TABLE OF CONTENTS
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
The 4642 meeting of the Brisbane City Council,
held at City Hall, Brisbane
on Tuesday 9 March 2021
at 2pm
Prepared by:
Council and Committee Liaison Office
City Administration and Governance
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PRESENT: 1
OPENING OF MEETING: 1
APOLOGY: 1
MINUTES: 2
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: 2
QUESTION TIME: 8
CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS: 22
ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE 22
A CONTRACTS AND TENDERING – REPORT TO COUNCIL OF CONTRACTS ACCEPTED BY DELEGATES FOR JANUARY 2021 34
B STORES BOARD SUBMISSION – SIGNIFICANT CONTRACTING PLAN FOR CONSTRUCTION, RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE AND DEMOLITION OF BUILDINGS AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE 41
CITY PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 46
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – 11 INTERCHANGE PLACE, ROCHEDALE (A005621545) 53
B PETITION – OBJECTING TO THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AT 34, 36, 36A AND 38 WADLEY STREET, MACGREGOR (APPLICATION REFERENCE A005426483) 54
C PETITION – OBJECTING TO THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AT 999 STANLEY STREET EAST, EAST BRISBANE (APPLICATION REFERENCE A005591790) 56
PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE 58
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – COVID-19 – IMPACT ON NETWORK 63
B PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL REINSTATE THE CITYHOPPER SERVICE AT THE DOCKSIDE FERRY TERMINAL AND PROVIDE INFORMATION ON A TERMINAL UPGRADE, IF REQUIRED 65
INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE 66
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – ENERGY EFFICIENT LIGHTS FOR BRISBANE PROJECT 67
B PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL CONSIDER INSTALLING PAINTED PEDESTRIAN CROSSING LINES AT THE EXISTING REFUGE ON WAMINDA STREET, NORMAN PARK 67
ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE 70
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – NORMAN CREEK MASTER PLAN UPDATE 80
B COMMITTEE REPORT – BUSHLAND PRESERVATION LEVY REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED DECEMBER 2020 81
C PARK NAMING – FORMAL NAMING OF THE PARK KNOWN AS MANLY ROAD PARK (NO. 880), 880 MANLY ROAD, WAKERLEY, AS ‘BILL MCFARLANE PARK’ 81
D PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL ACQUIRE 409, 411, 415, 427, 432 AND 440 BECKETT ROAD, BRIDGEMAN DOWNS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF A WILDLIFE CORRIDOR ACROSS BECKETT ROAD 82
E PETITIONS – REQUESTING COUNCIL PURCHASE BUSHLAND AT 415 AND 427 BECKETT ROAD, BRIDGEMAN DOWNS, AS PART OF THE BUSHLAND ACQUISITION PROGRAM 84
F PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL INSTALL AN ADDITIONAL SHELTER IN THE SMALL DOG OFF-LEASH AREA OF CURLEW PARK, 74 CURLEW STREET, SANDGATE 86
CITY STANDARDS, COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE 88
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – DOMESTIC ANIMAL POPULATION SURVEY AND DOG REGISTRATION BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHTS 88
COMMUNITY, ARTS AND NIGHTTIME ECONOMY COMMITTEE 89
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – FLORA AND FAUNA MANAGEMENT IN COUNCIL’S CEMETERIES 91
B PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL PROVIDE PROPER PARKING WITH BITUMEN ROAD SURFACING AND LINE MARKING ALONG THE WILSTON RECREATION RESERVE SIDE OF MARK STREET, NEWMARKET 92
C PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL REMOVE OR DEMOLISH THE UNUSED DEMOUNTABILE BUILDING IN O’CALLAGHAN PARK, 340 ZILLMERE ROAD, ZILLMERE 94
FINANCE, ADMINISTRATION AND SMALL BUSINESS COMMITTEE 95
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT – HOW WE MANAGE MASTER DATA 95
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS: 97
GENERAL BUSINESS: 98
QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 103
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 104
PRESENT:
The Right Honourable, the LORD MAYOR (Councillor Adrian SCHRINNER) – LNP
The Chair of Council, Councillor Andrew WINES (Enoggera Ward) – LNP
|LNP Councillors (and Wards) |ALP Councillors (and Wards) |
|Krista ADAMS (Holland Park) (Deputy Mayor) |Jared CASSIDY (Deagon) (The Leader of the Opposition) |
|Greg ADERMANN (Pullenvale) |Peter CUMMING (Wynnum Manly) |
|Adam ALLAN (Northgate) |Steve GRIFFITHS (Moorooka) |
|Lisa ATWOOD (Doboy) |Charles STRUNK (Forest Lake) |
|Fiona CUNNINGHAM (Coorparoo) | |
|Tracy DAVIS (McDowall) | |
|Fiona HAMMOND (Marchant) | |
|Vicki HOWARD (Central) | |
|Steven HUANG (MacGregor) | |
|Sarah HUTTON (Jamboree) | |
|Sandy LANDERS (Bracken Ridge) | |
|James MACKAY (Walter Taylor) | |
|Kim MARX (Runcorn) | |
|Peter MATIC (Paddington) | |
|David McLACHLAN (Hamilton) | |
|Ryan MURPHY (Chandler) | |
|Angela OWEN (Calamvale) | |
|Steven TOOMEY (The Gap) (Deputy Chair of Council) | |
| |Queensland Greens Councillor (and Ward) |
| |Jonathan SRI (The Gabba) |
| |Independent Councillor (and Ward) |
| |Nicole JOHNSTON (Tennyson) |
OPENING OF MEETING:
The Chair, Councillor Andrew WINES, opened the meeting with prayer and acknowledged the traditional custodians, and then proceeded with the business set out in the Agenda.
Chair: Please be seated and I declare the meeting open.
Please accept my sincere apologies, the agendas will be arriving momentarily. They will be within your possession before the conclusion of the Public Participant.
Councillors, are there any apologies?
Councillor CASSIDY.
APOLOGY:
551/2020-21
An apology was submitted on behalf of Councillor Kara COOK, and she was granted leave of absence from the meeting on the motion of Councillor Jared CASSIDY, seconded by Councillor Charles STRUNK.
Chair: Any others? No?
Confirmation of minutes please.
MINUTES:
552/2020-21
The Minutes of the 4641 meeting of Council held on 2 March 2021, copies of which had been forwarded to each Councillor, were presented, taken as read and confirmed on the motion of Councillor Sandy