL HAZARDS – BRISBANE READY FOR SUMMER CAMPAIGN ______________________________ 64

PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS: ____________________________________________________ 65

GENERAL BUSINESS: ____________________________________________________________ 66

QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: ________________________________ 71

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: _____________________ 72

[4446 (Ordinary) Meeting – 26 August 2014]

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

THE 4446 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,

HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,

ON TUESDAY 26 AUGUST 2014

Dedicated to a better Brisbane

AT 2PM

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)

OPENING OF MEETING:

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)

Victoria NEWTON (Deagon)

Shayne SUTTON (Morningside)

Independent Councillor (and Ward)

Nicole JOHNSTON (Tennyson)

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

MINUTES:

95/2014-15

The Minutes of the 4445 meeting of Council held on 19 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 Gil Brooks – The Yeerongpilly TOD draft plan

File number: 137/220/701/188

Chairman: I would like to call on Mr Gil Brooks who will address the Chamber on the

Yeerongpilly TOD (transit-oriented development) draft plan. Orderly, would you please show Mr Brooks in.

Mr Brooks, you have five minutes; please commence.


Mr Gil Brooks:

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Madam Chairman, LORD MAYOR and councillors; thank you for approving my appearance here today and for the circulation of the notes I intend to talk to.

This document contains photographs and diagrams, so I formally request that it be added to the Minutes of the meeting.

I represent 100 concerned petitioners that are worried about the existing traffic issues in King Arthur Terrace, mainly as they relate to the safety of children. We all agree with the existing problems, although we have a difference of opinion on what we should do about it. As set out on page two of my notes, I have worked my entire career in the law enforcement and justice market sector both in Australia and overseas. I was a police officer in Victoria for 15 years, five of those in the traffic division; I was a senior executive in the courts division of the

Attorney-General's Department; I was the national manager of an international

IT (information technology) company, law and justice unit, and I have run my own consultancy business for 15-odd years, with clients in justice and law enforcement agencies across the country.

The information I provide is to qualify my expertise in providing assessments of both the traffic issues there and in the quality of advice Council received in considering that. What we want Council to do, we want you to accept that you acted on poorly researched and incorrect data. We'd like you to reverse or suspend your decision on our petition, and obtain new advice on the issues raised by petitioners, especially as they impact on the child-safety issues regarding the park, the tennis centre and the new disabled Montrose facility.

Then, on receipt of that new advice, you reconsider our petition.

Next, on page five, I list my concerns with the advice that you received. The advice you received didn't once mention children. That was the core issue of our petition. It includes seriously flawed interpretations of the vehicle speeds detected during the June 13 automatic traffic survey conducted by Council; it contained factual errors, and made unsubstantiated or questionable claims on traffic issues, and in my view should not have been presented to Council in that form because it was just not of an acceptable standard.

In terms of the flawed reporting results of the June automatic traffic survey, whilst noting that the survey found that the average vehicle speed over the seven days was 41 kilometres per hour east and 42 kilometres per hour west, it went on to advise Council that this indicated that the majority of motorists are complying with the speed limit. Average speed has no such interpretation.

Actually, what the study actually revealed was 15 per cent of vehicles exceeded

49 kilometres per hour travelling east and 48 kilometres per hour travelling west; five per cent of vehicles exceeded 53 kilometres per hour travelling east and 52 kilometres per hour travelling west.

Some 73 per cent of vehicles travelling east were in the 36 to 50 kilometres per hour zone, and 80 per cent of vehicles travelling west were in the same speed band. These are disturbing findings in this child-centre area and totally contradict the advice given to Council.

Turning to the shared-pedestrian zone in front of the tennis centre, which we asked to be implemented, that area looks like a shared zone, it was designed to be a shared zone, the locals treat it as a shared zone; all you need to do is add some signs and we have a shared zone. However, the request by petitioners that this be so designated was summarily dismissed because of the high levels of traffic that were going through. I thought this an astounding statement. The recommendation was that we dig up all the aggregate and paved sections and replace it with asphalt—not a convincing argument.

In front of the Pat Rafter Arena pedestrian crossing, we have only one prescribed pedestrian crossing in that area. If you look at the photograph there, that is not a prescribed pedestrian crossing by any stretch of the imagination, and I think Council owes a duty of care to pedestrians in this area and my opinion is it's currently not meeting that duty.

The error of facts includes the statement that, as part of the review of the city's road hierarchy, that area of King Arthur Terrace was reclassified. The LORD


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Chairman:

Mr Gil Brooks:

MAYOR has confirmed that statement was incorrect in a letter to me dated July.

The unsupported type claims include the statement that the intersection of

Fairfield and Palomar Roads couldn’t cope with some existing traffic if we put a right-hand turn ban on King Arthur Terrace. There's a photograph there that shows that is a questionable statement at best; it copes when the tennis centre has an event on; it coped before the tennis centre—

Mr Brooks, sorry, your time has expired; thank you.

Thank you.

Chairman: DEPUTY MAYOR, would you like to respond?

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

Committee

DEPUTY MAYOR: Thank you, Madam Chairman, and thank you, Mr Brooks, for coming in. I am certainly aware of the petition that you refer to and the issues you mention. We had that petition come through to our committee earlier this year for consideration. That petition essentially was addressed and dealt with in the same way that all traffic-related petitions come through, and that is that the officers of our Transport Planning and Strategy Branch put together a submission; they make some recommendations, and often they will include things such as traffic counts, automatic traffic surveys, site assessments and various other bits of relevant information.

In this case, the recommendation came through that it would be premature to make long-term decisions on the nature of the road and the road environment until we know exactly what is going to happen with the future development of the area. As you are well aware, there is a State Government plan that they are talking to Council about for the Yeerongpilly TOD (transit-oriented development) which will see future development happening in that area.

Obviously, as part of any future development, there is likely to be traffic changes in the area, and those traffic changes could include a range of things, such as new roads being put in, additional intersections, additional pedestrian facilities, additional traffic calming, a whole range of other things that will come up as part of that assessment.

So, that recommendation was put forward to the Committee. It was accepted by the Committee. But in relation to some of the specific issues that you have raised, I acknowledge you have had a look at the automatic traffic count survey that was done. Certainly the information that is provided by the officers you mentioned, that was accurate, but also the information you have provided is accurate as well. It's actually part of the same report. The figures that we used were the average mean traffic speeds. You have referred to the 95 th percentile speeds and the 85 th percentile speeds, and they are both actually legitimate parts of that traffic analysis.

Council generally looks at the average, but we also do take into account the 95 th and 85 th percentile in that analysis as well. One of the challenges that we've got is that, on virtually every single road across Brisbane, people do exceed the speed limit, so there is always a percentage of people that will exceed the speed limit, even in areas where there is traffic calming, even when the speed limit is very low.

Across the city, the State Government and Council have both agreed that a safe speed limit or a safe road environment for residential areas is 50 kilometres an hour. That is the standard speed limit across the State. In this case, the speed limit is set lower, at 40 kilometres an hour. In addition, there is also a number of traffic calming devices that have been put in place as well, so we do acknowledge that there is a need to create a low speed environment along that stretch of road. There are several reasons for that. There is obviously residential development in the area; you've got the big sporting precinct with the tennis centre, and then you've got the Ken Fletcher Park as well which, as you rightly


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So, for all those reasons, we absolutely agree that a low-speed environment is desirable, and something that we want to achieve. The average mean speeds were approximately in that 40 kilometres-an-hour zone, give or take; there were percentages as you have pointed out that were doing more than that speed, and that is obviously a concern both to yourself and to Council.

So what Council is looking at going forward is how we can further reinforce that low-speed environment. There is a zebra crossing in place directly outside the park, and there is also—I guess the best way you could describe it is a pedestrian refuge in that area you referred to as the shared zone. So that is not a formal zebra crossing, but it certainly is a refuge, because it gives people an ability to wait in the middle of the road in a space there, and that is something that Council would generally define as a pedestrian refuge. We use different forms of pedestrian refuges across the city, but that fits our definition of a pedestrian refuge.

I am certainly happy to take your feedback on board. As I said, we haven’t made any final decisions on what the end outcome will be. We are certainly keen to continue to work with you to get a good outcome here, particularly in light of what changes will occur as part of the Yeerongpilly TOD as well. So thank you very much for coming in; we appreciate your time.

Chairman:

QUESTION TIME:

Thank you, Mr Brooks.

Chairman: Councillors, are there any questions of the LORD MAYOR or a Chairman of any of the Standing Committees? Councillor HOWARD.

Councillor HOWARD:

LORD MAYOR:

Question 1

Thank you, Madam Chairman; my question is to the LORD MAYOR. I understand Brisbane's iconic Riverwalk is in its final stages of completion, with vessel access through its opening span being commissioned today. Can you please update the Chamber on the Riverwalk Replacement project?

Thanks very much, Madam Chairman, and I thank Councillor HOWARD for the question. It was good to join with Councillor HOWARD today to inspect the progress of the Riverwalk and we did commission the opening span today as well. This is a span which is required under the legal arrangements with respect to this Riverwalk, as it was with the old floating Riverwalk, where there is an opening span to allow vessels to exit from that area between the riverbank itself and that of the Riverwalk facility.

Progress is coming along well now in relation to this facility, and it will open by way of a public opening on 21 September. Importantly, along the way, I want to thank again the Federal Government and the State Government for the contributions that have been made over a period of time in relation to this facility. It is a $72 million project, and it is one that will be around for a long time to come. We have made sure we've invested the right amount in terms of design and engineering around the security of this facility into the future, with a

1-in-2,000 year flood resilience factor built into this facility.

Again it is going to be a facility which will have a clearly differentiated cycling and pedestrian facility. So that will mean 3.5 metres in width for the cycling component and 2.5 metres in width for the pedestrian component. There will be a number of nodes which allow people to stop and to take in the ambience of the river—some seating around those facilities. It will add to the experience that people will be able to have in terms of our river city. It will also just make for a more interesting walk along that particular part of Riverwalk.

In thanking the Federal and State Governments, I also just say that it's one where we have been particular in terms of the pylons, making sure that they are very


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Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

LORD MAYOR:

Question 2

Thank you, Madam Chair; my question is to the LORD MAYOR. In addition to your participation in Cedar Woods' call for investors on the Australian Stock

Exchange, the answers to Questions on Notice have revealed that there have been eight meetings between Cedar Woods, yourself, your staff and Councillor

COOPER over the past 12 months.

Do you still maintain that the political arm of your Administration is not steering through the approval of this controversial development application?

Madam Chairman, I thank Councillor DICK for the question. There's a number of aspects of course to that question. I just want to say from the outset that the entity concerned is a new investor. They are a Western Australian investor that are entering the Brisbane market.

Can I just say to you, Councillor DICK, that firstly it's reasonable that we ought to meet with an investor from another State, isn't it?

Councillor SUTTON interjecting: Eight times?

Chairman: Councillor SUTTON!

LORD MAYOR: I haven't met eight times, Councillor, and once again this is the interesting way in which the question is framed. I have not met eight times with that investor. I have met once. So Councillor DICK, he has cobbled together meetings with officers, different meetings that might have been held with Councillor COOPER, different meetings from what I have had, and he adds it all up—

Councillors interjecting.

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR: substantial and embedded into the river bed itself. We don't want to see this facility end up with the same fate as the floating Riverwalk, that is for sure. It is a facility which will survive the test of time; it will survive floods in the future. It is built to a 1-in-2,000 year event, as I mentioned previously, but importantly, it is a 100-year asset construction. So we want to make sure that people get the value of this facility for a very long time to come.

It is 850 metres in length, with 27 standard size 30-metre girders in length, and the others of course, around the corners, are specifically designed. We have had

36 pylons that have been driven into the bedrock of the Brisbane River to make sure that the strength is there, and it will sit 3.4 metres above the mean sea level.

It has a number of other features. Clearly it has 24-hour surveillance, so it has a number of features that the previous Riverwalk did not have—24-hour surveillance cameras by way of CCTV; it has a significant amount of lighting along that stretch. It also has facilities where people can enjoy, as I said earlier, the ambience of the river itself. So, this is one which will be well used and we look forward to that opportunity for people to get back and enjoy Riverwalk in the not too distant future. Thank you, Madam Chairman.

Councillor DICK.

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Order!

—to create the impression that I have met with this person eight times. That is a nonsense.

Councillor SUTTON, if you continue, I will warn you.

And Councillor SUTTON, your interjection was kind of directing it in that way.

So, Madam Chairman, let's be clear about the trickiness of the Labor Party in this. Let us also remember, if they wanted to talk about this land, let us remember that the Labor Party, when they established as a State Government— probably at the time when you were State Director of the Labor Party,

Councillor DICK—the Regional Plan, and within that Regional Plan framework, this land was set aside as developable land for residential purposes into the future.

The land has some other history. It has history in the sense that there was a time a number of years ago when we had committed to purchase 500 hectares of land


Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Chairman:

Councillor McKENZIE:

DEPUTY MAYOR:

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500 hectares. In the end, it wasn't required. That resumption process, which would have cost ratepayers a substantial amount of money, didn't proceed.

By way of the proposal that is now on the table to ratepayers, 90 hectares handed over to the ratepayers of this city at no cost—90 hectares at no cost. So I don't know which track Councillor DICK would have preferred to have gone down.

That is the reality.

We have a Regional Plan put in place by the Labor Party when in Government in

Queensland—

Point of order, Madam Chair.

Point of order against you, LORD MAYOR; yes, Councillor DICK.

My question was not for a history lesson from the LORD MAYOR; it was specifically: does the LORD MAYOR still maintain that the political arm of your Administration is not steering through the approval process? I have provided him with a lot of background; I'd like him to answer that question.

Thank you, Councillor DICK. Yes, LORD MAYOR.

Madam Chairman, absolutely. This application will receive the normal process that any other application will. It is in, though, the context of the question that I do provide a bit of a history lesson for Councillor DICK, because he is trying to create this impression that somehow this new investor to Brisbane is being treated in some way differently. I am suggesting to him that that is not the case at all. There will be the proper process. There will be the proper opportunity for public input into this application, and the officers will then go about the business of normal assessment. It's a big site; let's make no mistake about it. This is a very significant site in our city.

We saw, of course, the previous Labor Party commence the Rochedale process.

This is also a very big site. The former Divisional Manager, the late Barry

Alexander first made an approach in relation to this land some time back, because it was a piece of land that, under the Regional Plan when the State

Labor Government had identified it as developable land, it was appropriate then that a master planning process commence. This has been going on, Councillor

DICK, now for a number of years, before even probably you entered this place.

So, Madam Chairman, step by step it is now at a point where it is an application.

We saw with Rochedale—Rochedale took years before it started to see the commencement of residential land that we are now seeing. This land is similar. It was rural land. The Labor State Government then said, it can go from rural to become land which forms part of the urban footprint, and that is where we now are, Madam Chairman.

Thank you. Further questions; Councillor McKENZIE.

Question 3

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

Infrastructure Committee, Councillor SCHRINNER. I understand that late last week marked the completion of another major milestone for the Legacy Way project. Could you please update the Chamber on this milestone?

Thank you, Madam Chairman, and thank you, Councillor McKENZIE, for the question. Yes, indeed, we did see something very important happen late last week and that was the completion of the upgraded Moggill Road interchange with the Western Freeway. This was part of the associated work that is being done as part of the Legacy Way project. It is one of the added benefits to the project, along with improvements to the Botanic Gardens out at Mt Coot-tha, along with the widening of the Western Freeway, that will deliver a whole range of benefits to the motorists of the western suburbs, and also indeed anyone who is attending the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens.


Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

LORD MAYOR:

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We saw extended merge lanes, a new and improved intersection at the Moggill

Road interchange put in place. This was a $20 million project which has been delivered to the benefit of all road users in the area. The great thing about this upgrade is it benefits everyone, regardless of whether you are going to use

Legacy Way or regardless of whether you are just travelling through the area along Moggill Road. So you don’t need to pay a toll to get the benefits of this particular upgrade, and it is the same with the widening of the Western Freeway, which is now under way.

So there are some great benefits for all road users being delivered, and this particular upgrade is just one of those many benefits being delivered as part of the $1.5 billion Legacy Way project. This is a Council that is getting on with the job of delivering infrastructure improvements. We have heard about Riverwalk from the LORD MAYOR just now. This is another one of our major projects under way that will help, and is already making a difference to traffic flow.

Anyone that comes through the area from the western suburbs will know that this has been a problem intersection and a problem interchange for many years.

It is now flowing better; there has been a good result, and that will get even better in the future when we have additional lanes on the Western Freeway from this interchange all the way through to the Legacy Way tunnel and the Toowong roundabout.

So we are seeing, as I said, some new infrastructure delivered last week for the people of the western suburbs, and it is part of an ongoing program that will see, in the lead-up to the opening of Legacy Way next year, further works continuing to help keep our traffic flowing, particularly in those western suburbs areas.

Thank you.

Further questions; Councillor DICK.

Question 4

Thank you, Madam Chair; my question is to the LORD MAYOR. Prior to you formally announcing the Kurilpa Master Plan at a pay-to-have-your say lunch last Thursday, how many developers did you, Councillor COOPER and any of your political staff discuss the plans with for this area?

Madam Chairman, I didn't discuss the plans with anybody, I can absolutely guarantee you of that. I don't know what Councillor COOPER may have done in terms of those discussions, but I would just say this—

Councillor interjecting.

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:


Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Councillor DICK!

Well, Councillor DICK, you might be able to tell me every minute of every day what your councillors do or don't—

Just a minute, LORD MAYOR.

—or don't do might be an easier question to ask.

Order! Order! Councillor DICK, you have asked a question; now, remain quiet for the answer. Thank you, LORD MAYOR.

It's just that he doesn’t like the answer. The reality is that I would expect that each of the chairmen that form Civic Cabinet within their portfolio responsibilities would have engagement with people around things. I don't know whether Councillor COOPER had meetings specifically or not; I can't answer that question. But I do know this: we are out to public consultation for a period now of six weeks. I would hope that people and councillors in particular would be assisting their residents to develop submissions where people want to lodge—


Chairman: Councillor ABRAHAMS!


LORD MAYOR:

Councillor FLESSER:

Chairman:

Councillor FLESSER:

Chairman:

Councillor FLESSER;

Chairman:

Councillor FLESSER:

Chairman:

Councillor FLESSER:

Chairman:

Councillor FLESSER:

Chairman:

Councillor SUTTON:

Chairman:

Councillor SUTTON:

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:


Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Councillor NEWTON:

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—submissions in relation to the plan. This is a draft plan. I have the plan here.

Rather than—


Point of order against you, LORD MAYOR. Yes, Councillor FLESSER.

Madam Chair, the question to the LORD MAYOR was clearly about developers that he or his Administration had met prior to the announcement, Madam Chair.

I understand no residents have been involved, but I'd really ask you to direct the

LORD MAYOR—

Councillor FLESSER—

—back to the question.

—the LORD MAYOR has answered that part of the question, quite clearly.

Well, Madam Chair, the rules apply then that when—

Councillor FLESSER—

—the LORD MAYOR—sorry?

—you are debating my ruling. The LORD MAYOR has quite clearly answered the question that Councillor DICK asked him.

Okay. Well, Madam Chair, my understanding is that the rules say that when someone answers a question, they are to sit down for another question to be asked.

I think in the circumstances of the question and what the issue is, it is quite acceptable for the LORD MAYOR to be informing the Chamber about the process for public consultation in relation to this master plan.


Yes, Councillor SUTTON.

I was listening to the LORD MAYOR's answer just then. Councillor DICK asked what developers did he or Councillor COOPER or their staff speak with, and the LORD MAYOR, in his answer, said he didn't know what his staff or

Councillor COOPER did. If he doesn't know, I would ask you to direct him to take the question on notice so that the Chamber can be fully briefed in accordance with the Rules of Procedure in this place.

Councillor SUTTON, I do not uphold your point of order. The LORD MAYOR made it very clear that he did not know exactly what meetings his chairmen had had, and Councillor FLESSER is questioning the fact that I am allowing the

LORD MAYOR to continue answering the question. What the LORD MAYOR was doing, if you were listening, he was explaining why he doesn't know exactly who Councillor COOPER might have met with, and what his expectation of his chairman is. That is quite legitimate for him to be providing that information in the context of this question and the intent of the question. Thank you, LORD

MAYOR.

Well, thanks very much, Madam Chairman. So the issue is this: we are now in a period of submissions, where we are asking people to make comment on a draft plan. That is where it's at. I encourage—

Just a minute, LORD MAYOR. Councillor ABRAHAMS, if you continue to interject, you'll be warned. Thank you.

Madam Chairman, I encourage people to comment on it. Councillor

ABRAHAMS has already indicated she is opposed to this plan. She has been out on the picket line, Madam Chairman; she was out there with the State member, but then they decided to abandon the picket line and come in and have a chardonnay at lunch. That's where they were.



Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:


Chairman:

Councillor NEWTON:

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Point of order, LORD MAYOR.

That's right. I believe that's right.

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Yes, LORD MAYOR. Order! Order! Councillor NEWTON, point of order.

Thank you, Madam Chair; I just go back to the original question, which was specifically: what does the LORD MAYOR know about himself, his staff, the political staffers and his Chairperson in relation to meeting with developers in relation to Kurilpa? It wasn't speculating about what Helen ABRAHAMS or—

Councillor NEWTON, you have called your point of order. Now you are the third one to ask the same point of order, and I would remind you that, under chapter 4, section 21, it is an act of disorder by councillors to repeat a point of order that has already been dealt with by the Chairman. I would ask you to remember that. That is in the Rules of Procedure, and it has always been there.

LORD MAYOR.

So, Madam Chairman, Councillor ABRAHAMS has indicated that she is opposed to this plan, and I find that very sad in the sense that there will be disagreement around aspects of the plan, but this plan also contains a doubling of the amount of parkland in this location.


LORD MAYOR:

Councillor JOHNSTON:

Chairman:


Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Chairman:

Councillor WINES:

It involves the closing down of Riverside Drive. I thought that Councillor

ABRAHAMS had actually supported that, but now we find that she's out there completely opposing this plan. So, she does need to get her storyline right. The plan proposes for discussion, but part of the draft here, to close Riverside Drive down and create a whole parkland precinct there.

It also looks at adding a substantial amount of new parkland in this 25-hectare site.

Point of order, Madam Chairman.

Point of order against you, LORD MAYOR. Yes, Councillor JOHNSTON.

Madam Chairman, I refer to your ruling that you've just made which was that the

LORD MAYOR was referring to his understanding of what his staff and

Councillor COOPER had been doing with respect to the Kurilpa plan. The

LORD MAYOR has strayed from your advice as to what you considered to be relevant and is now speaking more generally, and I would ask that you draw him back to the question.

Councillor JOHNSTON, I do not uphold your point of order, and I don't accept your verballing in relation to what the LORD MAYOR had been saying and what the LORD MAYOR has said since the last repeated point of order. I would remind you, Councillor JOHNSTON, that you should also have a very good look at chapter 4 of the Rules of Procedure. LORD MAYOR.

You see, Madam Chairman, what sort of gets to me all the time with the Labor

Party here is they're all the time down in the gutter. Why aren't they asking me why is it my view that X is included in the plan? Why is my view about the extent of development in the plan? What is my view about parkland in the plan?

What is my view about the mix of the cultural opportunities that would come from this plan? Nothing about that. It's all down in the dirty-gutter stuff with the

Labor Party. That's where they are. They need to get out of there if they are going to be any chance of ever being in Administration in this city again.

Further questions; Councillor WINES.

Question 5

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

Lifestyle Committee, Councillor ADAMS. This week is Hearing Awareness

Week. According to the ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics), around four million people, or 18.5 per cent of the population, reported having a disability in the year 2009. About five per cent have a significant hearing loss and


Councillor ADAMS:

- 10 - approximately 30,000 people are totally deaf. I understand the Brisbane Lifestyle

Division has implemented a number of significant initiatives for hearing impaired Brisbane residents and visitors to access and navigate their way around our beautiful city, the venues and the facilities here. Councillor ADAMS, can you please outline to the Chamber what these significant initiatives are, and explain how they assist people with hearing impairment?

Thank you, Madam Chairman, and I thank Councillor WINES for the question.

With hearing impairment obviously affecting such a large proportion of the population, it comes in many various types of hearing impairment as well. It could be from a congenital impairment from birth, but it also could be from a condition or injury. What we actually find is that the most of our hearing loss comes from getting older or if you have a loud-noise injury to your ear drums.

But one-in-six Australians with hearing impairment means it is definitely something we need to consider when we are catering for the residents of

Brisbane. We do just that by making sure that we are supporting Hearing Week by making sure that we are an accessible and inclusive city council for all of those, depending on your hearing loss and impairment.

We've got many projects that we work on. I'd like to outline some of those today.

Our Brisbane Access and Inclusion Plan specifically looks at hearing impairment, Auslan (Australian sign language) interpreters and hearing loops in as many facilities and venues as we can. Our partnership grants work with our community programs and organisations to do one-off projects within their groups to improve the situation for those with hearing impairment.

Our Active and Healthy program—one of the most popular and growing every year. We've got a range of activities and parks and locations across the city that cater for people with hearing impairments. It may be within our libraries and our new committee rooms that are all getting hearing loops as they get refurbished, or there are some that we actually have the Auslan interpreters, and we make it very clear on the website that they are available as well in different activities across the city.

We partner with people, specifically Deaf Services Queensland, to make sure we offer learning opportunities for computer classes in our libraries, with Auslan and English story times with some of our toddler times, and children's story times as well. We actually have a site in the Council information with a link on there to go through specifically when we hold those. What variety of languages other than English that we do the Auslan interpretation in as well.

We have enhanced our Access and Inclusion engagement processes by making sure we train up our staff to have the skills and abilities that they need to work with those that are hearing impaired and in the deaf community. We promote the day-to-day use of the Auslan and other interpreter services with our customers.

That includes using the national relay service via our contact centre, if you are on the phone, as well as the ability for our customers to actually book an Auslan interpreter if they are having meetings with Council staff for whatever reason.

We have installed hearing loops, as I said before, in libraries and community halls. The halls at Zillmere, Wynnum, Upper Kedron, Sunnybank and Sandgate all have hearing loops, as do the libraries in Toowong, Brisbane Square,

Mitchelton, Grange, Carindale and our newly refurbished Coopers Plains as well.

We have an accessible-information video which highlights some of the experiences of residents with diverse abilities, and details our plans for the future around this as well. Our CityCats feature hearing loops which allows passengers to make sure they are fully informed of the next stop or any other information that they may need while they're on our CityCats.

On Monday 18 August the LORD MAYOR and I were very proud to join government, industry and communication advocates to celebrate the

International Communication Project 2014 at City Hall, being run by the Speech

Pathology Australia. So that night we learned that 1.1 million Australians have trouble with communicating, and that may not necessarily be just about hearing


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Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

LORD MAYOR: impairment. This project is going to move forward in the next 12 months to really raise the awareness of communication disability, and that often very invisible but incredibly significant issue that takes in all of those aspects that we are trying to proudly support through Hearing Week.

As I said, we sponsored that program and first-hand heard from a local resident who was living with communication disabilities, and it makes you just realise how very lucky we are when we have our full faculties when it comes to communication.

Lastly I have to say we have a lot of tools for enhancing our Access and

Inclusion within the engagement processes, and we are making sure, as we go through all our workshops, our materials, our templates and our planning for community consultation activities, that we totally take into account all different types of impairments, but I have to say, for this week, the attention is on Hearing

Week, so please have a think about it and make sure that you as councillors are doing the right thing when it comes to communicating with those who are less fortunate. We are very proud to support this week. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Councillor DICK.

Question 6

Thank you, Madam Chair; my question is to the LORD MAYOR. Have you or

Councillor COOPER, or any of your staff, entered into secret negotiations with any current landowners in the Kurilpa Master Plan area to discuss any proposals to swap or sell at a reduced cost Council-owned land as an incentive to relocate existing businesses?

If so, in the interests of open and accountable government, will you publicly release today all documents and information relating to these behind closed doors dealings?

Madam Chairman, can I just say that on the day that this was launched, I made it clear that we would not be forcing out any landowners from that area. I also made it clear that the primary dealing in relation to landowners—and there's a significant number of large parcels in the Kurilpa site—remembering that this is an old former-industrial precinct where nearly half of the land is industrial based out of that 25 hectare site.

The State Government are the primary source in relation to the negotiations around any movement of those industries. That was made clear also on the day.

So, Madam Chairman, that's where it's at. In terms of any meetings, Councillor

DICK, that's something that I'd have to take on notice. I can't answer that here today.

Further questions; Councillor HOWARD.


Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman: Point of order; yes, Councillor DICK.

MOTION FOR SUSPENSION OF STANDING RULES:

96/2014-15

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 calls on the Lord Mayor to release all documents on any negotiations with developers or current land owners within the draft Kurilpa Master Plan precinct.

Chairman: Councillor DICK, you have three minutes to establish urgency, not to debate the motion.

Councillor DICK: Thank you, Madam Chair. I move this motion today on behalf of the concerned residents right across the city regarding the Kurilpa Master Plan. It is urgent that we debate this immediately because I have asked the LORD MAYOR a series of questions regarding one of the most controversial developments in our city's


- 12 - history. In Question Time today I asked the LORD MAYOR directly: was he aware of any secret land deals, any land swaps that have been proposed? He has refused to answer it. Worse still, he has admitted he doesn't know if there are any land deals or any land swaps in place. That is not good government.

It is urgent because the ratepayers of this city deserve an explanation. It is simply not good enough to have a developers' lunch, to go out there and announce it, to exclude local residents, and not be honest with the facts.

I am deeply, deeply concerned that the LORD MAYOR also doesn't know if his

Chairman of Neighbourhood Planning and Development Assessment or his own political staff have been involved with any negotiations with existing landholders or developers. That is simply not leadership. That is passing the buck.

We deserve an answer. The local councillor deserves an answer. More importantly, the community deserve a full and frank explanation from this

LORD MAYOR who has just admitted today that there may be negotiations, secret land deals, secret land swaps regarding a windfall of potentially millions of dollars for developers in this city. It is simply not good enough. It is simply not good enough. If you've got nothing to hide, if there is no cover-up, you will debate this motion now and you will bring in as much information surrounding this as possible, not simply say, I don't know. The LORD MAYOR should know who the chairperson is meeting with.


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

Councillor MURPHY:

Chairman:

Councillor MURPHY: Madam Chairman, this is not establishing urgency. I ask that you draw

Councillor DICK back to establishing urgency.

Yes, I agree, thank you. Chairman:


Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Order! Councillor SUTTON! Councillor DICK, urgency, thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. As a result of today's Question Time, there are numerous questions simply unanswered by this LNP (Liberal National Party)

Council and what they have been up to. Residents deserve an explanation; the

Council Chamber deserves an explanation; but more importantly, if they are true blue about open and accountable government, they will release documents, they will release information, and they will more importantly provide a full and frank explanation about exactly what's been going on at the Kurilpa Master Plan.

Not good enough to drop it out into the community; not good enough to exclude residents. More importantly, not good enough to hide the information from the people of Brisbane.

Chairman: I will put the motion for suspension of the Standing Rules in order for an urgency motion to be put.

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

The voting was as follows:

AYES: 8 - The Leader of the OPPOSITION, Councillor Milton DICK, and Councillors

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

Victoria NEWTON, 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,


Chairman:

Councillor HOWARD:

Councillor COOPER:

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

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

Angela OWEN-TAYLOR, Julian SIMMONDS, Andrew WINES and

Norm WYNDHAM.

Further questions; Councillor HOWARD.

Question 7

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

Neighbourhood Planning and Development Assessment Committee, Councillor

COOPER. The fourth of 12 Talk to a Planner sessions was recently held for City

Plan 2014 right here in City Hall. Can you please provide an update to the

Chamber on those sessions, as well as the feedback received from the community about how planning is being undertaken in our city?

Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and I thank Councillor HOWARD for her question. I know you, Councillor HOWARD, through you, Madam Chair, have been a strong advocate for the role of planning in our city, as the local councillor, and certainly through the debate for new City Plan.

As we heard throughout that debate, new City Plan is about reducing red tape, putting the assessment criteria up front, helping residents have an opportunity to age-in-place amongst friends and family, and offer greater housing choice as well as improving affordability of housing in our city. Following on from that, on 30 June 2014, Brisbane City Plan formally commenced, following the largest single piece of planning review and reform undertaken by this Council in over a decade.

As part of that commencement, Council engaged with industry, with a week of information sessions, from 2 June to 6 June. Each day had five sessions with topics discussed ranging from the strategic framework, the Priority Infrastructure

Plan, through to Infrastructure Design Planning Scheme policies, and biodiversity and waterways. From July, Council has also been offering a schedule of 12 Talk to a Planner sessions across the next six months in Brisbane.

We have seen four of those sessions already undertaken at Mt Gravatt and City

Hall, with record attendees. I would also note the attendance of Councillor

WINES, Councillor ADAMS and Councillor HOWARD at those particular events. On 17 July at Mt Gravatt, we are winning the record at this point of time at Mt Gravatt. We had 364 residents attend, and they received information about

City Plan.

On 6 August we had two Talk to a Planner sessions at City Hall, and again had a really strong response with over 360 people coming along and finding more about how the plan applies to them. I also understand that Councillor

ABRAHAMS attended the City Hall event where she was keen to find out more about dual occupancy. So a further endorsement there from a local councillor.

I also note we have also had Councillor ABRAHAMS already on the record endorsing the consultation of new City Plan, and I quote—this is a screen dump from her website, “These sessions are excellent if you have a specific question to be answered.” So the next Talk to a Planner session will be at The Gap on

4 September. October sessions will be out there at Wynnum, and we'll be going to Chermside in November—I am sure Councillor KING will be along to join me—and we will be then back to City Hall for Christmas in the beautiful City

Hall. So certainly a big schedule ahead of us.

While we are out there talking to the community, it is also important to reflect on some of the pretty disappointing feedback we have had in relation to planning from the Australian Labor Party. I've got an email that was sent to an ALP councillor by a constituent, and I quote from that: “I received a letter from the

Lord Mayor”—and it goes on to say, “This letter outlines that the Council intends to deliver on the Neighbourhood Plan.” Further, it says, “The public meeting that was held in your office on Saturday 9 November was an exemplar


- 14 - of the unbalanced position that the community has had in this discussion. The community voice was not on the agenda.”

I continue to quote, “Comments that you made at the meeting, such as 'the plan isn't a Bible to follow to the T' suggests a negotiation and impermanence to the plan. I find it deeply disturbing that our local councillor would take action to put community benefit in jeopardy in favour of private profit for the property owner.” Who would be the councillor that was being referenced by that constituent? Who could it possibly be?


Chairman:

Councillor COOPER:


Chairman:

Councillor COOPER:

Order! Order!

I would suggest that it was the Councillor for the Gabba Ward who was very clearly—

Order!

—very clearly encouraging development to occur on a site that Council felt was appropriate to be held as a public park. So it makes it very, very clear; the spurious arguments from the Australian Labor Party. When the rubber hits the road, when they are actually put to the test, their own constituents criticise them for failure to do the right thing by their constituents and be upfront and insist that these outcomes are delivered.

I've also got Councillor DICK who seems to be conducting a range of public meetings about development applications, that he hasn't even bothered to make a comment on to the Council officers. In fact, he held a public meeting about an application—


Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

Councillor COOPER:

Chairman:

Councillor COOPER:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK;

LORD MAYOR:

Councillor DICK!

She's wrong.

Councillor DICK! If you continue to interject, you'll be warned.

I would suggest if Councillor DICK had been upfront with his constituents, he would have read out the information request which specifically said Council had serious objections to one of these particular proposals and suggested that the application be withdrawn. But he was happy to have a public meeting—

Councillor COOPER, your time has expired.

—and stir up community angst.

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

Councillor DICK, you haven't been called yet.

Oh!

Further questions; Councillor DICK.

Question 8

Thank you, Madam Chair; my question is to the LORD MAYOR. Former Labor planning chairperson secured a 2.6 hectare park for the 7,200 additional residents as part of the Newstead Riverpark development, and a two hectare riverside park for an additional 2,300 residents as part of the Bulimba's urban renewal, yet your

Kurilpa Master Plan provides a mere 1.3 hectares for more than 12,500 new residents. Doesn't this show that you and the LNP are prepared to put developers' profits ahead of ensuring there is sufficient community parkland for the future?

Madam Chairman, to suggest that is just a nonsense. There is going to be, within this draft plan, a very significant amount of river-front parkland, and it is outlined there in the plan itself for everyone to see. There is also a proposed one hectare piece of parkland within that as well. The graphics are there for people to see.



Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

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Order!

They are littered throughout the document. There is an area of parkland there, for example. So this is an area that already does have a fairly significant amount of parkland. It is, of course, an area which has the South Bank Parklands not far away as well. So, Madam Chairman, let's face it: this is inner-city living we are talking about. It is a precinct that will have a very significant amount in it.


Chairman:

LORD MAYOR.

Councillor ABRAHAMS!

It is a draft. So, rather than sort of have a say here, why don't you put a submission in, Councillor DICK? That's the formal way in which we ask people to do it now. We know that might be too much work for Councillor DICK,

Madam Chairman, but the reality is that let us not forget—


Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Order!

When he is talking about these things, I note that the former Government were going to create South Bank 2 along there. Surely, Madam Chairman, Councillor

DICK, are you suggesting that no government official was talking to any of those businesses located along that riverfront corridor? I assume the fact that they announced before the election that that was going to be South Bank 2—


Point of order against you, LORD MAYOR; yes, Councillor DICK.

Madam Chair, the question about secret land deals was my last question. I am not mentioning that this question; I am particularly asking the LORD

MAYOR—and he hasn't answered the question—about is he putting developers' profits ahead of ensuring there is enough parkland?

The question is fairly offensive, Councillor DICK, and I think the LORD

MAYOR is doing his best to answer it. LORD MAYOR.

Madam Chairman, it is an offensive question, but it is not an unexpected question, because this is Councillor DICK's modus operandi every week, to come in here and simply paint innuendo, paint suggestions. The fact that he comes in here today to suggest that I should know—


Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Order!

—every appointment of every staff member of every Cabinet colleague. Could he get up here today and tell me each of the appointments that members of his

Council have had in the last week?


Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:


LORD MAYOR:

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:


Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Order!

No. I bet he can't.

It would be a nonsense.

Councillor JOHNSTON!

It would be a nonsense. Look, again, he is on about these simply questions from an Opposition point of view. This is about developing—

Order!

Madam Chairman, this is about developing a city which will be a leading city, an emerging global city, and of course the Labor Party aren't interested in any of


- 16 - that. They're interested in union votes to select who will be sitting in this

Chamber. They're the things they're interested in. They're interested in that.

They're not interested, though, in advancing this city.


LORD MAYOR:

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:


LORD MAYOR:

Well, it's not. Now, you see when it's on the other foot—

Councillor SUTTON!

When it's on the other foot, they hate it. They hate it.

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

We want to talk about the issues affecting the people of Brisbane. This plan is out for public consultation. If you don't like the fact of the amount of parkland that's in it, if you don't like the fact that there is going to be a full riverside section of parkland along one side, joining in with other riverside parkland like

Orleigh Park—

Just a minute, LORD MAYOR.

Like Davies Park—

Chairman: LORD MAYOR, just a moment. Councillor SUTTON, I have already warned you that if you continue to interject, you would be warned.

Warning – Councillor SUTTON

The Chairman then formally warned Councillor SUTTON that that unless she desisted from interjecting she would be suspended from the service of the Council for a period of up to eight days. Furthermore, Councillor

SUTTON was warned that, if she were suspended from the service of the Council, she would be excluded from the Council Chamber, ante-Chamber, public gallery and other meeting places for the period of suspension.

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

LORD MAYOR.

My plea to the Labor Party, and indeed to every member of the public, is to lodge a submission in relation to your ideas about the Kurilpa plan. It is only then that we can make a proper assessment of what final plan we will have. I have set no date in terms of when the final plan will be in place, quite simply, because we want to wait, see what the submissions are relative to this plan, on parkland, on every other aspect of the plan, and then have a good look at those submissions and make some judgment calls in relation to that plan for the future.

I just say this: Councillor ABRAHAMS, this is a good plan. It is a plan which is a great starting point for discussion, and it is a plan which will see again some real opportunities to blend with the cultural precinct that already exists. It is in a well located, well connected part of the city, and it is worthy of debate.

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 18 August 2014, be adopted.

Chairman: Is there any debate?

LORD MAYOR: Yes, there is, thanks, Madam Chairman. I would just like to commence by noting a number of things. Firstly, the Cancer Council of Australia had their Daffodil

Day last Friday. It was unfortunately very wet weather, and I assume that sales would have been down significantly on where it has been in the past. But I commend those who did contribute to that important day, with the moneys going towards Cancer research.


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Valley Fiesta was conducted also with a bit of wet weather on Saturday, but it certainly didn't dampen the spirits of those attending. Some headline acts including The Preatures, Dan Sultan, AllDay and Motez—there was a great line up, and a very enthusiastic crowd down there on the weekend as part of the new

Fortitude Valley Mall and celebrating the Valley Fiesta.

Coopers Plains Library refurbishment—an important part of the city's work. I saw a good crowd at the Coopers Plains Library, in spite again of the wet weather, and I just want to congratulate everybody concerned. It is a great outcome. If anyone has the opportunity to get down and have a look at the

Coopers Plains Library, it is staggering the work that is being done around libraries. Some great outcomes, and we have refreshed a few of them this year, and they are looking really good. So to Councillor ADAMS and all of her team, all of those involved in the design work, a very big thank you.

The Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival also is on at the moment. It's being conducted in this building. The other things I was going to mention were obviously item A and item B. Item A is Final Authorisations Review—so this is, if you like, those changes which occurred to budget in between when budget was brought down in the middle of June and the end of financial year. So the final authorisations. It outlines two movements of a significant note; firstly, savings of

$4.625 million from Council's operating costs, and there is also $60 million in transfer of capital to expense as a result of work being done as part of the Legacy

Way project that was reclassified as operating expenditure, not capital expenditure on advice from the Queensland Audit Office.

Also, Council continued of course to maintain its very strong financial position over the year, which has allowed us to accelerate a number of projects. The sum of $13.5 million was brought forward to accelerate the delivery of the Robinson

Road Rail Crossing at Geebung, as well as $3.64 million at Telegraph Road. In conjunction with the upgrade of Telegraph Road Rail Crossing, $5.3 million has been invested to commence work on the upgrade of the Telegraph Road corridor.

That's a key link that provides important access to the Gateway Motorway, with

$4 million as part of the upgrade for Brunswick Street Mall. Other projects received additional investment as well.

Item B is the Contract and Tendering program. Firstly, a contract there awarded to Queensland Rail Ltd. That one is for $1.039 million. There is a contract with

GHD Pty Limited, infrastructure forecast modelling, tools, pavement, and that is

$1.45 million. The next one is ferry terminal upgrade. This is geotechnical investigations. That is with Q Port Marine Pty Ltd. The next one is Microsoft

Operations Pty Ltd; they received a contract there for $10.5 million. That is over a period of time, obviously, over a year. That is a range of software licensing agreements. We have operations there with Microsoft.

Naturoform Pty Ltd, $205,000; landscaping works at Whites Hill Reserve. That included a whole range of things—planting, mulching, irrigation, et cetera.

Riverstage PWD (Persons With a Disability) lift—that is $167,000. That is at the back of stage area at Riverstage. Civil works associated with traffic signals at

Logan Road outbound and the approach to O'Keefe Street, the roundabout there at Stones Corner. That was won by Sovereign Energy Pty Ltd; $140,000 was the tender there. Brisbane Lifestyle—we had a tender for $120,000 for Envisionware

Maintenance Services. Brisbane Transport—supply, management and maintenance of the public transport business intelligence solutions, $1,232,000.

The next one is Native Animal Ambulance Service—that is Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty, $90,000. The next one is the provision of Disaster

Emergency Management System, Noggin Pty Ltd, $793,000. The next one is the provision of an Enterprise Architecture Management Tool, $173,000. The next one is provision of travel management services—this is a $1 million amount. Let us have a look at this in a bit more detail. It is for a three-year period, a maximum term of five years, but the initial period here is for three years, and that is $10,000 per annum, which is the fee. The actual company receives as its fee $10,000 per annum.


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The next one is provision of printing services. That is $1.78 million for

Interforms Printing Group Pty Ltd. There are others there—Fuji Xerox

Document Management Solutions for a total of $280,000, and forms and corporate stationery for $564,000. Law in Order Pty Ltd, $220,000; Law in

Order Pty Ltd for $21,000.

The next one is supply and delivery of passenger and light commercial vehicles for $32.2 million. The next one is unaddressed direct mail services for an amount of $40,500. The next one is Australia Post Corporation—Australia Post; again, that has achieved the highest value for money, but they've got a bit of a—well, they are the secondary one. There is a citywide distribution, both of Australian

Postal Corporation, $40,500 for the first one and there is a second one there as well.

The next one is provision of Citrix XenDesktop and Netscaler support and maintenance, $1.1 million. The next one is $13 million for the provision of road profiling services. That has been won in this case by Base Course Management.

The provision of Cisco Hardware and Maintenance Support, Dimension Data Pty

Ltd was successful there of $6.8 million. The provision of chemicals for the control of pests, $19,000 for Garrards. The next thing is Globe Australia Pty Ltd for $122,000, and there are others there. The next one is for Garrards again—that is another category. There are four categories involved in that one.

The final one is the supply of pumps, foam systems and ancillary pumping and spraying systems, $150,000. There is a schedule of rates.

LORD MAYOR, your time has expired. Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Thanks, I'm right on cue. Thank you, Madam Chairman.

Further debate; Councillor DICK.

Thank you, Madam Chair; I rise to speak on the items today. I am deeply concerned about contracts and tendering. There are two that standout enormously to me, and it really sums up the priorities of this Administration.

You can always guarantee two things about this Administration: marketing and travel. You put them together, and you get a document with millions and millions of dollars.

So I draw to the attention of the Chamber the contracts and tendering page five; and I am going to speak a little moment on items 13 and 14. You can see item 13 is there for Corporate Travel Management, $1 million. I can't say it more clearer than this: this Council has an addiction problem when it comes to travel and also marketing costs. That is clear. We've seen it time and time again.

I have a bundle of information here, of trip after trip after trip, for bureaucrats and politicians; simply we are spending too much on corporate travel. Over and over again we see this, just as we've seen this LNP and Council now for 10 years, when you lose touch with what's happening out in the community, you see the wrong priorities.

Item 14 is $12 million on marketing collateral. Madam Chair, there is no excuse for Council spending a multimillion dollar amount of ratepayers' money on glossy publications propping themselves up. It is simply unacceptable when we are asking ratepayers to do more with less, when we cut back frontline services, when we slash jobs, and then we actually deliver less for the ratepayers, that we would spend millions and millions of dollars. Those opposite should hang their head in shame.

We are looking at printing costs. We are looking at forms and corporate stationery. We know you can't race to your letterbox without seeing a glossy publication with the LORD MAYOR on the front page.

DEPUTY MAYOR interjecting: Hear, hear!

Councillor DICK: Why does the LORD MAYOR—oh, I just heard 'Hear, hear!'



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They want—and I wouldn't be surprised, Madam Chair. Well, my question through you, I take the DEPUTY MAYOR's interjection. Why does the LORD

MAYOR of Brisbane have to be on every single front page—

—and that's what you said. That's the argument. You're just jealous.


Councillor DICK:


Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Order!

I'll take that interjection. You're just jealous.

Councillor DICK, I think you should get back to the item we're debating, thank you.

Sure, Madam Chair. Just taking your own party's interjections.

Councillor DICK, I find that offensive.

Sorry, Madam Chair, I'll withdraw that and say I am taking the interjections from the LNP councillors to my left.

Thank you.

Their interjection was, 'You’re jealous.' That's the attitude when it comes to marketing. That's the attitude. We've got a right to do whatever we want. That's what happens with massive majorities.


Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:


You get this arrogance—and they're laughing. This is not a joking matter. When you spend on the contract $12 million out in the community, they say a council or any government has the wrong priorities. We're not going to fix lighting in the city; we're going to cut public transport, but we will—

Councillor DICK! Councillor DICK! Get back to the item please.

—but we will spend—they don't like it, Madam Chair, they absolutely don't like their hypocrisy being shown—$12 million on marketing collateral. It's not good enough. The contracts are right next to each other, $1 million on corporate travel, $12 million on marketing, you've got the wrong priorities, through you,

Madam Chair.

This is not good enough. I won't talk about what that money could be spent on, but every ratepayer in this city knows that it shouldn't be spent on corporate travel and corporate marketing. I am disappointed that we are being asked to endorse such an obscene amount of money that is being asked today. I will not support it. Every Labor councillor will not support it, and we will continue to argue that this Council has the wrong priorities, and this document today clearly proves it.

Further debate; Councillor McKENZIE.

Thank you, Madam Chairman; I wish to speak on clause B in the E&C Report, contracts and tendering, attachment A, number 7, which is the civil works associated with traffic signals at the Logan Road outbound approach to O'Keefe

Street, near the Stones Corner Shopping Centre. There are 21 items in this section, and we have just heard about one or two items, and there are about 19 others which are far more important with regard to servicing the people of

Brisbane.

This roundabout intersection, for example, is experiencing an incredible rise in traffic as is happening all over the city. It is fed by travellers from Old Cleveland

Road into O'Keefe Street through Stones Corner. The roundabout feeds the

Clem7 Tunnel, Logan and Ipswich Roads. Also in the vicinity is the PA

(Princess Alexandra) Hospital, the Buranda Railway Station, the Buranda State

School and the Buranda Busway Station.

The LORD MAYOR's arterial roads program identified this intersection as a congestion hotspot, well worthy of the $140,000 of public expenditure to keep


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Brisbane moving. This area is well known to me. It's adjacent to my ward.

However, I consider it's a rather unusual project, as it involves the installation of traffic lights on the outward bound section of this large roundabout. I have since learned that there are a few more in the city, but I haven't experienced them.

Only red and amber signals have been installed on this approach which will hold traffic for a period, allowing the heavy-inbound traffic to flow more freely during the morning peak. When neither the red or the amber signal is displayed to the northern approach, the traffic will be able to proceed under normal roundabout rules, giving way to the right before entry. The works were completed at this location at the end of June 2014 and have been a great success.

They have shown to not only reduce congestion at this point in peak times, but to improve safety.

This corner has also recently been modified to facilitate the easy movement of the Maroon Flyer which has been an added bonus to the residents in this area.

With the areas of Greenslopes and Stones Corner Shopping Village increasing in popularity and population, these changes to the traffic flow are evidence that this

Administration is continually looking to the safety and the convenience of future generations. I wish to thank residents for their patience during these works, and congratulate the Congestion Reduction Unit for their work in making this a safer and more driver-friendly thoroughfare.

Further debate; Councillor JOHNSTON.

Yes, I rise to speak briefly on item A and B. Firstly with respect to item A, the

Final Budget Review and Authorisations. Can I say that last year's budget was a lost opportunity for this city, and I am disappointed that the LORD MAYOR has come in here and basically presented the final financial reports to the city, but there was so much left undone in last year's budget with respect to rollovers and cuts, and I think it is disappointing. Unfortunately, this year's budget is not looking any better.

With respect to item B, there are a couple of things that I would like to note.

There are, in fact, as Councillor McKENZIE has pointed out, 21 items before us today in the Contracts and Tendering Report. Of these 21 items, eight have not gone through a competitive tendering process, so that is 38 per cent of all of those projects that have not had any market testing or any discipline attached with getting the best value for ratepayers' money.

We are being asked to note this report. Again, the decisions were made by

Council officers. These powers have been delegated away, and I have spoken many times about my concerns regarding that. But what we have now is a process where there is no competitive process for major projects. There is no oversight by the elected representatives of this Council, yet officers—and sometimes junior officers—are locking this Council into significant financial contracts, and that is of concern.

I think anybody who is interested in good governance and transparency would be concerned that almost 40 per cent of all of the contracts being considered by this

Council, that are being reported here today, have not gone through a market process. That is of concern. I note that there are a few items on here as well, and

I found some of the same ones that Council is addicted to, but I'll just mention a few.

Number 11, Organisational Services: Provision of disaster emergency management system. We're spending $800,000 on a company called Noggin Pty

Ltd. It is one of these that have been exempt from tendering because we're doing what the State Government is doing. That does not inspire me with confidence, that we are doing what the State Government is doing. I don't recall hearing any explanation from the LORD MAYOR about what exactly this disaster emergency management system is.

This is an issue that I am interested in. My ward has experienced its share, like all other wards in the city, of disasters, and I would certainly like to know what we are committing ourselves to, what the process is that the State Government went through, and what the nature of this emergency system actually is, because


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- 21 - there are no details here, and we haven't gone through a competitive tendering process.

I, too, noted the extensive Corporate Travel Management $1 million contract that we have entered into, again without any competitive tendering process. So we know that the travel arrangements of this Administration—sometimes they're a bit light on, too. What did we have—Councillor ADAMS last year went off to look at the lights somewhere, didn't she? The Lantern Festival. So there is a concern about whether or not the ratepayers of Brisbane are getting value for money. I would have thought that this is an area where we should have sought competitive tenders.

The LORD MAYOR stands up and claims he is pro-business, and yet he is not putting out part of this Council's operational arrangements to the market for a competitive price. Why is it that Corporate Travel Management has been given this contract without any competitive process? I think that we should be putting it out to the market. We should be testing whether we're getting value for ratepayers' money. This is not our funding. This is the ratepayers' funds, and it is a concern that another contract for $1 million for travel is just being entered into.

I note that the LORD MAYOR is now asking the Finance Chairman, questions, hopefully about this, and we will get some reply, because it is a problem. I think that the only explanation seems to be that perhaps we're doing what the State

Government is doing, again, so what do we call him, the 19 th Minister for

George Street, is that what it is, in the Newman Government? It is a concern if we are just being led around by the nose, by the Newman Government, and we are simply jumping on board their contracts. Why? Do they offer the best value for money for our ratepayers? Or is this LORD MAYOR propping up a Newman

Government in George Street that is clearly struggling? Is he trying to help his mate out? I don't know.

Councillor JOHNSTON, you are imputing motive.

Well, Madam Chairman, it says that we're doing it because of State Government arrangements. So, I appreciate you don't like what I've said here, but it is reasonable to say what is going on, and to ask the question about whether ratepayers are getting value for money.

I also note that we are entering into significant contracts—these did go through a competitive process—for the distribution of marketing collateral in the city, and there are phenomenal amounts of money that are being entered into here for the distribution of Living in Brisbane , $2,750,000 for distribution Living in Brisbane around the city. This is the publication, along with this new one, Business in

Brisbane or whatever it is called, that has the giant photo of the LORD MAYOR on the front of it, so of course we have increased the frequency of that publication; we have increased the cost to ratepayers of that publication—


Councillor JOHNSTON: —the photo of the LORD MAYOR, as I tweeted a year ago, has gone to like a third of the page, and I suspect it is not because there's a level of jealousy amongst ALP councillors; I suspect that there is some internal polling that has gone people don't know who the LORD MAYOR of this city is, and therefore—

Councillor JOHNSTON, back to the item please. Chairman:


Councillor JOHNSTON: Yes, and they've bumped up the photo and they've bumped up the distribution.

Well, that's costing the ratepayers of Brisbane for this indulgence that features the LORD MAYOR almost $3 million for the Living in Brisbane newsletter. It is phenomenal that that is what the LORD MAYOR is doing.

There's another one in here that's of interest as well, and that is Base Course

Management, $13 million. I actually found this one quite interesting, and I presume it does relate to BaSE, so presumably this is now all the training that is going on in relation to BaSE, but I'd like someone to clarify this. We're accused in here of not asking questions. Well, here's a contract that has come up, been


Chairman:

Councillor SIMMONDS:

- 22 - ticked off by Council officers, and we're spending $13 million for what I presume is training but I would like some clarification on what that $13 million is going to spent on, because it is quite problematic, I think, in terms of the description that we have here.

So there we have it. Almost 40 per cent of the contracts we're being asked to approve today have not been tested in the market. There has been no competitive process, and we cannot be sure that the ratepayers of Brisbane are getting value for money. With many of these contracts, particularly where they are sensitive relating to marketing or to disaster arrangements or to travel, we are simply following what the Newman State Government is doing, and yet no explanation is being offered about why that is the best approach. I have serious questions about the financial rigor of this Administration, and I think they are increasingly being exposed for very poor financial decision making.

Further debate; Councillor SIMMONDS.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairman; I rise obviously to support both items

A and B of this report. If I could speak briefly first of all on item A, the Final

Authorisations Review, and extend my congratulations to the Council officers for the work they've done in assisting to manage and present the 2013-14 budget.

This is the finalisation of it, as well with the audited statements, which will come very shortly.

Congratulations to the team on achieving $4.675 million in savings. So again, this is an example of this Administration completing the task that it set out for itself at the beginning of the year, and doing it under budget. It is something that we didn't see under the many, many years of Labor administration, but something we continually see under this Administration, thanks to good, sound financial management.

The other issue to note in those Final Financial Statements is that there has been a reclassification of Legacy Way funding from capital to expenses, something that Councillor FLESSER asked me about earlier today, and I undertook to get him an answer. It is a discussion that we have been having with the QAO

(Queensland Audit Office) about how to classify these expenses which are spent on the Legacy Way Tunnel. Obviously expenses that are spent on the tunnel itself can be capitalised against that project, but this is on expenses on associated works which are owned by the State Government; for example, the Toowong roundabout and the interchange, so these cannot be capitalised against the

Legacy Way Tunnel. That is the reason for that.

Other than that, I would just reinforce the LORD MAYOR's message that he put forward in this debate that it is because of the strong financial management of this Administration throughout the 2013-14 budget period that we are able to do things like bring forward the backflow drainage work and put an extra $2.5 million towards it, how we were able to bring forward funding for Legacy Way as that project accelerates, how we were able to bring forward funding to complete the open rail crossings ahead of schedule, and these can only be done when you have good financial management.

In terms of item B, contracts report, if I could address a few issues. First of all, I thought I'd deal with the issue of the tendering processes, why some are awarded through a competitive tendering process and some are awarded through a sole source or some are alternatively awarded off a State Government panel. This is a decision that our procurement officers make on a daily basis, and they make it both in the best interests of ratepayers but also in consideration of the market.

There are various issues why they would make the decision to either sole source a company or to do it off a State Government panel. Probably the two that have been raised give me an opportunity to give you an example of each. Noggin, for example, which is the disaster software, I note that Councillor JOHNSTON asked for more information about this. I provided a lengthy answer, approximately 10 minutes I believe it almost was, at my budget information session when I was asked about this system. This is a system that connects in with the State Government disaster response agencies, and connects the



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Council's LDCC (Local Disaster Coordination Centre) in with those agencies, and provides a much better series of communication.

It also is a tracking tool that allows people, when we are logging jobs in the field, to have a much better management system to track those jobs and to make sure that they are closed off. Not only that, but for the State Government and the police and other agencies to see it. That is an example of where you would sole source, because what you have here is you have State agencies and you have other disaster enforcement agencies—people like the police and emergency services—already using this system.

So this is an example where of course you would sole source because you want our system to be able to talk to theirs, and the best way to do that is to have the same system, so that everyone is looking at the same information, everyone knows how to use the same thing. So far from being any impropriety, as the

Councillor opposite would try and impinge and imply, the facts—


Point of order against you, Councillor SIMMONDS. Yes, Councillor

JOHNSTON.

Claim to be misrepresented.

Thank you.

In fact, this is an example of officers making sure that your disaster management and our disaster response is as efficient as it possibly can be, and that we do it in conjunction with our other agencies. I would expect Councillor JOHNSTON, in her clarifying remarks, to support this wholeheartedly if indeed she is genuine in looking after her residents who are affected by disasters.

The other example is, of course, CTM (Corporate Travel Management), which is the travel management group. Again here this is a situation where we've chosen to source off the State Government panel. We must be mindful of both the market and best value for money for ratepayers in that tender processes are expensive. They are expensive for the Council to go out and get tenders and to evaluate them, and they are expensive for businesses to put them together. You need to weigh that up with the buying power of the particular organisation which is releasing the tender.

In this case the State Government has recently been through a tender process in the market to find the best travel management company. So they have gone through an open tender process and they have won. Let me make that clear. They have gone through an open tender process and they have won. The State

Government, because of their sheer buying power across all of those different departments, have received the best price that is available in the market.

So in the interests of ratepayers, in the interests of not costing them money for a tender, in the interests of not costing the business community more money to go through a new tender, in the interests of getting the best price because we can piggyback off the buying power of the State Government, we have chosen to go with them.

But I might mention a little bit, because Councillor DICK and Councillor

JOHNSTON both did, about those two items, communication and travel. First of all travel: the LORD MAYOR makes a very good point that this contract is over a three-year period for a start. I also know that we won't meet that $1 million over the three-year period, because I know how much we spend on travel every year. But it made me wonder why—I wonder how quickly it would take if we had allocated a maximum of $1 million over three years on travel for this

Council, including the bureaucrats and everyone else, how long would it take

Labor to go through that amount of money? Three years? Two years? No, I can tell you that in one year, they went through $1.2 million. It gets worse.


Councillor SIMMONDS: No, that was just one effort. In 2000-01, they went through $1.4 million in a single year—not over three years, in a single year. They went on, with $1.1


- 24 - million in 2001-02, and then in their last year in Office, 2002-03, $1.4 million in a single year, for Jim Soorley to travel the world on a farewell tour.


Chairman:


Chairman:


Councillor WYNDHAM:

Chairman:

Councillor WYNDHAM:

Chairman:


Councillor WYNDHAM:



Chairman:



Chairman:


Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:


Order!

Melbourne Cup—that's the kind of travel they have.

Councillor JOHNSTON! Order!

Then they talk to us about transparency. That was what Councillor JOHNSTON was talking about. All of our travel is on the website. All of it is on the website for everyone to see. How much of—


Point of order; yes, Councillor WYNDHAM.

Would Councillor SIMMONDS take a question?

Councillor SIMMONDS?

Sure, it would be my pleasure.

Councillor SIMMONDS, is that on today's dollars or 2003 dollars?

Well, it is in fact in today's dollars, but it is just as bad—

Order!

But it is just as bad.

Order! Order!

Well, they laugh, Madam Chairman, because they don't want us to compare apples with apples. That's how the Labor Party works.


Point of order against you, Councillor SIMMONDS.

Just for clarity—

Yes, Councillor DICK—just wait; yes.

Sorry, there's so much noise. Just for clarity, could Councillor SIMMONDS table that in previous dollars from when it was the real time, the actual dollars?

I'm not sure if you are asking a question; Councillor SIMMONDS, do you have anything to table?

Don't they want apples compared with apples? Do they want to muddy the debate? Do they want to pretend Labor was less than it actually is, Madam

Chairman?


Chairman:


Chairman:


Order!

Because this is what it actually looks like.

Order!

There's theirs versus ours; have a look at that, Madam Chairman. This

Administration is more transparent than they were, and they spend a lot less. But let's get to communications, let's get to communications, because—


Chairman:


Order!

—because here is another issue where the hypocrisy shines through again. This is a three-year contract, a three-year contract, so the money we're talking about is


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Councillor SIMMONDS: Oh, no, no, he must have had recognition issues.

Chairman:


Order! Councillor JOHNSTON!

No one knew who he was.

Chairman: Order!

Councillor SIMMMONDS: Remember, it's 2003—

Chairman: Just a minute, Councillor; Councillor JOHNSTON, if you continue to yell out like that, you will be warned.


Councillor DICK: over three years. It also goes far beyond things like Living in Brisbane ; it also includes, for example, legal printing. Would they suggest that we don't engage in any legal printing anymore?

It also includes the photocopiers. Would they like me to turn off their photocopier? It also includes office stationery. I didn't see a single one of the

Labor councillors asking to give back their business cards. But feel free; feel free to not print any business cards anymore, because that's what this contract includes.

But there were plenty of examples, weren’t there, Madam Chairman, of glossy brochures? They talked about glossy brochures, so I went back to this one. In

2003, full colour, A3, how many pages? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight—and the whole front page, what is it? Oh, a message from Tim Quinn, the

Lord Mayor.

Chairman:

Councillor DICK:


Chairman:


Yes, Councillor DICK.

Will Councillor SIMMONDS table the document so we can see the photo of—

Councillor DICK:

Chairman:


Order! Councillor BOURKE! A point of order has been called. Please be quiet.

Councillor DICK, sorry.

—so we can see the photo of the former Lord Mayor, or is there no photo on that document?

Sorry, you're asking to table a copy. Councillor SIMMONDS, will you—

Madam Chairman, this is my only copy. I couldn’t bear it, because what would

I—

Councillors interjecting .

Chairman:


Order!

—how would I send myself to sleep at night if I couldn’t read through the one page Tim Quinn editorial at the front, because obviously, as we now know, the—


Chairman:


Order!

—only time a Lord Mayor puts any messages in a leaflet is because he has recognition issues. So 2003, obviously no one knew who Tim Quinn was, and what a surprise, what a surprise.


Chairman:


Councillor NEWTON!

We don't produce eight-page A3 glossy things.

So, this is a $12 million contract, $12 million—


Chairman:


Chairman:


Chairman:

Councillor FLESSER:

Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

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Just a minute, Councillor SIMMONDS. Councillor NEWTON, if you want to talk to Councillor DICK, do it either quietly or go outside. Yelling in this

Chamber is not acceptable, from anyone. Councillor SIMMONDS.

So, a three-year contract for $12 million. Again, how long did it take—

Councillor SIMMONDS, your time has expired. Misrepresentation Councillor

JOHNSTON.

Yes, Madam Chairman; Councillor SIMMONDS stated that I had alleged some impropriety in the contracts before us today. Clearly my debate was about ensuring that there is transparency and value for money for ratepayers. I did not allege any impropriety as Councillor SIMMONDS stated.

Thank you. Councillor FLESSER.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Firstly, I'd just like to make a couple of comments about the final authorisation. I'd like to thank Councillor SIMMONDS for providing that answer about the $55 million that has gone from capital to expenses. However, in his answer, he has actually raised a very serious question.

He indicated that the QAO have decided that those funds were not capital, they were actually expenses, and the reason for that is because the money that was spent was actually going to State Government assets.

This raises a big question. We know that the Legacy Way Tunnel is costing about $1.7 billion and all the interest on the borrowings is all being capitalised as well. Of that, $500 million is being paid by the Federal Government. But to my knowledge, the State Government aren’t putting in a single cent. Councillor

SIMMONDS said that $55 million of what Council has spent is actually going to become a State Government asset.

Well, Madam Chair, I think that, as I've certainly said on many occasions before, this is a regional road project, and I don't believe that Brisbane's ratepayers should be putting in the amount of money that they are into this project, and it should really be a State and Federal project. As I've said before, one of the largest beneficiaries of this project are actually going to be the ratepayers of

Ipswich, not the ratepayers of Brisbane.

So, Madam Chair, I would ask whether Council will be seeking $55 million, or at least a percentage of that $55 million, that Councillor SIMMONDS is saying that Brisbane ratepayers have put into this project, but is actually going to become a State Government asset. We know that this Administration has become the 20 th Ministry of the Newman Government, but I think that ratepayers deserve someone standing up for them to the State Government. If this is $55 million going to the State Government in an asset that will go on their books, we should be getting at least some of that money back. I'd be most appreciative if the LORD MAYOR could give an explanation about that, and maybe some sort of commitment that we'll be chasing at least some of that $55 million back off the State Government to ease the burden on Brisbane's ratepayers.

Further debate; LORD MAYOR.

Madam Chairman, just to take the last question first, because it is at least of some relevance to the advancement of the people of this city, the issue there is that the State are paying the overwhelming amount of that money, Councillor

FLESSER. That is the reality. We acknowledge that. There are certain components of it that are part of the Brisbane network, and others that are part of the State, and already, this money is flowing back in relation to that. So I can assure you we will not be paying for all that.

The debate of course has been about the usual things that Councillor DICK likes to raise—travel and communications, anything bar the policy stuff that advances the welfare and the lifestyle of the people of this city. But if he wants to have a look at some of those things, Councillor SIMMONDS has been talking about

2003. Just have a listen to this: this was Labor in 2001. Kevin Bianchi, twice to

Taiwan; Kerry Rae, to Japan; we had Maureen Hayes to the UK and Europe.



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LORD MAYOR:

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Order!

Kim FLESSER to Japan—I think that was to see the birds, to make sure they flew south for summer; Jim Soorley, who went to the United States three times that year, twice to New Zealand, he went to Poland, and he went to Taiwan. That wasn't a bad year's arrangements. He fitted a bit of Lord Mayoralty in between.

Then Tim Quinn went to China and Japan. So that was one year.

If you want those dollars in that year, Councillor DICK, remembering that the $1 million in here is total domestic, total international travel for three years; this was one year of international travel only—$311,000 in 2000 dollars. If you want to project that forward, to be fair dinkum, and have a comparison of today's dollars, that would equate to $431,000 in international travel in that one year alone. Remembering again what is here today, up to $1 million in total travel for three years, domestic and international. So don't come the cop with me here,

Councillor DICK.

That was what your party did in Administration. If ever you got back here, you'd be at it again. You'd be at it again, because you've got some of the same people.

You've got Councillor NEWTON as a backbencher; Councillor FLESSER as a backbencher. They were all at it. So let's not come in here with that nonsense today.


Chairman:

LORD MAYOR:

Order! Order!

That's the reality. So, Madam Chairman, I am happy to move the report.

Chairman: I will put the motion.

Upon being submitted to the Chamber, the motion for the adoption 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 .

The voting was as follows:

AYES: 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, Julian SIMMONDS, Andrew WINES and

Norm WYNDHAM.

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

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

Victoria NEWTON and Shayne SUTTON.

ABSTENTIONS: 1 - Councillor Nicole JOHNSTON.

The report read as follows

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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.


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A 2013-14 BUDGET – FINAL AUTHORISATION REVIEW

1.

2.

134/135/86/140

97/2014-15

The Divisional Manager, Organisational Services, provided the information below.

The purpose of the Final Authorisation Review is to provide authorisation for actual expenditure of the 2013-14 financial year.

3. As the Final Authorisation Review is for expenditure authorisation purposes, it does not realign the budget to actual results for all changes. Attachment B submitted on file, recommends final budget authorisation to the approved budget for 2013-14.

Financial impact

4. The proposed final authorisation to the budgets for 2013-14 will result in a budgeted accumulated surplus of $0.53 million at 30 June 2014 after adjustments of Reserves.

The Divisional Manager provided the following recommendation and the Committee agrees. 5.

6. RECOMMENDATION:

THAT COUNCIL RESOLVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ATTACHMENT A, hereunder.

Attachment A

Draft Resolution

TO PROPOSE THE ADOPTION OF THE FINAL BUDGET AUTHORISATION

THAT COUNCIL RESOLVE THAT

1.

COUNCIL ADOPTS the final budget authorisation for the operations and the projects for the services provided by Council for 2013-14 in accordance with the

Budgeted Financial Statements and the recommendations as set out in Attachment B, submitted on file.

ADOPTED

B CONTRACTS AND TENDERING – REPORT TO COUNCIL OF

CONTRACTS ACCEPTED BY DELEGATES FOR JUNE 2014

109/695/586/2

98/2014-15

7.

8.

The Chief Executive Officer provided the information below.

Sections 238 and 239 of the City of Brisbane Act 2010 (“the Act”) provide the Council may delegate some of its powers. Those powers include the power to enter into contracts under section 242 of the Act.

9. Council has previously delegated some powers to make, vary or discharge contracts for the procurement of goods, services or works. Council made these delegations to the

Establishment and Coordination Committee and Chief Executive Officer.

10. The City of Brisbane Regulation 2012 (“the Regulation”) was made pursuant to the Act.

Section 227 in Chapter 6 (Part 4) of the Regulation provides that: (1) Council must, as soon as practicable after entering into a contract under this chapter worth $200,000 or more (exclusive of GST), publish relevant details of the contract on Council’s website; (2) the relevant details must be published under subsection (1) for a period of at least 12 months; (3) also, if a person


- 29 - asks Council to give relevant details of a contract, Council must allow the person to inspect the relevant details at Council’s public office. ‘Relevant details’ is defined in section 227

Chapter 6 (Part 4) (4) as including: (a) the person with whom Council has entered into the contract; (b) the value of the contract; and (c) the purpose of the contract (e.g. the particular goods or services to be supplied under the contract).

11. The Chief Executive Officer provided the following recommendation and the Committee agrees.


THAT COUNCIL NOTE THE REPORT IN ACCORDANCE WITH ATTACHMEN A, hereunder.

Attachment A

Contract/Quote No. &

Successful

Contractor/s

Delegate

City of Brisbane Regulation 2012 – Chapter 6 – Contracting

Details of Contracts Accepted by Delegates of Council for June 2014

Nature of

Arrangement and

Estimated Maximum

Expenditure

Contract/Quote Purpose Unsuccessful Tenders

& Quoters

Prices

Tendered

Approval,

Start/End

Dates & Term

BRISBANE

INFRASTRUCTURE

1.

Contract No: N/A

Queensland

Limited

$1,039,030

Rail

(QR) –

CPO Approved

19.06.2014

Start

01.04.2015

End

30.06.2015

2.

Contract No: BI130122-

12/13

GHD Pty Ltd –

$1,450,813

Achieved highest Value for Money Index {VFM} of

60.3

CPO

3.

Contract

OS120107-11/12

No:

Q Port Marine Pty Ltd –

$197,000 (SP1) and

$152,650 (SP2)*

SP2 is subject to availability of approved budget.

CPO

QR Interface

Agreement – schedule of rates

$1,039,030

Preferred Supplier

Arrangement – lump sum and schedule of rates

$1,450,813

Schedule or rates

$197,000 (SP1)

$152,650 (SP2)*

Telegraph Road, Bracken

Ridge, Open Level

Crossing Replacement

Project – removal of existing open level crossing

Contract exempt from quoting and tendering requirements in accordance with section 2.5

(Exemptions from Tendering) of Council’s Contract Manual pursuant to the City of

Brisbane Act 2010.

QR assets are only able to be relocated or worked on by QR or through an approved subcontractor directly appointed by QR.

Infrastructure

Modelling

Pavement

Forecast

Tools –

Ferry terminal upgrade geotechnical investigations:

Separable Portion 1 –

Kingsford Smith Drive (SP1)

Separable Portion 2 –

Kangaroo Point Pedestrian

Bridge (SP2)*

Shortlisted tenderers:

ARRB Group limited

Achieved VFM of 59.7

Tenderers not shortlisted:

(Final tendered price and VFM not calculated as offers were

not competitive)

SMEC Australia Pty Ltd

RMIT University

Non-conforming tenderers:

Jeff Roorda and Associates

Pty Ltd

N/A

Q Port Marine were engaged in April 2014 to supply a floating platform to undertake the geotechnical investigation for four proposed ferry terminal upgrades which were due for completion by mid-

June 2014. Two further projects requiring geotechnical investigation have since been identified and due to the high cost to establish and deestablish a floating barge, Q

Port were engaged to continue for these additional geotechnical investigations

N/A

$1,414,052

N/A

Approved

17.06.2014

Start

26.06.2014

End

(Initial term)

25.06.2018

Max. Term

Seven years

Approved

05.06.2014

Start

09.06.2014

End

Estimated completion within two months


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Successful

Contractor/s

4.

Contract No: 510143

Microsoft Operations

Pte Ltd

(Microsoft Enterprise

Agreement); and

Insight Enterprises

Australia Pty Ltd

(Preferred Licensing

Solution Partner)

E&C

5.


Naturform Pty Ltd –

$205,548


44.27

CPO

6.


Disability Lifts Pty Ltd t/a Platform Lift

Company (QLD) –

$167,299

Achieved Value for

Money Index {VFM} of

4.66

CPO

7.


Sovereign Energy Pty

Ltd atf Sovereign

Energy Trust t/a The

Sovereign Energy Trust

– $140,082


54.80

Executive

Manager,

Field

Services

Group

(FSG)

BRISBANE LIFESTYLE

8.

Contract No: 006171-

000

Envisionware Pty Ltd –

$120,457

CPO

Delegate Nature of

Arrangement and


Expenditure


& Quoters

Prices

Tendered

Enterprise Agreement

– lump sum and schedule of rates

$10,540,000

Schedule of rates

$205,548

Lump sum

$167,299

Microsoft

Software

Agreement

Enterprise

Licensing whilst they were still established in the Brisbane

River.

Contract entered into without seeking competitive tenders in accordance with section 2.4

(Sole or Select Sourcing) of

Council’s Contract Manual pursuant to the City of


In March 2014, State

Government Standing Offer

Arrangement (SOA)

ICTSS.13.05 for the provision of Microsoft products commenced. Microsoft only sell these products to large organisations through firms designated by Microsoft as large licencing solution partners. Insight provided the best Microsoft product pricing under the SOA.

Landscaping works at

Whites Hill Reserve, Camp

Hill, including planting, mulching, turf supply and lay, irrigation and maintenance as part of the stormwater project harvesting


Dig-It Landscapes Pty Ltd



Edwards & Pittman

Landscape Concepts P/L


Logan Landscapes Pty Ltd


Riverstage PWD (Persons with a Disability) Lift

Disability Lifts Pty Ltd t/a

Platform Lift Company (QLD) were the only company to respond to the Request for

Quote.

N/A

$200,343

$281,179

$203,521

N/A

Lump sum

$140,082

Lump sum

$120,457

Civil works associated with traffic signals at Logan

Road, outbound approach, to the O’Keefe Street roundabout, Stones Corner

Envisionware Maintenance

Services (in relation to the public internet management system in libraries)

Service Stream Holdings Pty

Ltd t/a S.E.Q.U.D


Rainmont Pty Ltd t/a Allied

Traffic Services


Contract entered into without seeking competitive tenders in accordance with Exemption 7

(Extensions of ICT

Maintenance and Support

Arrangements) under

Schedule A of Council’s

Annual Procurement Policy and Contracting Plan 2013-

2014.

$143,700

$148,528

N/A

Approval,

Start/End

Dates & Term

Approved

16.06.2014

Start

01.07.2014

End

30.06.2017

Approved

05.06.2014

Start

09.06.2014

End

Estimated completion within seven weeks

Approved

26.06.2014

Start

01.07.2014

End

Estimated completion within

18 weeks

Approved

02.06.2014

Start

03.06.2014

End

Estimated completion within three weeks

Approved

10.06.2014

Start

01.07.2014

End

(Initial term)

30.06.2017

Max. Term

Five years


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Successful

Contractor/s

BRISBANE

TRANSPORT

9.

Contract No: T100192 netBI Pty Ltd –

$1,232,150

E&C


Arrangement and


Expenditure

Lump sum

$1,232,150


& Quoters

Prices

Tendered

Supply, Management and

Maintenance of the Public

Transport Business

Intelligence Solution and the Brisbane Transport

Incident Management

System

Contract entered into without seeking competitive tenders in accordance with section 2.4

(Sole or Select Sourcing) of

Council’s Contract Manual pursuant to the City of


Extension of an existing contract in relation to key operational, strategic and risk management tools to align with Translink’s requirements

for contestability.

N/A

CITY PLANNING &

SUSTAINABILITY

10.


Royal Society for the

Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals (RSPCA) –

$90,000*


100.73

*Final tendered price is the estimated annual contract sum.

DISASTER RESPONSE

& RECOVERY

CPO

Nil

OFFICE OF THE LORD

MAYOR & CHIEF

EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Nil

ORGANISATIONAL

SERVICES

11.


Noggin Pty Limited –

$793,160

CPO

Preferred

Arrangement –

$450,000

Supplier annual lump sum

Native Animal Ambulance

Service

Brisbane Livestock Control


$144,000*

Approval,

Start/End

Dates & Term

Approved

30.06.2014

Start

27.07.2014

End

(Initial term)

24.09.2015

Max. Term

Three years and two months

Approved

26.06.2014

Start

01.07.2014

End

(Initial term)

30.06.15

Max. Term

Five years

12.


000

Seattle Software Ltd t/a

Orbus Software –

$173,716


42.9

13.

CPO

CPO

State Government

Standing Offer

Arrangement

$793,160

Lump sum

$173,716

Provision of a Disaster

Emergency Management

System

Provision of an Enterprise

Architecture Management

Tool




As a result of an open market tender process, the State

Government Attorney-

General’s department has a

Standing Offer Arrangement in place with the vendor.

Council are able to place contracts with the vendor under this arrangement.

N/A

Avolution Pty Ltd


Approved

23.05.2014

Start

30.05.2014

End

(Initial term)

31.05.2017

Max. Term

Seven years

$195,000 Approved

24.06.2014

Start

26.06.2014

End

(Initial term)

25.06.2016

Max. Term

Three years

Schedule of rates Provision of Travel Contract exempt from quoting N/A Approved


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Successful

Contractor/s


Corporate Travel

Management (CTM) –

$1,000,000*

*Price is the total potential commitment by

Council under the maximum term of this contract. The majority is the direct cost of airfares and accommodation, with the fees paid to CTM amounting to less than

$10,000 per annum.

14.


Category A – Marketing

Collateral

Interforms Printing

Group Pty Ltd ATF


Group Unit Trust –

$1,782,941


47.7

326

Category B – Variable

Data

Fuji Xerox Document

Management Solutions

– $280,720


CEO


Arrangement and


Expenditure

$1,000,000

Contract/Quote Purpose

Management Services

Unsuccessful Tenders

& Quoters and tendering requirements in accordance with section 2.5



Council are able to place contracts with the vendor under Queensland State

Government Standing Offer

Arrangement (SOA) PD886 for the Provision of Travel

Management Services, which allows entities such as Council to access this arrangement.

Preferred arrangements schedule of rates

$12,000,000 supplier

–

Provision

Services of Printing

Prices

Tendered

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

$266,846

N/A

N/A

N/A

$1,973,461

N/A

$1,892,367

Note: Final tendered price and

VFM not calculated for tenderers who were not shortlisted as they scored lower in experience, capacity and quality methodologies compared to shortlisted tenderers.

Category A – Marketing

Collateral


James Fergusson Pty Ltd t/a

Fergies Print & Mail


Print Works (Queensland) Pty

Ltd


CPX Printing & Logistics

(VFM not calculated as they did not provide pricing on a number of items)


Platypus Graphics

Inprint Pty Ltd

Printcraft

Personalised Chandler

Communications

SKH Holdings Pty Ltd ATF

Hall Investment Trust

All Clear Print and Signs

Cross and Hamilton Printers

Staples Australia Pty Limited

Cornerstone Press Pty Ltd

Category B – Variable Data


Australian Postal Corporation

Achieved VFM of 324


SEMA Operations Pty Ltd

Chandler Personalised

Communications

Forms Express Pty Ltd

GJI Pty Ltd


Approval,

Start/End

Dates & Term

18.06.2014

Start

01.07.2014

End

(Initial term)

30.06.2017

Max. Term

Five years

Approved

24.06.2014

Start

01.07.2014

End

(Initial term)

30.06.2017

Max. Term

Five years


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Category C – Forms and Corporate

Stationery


Group Pty Ltd ATF


Group Unit Trust –

$564,807


147

Category D (i) – Instant

Law in Order Pty Ltd –

$220,089


358.9

Category D (ii) –

Secure/Legal

Law in Order Pty Ltd –

$21,639


36.5


Successful

Contractor/s

15.


Motorama Management

Pty Ltd


87

AP Eagers Ltd

Achieved VFM of 86

Stones Corner Motors

Pty Ltd, t/a Keema

Automotive Group

Achieved VFM of 74

Note: Council are utilising

Queensland Government

CEO


Arrangement and


Expenditure


& Quoters

Prices

Tendered

Panel arrangement – schedule of rates

$32,250,000

Category C – Forms and

Corporate Stationery



Ltd



Platypus Graphics

Chandler Personalised

Communications

Staples Australia Pty Limited

Printcraft


The Croham Trust, t/a Cross

& Hamilton Printers (Qld) Pty

Ltd

Category D (i) – Instant



Ltd


CPX Printing & Logistics




Fergies Print & Mail

SKH Holdings Pty Ltd ATF

Hall Investment Trust

Colourwise Digital Pty Ltd


Category D (ii) –

Secure/Legal



Fergies

Print & Mail


Supply and Delivery of

Passenger and Light

Commercial Vehicles


Bryan Byrt Holdings Pty Ltd

Achieved VFM of 68


(Final VFM not calculated due to lower scores in the evaluation criteria for meeting

Council’s service level expectations, organisational resources, forward planning, methodology, value-adds and commercial criteria).

Sci Fleet Motors Pty Ltd

Norris Motor Group

Zupps Mt Gravatt Pty Ltd

Westpoint Auto QLD Pty Ltd

Q Automotive Pty Ltd

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

$318,631

$391,746

N/A

N/A

N/A

$643,466

N/A

Approval,

Start/End

Dates & Term

Approved

17.06.2014

Start

01.07.2014

End

(Initial term)

30.06.2017

Max. Term

Five years



Successful

Contractor/s

Arrangement Q-Fleet

1211 in relation to this

contract.

16.


Category 1 – Citywide

Distribution

Australian

Corporation

Postal t/a

Australia Post –

$40,500*


1.93

*Price for Category 1 represents a citywide delivery of 450,000 of the

Living in Brisbane publication. For Salmat this was reduced to

418,875 deliveries due to their inability to deliver to

PO boxes, acreage, standard businesses and a number of highrise addresses.

Category 2 – Localised

Distribution

Australian

Corporation

Postal t/a

Australia Post – $279**


2.78

**Price for Category 2 represents the per item distribution multiplied by

3000 (Salmat’s minimum delivery amount) for comparison purposes.

Council’s average order is $869 with the majority of orders under $2,000.

CEO

17.


Data#3 Limited –

$1,135,445

CPO

18.


Base Course

Management QLD Pty

Ltd – $2,865,357*


35.91

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Arrangement and


Expenditure


& Quoters

CEO

Preferred

Arrangement schedule of rates

$2,750,000

Lump sum and annual fee for optional additional periods

$1,135,445

Supplier

–

Preferred Supplier

Arrangement – schedule of rates

$13,000,000

Unaddressed Direct Mail

Services (UDMS)

Provision of Citrix

XenDesktop and Netscaler support and maintenance

Category 1 – Citywide

Distribution

Salmat Mediaforce Pty Limited

(Non-conforming. VFM not calculated)

Category 2 – Localised

Distribution

Salmat Mediaforce Pty Limited

(VFM not calculated)**




Leveraged off LocalBuy contract BUS214-0611 which allows customers to place orders directly with the vendor.

Provision of Road Profiling

Services


Ellis Profiling Pty Ltd


RPQ Profiling Pty Ltd



(VFM was not calculated as

Prices

Tendered

$114**

$15,917*

N/A

$4,263,286*

$3,514,871*

Approval,

Start/End

Dates & Term

Approved

24.06.2014

Start

01.07.2014

End

(Initial term)

30.06.2017

Max. Term

Five years

Approved

17.06.2014

Start

01.07.2014

End

(Initial term)

31.10.2017

Max. Term

Five years and four months

Approved

24.06.2014

Start

27.07.2014

End

(Initial term)

26.07.2017

Max. Term

Five years


- 35 -


*Price is a basket of goods including float costs.

Successful

Contractor/s

19.


Dimension Data Pty Ltd

– $6,835,999*


56.69

*Price is the estimated spend over a five year

period.

CEO

CEO 20.


Category 1 – Supply of

Rodenticides,

Termiticides and

General Pest Control

Products (Preferred

Supplier Arrangement)

Garrards Pty Ltd –

$19,837


412.61


BTI

(Preferred

Arrangement)

Larvaecide

Supplier

Garrards Pty Ltd –

$121,700


67.26


S-Methoprene

Lavaeside

Arrangement)

(Panel

Globe Australia Pty Ltd

– $122,073


63.08

Pacific Biologics Pty

Ltd – $165,640


Category 4 – Supply of non-scheduled products on the pricelist

Supplier published

(Preferred

Arrangement)

Garrards Pty Ltd – price is discount of 12.5% off vendor’s published


Arrangement and


Expenditure


& Quoters

Prices

Tendered

Discount off Cisco recommended retail price and schedule of rates

$6,835,999*

Panel and Preferred

Supplier Arrangements

– schedule of rates

$1,674,400

Provision of Cisco

Hardware and Maintenance

Support these tenderers were unable to cover Council’s requirements which average seven road profilers on a daily basis).

Stanley Macadam Company

Creggs Asphalt Pty Ltd


Data#3 Pty Ltd



Bridgepoint Communications

Pty Ltd


Alphawest Services Pty Ltd


Provision of Chemicals for the Control of Pests


Rodenticides, Termiticides and General Pest Control

Products (Preferred


Globe Australia Pty Ltd


Category 2 – Supply of BTI

Larvaecide (Preferred


Globe Australia Pty Ltd


David Gray and Co Pty Ltd


Category 3 – Supply of S-

Methoprene Lavaeside

(Panel Arrangement)

Garrards Pty Ltd


Category 4 – Supply of nonscheduled products on the published pricelist

Supplier (Preferred

Arrangement)

Gerrards Pty Ltd were the only tenderer in this category offering a discount of 12.5% off their published list price for

$126,000

$139,660

$25,760

$150,319

N/A

$688,750

$833,607

$7,493,676*

$8,905,324

$10,052,586

Approval,

Start/End

Dates & Term

Approved

24.06.2014

Start

01.07.2014

End

(Initial term)

30.06.2017

Max. Term

Five years

Approved

19.06.2014

Start

01.07.2014

End

(Initial term for categories 1, 2 and

4)

30.06.2017

(Initial term for category 3)

30.06.2015

Max. Term

Five years



Successful

Contractor/s


Arrangement and


Expenditure

- 36 -


& Quoters

Prices

Tendered

Approval,

Start/End

Dates & Term price list for non-

scheduled products

*Price is a basket of goods based on 2012/13 quantities.

21.


000

Queensland

Government

State

Public

Safety Business Agency

(PSBA) Standing Offer

Arrangement (SOA) F-

2474 for the Supply of

Pumps, Foam Systems and Ancillary Pumping and Spraying Systems

CPO Schedule of rates

$150,000 non-scheduled products.

Supply of Pumps, Foam

Systems and Ancillary

Pumping and Spraying

Systems




Council are able to place contracts with the vendor directly under a Queensland

State Government SOA which allows entities such as Council to access this arrangement.

N/A Approved

26.06.2014

Start

01.07.2014

End

(Initial term)

30.06.2017

Max. Term

Five years

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 19August

2014, be adopted.


DEPUTY MAYOR: Yes, Madam Chairman. The first thing I wanted to mention, portfolio issue, is that Council has officially approved the application for the refurbishment of the historic engine room down at the Teneriffe area. This particular issue relates to a historic building that came across to Council ownership as part of the redevelopment of the area, and this building has essentially been sitting idle and vacant for a very long time.

Council, as part of our River's Edge strategy, got very clear feedback from the community that people love being close to the river, people love opportunities to interact with the river, people love opportunities to have a coffee or a meal close to the river. They wanted to see more of these opportunities provided across the city. So Council saw the opportunity here to achieve two outcomes: one was to restore and open up a heritage building so that the public can benefit from it.

They could go inside, use it, and enjoy it. Secondly, to get another riverside café or restaurant facility by the side of the river.

So we see it as a positive project for the city, a positive project for local residents, and one that Council has now officially approved. So Council went through the process of engaging a consultant to apply for a Development

Application (DA) on our behalf. That DA was assessed. It went out to public consultation in the normal way. Submissions were received from the public, and there was a lot of interest in this particular DA. As a result of that public submission period, a number of changes were proposed to the DA. I think those changes will help ensure we get a good outcome for the community.

What we will see in place down there is a potential for a café or restaurant in this heritage building. There will be a new deck put on the front of the building, which will allow for a riverside experience. The café or restaurant will seat up to

60 people, but that obviously depends on how the operator wants to structure it.

They can't seat more than 60 people, but they can certainly have less than 60 people, depending on how they want to structure the setup.

As a result of the feedback we received, one of the concerns raised by some of the nearby residents was potential noise impacts from people out on the deck in


Chairman:

Councillor ABRAHAMS:

- 37 - the evening. So we have taken that on board. The original DA included a proposed operating time on the deck, until 10pm at night; we've listened to people's concerns, and reduced that by five hours back to 6pm. So, after 6pm at night, there won't be any activity on the deck, but certainly during the day, people can enjoy the great riverside environment. After 6pm, the only activity will be actually inside the building, which will help limit the noise impacts or any other impacts in terms of the nearby residents.

In addition, we have relocated the proposed staircase from the deck down to the pathway, and that relocation will help to minimise any impacts on surrounding residents as well. As I said, I think this will be a positive thing for the local area.

It has generated a lot of interest. The next step in the process will be for Council to engage an operator for this facility.

This is where there's some very exciting opportunities for the community to be involved, so there's a number of community groups and organisations in the area who have expressed an interest in helping bring the heritage alive. So a lot of suggestions have been put forward, and we now are encouraging those community groups and residents to work with some of the potential operators to get a truly unique facility.

There may, for example, be an opportunity to incorporate some heritage aspects into the facility and café itself, such as artwork that reflects the history and heritage of the area; it might be certain heritage displays. That area really has a rich tapestry of history. It was a submarine base during the Second World War, and has undergone so much change and revitalisation as a very special part of the city. So we are looking forward to working with the community going forward and the local councillor to deliver a good outcome. We have listened to people's feedback, and I think the end result will be something that's very positive, not only for the local area but for Brisbane as a whole.

While we are on the river theme, I did want to mention the presentation that came to Committee last week on the City Reach Boardwalk. This section of boardwalk we are talking about essentially curves around from down near

Howard Smith Wharves all the way down through in front of a lot of the riverside property down towards the Botanic Gardens. So it's that section of the river that we know as the City Reach.

Previously the boardwalk was under the control of various different agencies, including the Port of Brisbane and other State Government agencies. Several years ago, we arranged for that boardwalk to be transferred to Council. We had the challenge where everyone thought it was a Council asset, and they'd come to us asking for various things to be done there, but it wasn't actually our asset at the time. So now that it has come into Council control, we can get on with the job of ensuring we deliver an improved asset for the people of Brisbane.

Our river walks and boardwalks are very popular, and they help contribute to an active and healthy city as well. So what we are doing is progressively upgrading sections of this boardwalk. They have all been built at different times by different developers to different standards, so we need to make sure that all of those standards are appropriate for the heavy use that the facility gets. We're progressively closing sections to do some upgrade works. We've got one section that has just been completed in recent times, and there is more work to happen next year as well in terms of improving and repairing some of those sections of boardwalk.

So once again, linking in with the new Riverwalk which will open on 21

September. This section of boardwalk will also be upgraded for enhanced public use as well. We also have in the Committee report two petitions which

Councillors can see at items B and C.

Further debate; Councillor ABRAHAMS.

Madam Chair, I'd like to talk on item B and item C, those two petitions that

Councillor SCHRINNER thought weren't worth discussing. But never mind, thank you very much, Councillor SCHRINNER, I shall. May I start with the petition item C which is the residents in Dorchester Street, South Brisbane, who


Chairman:

- 38 - were looking for more on-street parking. They have in front of them what happens in some of the older areas, where the road has a division in the middle of it, with a pretty unformed embankment, and then access to properties below that. This has meant that they have had limited parking, and as the pressures with other spaces not being available in Dorchester Street, they really have had a major problem.

About five years ago I worked with them, and I think we got one space at that time. So, Councillor SCHRINNER, the recommendation that came from the officers as a result of this petition is in fact delivering for them additional car parking spaces for approximately eight vehicles. Can you congratulate the officers who were involved? I think it is an excellent outcome. I am delighted that it is a cheap, effective use of kerbside space rather than major construction works, and think that that the officers have been wise and judicious.

It does show that if we all work together we might find more solutions to kerbside parking difficulties in the traffic areas of which this is one. I hope that input would go into the parking review.

Petition B is from all the residents of Drake Street, West End, except one, and that was because they were overseas. It is seeking increased and alternative traffic measures so that Drake Street does not become the main access to

Montague Road, does not become the main access to all of the development along Montague Road as part of the South Brisbane Riverside Neighbourhood

Plan, and that actually means the Kurilpa Master Plan area as well.

Madam Chair, the peninsula of West End, like all peninsulas, has an extremely poor road network. The road network that exists for major traffic coming into construction sites and into what we've now learnt, 40-storey tower buildings, is in fact Merivale Street, Cordelia Street and Montague Road. They are two sides of a triangle and there is no existing road in the network to be the hypotenuse of that triangle But unfortunately, drivers are using Dornoch Terrace as this direct link with disasters and crashes between cars and bikes. They then travel westward, using Drake Street, which is the first turn into Montague Road.

I would wish to describe Drake Street. It has a few sites that have had some density on them which is absolutely quintessential what Labor did with keeping the traditional house and permitting units behind. So from the street front, it is some of the nicest and most protected workers' cottages of tin and timber in that part of West End. It is not made for major traffic. They weren't designed for the major traffic that is now going through this street. The street is traffic calmed, but some of the speed bumps have a considerable distance between them. It is signed, but wasn't adequately signed until those works were undertaken, that it is a 40 kilometres per hour area.

So, Madam Chair, they are concerned. They can see that, when there is no existing formal road network, drivers will find one, and theirs is the street they find it. This is inappropriate. It is bad planning; it is bad transport planning, and it is not what we should be doing to the residents in our city. So I totally support their endeavours.

Why I have given such a long description is because the petition is to find out what the volumes and speed are. I will believe that the speeds will probably be reasonable, but the number of vehicles will be excessive. Therefore, Councillor

SCHRINNER, I am asking you to seriously look at, to be innovative, to make sure this does not become the route to your urban renewal along the river. It is not appropriate, and it needs attention.

Believe me, I know those residents in that street will get the support of other residents in West End because they are wise enough to know, if work isn't done appropriately on this street, every one of their streets will be subject to the same impact of traffic from the huge population that is predicted along the river, and they would also see that Council will ignore their needs. So, this is a very heartfelt request that we seriously look and take measures, once we've got the traffic count.

Further debate; DEPUTY MAYOR.


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DEPUTY MAYOR:

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Thank you, Madam Chairman, and thank you, Councillor ABRAHAMS, for your comments on the two petitions. I have certainly noted those comments.

Regarding the first petition you mentioned, I'll pass on your thanks to the officers regarding the additional parking spaces that have been proposed as part of this.

Secondly, the Drake Street petition, as well, something we'll be happy to continue monitoring going forward. As you are aware, there was speculation about the speed limit on this street, and I think getting the 40 kilometre speed limit confirmed was a good outcome, and certainly we want to try and make sure that the traffic through this street is driving safely, and that there's not a large number of non-local traffic going through there as well. Look, I am happy to take on board feedback going forward relating to how this street operates in the future.

I will put the motion. Chairman:

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


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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 – CITY REACH BOARDWALK

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Karl Hain, Business Delivery Manager - Structures, Asset Services, Brisbane Infrastructure

Division, attended the meeting to provide an update on the City Reach Boardwalk. Mr Hain provided the information below.

2.

3.

4.

The City Reach Boardwalk is a combination of 15 sections from Gardens Point to the City

Reach Boardwalk Reserve entrance, and is a mixture of leased and Council-owned sections.

Council shares the maintenance responsibilities with the lessees. An image of the complete boardwalk was displayed.

The presenter informed the Committee that each of the boardwalk sections is inspected annually (visually) and a detailed inspection is undertaken every five years. Regular maintenance work is undertaken; which includes maintaining the edge barriers, surface, lighting and cleanliness. This is done to reduce trip hazards for users.

Major maintenance works have been undertaken at 145/171 Eagle Street, which included deck panel replacements, patch repairs and sealing concrete to limit corrosion due to salt water. Crane and barge operations are needed for this maintenance work and coordination with ferry and commercial operations is necessary to achieve this.

Images of the maintenance work were displayed and discussed.

The presenter explained to the Committee the challenges in maintaining the asset, which included:

- the 15 sections were built by different developers, at different times and to varying standards

- it is a combination of new and used infrastructure and being a tidal zone structure, is susceptible to high-level corrosion and has limited accessibility


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- the area is very busy as it is a key link for pedestrians, bike riders and tourists, supporting commercial and public transport operations.

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8.

Images of different structural designs were displayed and discussed.

The presenter outlined the forthcoming planned maintenance schedules in the northern section for the financial years 2014-15 and 2015-16.

9. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chairman thanked Mr Hain for his informative presentation and congratulated his team for the great outcome that was achieved with the work.


THAT COUNCIL NOTE THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE ABOVE

REPORT.

ADOPTED

B PETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL OR

ALTERNATIVE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT MEASURES TO REDUCE

TRAFFIC VOLUMES AND THE ASSOCIATED TRAFFIC NOISE, AND

IMPROVE SAFETY ON DRAKE STREET, WEST END

CA14/175190

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11. A petition from residents of West End, requesting that Council provide additional or alternative traffic management measures on Drake Street, West End, was presented to the meeting Council held on 4 March 2014, by Councillor Helen Abrahams, and received.

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

13. The petition contains 57 signatures. Of the 57 signatures, all but one is a resident from Drake and Hoogley Streets.

14. Drake Street is classified as a neighbourhood road in the Brisbane City Plan 2014 . These types of roads typically carry up to 3,000 vehicles per day and provide access to local properties, streets and community facilities.

15. Drake Street is about 270 metres long and has three speed platforms installed. These platforms were constructed in the late 1990s and were aimed to moderate vehicle speeds and discourage motorists from using the street as a short cut when travelling from Dornoch

Terrace to Montague Road. A search of the Queensland Government’s Department of

Transport and Main Roads crash records did not identify any reported crashes on Drake Street during the ten year period between December 2000 and December 2010.

16. Recent speed and traffic volume data is not available for Drake Street for an assessment of the effectiveness of the existing traffic management measures. It is therefore recommended that a speed and traffic volumes survey be undertaken for Drake Street, which will allow Council officers to assess the effectiveness of the existing traffic management measures and determine if additional or alternative traffic management measures are needed.

17. If the traffic assessment finds vehicle volumes and speeds exceed those expected for this type of road, a further investigation will be undertaken to identify options to further moderate vehicle speeds and/or deter non-local traffic intrusion. If this assessment finds additional or


- 41 - alternative traffic management measures are needed, this work will be listed for consideration in line with other citywide priorities of this nature.

18. The head petitioner has also noted that 40km/h speed limit signs are not present within Drake

Street. During a site inspection, it was noted that a ‘40’ pavement legend is present near the intersection of Montague Road. To assist road users it is recommended that Council installs

40km/h signs along Drake Street to further clarify that a 40km/h speed limit applies.

19. A 14.5 tonne vehicle weight limit applies to Ganges Street and Drake Street, West End. Signs are in place on Montague Road, Ganges Street, and Drake Street, warning motorists of this restriction. The head petitioner has requested that Council does not issue permits to vehicles greater than 14.5 tonnes to use these streets.

20. Council only provides exemptions to this restriction if access is required to local properties and streets for maintenance, delivery or emergency reasons. It is recommended that Council continues to only issue permits if the applicant is accessing the immediate local area, and no other alternative routes or options are available.

Funding

21. Funding is available in Program 2 – Moving Brisbane, Schedule 209.

Consultation

22. The Councillor for The Gabba Ward, Councillor Helen Abrahams, has been consulted and supports the recommendation below.

Preferred option

23. It is the preferred option that Council:

- install 40km/h signs along Drake Street

- undertake a traffic survey on Drake Street and assess the need for additional or modified traffic management measures

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- list and consider for funding (in line with citywide priorities of this type) any additional or modified traffic management measures that are needed as a result of the traffic survey results continue to only issue exemptions to the 14.5 tonne vehicle limit on Drake and

Ganges Streets if the applicant is accessing the immediate local area, and no other alternative routes or options are available.

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


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 THAT COUNCIL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL

PARKING SPACES FOR RESIDENTS WHO DO NOT HAVE OFF-STREET

PARKING LIVING NEAR DORCHESTER STREET, SOUTH BRISBANE

CA14/497659

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26. A petition from residents of South Brisbane, requesting that additional parking spaces for residents who do not have off-street parking living near Dorchester Street, South Brisbane was presented to the meeting of Council held on 17 June 2014, by Deputy Mayor, Councillor

Adrian Schrinner, on behalf of the Lord Mayor and received.

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

28. The petition contains 10 signatures from seven residences that do not have off street parking and reside along the service road on Dorchester Street, near Gladstone Road, South Brisbane.

The petitioners have requested that Council create parking spaces for long term residents by modifying the sloping bank opposite their properties.

29. An investigation has been carried out that identified that extensive construction works would be required to provide these parking spaces; including, but not limited to, cutting of the sloping bank, construction of a retaining wall and widening the road surface. Given the cost and nature of these works, it is expected that this project would rank low against similar projects on a citywide basis. Performing these works to provide the parking spaces would not guarantee exclusive use by residents.

30. Along Dorchester Street, the pavement width varies from seven metres wide to approximately

12 metres wide. The service road runs north of the section of Dorchester Street which is seven-metres wide.

31. The extent of works required to provide additional parking opportunities include the removal of two ‘No Stopping’ signs. This will enable nearby residents and their guests an additional

50 metres of parking space (approximately eight to 10 parked cars).

32. With vehicles parked on either side of the road, it will provide passive traffic calming measures by only allowing one vehicle to pass at a time. The location of driveways on the southern side of Dorchester Street provides space for vehicles to pull over to allow oncoming vehicles to pass.

Funding

33. Funding is available in Council’s Schedule 209, Program 2 – Moving Brisbane.

Consultation

34. The Councillor for The Gabba Ward, Councillor Helen Abrahams, has been consulted and supports the recommendation below.

Preferred option

35. It is the preferred option that Council remove the existing ‘No Stopping’ signs to provide parking opportunities along Dorchester Street.

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


THAT THE HEAD PETITIONER BE ADVISED OF THE INFORMATION

CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT, AND THAT COUNCIL ENDORSE THE

PREFERRED OPTION ABOVE.

ADOPTED


ADJOURNMENT:

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At that time, 3.57pm, 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 3.59pm.

UPON RESUMPTION:

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 19 August 2014, be adopted.

Chairman:

Councillor MATIC:

Is there any debate?

Thank you, Madam Chairman. Before I get to the committee presentation I just wanted to give the Chamber a bit of an update on our continual commitment to improving the facilities of our CityCat and ferry services. I can advise the

Chamber that now that we're nearing the completion of Riverwalk as the Lord

Mayor spoke earlier in the Chamber today, now that we're nearing the completion of Riverwalk I can advise the Chamber that starting from Monday 8

September, Council will deliver increased and faster services to and from the city, particularly for New Farm Park, Riverside, Teneriffe, Northshore Hamilton and Bulimba.

Chairman:

Councillor MATIC:

As councillors would be aware because of the significant amount of construction at Riverwalk was required, go-slows were part of the conditions set down by the

Maritime Authority, but now that those are lifted we can return to a normal timetable. On top of that we're also enhancing the services and increasing actually the number of services, particularly around Northshore Hamilton and

Bulimba for the benefit of all residents on both sides of the river. I can inform the Chamber that the updated timetable will also include Milton terminal, and take into account Council's current and upcoming ferry terminal upgrades to ensure that customers can plan their journeys accordingly.

So we want to make sure that all of those works are also factored into the timetable so that we're not required later on, Madam Chairman, to further update the timetable, we're doing it from the beginning. Residents and users will also be aware of those particular upgrades that the closures of those terminals as that work is progressing, and then be of course updated once those terminals are up and running again. So what does this mean, Madam Chairman, incorporation with those increased services?

So what we're going to see is two new afternoon peak services which will operate from Riverside to Teneriffe, extending the seven to eight minute service frequency from 4.49pm through to 6.34pm to meet those customer demands. We will also see, with the added capacity for the new dual berth terminals at

Bulimba, we will see extra crossings between Bulimba and Teneriffe with a

CityCat heading to Teneriffe every 10 minutes between 7am and 8am on week days and three new afternoon peak services—

Order.

—departing from Teneriffe when the terminal reopens. Northshore Hamilton terminal will also benefit from increased ferry arrivals and departures, Madam

Chairman. So the services that—


Councillor MATIC: Thank you Councillor SIMMONDS. So we'll see increased services down near

Northshore Hamilton, the Brett's Wharf area, Madam Chairman, where previously there were only a couple of services. Now they will incorporate into


Chairman:


- 44 - the regular run. So all of the residents that are currently there will now be incorporated into the fulltime running of those CityCat services providing a regular service for all of those residents and all of the residents to come. So this enhanced timetable, Madam Chairman, will ensure that local residents, the growing Northshore Hamilton area can access regular, efficient river travel options day and night seven days a week.

Madam Chairman, so I hope that comes as positive news to all councillors in the

Chamber. It clearly indicates that as we find new opportunities, continue to enhance and improve our CityCat and ferry services we will do so, Madam

Chairman, providing what is obviously a popular service already to residents across our city but extending that service wherever possible to meet those ever increasing demands.

Talking about important and innovative services, Madam Chairman, I'd like to turn to the committee presentation, which was an update on the Maroon

CityGlider. That service, Madam Chairman, was introduced on 18 February

2013. As councillors would know it was a commitment by the LORD MAYOR at the last election to look at providing a new type of CityGlider service between

Ashgrove and incorporating the attractions within the Paddington, Milton area of

Suncorp, the café, retail precincts on Latrobe and Given Terrace, being able to cross the river and heading over to Stones Corner, and making sure that we meet the needs of those users over there who are around the Gabba with the cricket.

Also going down to Stones Corner precinct, Madam Chairman, to all of the retail and food and fashion precincts there as well.

So all of these factors have been put into a plan that, Madam Chairman, has seen significant wins for both sides of the river as far as residents being able to get from one side to the other, to minimise the amount of vehicles that people use to reduce traffic congestion and provide connectivity to all our key nodes as well.

Madam Chairman, the success of the program speaks for itself. We were looking initially at about half a million passengers a year utilising that service. We can quite clearly see now that there is almost a million people so double what we were expecting as far as use.

So it clearly shows that this Administration is really getting on with the job of providing better and more efficient transport options for Brisbane residents, providing regular services, fast efficient services, making sure that as a city we're providing those connections. Equally so, Madam Chairman, providing support to our sporting precincts and importantly also, supporting all the local businesses within those key nodes with accessibility for their patrons. Thank you.

Further debate? Councillor McKENZIE.

Thanks, Madam Chairman. I'd like to also speak on item A of the Public and

Active Transport Committee report and to reiterate considering the Maroon

Flyer, what Councillor MATIC says. My ward is adjacent to the terminus of this service. I'm so pleased to say that this has been a wonderful success for convenience of the residents in my ward and in adjoining wards. This service operates as was stated from Ashgrove to Stones Corner terminating adjacent to the Eastern Suburbs Football Club which is in the Gabba ward, and commencing

February 2013 has averaged nearly a million passengers a year since then.

It connects major sporting events and venues, for dining precincts between these points running every 10 minutes during peak times and 15 minutes in the offpeak. The convenience of it, Madam Chairman, is that it operates 18 hours a day,

Thursday to Sunday and 24 hours a day on Friday and Saturday. Throughout

Friday and Saturday night it runs at 30 minute intervals after midnight. It passes through the following areas which we should note; the Ashgrove shopping village, Paddington boutiques—and I understand this was added about 12 months ago for the convenience of residents—Suncorp Stadium, Caxton Street food and cultural precinct, King George Square.

It’s also crossing the river, it then passes through the Cultural Centre, South

Bank Parklands, the Gabba and it terminates as I said at the Eastern Suburbs

Rugby League Club. The Maroon Glider has had an incredible 90,000 passenger


Chairman:


Chairman:

Councillor KNAPP:

- 45 - trips in June 2014. Since its introduction residents have told me that they would be lost without this service. It is easy to identify because of the distinctive paint, it is prepaid only and rear door entry. It is the convenient and most effective way for ratepayers to travel across the city for work or pleasure at all hours of the week. The initiative is indicative of how this Administration provides convenient comfortable transport as an alternate to private car use. Thank you.

Further debate? Councillor JOHNSTON.

Yes just briefly, Madam Chairman. I was just reminded of some of the issues raised by this presentation. I'll certainly put them again today so Councillor

MATIC can perhaps answer them because he doesn't like answering questions in our committee, Madam Chairman. There were a couple of interesting points that were made on the slides about the Maroon CityGlider and they put up all the reasons for the Maroon CityGlider. A couple of those reasons were, that particularly stuck in my mind were number 1, tourist attractions.

Now certainly there are some significant sites on the route but my question to

Councillor MATIC in the committee was well, I'm not really aware of too many tourist attractions at Ashgrove. So why is it that this bus was chosen to go to

Ashgrove? There was no answer provided. So then another one of the reasons that was put up on the slide was the reason this Maroon Glider is going on the route it is because of population growth. I thought goodness me, I didn't realise that there'd been a change in zoning or massive population growth out in

Ashgrove as well. I'm like well, is there a plan to increase the zoning out there or increase the density out there in Ashgrove and again Councillor MATIC couldn't answer.

So I guess the interesting part of this to me still seems unclear is why it goes to

Ashgrove. I think we'd all love a service as frequent as this in our wards, particularly in the areas where we all rely on buses. But, Madam Chairman, I think that the reasons put up in the slideshow really I don't think quite covered perhaps the political nature of the reason the bus goes to Ashgrove.

Further debate? Councillor KNAPP.

Madam Chair, I can't believe that. Madam Chair, I'd like to speak on the Maroon

CityGlider. Madam Chair, it was a decision on this side, this Administration to have another cross-city route. One of the reasons it starts at Ashgrove is that they could get the buses around and turn them—


Chairman:

Councillor

Chairman:

Councillor KNAPP:


Chairman:

Order.

—around at that point. Now can I assure you, Madam Chair, that where it sits outside the Ashgrove shopping centre it has a lot of people using it from

Ashgrove. The reason that they do, Madam Chair, is that it goes across up

Jubilee Terrace, down Macgregor Terrace, down through Paddington into the city and it goes directly to the Mater Hospital. It is one of the direct links for my residents, particularly my elderly residents, to be able to get on a bus and actually go to the Mater.

Now, Madam Chair, I understand the envy of some councillors opposite about that I don't have great density in Ashgrove but can I assure you that my bus services are particularly well patronised. The fact that this as a route across through to Paddington is terrific. The other thing is on a Saturday night when there's a football game on at Suncorp, guess how many people hop on from

Ashgrove to get through to the Suncorp Stadium whether it's soccer, rugby league, rugby union—well rugby union's not doing too great but we'll come again for the Reds, and to be able—

Councillor ABRAHAMS.

—to get directly to the Gabba to either watch the football or to watch the AFL.

Order.


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Or, are my residents, Madam Chair, to be denied access, direct access simply because a councillor on the other side doesn't think that we deserve to be able to have a bus that terminates at Ashgrove—

Chairman:

Councillor KNAPP:

Chairman:

Councillor MATIC:

Order.

—and people actually do like, to be able to go across through Paddington, rather than taking their car because it's quite difficult to park along through the

Paddington shopping area. They hop on a bus and they go and do their shopping at Paddington and wander down and have a look at all the wonderful shops and things like that, go to the cafes. Then can hop on the bus and come home.

Madam Chair, the people of Ashgrove think it's fabulous. I think it's fabulous and in fact the numbers show that it is going to be as good as the other Flyer which goes from West End down through to the gasworks, Madam Chair. Thank you.

Further debate? Councillor MATIC.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. I'd like to thank Councillor's McKENZIE and

KNAPP for their supportive comments in respect of the service and for their very clear understanding of how the service runs and its benefits, Madam

Chairman. Quite clearly councillors on this side of the Chamber understand the importance of the network, the importance of providing new and efficient services and providing connectivity, Madam Chairman, in new areas across our city, across key nodes making sure that we continue to deliver benefit and added amenity for all our bus passengers, Madam Chairman, as Council has the reputation to do and as this Administration has made sure that we built on that reputation to the levels it is now. Thank you.

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, Nicole Johnston and Kim Marx.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE:

Councillor Ryan Murphy

1.

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – MAROON CITYGLIDER UPDATE

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Alan Geyer, Acting Divisional Manager, Brisbane Transport, attended the meeting to provide an update on the Maroon City Glider Service. He was assisted by Bernadette Murray, Major

Projects Manager, Brisbane Transport. They provided the information below.

2. The Maroon CityGlider Service was launched based on the outstanding success of the West

End to Newstead City Glider Service (Blue Glider) which was launched in 2010.

3. A slide showing the Maroon CityGlider route was displayed. The route runs from Ashgrove to Stones Corner.

4. The presenter then explained to the Committee the attractors for how this route was selected.


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The presenter discussed details of the Maroon CityGlider operations including when service commenced (18 February 2013), where buses are based and the frequency of service. A passenger trips graph for the period from February 2013 to June 2014 was displayed.

6. Slides were shown displaying three images of the Maroon CityGlider bus that was decorated during the State of Origin match in Brisbane.

7. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chairman thanked Mr Geyer and

Ms Murray for the informative presentation and acknowledged the hard work of the project teams in delivering this whole-of-Council project.



REPORT.

ADOPTED

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 19 August 2014, be adopted.

Chairman:

Councillor COOPER:


Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I rise to speak to the development application that was presented to committee last week. It was an application for

44 Bay Terrace, Wynnum. It was a preliminary approval to carry out building works for a material change of use and 15 MUDs, multi-unit dwellings, and a shop. The application was proposing what was technically a six-storey building with the sixth storey a partially covered roof terrace. It was proposing 11 two bedroom units and four three bedroom units including a very nice penthouse unit. I think all of us were in great admiration of this particular proposal.

So it was being developed by the owners as part of their retirement and is being designed to include a unit for them. The penthouse we understand that the owner is actually looking to ultimately live in it themselves so they certainly want to stay in the local area and age in place. It's a beautiful part of our city, Madam

Chair. So the proposed six storey was a planning challenge for the officers and the applicant. There were a number of issues that had to be resolved with respect to that.

The site itself is zoned MP3 and sits in the Bay Terrace sub-precinct of the

Wynnum Central precinct of the Wynnum Neighbourhood Plan. As we saw on one of the slides last week how through the neighbourhood plan, the precincts are stepping down from high density to MP3 and then to LMR. The site has currently got a single storey building on it which is being used for a number of things including a 24-hour seven day a week gym.

The application triggered the highest level of assessment under City Plan impact.

Council issued the applicant with an information request on 17 March seeking further information about the number of storeys, in particular about the roof terrace, the extent of its coverage, the size of the retail space, stormwater management, parking, service access, acoustics and hours of operation. A response was received on 14 May and the application went out for formal public notification. It was notified for 15 business days and Council received during the statutory period 32 formal submissions.

All of the submissions were from parents or staff of the childcare centre next door. While they were proformas it certainly didn't discount in any way the


Chairman:

Councillor CUMMING:

- 48 - concerns submitters raised about the proposed development. So officers looked at these issues very, very carefully and at committee we discussed how those concerns about height, bulk, scale, traffic and parking impact, potential overshadowing, construction impacts and noise had been carefully responded to.

The local councillor was asked for his feedback and he was supportive of the application and I thank him for that.

I've got a quote from him saying, I support this application. There is too much retail floor space in Wynnum Central and I support the building being purely residential. So I thank him for his clear advice in relation to this proposal. So overwhelming endorsement from the local councillor and I note he's also been out there in The Courier-Mail , I think it was in July, he was urging residents to take—and I quote, developers had started to take advantage of higher building limits in Wynnum Central, unquote. So clearly we've got a local councillor who is supportive of this particular proposal.

There were issues as I said earlier to be resolved so in response to issues raised

Council sought to get the roof terrace area actually reduced by 12.5 square metres, while the retail component was increased to 52.8 square metres to improve the activation of the ground floor tenancy. The development looks to the bay. It certainly does allow that opportunity to capture bay breezes and views. So the units that face the childcare centre actually only overlook a roofed area of the centre so they won't actually be able to overlook the children while they're playing outside.

There were shadow diagrams that showed that as a result of the building's orientation, that no overshadowing would occur of the childcare centre. The balconies all have a minimum of 13 square metres per unit ensuring not just great design but certainly that ability to get cross flow ventilation. The reduction in the roof terrace was set behind the lift shaft, stairs and bathroom so it presented as a five story building. There's also nearly 13 per cent of the development proposed as deep planting include subtropical trees that will grow into large trees over time.

Parking was also an issue raised by submitters with 21 car spaces provided so there was a shortfall in those provisions of car spaces, as well as 15 bicycle spaces that have been provided as part of the application. So there was discussion about what might go into that retail space, it's a fairly small compact space. It might likely be a florist or a café, something to really support the balance of the residential component. The site is well located in terms of public transport access, in being 150 metres to the Wynnum Central rail station, 300 to

400 metres walking distance to buses in the Wynnum CBD.

The development also includes water sensitive urban design measures such as stormwater detention tank water efficiencies in the landscaping. In particular the submitters were concerned about how construction would be managed and particularly dust and noise mitigation. So there was specifically a requirement for a construction management plan to make sure that those issues were carefully addressed.

Madam Chair, this was an application which was carefully assessed by Council officers. I think the outcome, it is an outstanding one. I'd particularly like to thank the team. We had a first time presenter at committee and he did a fantastic job. I think Council calls then newbies for their first presentation. He did a great job and the whole of the team that has supported him. It's a great outcome and I thank all of those involved and the local councillor for his support. Thank you.

Further debate? Councillor CUMMING.

Yes thank you, Madam Chair. I refer to item A and I congratulate the chair on her comprehensive report which dealt with all the issues raised by the objectors and they were very genuine issues raised. I've read the submissions that the people from the childcare centre put in and I believe that all those matters that they raised have been covered so I thank her very much for that. I also thank her for dealing with all of them as part of her report. It's great to see this development going ahead. This is actually the seventh to my count, seventh


- 49 - building approved in Wynnum Central of five storeys or more. There's only one problem. None of them have been built yet.

There's great hope that another one approved recently on the corner of, just up the road from this on the corner of Bay Terrace and Charlotte Street will go ahead. It's got a sign up saying they're going to start construction before the end of the year and finish before the end of next year. I hope it does. If not perhaps this one will be the first one to go ahead but it's really important to the area that some development occurs. The area is still struggling because of the poor situation rates of the retail sector in the area, a lot of empty shops, a lot of rundown shops and we need some development to get the area up and going.

I'm happy to support any of these applications that come in that comply with the neighbourhood plan. It's just a pity there wasn't a bit more density on the school site that was announced last week but anyhow. So I'd like to, I say again I support this and I wish the developers all the best with the project. I think if it goes ahead, any of these projects go ahead and they sell well, if the developer makes a good profit, then there's a real chance that there will be three or four buildings built every year for the next decade or so. Thank you.

Chairman: Further debate. Councillor COOPER? 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, Shayne Sutton and Andrew Wines.

1.

A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION UNDER THE SUSTAINABLE PLANNING

ACT 2009: MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE FOR MULTI-UNIT DWELLING

AND SHOP – 44 BAY TERRACE, WYNNUM – VINCENT PENNISI AND

CARMELA PENNISI

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The Acting Team Manager, Development Assessment Planning Services East, City Planning and Sustainability Division, reports that a development application has been submitted by

Urban Strategies Pty Ltd, on behalf of Vincent Pennisi, and was properly made on 14

February 2014, as follows:

Development aspects: Carry out building work (preliminary approval)

Material change of use (development permit)

General description of proposal: Building work for multi-unit dwelling and shop

Material change of use for multi-unit dwelling

(15 units) and shop (52.8 square metres)

Land in the ownership of:

Address of the site:

Described as:

Containing an area of:

Vincent Pennisi and Carmela Pennisi

44 Bay Terrace, Wynnum

Lot 4 on SP200872

800 square metres.

2. The application is over land currently included in the Multi-Purpose Centre MP3 – Suburban

Centre designation under the Brisbane City Plan 2000 (City Plan) and is within the Wynnum

Central Precinct (Bay Terrace Sub-Precinct) of the Wynnum Manly Neighbourhood Plan

(WMNP). The site is currently occupied by a single-storey building that has contained various centre activity uses in the past.


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This impact-assessable development application was properly made on 14 February 2014 for a five-storey building with a partially covered roof top terrace (sixth storey). The proposed development consists of:

(a) 15 dwelling units located over four upper levels with a ground floor podium containing sleeved and screened parking, entry foyer, and ground floor retail

(52.8 square metres)

(b) a total gross floor area of 1,687 square metres

(c) a total of 21 car parking spaces, one motorcycle space and 16 bicycle spaces have been provided, including 17 spaces for residential units, three spaces for resident visitors and one space (staff) for non-residential uses

(d) vehicle access from Bride Street.

4. The proposal meets the planning intent of the Wynnum Central Precinct (Bay Terrace Sub-

Precinct) in the WMNP as follows:

(a) Achieves a compact and attractive urban centre and it supports the development of

Wynnum Central to achieve its role as a Major Activity Centre as identified by the

South East Queensland (SEQ) Regional Plan 2009–2031 .

(b) Provides employment opportunities and medium-density residential development within close proximity of the Wynnum Central Railway Station.

(c) Includes commercial and retail uses at street level to provide activation.

(d) Promotes a connection with Moreton Bay by reinforcing water views.

(e) Provides pedestrian shelter at ground level to promote pedestrian connectivity.

5. The building has been designed with an enclosed roof top terrace central on the site to ensure that it is not readily visible and does not unduly contribute to the bulk and scale of the development. The development will present to the street as a five-storey development, with a lift shaft and small enclosed area extending beyond this point.

6. The site is of an adequate size to accommodate the proposed development and the bulk and scale is consistent with the intent of the area. The proposal includes a shop at ground level that provides activation of the street, while awnings and landscaping along the frontage provide for a safe and comfortable pedestrian environment. The building façade is considered to be well articulated through recesses and projections, and the building incorporates expressive roof forms. The development is orientated on the site to achieve views over the water and includes large balconies to each unit that strengthen the development’s relationship with Moreton Bay.

7. The application provides a total of 102.46 square metres of deep planting (12.8 per cent of the subject site). The proposed deep planting areas are of sufficient size to enable large subtropical tree species to grow, that are complementary in scale and height to the built form.

In addition, the areas of deep planting are evenly distributed around the site to maximise the effects of the vegetative buffer.

8. The application was subject to impact assessment and therefore required public notification.

Public notification was carried out for a period of 15 business days from 14 May 2014 until

5 June 2014. During this period a total of 32 properly made submissions were received.

9. The submissions raised issues regarding height, bulk, and scale of the development; compliance with the acceptable solutions of the WMNP; potential impacts of the development on traffic and car parking availability; car parking provision; potential impacts on the amenity of adjoining properties from overlooking and overshadowing; potential construction impacts; and noise generation. All submissions received were from submitters associated with the neighbouring child care centre.

10. The local Councillor for Wynnum Manly Ward, Councillor Peter Cumming, supports the proposal.


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11. Continuing, the Acting Team Manager advises that relevant reports have been obtained to address the assessment criteria and decision process prescribed by the Sustainable Planning

Act 2009, appropriately justifying the proposal and outlining relevant conditions of approval.

12. The Acting 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 properly made development application was made on 14 February 2014 to the Council pursuant to section 260 of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 , as follows:

Development aspects: Carry out building work (preliminary approval)

Material change of use (development permit)

General description of proposal:

Building work for multi-unit dwelling and shop

Material change of use for multi-unit dwelling

(15 units) and shop (52.8 square metres)

Land in the ownership of:

Address of the site:

Described as:

Vincent Pennisi and Carmela Pennisi

44 Bay Terrace, Wynnum

Lot 4 on SP200872

Containing an area of: 800 square metres.

(b) The Council is required to assess the application pursuant to Chapter 6, Part 5,

Division 3 of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009, and decide the application under section 324 of the Act; the Council—

(c) Upon consideration of the application and those matters set forth in sections

313 and 324 of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 relevant to the application considers that:

(i) the site is within the Urban Footprint of the South East Queensland

Regional Plan 2009-2031, and the use is consistent with an Urban

Activity;

(ii) the proposal is consistent with Brisbane City Plan 2000;

(iii) the proposal advances the intent and development principles of the

Wynnum Manly Neighbourhood Plan in particular the Wynnum

Central Precinct (Bay Terrace Sub-Precinct);

(iv) the proposal will not create adverse amenity impacts on the surrounding area; and

(v) the development can be accommodated within the existing essential infrastructure networks.

(d) Accordingly considers that were reasonable and relevant conditions imposed on the development, it would be appropriate that the proposed development be approved on the subject land;

(e) Considers that a Brisbane City Council Infrastructure Charges Notice should be issued for the development pursuant to the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 and Brisbane Adopted Infrastructure Charges Resolution (No. 4) 2014, for the transport, community purposes and stormwater trunk infrastructure networks.


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

THE DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION referred to above and subject to the 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 Brisbane City Council’s Infrastructure Charges

Notice for community purposes, stormwater and transport;

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

(d) the Councillor for the Ward of Wynnum Manly, Councillor Cumming, be advised of the decision; and

(e) the submitters be advised of the decision.

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 19 August 2014, be adopted.

Chairman:

Councillor BOURKE:


Thank you very much, Madam Chairman. Just very quickly before I turn—

Chairman:

Councillor BOURKE:

Chairman:

Councillor BOURKE:

Apologies. Sorry Councillor BOURKE I just read out the wrong date. On

Tuesday 19.

Nineteenth.

Sorry, thank you.

That's alright. Thanks very much, Madam Chairman. Just very quickly before I turn to the committee presentation that we had last week, I just want to touch on two issues, one of them dovetails nicely though with the committee presentation.

Firstly though we had Parks Alive on the weekend and Saturday was a little bit wet across the city, Madam Chairman, but there were some brave souls. It was cold too, Councillor COOPER, it was the coldest day in August, that's right.

So there were some brave souls that made their way to Roma Street Parklands,

South Bank, the City Botanic Gardens and Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens,

Madam Chairman, on Saturday to have a look at some of the floral displays, listen to some of the guest speakers and find out how they can be more sustainable in their homes and own gardens. Sunday, Madam Chairman, though was a different day completely. We had a number of more people attending the event. We estimated there was probably somewhere around 1,000 to 2,000 people at Roma Street Parklands alone, with other people of course taking advantage of the courses, the tours and other displays across the city.

So, Madam Chairman, that was our first hit out with Parks Alive. While the weather wasn't kind to us I think we'd all agree that the rain was much needed across the city not just for our parks but also, Madam Chairman, for all of the open spaces across the city. So it's great to see that Parks Alive, while it didn't go off quite as well as we thought with the weather, we still got some good crowds across the city.

Turning though, Madam Chairman, as I mentioned, South Bank was one of the sites for Parks Alive. Some of the recent surveys that we've been conducting in

South Bank have led to some very interesting findings with the levels of satisfaction across the Parklands. So, Madam Chairman, it pleases me to inform the Chamber, having only been running South Bank for the last 18 months, it's great to see that we're getting some very high levels of satisfaction as well as some very high levels of support for the work that we're doing.


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So 99 per cent of all the surveys that we did in South Bank rated South Bank as a must-do experience for people visiting Brisbane. It was 400 people that were surveyed, Madam Chairman, across the course of this particular survey. Eightsix per cent of those people surveyed, Madam Chairman, said that they would recommend to visitors and to other residents to visit South Bank Parklands as well as, Madam Chairman, 84 per cent of those surveyed were happy with the

Parklands experience at South Bank. Some very high levels there, Madam

Chairman, some encouraging levels for the good work that we're doing.

Of course we've spent nearly $1.7 million doing upgrades to the Streets Beach facility as well as other upgrades across the Parklands at South Bank, Madam

Chairman, to improve the visitor experience. As well as, Madam Chairman, taking all of that into account there are some 10 million people who pour through South Bank Parklands in any one year. So some really positive results there, Madam Chairman, and we're going to continue to use the surveys and the feedback from the residents to inform our ongoing investment in South Bank.

Turning to the other point, Madam Chairman, before I get to my report, on

Sunday morning when it was a little bit drier I had the pleasure of being joined by Councillor WYNDHAM and Councillor KNAPP out at The Gap at Uralla

Street for the Community Conservation Partnerships annual thank you breakfast,

Madam Chairman. This is the opportunity for us to say thank you to all of the dedicated volunteers who work in our Habitat Brisbane Program, in our Creek

Catchment Program, Madam Chairman, as part of our Land for Wildlife, our conversation agreement partners, Madam Chairman, as well as other environmental programs across the city.

Madam Chairman, I was pleasantly surprised. There were a number of people who didn't RSVP—the tent was packed. There was nearly 200 people there on

Sunday morning and it was great to see that sort of turnout given the weather and everything else that was happening across the city on the weekend, Madam

Chairman, to come along to this free event. It's our small way of saying thank you to the volunteers who do so much in helping to protect and preserve our natural areas across the city.

There were a number of displays, a number of presenters on the morning,

Madam Chairman, as well as the local Bushcare groups doing talks and tours through their restoration site there. So it was great to see that turnout. That turns us to the committee report which was actually on the value of community partnerships, Madam Chairman. It was a committee presentation, stepping the committee through all of the work that is actually done by, as I just alluded to, our community conservation partners, in the volunteers that we have in a range of programs across the city, Madam Chairman.

There were some interesting points that came out of that. So the 40,000 man hours that are contributed or person hours that are contributed across the city to a value of close to $1 million in terms of their volunteer time, Madam Chairman, as well as the countless projects and other funds that these groups are able to bring in to help facilitate restoration and rehabilitation across our open spaces and bushland. As well as the 700 landholders that currently engage with Council to protect some 2,000 hectares of bushland, Madam Chairman. Council has

8,000 hectares of bushland in our own portfolio and with those 700 partners we are able to protect another 2,000 hectares of bushland as well.

So it's a great program, Madam Chairman. All of the work that is done through our environmental centres, our Creek Catchment Program, the Wildlife

Conservation Partnership Program, Habitat Brisbane, as well as the Community

Conservation Assistance packages that Council has which was the initiative of

LORD MAYOR Graham QUIRK, go a long way to supporting and helping our goal and our vision of making Brisbane a clean, green and sustainable city.

Chairman: Further debate? I will put the motion.


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


The report as follows

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ATTENDANCE:

Councillor Matthew Bourke (Chairman), Councillor Fiona King (Deputy Chairman), and Councillors

Kim Flesser and Geraldine Knapp.


Councillors Peter Cumming and Ryan Murphy.

1.

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – THE VALUE OF COMMUNITY

PARTNERSHIPS

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Jenny Staples, Senior Program Coordinator Community Partner, Community Conservation

Support Team, Parks and Natural Resources Team, Natural Environment, Water and

Sustainability Branch, City Planning and Sustainability Division, provided a presentation to the Committee on the Community Conservation Partnerships program (CCPP) entitled: The

Value of Community Partnerships. She provided the information below.

2. The CCPP was established in 2012 when Council brought together four key, long-running programs and a new Community Conservation Assistance package to achieve a more coordinated and effective approach. Components of the program have been reviewed to ensure compliance with the Brisbane Vision 2031 targets, corporate plan and budget.

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4.

The five components of the CCPP are:

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Environment Centres (at Boondall and Downfall Creek)

Creek Catchment program (now in its 10 th year supporting 11 catchment groups

- across the city)

Wildlife Conservation Partnership program (in its 18 th year and principally applying

- to larger private landholdings to support the Land for Wildlife, conservation agreements and SEQ Catchments program)

Habitat Brisbane Program (in place for 25 years and supporting 126 groups in

Brisbane to improve public lands)

- Community Conservation Assistance package (running since 2012-13 and supporting members with works that would previously have been of a scale that would make them difficult to undertake).

Detailed summaries of activities and achievements under each of the CCPP components, other than the Environment Centres, were provided. Some of the highlights included:

– Wildlife Conservation Partnership program

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- plays a key role in assisting private landholders to contribute to the city’s

40 per cent natural habitat cover currently assists over 700 landholders in managing 2,000 hectares offers five different agreements ranging from Land for Wildlife up to

- conservation covenants (which are legally binding and recorded on title) contributes to the SEQ Regional Land for Wildlife program which conserves nearly 4,000 properties and 40,000 hectares in the region

Creek Catchment program

- provides 11 community-based groups with access to a collaborative working relationship with Council and opportunities to benefit from technical information, general advice and networking, training, capacity building, catchment management planning and project funding


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Habitat Brisbane program

- consists of over 1,600 regular volunteers spending 40,000 hours per year on

- habitat restoration projects on public land provides training, materials, technical advice and liaison with other Council areas

Community Conservation Assistance

- available to individuals and groups to deliver on-ground works within priority biodiversity areas

- in two years delivered 134 on-ground restoration projects.

Photographs showing specific projects undertaken under the above programs at Bowman

Park, Bardon, and Yarrabee Road, The Gap, as well as maps outlining coverage of the programs across the city, were displayed.

6. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chairman thanked Ms Staples for her informative presentation.



REPORT.

ADOPTED

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 19 August 2014, be adopted.


Councillor McLACHLAN: Thank you, Madam Chairman. Straight to the matter before us at item A the committee presentation on the Construction Branch achievements of 2013-14, another in the series of the committee presentations on the various branches of the Field Services Group which continue to excel in the provision of services for the ratepayers of Brisbane. The Construction Branch consists of five business units; the civil infrastructure services, civil north and civil south; drainage infrastructure services; stormwater structures and waterways; the traffic network services. They are responsible for quite a number of outcomes to the benefit of all of us; traffic signals, maintenance, CCTV, fibre networks, intelligent transport systems, signals construction, signals maintenance, controlled build, lighting, on-street city parking.

Chairman:

Trade services, another of the business units that covers electrical, plumbing, carpentry, painting, communications and technical services which is estimation, surveying, surface location, landfill remediation. None of these necessarily are the most glamorous roles in Council but certainly are providing the functional underpin for everything else that this Council does in providing services for our ratepayers and a number of achievements for the 2013-14 financial year were outlined.

They include some great outcomes like 11,000 square metres of concrete bikeways, the 95,000 square metres of concrete footpath, the 40 kilometres of kerb and channel work, suburban and centre improvement projects at St Lucia, the Story Bridge lighting upgrade, the installation of backflow prevention valves at Albion, West End and The Gap and a lot of other outcomes too numerous to mention. I'd just like to commend the work of the Construction Branch. As I say, one of the branches which I think are the unsung heroes of Council services and

I commend the report to the Chamber.

Further debate? Councillor MARX.


Councillor MARX:

Chairman:

Councillor WINES:

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Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes I rise to also enter the debate and I want to echo

Councillor McLACHLAN's comments about the Field Services being the unsung heroes. They did a very large project in my ward on Hellawell Road,

Sunnybank Hills. It's becoming more and more a busy thoroughfare for a lot of my residents. It was a fairly subgrade road. It's now got kerb and channelling; it's been widened. We put in a pedestrian refuge, there's a new footpath gone through there. Planting has taken place, new turf and everything like that so it's really looking like a really good roadway now for what we would like to see through our city.

I also wanted to commend the officers for the work that took place. There was a fairly lengthy pre-construction consultation period with all the local residents, as

I like to do before we get into anything major in the way of construction. A lot of residents came back with various suggestions of what they would like to see happen in this particular area of works. A number of those suggestions were able to be implemented within this construction which was a very good outcome.

Everyone is very happy with the outcome of the work and we're now looking forward to stage 2 starting soon. Thank you.

Further debate? Councillor WINES.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. I just rise quickly in support of the items in this presentation. What a fantastic branch the Field Services branch is, providing so many construction opportunities to our city. I always love looking at numbers and one in particular on this list here under the Civil Infrastructure Services under item four, is in my opinion remarkable that the FSG was able to construct over 11,000 square metres of concrete bikeway as well as 95,000 square metres of concrete footpath and 40 kilometres of kerb and channel.

It just shows the focus of this Administration being on putting things out in the suburbs, actually constructing things in our wards and in the neighbourhoods of where the people of Brisbane live. It's about providing a tangible value for money for ratepayers in their own neighbourhoods. I know that I can barely keep up with the demand for footpaths but I always know that my Field Services

Group team can deliver them when requested.

I did take the opportunity to have a look at the St Lucia suburban centre improvement project which sometimes is called Hawken Drive. It looks remarkable. I thought it was an excellent piece of work and the local traders seem very impressed with what has happened when I took a moment to speak with them. I wanted to also point out the new cricket field and drainage works at

Oxford Park Reserve in Keperra which occurred last calendar year but this financial one. It is a fantastic upgrade. Before these works happened, we couldn't even have a movie in the park there because the company that ran movies in the park refused to enter the space such was the unevenness of the surface.

After these works we now have a cricket pitch and a cricket field where under-

10s can play and one where under-12s can play, where we weren't even able to have the most basic park use of sitting around and watching a screen. This park will also have a new, large play equipment out of this financial year but that of course is not included in this item. I want to talk about Albert Bishop Park which

I had the pleasure of representing the LORD MAYOR and Council at its launch at Norths there. Now they were talking about, we were talking about home ground advantages at certain sports fields, Norths had a secret advantage.

There was an unusual dip near the back left corner that only the home team knew about and they could bomb the ball into that point to seek an advantage over their rivals. But after a multimillion dollar upgrade by the Field Services Group and this Council, that advantage is no longer there and is one of the leading fields for QRL (Queensland Rugby League) in the State, not only the city. Also an item I want to talk about as well and it's listed here as the carrying out disability access work at the Cedar Creek Suburban Hall or it's sometimes called the Upper Kedron Hall.

It was an amendment to the toilet and to the access ramps to turn what is a hall in

Upper Kedron into a disability accessible fully compliant structure. That hall has


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Discrimination Act) compliance provisions weren't necessarily at front of mind but they are today. I am grateful that the Council and the Field Services Group took the opportunity to amend that building to allow all people of all abilities to be able to use it.

This is a fantastic program. I know that the Asset Services officers in west and in northwest are fantastic and they are a wonderful group of people, committed to advancing our city. I thank them for their work and I also recognise the chairman. Thank you.

Chairman: Further debate? Councillor McLACHLAN? I will put the motion.

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 Nicole Johnston, Kim Marx and Ian McKenzie.


Councillor Peter Cumming.

1.

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION

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CONSTRUCTION BRANCH

ACHIEVEMENTS 2013-14

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Shane MacLeod, Branch Manager, Construction, Field Services Group, Brisbane

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

2. The Construction Branch structure consists of five work units including: Civil Infrastructure

Services, Drainage Infrastructure Services, Traffic Network Services, Trade Services and

Technical Services.

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The overall achievements of the Construction Branch in 2013-14 were outlined. The highlights included:

St Lucia Suburban Centre Improvement Project (SCIP) backflow prevention devices disability access for halls ensuring wheelchair access landfill remediation program programmed works delivered for maintenance.

The presenter outlined the significant achievements for each of the work units. Some of the highlights included:

- Civil Infrastructure Services

- 11,000 square metres of concrete bikeways delivered

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95,000 square metres of concrete footpath delivered

40 kilometres of kerb and channel works delivered

St Lucia Suburban Centre Improvement Project widening and reconstruction of Hellawell Road, Sunnybank


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Drainage Infrastructure Services

- Story Bridge lighting upgrade involving the installation of 534 new colour changing lights installation of backflow prevention devices at Albion, West End and The Gap completion of the stormwater culvert crossing in two locations on the rail corridor at Sandgate

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Traffic Network Services

- installed approximately 10 kilometres of core fibre optic cable completed changes to 64 traffic signal controllers refurbished seven intersections

- completed 10 new CCTV sites

Trade Services

- completed the Mount Coot-tha gardens caretaker cottage. This was completed by the apprentice workforce

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- building a number of custom-made desks for disabled staff located in

Brisbane Square carried out disability access work at Hamilton, Sunnybank and Cedar Creek suburban halls.

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Technical Services

- delivering new surface, drainage and irrigation to Albert Bishop Park rugby league fields delivered a new cricket field and drainage at Oxford Park Reserve, Keperra

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- performed 300 utility location services to customers across Council performed over 160 surveying services across Council practical completion of the John Goss Reserve landfill remediation Stage 3.

5. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chairman thanked Mr MacLeod 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 19 August 2014, be adopted.


Councillor ADAMS: Yes thank you, Madam Chair, before I go to committee there are a couple of things I'd like to remind people. I just want to mention about the wonderful opening celebration we had at Coopers Plains on Saturday morning. Yes it was wet and it was cold but we had over 2,500 people that came through the doors during our opening hours which was fantastic. I think Councillor GRIFFITHS will agree everybody was loving it. The Eritrean coffee went down a treat on a cold, wet Saturday morning. Bollywood dancing to get us warmed up, 3D printing demonstrations were very, very good, and of course the opportunity to enter Name the Gnome competition.

Now I have to say we got a lot of entries on the day, hoping to get some online but I had some very upsetting news. The gnome has lost his fruit already, the gnome has lost his fruit. So we're going to have to investigate—he's seven foot.

He did have a big orange in his hands but he no longer has a big orange in his hands.



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A vitamin C deficiency obviously somewhere in Coopers Plains so we will be investigating, the library is investigating. I won't say we're looking for a certain little man by the name of but hopefully we'll be able to get the fruit back. We'll see how we go. The other things that are happening this week, I remind people the Brisbane Festival starts on 6 September so don't forget to have a look online and see which events you would like to attend. It is going to be spectacular.

Three weeks jam-packed. Circa are doing some special stuff, La Boite, the

Symphony Orchestra, the opera, Expressions Dance Company.

Of course as part of that we've got—the American Ballet is out here for two performances, two different dances that they are doing as well; comedy, music, theatre, it's all there so Brisbanefestival.com.au for that one. The Brisbane

Writer's Festival, 3 to 7 September. So if you've got an inner wordsmith that you'd like to let out, make sure you go on again and have a look, even it's—if you've got friends that are novices and want to become professional, it's there for everybody to be inspired. Learn about the books you love, share about the books you love and your writing. A great opportunity too to meet some very internationally acclaimed writers and very high profile Australian authors as well. So the full program is actually on the Brisbane City Council's libraries website as well.

I'd like to remind councillors that we have got the opening of three more Council grants in the coming weeks, so the Community Sport Clubs Grant Program is opening. We've got the Creative Sparks and the LORD MAYOR's Young and

Emerging Artist Fellowship Programs. Another thing to note too particularly about the LORD MAYOR's Young and Emerging Artist Fellowships and

Creative Sparks, we're having an information session in Brisbane Square Library on 15 September, from 12.30 to 6.30pm.

So if you know some people that may be interested in those grants or want to get involved or how they could get involved, we're having different sessions during that day for about an hour about the grant writing, what type of things. But also some sessions around creative enterprise and working with other creative young people and old people within Brisbane City Council. So have a look online for that, that will be going out in our September edition, too, of what's on, so everybody knows about that.

To our Committee remarks for last week. Suburban amenities and litter team.

We had a fantastic presentation showing us all the hard work that our SALT

(Safety, Amenity and Litter Team) do around our suburbs. Really about the importance that we place on this Administration about keeping our suburbs tidy and clean and free of litter. In particular, illegal dumping was one that we focused on in that presentation. SALT was actually formed in 2013-14 to respond to the increased complaints we had about safety and amenity, unsightly vegetation, overgrown yards, rubbish bins and containers that were being left on footways.

Of course, the concern that residents have that this may lead to vermin and infestations if yards are not looked after. So Council received over 10,500 amenity complaints in 2013-14 and 4,000 of those are ones that take quite a while to get through. So it is fantastic now to have a team dedicated to the suburbs on the amenity and the litter, so that they can attend to it and can follow through on those protracted investigations as well.

Some of the ones we see most are footway signs. So people that may have Aframes out blocking the pedestrian ways, advertising materials. We've all heard in our ward offices about community newspapers that may not quite hit the front yard and land on the footpath as well. So all of those type of things are what

SALT looks after.

Unfortunately, we see more and more illegal dumping happening in suburban and bushland areas. We have about 150 illegal spots at the moment, Madam

Chair, you know of one in your local area. We do like to get our CARS officers out there with our hidden cameras. I know there was one recently in your ward,

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Chairman: period of time they were there, there was 44 cars that came through and did some illegal stuff in that area.

So it's good to be able to use those cameras and then have the team then because it also takes a bit of time to then sit down and go through the recorded information as well and make sure that they can process anything. More importantly, capture offenders that are damaging Council assets, particularly in our remote locations.

So we are—we did run a campaign through '13 and '14 around the illegal dumping and trying to raise awareness for residents that it's not the right thing to do. Do a bit of a push with the curb side collections, that's where you can put it out on the street and we'll come and collect it. Of course, we've got our free waste and green waste vouchers that come out with rates notices too.

So I think—I urge all councillors in this place to make sure they keep educating at neighbourhood watches and P&Cs (Parents and Citizens) about the right way to get rid of things that they no longer want. We also have—hoarding is a matter that SALT looks after and aims to achieve a sustainable resolution—

Just a minute, Councillor ADAMS. Councillor JOHNSTON, if you want to talk to someone, either do it quietly or go outside. Your talk is interrupting

Councillor ADAMS' speech. Thank you, Councillor ADAMS.

Councillor ADAMS: Thank you, Madam Chair. We all know that hoarding and squalor are very complex issues and require a very holistic response. It has been dealt with at this stage with the SALT team and the first response to any issues, because it usually comes in as an overgrown vegetation in a yard or we can see things starting to stack up in a yard. But now, of course, we also have that person that's been put on in this budget—thank you very much Councillor SIMMONDS—we will have a dedicated public liaison officer to work in that hoarding and squalor with our compliance officers in the SALT team, to step it up and go through the protracted negotiations that are sometimes needed.

We've also seen an increase in officers observing and reporting shopping trolleys since November last year. We are working hard to crack down on that one as well. Madam Chair, I think since November 2013, SALT has achieved an 800 per cent increase in compliance notices issued per month. Which means we are seeing, since the introduction of the Health and Safety Amenity Local Laws in

2009 a huge improvement in our suburban amenity. I think this presentation went a long way to show what a wonderful job that this team is doing. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Chairman: Further debate. I will put the motion.


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

Vicki Howard, Steven Huang and Victoria Newton.


Councillor Steve Griffiths.

A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – COUNCIL’S SUBURBAN AMENITIES

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Ashley Booth, City Safety Manager, City Safety, Compliance and Regulatory Services,

Brisbane Lifestyle Division, attended the meeting to specify to the Committee the work undertaken by Council’s Suburban Amenities and Litter Team (SALT). He provided the information below.

2. In Council’s Compliance and Regulatory Services Branch, SALT forms part of the City

Safety work area. SALT is made up of three different areas: animal management, litter and suburban amenity. The Suburban Amenity Team deals with suburban amenity and illegal dumping issues.

3. In 2013-14, Council received over 10,500 amenity complaints. Of these, over 4,000 matters required protracted investigations. Complainants are often motivated, passionate and want strong enforcement action to be taken. On average each officer resolves 33.5 complaints per month.

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5. There are approximately 150 illegal dumping hot spots. There are approximately 35 sites at which high levels of illegal dumping activity takes place. The majority of these hotspots are isolated and on either Council bushland, or undeveloped private land. For private land

Council engages with owners and obtains consent to enforce breaches of the Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011 on their property.

6. Cameras have also been deployed to capture offenders damaging Council assets at remote locations. When first implemented by Council the cameras were roughly the size of a suit case, needed remote battery supply and in some circumstances a cherry picker to install. For the 2013-14 financial year, Council had 32 cameras, the majority were the size of a small shoe box, light weight, discrete, and easier and quicker to install. While the technology has progressed so has the amount of time that it takes officers to process the images and identify offenders.

7. In the 2013-14 financial year the Illegal Dumping Team issued 92 infringements for illegal dumping activities (dumping over 200 litres of material) totalling over $170,000 in revenue to

Council.

8. Hoarding is one of the challenges facing SALT. Although hoarding makes up less than 10 per cent of all complaints, the matters surrounding hoarding can lead to a protracted resolution time. Hoarding has recently been recognised as a mental illness and as such there are many and varied concerns to be dealt with. Council is working towards successful resolutions regarding hoarding that will see the problem dealt with long term.

9. The presenter displayed many images of successes achieved by SALT.

10. In the future SALT will:

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11. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chairman thanked Mr Booth for his 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 19 August 2014, be adopted.

Chairman:



Thank you, Madam Chairman. A couple of issues before I go to the report. First of all, an exciting initiative that's been implemented within the finance section and particular the rates area of this Council. That is the deployment of the

Australia Post Digital Mailbox functionality to Brisbane residents in order to both receive and pay for their rates notice. So previously they've had access—

Brisbane residents have had access to BPAY which is an ability to pay your bills electronically. The Australia Post Digital Mailbox goes one step further. That is, that it is what it says it is.

It acts as a digital mailbox so you can receive your bills electronically, rather than through the mail. Then you can go on to pay them. So we offered the functionality to receive your bills. We did that from June 2014 for the last quarter of rates notices. Already, 2,345 residents are receiving their rates notice via the Australia Post Digital Mailbox functionality. We are currently working on deploying the ability for them to pay their rates electronically through the same system. This will be in place for the October period rate notices. So we expect this service to grow significantly into the future.

It's something that Australia Post has signed up a number of key clients to and we're happy that—it's still very new, but we're happy that Council is leading the way. We're very pleased to be one of the foundation partners for this new initiative. Also pleased to report to the Chamber that the Brisbane City Council exhibition stand went very well again this year. As a final wrap-up for the

Chamber, I can advise that the attendance figure of the Council stand over the 10 day period was in excess of 15,500 people.

The new pop-up park environment proved particularly popular with guests. The program of children's workshops was very well received by school groups, parents and children. We had a lot of interest from visitors about how they could get involved further with specific Council-run activities. We also gave away the

Brisbane Passport, which was a very successful tool. We handed almost 5,000 of them out over the 10 days. The passport encouraged children and their families to visit some great Brisbane places and spaces and to partake in events as part of that.

The most popular activities were the active and healthy juggling workshop, the bus driver in the interactive bus and the children's story time with Council librarians. So as you can see, a very family-focused message from Council.


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Finally, just on the report. We had a presentation from Jason Cameron, our

Disaster Management Office Coordinator, about the upcoming All Hazards—

Brisbane Ready for Summer campaign.

This campaign has been launched a little bit earlier than normal this year because it's going to take in—before we move onto the summer storms, it is going to take in the bushfire risk that we see at the moment. It's a little bit dampened now with the recent rain that we've had but it's still, by all accounts, a potential for a significant bushfire season. We want Brisbane residents to be ready for that.

So I won't say much more than that other than we spoke at the Committee about how councils can get involved in educating their residents, particularly over the next couple of months on the bushfire risk. I would encourage all councillors to read the Committee report and think about how they might distribute that information to their wards. Thank you, Madam Chairman.

Further debate. Councillor OWEN-TAYLOR. Chairman:

Councillor OWEN-TAYLOR: Thank you, Madam Chairman. Madam Chairman, I just rise to speak briefly in respect of the All Hazards—Get Ready for Summer campaign. Madam

Chairman, this is a very great initiative that the Disaster Management team have been working on. Can I commend the officers on the effort that they have put in over a significant period of time to get this to where it is today. These officers work extremely hard and certainly I know that in June this year, I had the benefit of them coming to do a stand at one of my local community festivals.

So interested were the community in the information that was provided that by the end of the day, the officers had run completely out of material. This is a very important project that we really do need to convey to our residents to ensure that where there are hazards or where there are disaster situations, that they have the information that's required to make an informed decision at the time and to keep their families safe.

Madam Chairman, the officers in this area of Council, they have really pulled together and they are so committed to the task of informing residents and also communicating the best options that are available to residents in these situations.

They're doing a fantastic job. Certainly, this goes to complement our early warning alert system. I must say that residents in my ward are very good on the uptake of signing up to the early warning alert and certainly very keen to make themselves aware of the hazards campaigns.

I just also want to commend the fact that we do have these information methods translated into other languages. There's been a lot of information that's been put into YouTube videos as well. So for those of us with multi-cultural communities within our wards, it's really important that those links to those YouTube videos do get out. Because the more informed the residents are, the safer our communities are. Thank you, Madam Chairman.

Chairman: Further debate, Councillor SIMMONDS? I will put the motion.

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 Fiona King, Shayne Sutton and Kim Flesser.


Councillor Ryan Murphy.


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A ALL HAZARDS – BRISBANE READY FOR SUMMER CAMPAIGN

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Jason Cameron, Manager, Disaster Management Office, Chief Executive’s Office attended the meeting to provide an update on the All Hazards – Brisbane Ready for Summer

Campaign. Mr Cameron provided the information below.

2. The All Hazards - Brisbane Ready for Summer campaign ran from September 2013 to March

2014. The campaign focussed on raising awareness of Brisbane’s severe weather and the potential hazards, and educating the community on how to prepare for the impacts of severe weather. The campaign is undertaken in order to encourage greater preparation for severe weather events and to create a more resilient Brisbane.

3. For the campaign Council works collaboratively with Queensland Fire and Emergency

Services (QFES), The Australian Early Warning Alert Network ALERT, Energex, Australian

Red Cross, State Emergency Services, Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology and

Emergency Management Queensland.

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Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) audiences.

5. Slides were shown that displayed examples of campaign awareness advertising used for the

2013-14 campaign.

6. Examples of a number of the community engagement activities from last year used to raise awareness such as the Parkinson Ward Dragon Boat Festival, Garden City Library Roadshow and the African Festival were discussed.

7. The campaign performed strongly on awareness, communication of the key messages, creative impact, and the call to action.

8. The seasonal outlook for August to October 2014 and shows that:

- warmer days are more likely for the northern tropics, eastern Australia, and the

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QFES have advised that there is an increased bushfire risk due to the prevailing

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Australia

A neutral season is predicted, although the chance of an El Nino developing in 2014 is at least 50 per cent with any occurrence unlikely to be a strong event.

9. The All Hazards – Brisbane Ready for Summer 2014-15 campaign launched by the Lord

Mayor at J.C. Slaughter Falls, Mt Coot-tha was brought forward to 12 August 2014 due to

QFES warnings of a potentially high-risk bushfire season.

10. The presenter provided a brief summary of the key components of the 2014-15 campaign will continue to raise awareness by:

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- promotion of resources and useful merchandise to promote and encourage preparation.

11. Promotional activities scheduled for the 2014-15 campaign include:

- promotions with 612ABC, Bunnings, Westfield Shopping Centres,

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Council’s free green waste tipping weekend 11 and 12 October 2014 multicultural festivals/educational presentations

12. The presenter provided approximate costs for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 campaign.

13. The Committee thanked Mr Cameron and the Disaster Management Office staff for their work on the 2013-14 campaign and commended the progress for the upcoming 2014-15 campaign.

14. The Chairman thanked Mr Cameron for his informative presentation.



REPORT.

ADOPTED

PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS:

Chairman: Councillors, are there any petitions? Councillor SUTTON.

Councillor SUTTON:

Chairman:

Councillor MATIC:

Chairman:

Councillor HOWARD:

Chairman:


Chairman:

Councillor NEWTON:

Chairman:

Councillor GRIFFITHS:

Chairman:

Thank you, Madam Chair. Won't forget this week. I have two petitions. One is calling on the LORD MAYOR of Brisbane City Council to fund a skate facility in Balmoral and Bulimba. The second one is calling for parking restrictions for vehicles over five metres in length.

Councillor MATIC.

Madam Chairman, I have one e-petition. On behalf of residents objecting to the proposed CBD to Carindale bikeway route.

Councillor HOWARD.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. I have a petition about Robertson Street,

Fortitude Valley entertainment precinct zoning.

Councillor ABRAHAMS.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I have a significant petition about the proposed CBD Carindale bike route through Wembley Park Coorparoo.

Councillor NEWTON.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I've got a petition to match with an e-petition that concluded last week. I'd like the two petitions to be considered together if possible. It's calling on Brisbane City Council to formally name the pathway from Cliff Street, Sandgate, to Moora Park, Shorncliffe, Lovers' Walk, as it's been known for about 100 years.

Further petitions, Councillor GRIFFITHS.

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. I have another petition from residents for Acacia

Ridge to make Mortimer Road safe.

Councillor CUMMING.


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Yes, Madam Chair, a petition signed by 772 people calling upon the Council to allow the men's shed to stay at the Wynnum Central School grounds.


Chairman: Further petitions. Councillor MURPHY.

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It was resolved on the motion of Councillor Ryan MURPHY, seconded by Councillor Victoria NEWON, 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

CA14/719682

CA14/670293

Shayne Sutton

Shayne Sutton

Helen Abrahams

Request for a skate park in Bulimba

Restricting parking of vehicles over five metres in length on residential streets in Brisbane

Object to the proposed CBD to Carindale Bikeway route CA14/722024;

CA14/722030

CA14/719576 Vicki Howard

CA14/719621

CA14/719508

CA14/720308

CA14/718007

Helen Abrahams

Victoria Newton

Steve Griffiths

Peter Cumming

Requesting that the Entertainment Precinct zoning be removed from Robertson Street, Fortitude Valley

Objection to the proposed CBD to Carindale Bikeway Route through Wembley Park, Coorparoo

Requesting Council’s support naming foreshore pathway from

Cliff Street to Moora Park ‘Lover’s Walk’

Requesting Council to make Mortimer Road safer for the community

Request for Council to allow the Wynnum Manly and District

Men's Shed Inc. to be located on the old Wynnum Central State

School site they currently reside, under A Block or on the tennis courts at the IGA end of Charlotte Street

GENERAL BUSINESS:

Chairman:

Councillor HUANG:

Councillors, are there any statements required as a result of a councillor conduct review panel order? Are there any matters of general business? Councillor

HUANG.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I rise to speak briefly about the newly installed traffic lights on the Underwood and Millers roads intersection at Eight Mile Plains.

Madam Chair, it is a $1.8 million project aiming at improving the safety of drivers and pedestrians. This project included the installation of traffic signals signalised pedestrian crossings and a refuge island with the upgrades already improving safety for local residents.

Madam Chair, this busy intersection handles more than 10,000 vehicles a day.

Seventeen accidents have been recorded there between 2006 and 2011. Madam

Chair, I had the privilege of being invited to speak to a group of seniors at the

Plains Retirement Village on Underwood Road yesterday morning. As I walked into the Retirement Village, I was expecting these seniors to ask me about issues such as rates rebates for seniors and possibly other cost of living related issues.

But surprisingly, the first three conversation topics I received from these residents were traffic, traffic, traffic. On the same afternoon, I ran into a small business owner who has an orchid nursery on Underwood Road. The first thing he has raised with me was about traffic on Underwood Road as well. Madam

Chair, as our city grows, Underwood Road, once a quiet, two-lane street has become a busy suburban corridor, taking in 10,000 vehicles daily from the growing suburbs of Kuraby and Rochedale, as well as traffic from Logan and

Gold Coast cities.


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The installation of traffic lights not only improves safety for drivers travelling through the intersection along Millers Road or turning into Underwood Road, it will also minimise the effects of congestion for motorists on Millers Road and

Underwood Road. Madam Chair, this intersection upgrade is an example of this

Council's commitment to delivering projects that further our vision of Brisbane as an accessible, connected city. This project was jointly funded by Council and the State Government with Council contributing $1.5 million and the

Department of Transport and Main Roads committing $300,000 under the

Transport Infrastructure Development scheme.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank and acknowledge this

Administration's commitment in making Brisbane an accessible, connected city as well as state's contribution to this important project that will provide further safety and congestion reduction at this growth area.

Further debate, Councillor DICK.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Chair. I rise tonight to offer my support for The

Courier-Mail 's campaign to light up our city. Madam Deputy Chair, when we saw the front page story in The Courier-Mail on Saturday which had the big words, light up our city, join the campaign to rid Brisbane of its dark side, I know that there were residents across the city who have been calling on this

Council and authorities to take action to make our city safer.

It is a campaign that myself, as local councillor and as Leader of the Opposition, have been concerned about, as every Labor Opposition councillor has. When those tragic accidents have happened across our city, we were all touched in one way or the other. Our residents were moved, the community was of course concerned about crime and the issues associated across not just the CBD but right across the city. Today's statistics which show that we are seeing large numbers of crime in and around the city is a wakeup call to all of us.

Madam Chair, I congratulate The Courier-Mail for stepping up the campaign and particularly in light of those tragic accidents. I know when I wrote to the

CEO in December of last year asking for safety improvements, and my letter to the CEO—and I'll read into the Chamber tonight—said, following recent events in the Roma Street Parklands area, inner city residents have raised concerns about their personal safety while walking home in Brisbane City.

We hear a lot in the Council about the growth plans for our particularly innercity area. We've in fact been debating that today on that very contentious issue.

Putting those issues aside, Madam Deputy Chair, one of the most important things we need to get right, as we open up the CBD and inner areas around our city to encourage people to call home, we tackle the problem of personal safety and increasing the amount of lighting, CCTV, panic buttons as a matter of course.

We don't want to see any more tragic accidents in and around our city. I say these remarks particularly in light of the G20 which is fast approaching for our city. I want Brisbane to be known as a welcoming city.


Councillor DICK: I want Brisbane to be known as a safe city. I particularly want to see the dangerous hotspots improved. In my opinion, I don't think the Council has done enough. I don't think that the Council has taken action. I believe there are elements—sorry, areas across the city which we can effectively improve safety in.

We all know that there are parts of the CBD, particularly in and around the parklands area, particularly around the Kurilpa Point area where Councillor

Helen ABRAHAMS—


Councillor DICK: Around Kangaroo Point that have been looking at all of those issues. Now is the time, Madam Deputy Chairman, to actually take action. I was heartened by the fact that the LORD MAYOR has finally agreed to do an audit of these issues but


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So, Madam Deputy Chairman, I will be continuing this campaign because the feedback that I'm getting across the city, as I move around the community is, they do want to see action taken on this. We need—and I am disappointed, I am disappointed that no one from the Administration today, despite this large-scale media campaign has raised this issue. I was hoping that the LORD MAYOR in his E&C remarks today would actually give a report on the action undertaken. I was hoping that one of the chairpersons today would update the Council

Chamber.

My challenge for next week is, the Administration provide that report when

E&C meets on Monday, that is an item that should be and must be discussed. As such, I would call on E&C to make sure that they are doing every single thing that they can. I certainly hope that this spurs the Council into action. I would be delighted to see on Thursday a special E&C report, particularly into this area.

Now is the time for action.

Tonight, I offer my full bipartisan support to the Council with their announcements to work closely with the LORD MAYOR and the chairpersons so that we can fast-track any announcements to make sure that we will see safety improvements. There won't be any blocking from this side—from Labor councillors. We will work constructively with the Administration, Council officers, the QPS and all relevant authorities to make sure we not only light up our city but we keep our city even safer.


Deputy Chairman:

Councillor WYNDHAM:

Further debate, Councillor WYNDHAM.

Thank you, Madam Acting Chair. Madam Acting Chair, I rise this evening to speak on an issue that we all would gladly, I think, hope that we can assist in or contribute in in some way. We've all heard of the Fred Hollows Foundation but there's other groups across this world and across our nation that do similar works. Madam Chair, one of our local north side radio stations, Family Radio

96.5

is this week broadcasting from Africa, Tanzania, in support of CBM,

Christian Blind Mission. They do exactly as the Fred Hollows Foundation does,

Madam Chair.

This year, they are hoping, along with other radio stations across the nation, to raise enough funds to save the sight of 10,000 people on that one day. Madam

Chair, to save someone's sight changes their world. It changes their family, it changes their community. We quite often walk out of City Hall here and we're confronted by people wanting dollars to save this, to save that, to save whatever.

But there are groups out there that are just going ahead and doing it with no fuss.

To save eyesight, it's a very simple four step operation. Madam Chair, the people receiving these operations can be as young as five years of age. We don't, in this country, even consider a five year old with cataract problem. But in third world countries, it is not uncommon to have multiple children in the one family who are visually impaired or blind. That operation, basically, first step of course is make sure that the child has settled down, or the adult has settled down, anaesthetised. Then the incision is made to remove the lens and that milky stuff that is blocking the vision of the lens, replace it with a plastic lens. Fourth step, a day later, take the bandages off and the recipient has sight again.

All of that can be done for around $32. Madam Chair, I ask you all on Thursday

28, which is being named Miracles Day, to perhaps tune into Radio 96.5

and make a donation, whether it be for one pair of eyes to be saved or whether it be for several. Because we know, in our job, people come to us and quite frankly at times, I look in this job and I think, yes, there are people out there doing it tough, but there would be nothing tougher than being blind, living in poverty, in a slum where you're virtually tripping over things and finding your way around in total darkness.


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If there is a problem or a disaster in that area, you are the ones left behind. Those with disabilities are totally left behind because you have to have vision, you have to have no disability to escape things like earthquakes, floods et cetera. Madam

Chair, all I ask is that you all tune in perhaps on Thursday at some time and even if you make just a donation of $32, and save one life which affects one family which affects a whole community. Thank you.


Deputy Chairman:


Further general business, Councillor ABRAHAMS.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I wish to speak on the Kurilpa—the draft Kurilpa Master Plan. But also, Madam Chair, I was going to speak on the street walker's guide number 3 which is Walking with the Water Rats . Madam

Chair, I was going to put aside the fairly petty politics and offer a copy to the

LORD MAYOR who is not here and a copy to Councillor COOPER who is also not here, but maybe she is in hearing distance, because that would be lovely.

Madam Chair, this is a booklet, it is a street walker's guide. It's got oral history in it, it's got social history, it is the history from Kurilpa Point to Davies Park and looking at many of the buildings, the history behind the buildings, the brothels, the pubs, the pubs that went bankrupt which is quite an achievement. The pubs that have closed and the industrial history of that area.

It's something a group of West End people just thought we should be positive, we should look at our history, if we don't know our history, we don't know where to make our future, and so I have presented this booklet to no one.

Madam Chair, I now move on to the draft Kurilpa Master Plan. I am delighted that some of—just some—some of the heritage initiatives in this booklet have been indicated that they may be protected in the draft plan.

The words actually say, there will be innovation and imagination in their protection. So I really do hope the imagination isn't that you have to imagine the whole heritage wall or heritage stack or particular structure. But it is one aspect of the neighbourhood plan that local residents are happy with.

Madam Chair, the draft Kurilpa Neighbourhood Plan was announced to have a pay to have a say lunch at the convention centre. Yes, I paid, definitely, to go—


Councillor ABRAHAMS: Only way I'd find out and it was certainly necessary to find out. Madam Chair, outside, before I went in is, what is this going to be? I wondered what is this going to look like? A strip of green along the river and a tower by tower by tower of high rise along the river, absolutely snap, it was exactly what this plan is. The river bank becomes highly engineered, the trees have disappeared and there are pontoons and structures that line the river as well.

Madam Chair, at that event, when it was shown, you saw the little slither of green and then as many of you may have seen on the TV, out came the high rise buildings out of the earth and they rose higher and higher and higher to the mirth of the people in the room. They laughed. They laughed at this marketing exercise. They laughed to show just the two components of this plan. A strip of park and high rise development and not another thing.

Well that is not how you prepare for the alleged 11,000 residents that are going to be in this area and 8,000 workers. Nineteen thousand people in that area, the park is a measly 1.3 metres—hectare sorry, hectares. One hectare that the LORD

MAYOR was so proud about when he spoke earlier today, is in fact—has a building on it. It's an auditorium, so it's not even a hectare of parkland.

The 3,000 square metres is the same size as the small park in front of the

Stokehouse which is currently chockers every weekend. It is full of people and there isn't 11,000 people trying to squeeze in on it at the moment. So let us be quite clear of what the community thinks. They saw that plan and they gulped with dismay. Madam Chair, what they were looking for, as this is the most unique opportunity in the river, was a similar park to what we've got at Rocks


Deputy Chairman:


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Riverside, a Bulimba Riverside, at New Farm riverside. That was a city destination park on the river. They certainly haven't got it.

Madam Chair, that population, if you look at Council's own KPIs, should in fact be in the order of 11 to 12 hectares of parkland for just recreational uses, not even sport uses. They get 1.3 hectares. Madam Chair, the worst is, and I listened very carefully to the LORD MAYOR because this was his day. This was his day to announce the plan for this most significant area and what was the only thing he talked about? Two small little parks, not another thing.

He didn't mention another thing in the plan. Well if you're going to rely on those parks to win the community's confidence, you will not be able to do it. I'm not talking the community of West End, of my ward, I'm talking the community of

Brisbane who wanted this opportunity to do something meaningful and bold for the city. Madam Chair, just so people understand what this looks like, Peel

Street, we all go along Grey Street and go up into Peel Street. From there to

Cordelia Street, back towards GOMA is 40 tower buildings solid, right through the whole area. Solid buildings.

We've got no equivalent area of 40 tower buildings anywhere in our city and I understand you can't find them in Sydney or Melbourne either. Madam Chair, when I asked the officers, what are some of the height to site area ratios of sites,

I was told: “We don't know, we've never done it, Councillor ABRAHAMS”.

Madam Chair, allegedly the detail isn't there but the densities are there. We know what that happens. If you've got a prescribed density, it never goes backwards unless the community mobilises.

Madam Chair, this has also been distributed on Facebook. The one thing that people have responded with, 40-storeys, 30-storeys, 20-storeys, 15-storeys. You can't get a tower building that's less than 15-storeys. Madam Chair, what they're saying is, this is flood-prone land. Montague Road from Davies Park was a creek during the 2011 flood the whole way down to the river. That is exactly where this population of 11,000 people is being located.

Now, Madam Chair, I understand and have heard the LORD MAYOR saying, the CBD floods therefore all of Brisbane's going to flood and we are just going to build on floodplains. I don't accept that argument because inherent in that argument is—and each individual property has to take the responsibility to make sure their building doesn't flood and the Council takes none. But, Madam Chair,

11,000 people and all of that density on a floodplain tell me that is not madness.

It isn't an issue of adapting, it is an issue of saying, where is the weakest link in our city? And we will then go and put the highest density in the city on it. Come on, where is the thinking behind this? So no wonder I don't support it. For those councillors over on the other side who still haven't worked out that you really need to start being a bit critical of some of your city cabinet members, that's what it looks like. Wall after wall after wall of buildings. You know what? I show that to anyone that I've been so far and they say, Hong Kong, horror. Hong

Kong horror.

We aren't Hong Kong; we don't need this in Brisbane. There is no justification for it. There is no rationalisation or rational planning for it. Madam Chair, those

11,000 people, where do they go to school? Where do they go to a meeting?

Where do they go for childcare? Where do they go for all the facilities, Madam

Chair? I know what you have in your ward, because I was part of Labor administration planning for you to have them. Madam Chair, the planning is not here in this document.

On top of that, Madam Chair, just to restate the figures, Bulimba got a park of two hectares for an increase of 2,300 people. New Farm over there, 2.6 hectares—double what we've got—for 7,200 increased population. South

Brisbane—I'm not even including West End, just South Brisbane, 1.3—half of that from Newstead—for 12,500 increase in population.

Councillor ABRAHAMS, your time has expired.

This is madness.


Deputy Chairman:

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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 Nicole Johnston (received on 21 August 2014)

Q1. Will Council please provide the licence or lease terms including the duration, cost per year and any incentives relating to Council’s lease of the Moggill Road/Coonan St Indooroopilly round-a-bout to

Willims Motor Group?

Q2. Will Council please advise the budget allocations for the Moggill Rd/Coonan St Indooroopilly round-a-bout intersection upgrade project for the following years:

1) 2014-15

2) 2015-16

3) 2016-17

Q1.

Submitted by Councillor Victoria Newton (received on 21 August 2014)

Can information be provided to advise how many dog attacks were reported to Brisbane City

Council in:

• 2010/2011

• 2011/2012

• 2012/2013

• 2013/2014

Q2. Can information be provided to advise how many dog owners were fined or prosecuted because of a dog attack in:

• 2010/2011

• 2011/2012

• 2012/2013

• 2013/2014

Q3. Can information be provided to advise how many dangerous dogs and menacing dogs were registered with Brisbane City Council in:

• 2010/2011

• 2011/2012

•

2012/2013

• 2013/2014

Q4. Can information be provided to advise the number of fines for the following offences in the nominated financial years. Can the information please be provided in the table supplied.

Requirements Fines for breaching requirements

2010/2011 2011/2012 2012/2013 2013/2014

Register your dog with Brisbane

City Council when it is three months old and every year after

2 penalty units

Keep your dog in your yard

Both the supplier and owner must ensure the cat or dog is implanted with a microchip

2 penalty units

2 penalty units

Walk your dog on a leash when you're in public ( except in dog offleash areas )

If your dog is not on a leash you could be fined 2 penalty units

When walking your dog always carry a bag or container for its droppings (it's a good idea to carry

0.5 penalty unit


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Requirements Fines for breaching requirements

2010/2011 2011/2012 2012/2013 2013/2014 several bags or containers as you could be fined for not having another container or bag, even after your dog has done its business and you have disposed of it correctly)

Pick up and dispose of your dog’s droppings when you walk your dog

2 penalty units

Control your dog's barking

Initial offence of 2 penalty units or 5 penalty units if notice to remedy is not complied with

If you keep more than two dogs and/or three cats as pets you must hold a permit

5 penalty units

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 Victoria Newton (from meeting on 19 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)?

A1. The corporate overheads associated with delivering this project are $3.38 million in 2014-15 financial year. Prior to the budget restatement, the internal trading margin under the former Labor administration’s purchaser-provider model was $3.48 million. The $38,000 created by the transition to a cost allocation model has allowed additional investment in road resurfacing projects.

RISING OF COUNCIL:

PRESENTED:

5.37pm.

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


Council minutes for 26 August 2014

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

The 4446 meeting of the Brisbane City Council, held at City Hall, Brisbane on Tuesday 26 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 4446 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,

HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,

ON TUESDAY 26 AUGUST 2014

AT 2PM

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

THE 4446 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,

HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,

ON TUESDAY 26 AUGUST 2014

AT 2PM

PRESENT:

OPENING OF MEETING:

MINUTES:

95/2014-15

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:

QUESTION TIME:

MOTION FOR SUSPENSION OF STANDING RULES:

96/2014-15

CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS:

ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE

97/2014-15

ADOPTED

98/2014-15

ADOPTED

INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE

99/2014-15

ADOPTED

100/2014-15

ADOPTED

101/2014-15

ADOPTED

102/2014-15

PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

103/2014-15

ADOPTED

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT

COMMITTEE

104/2014-15

ADOPTED

ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE

105/2014-15

ADOPTED

FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE

106/2014-15

ADOPTED

BRISBANE LIFESTYLE COMMITTEE

107/2014-15

ADOPTED

FINANCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE

108/2014-15

ADOPTED

PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS:

109/2014-15

GENERAL BUSINESS:

QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN:

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN

GIVEN:

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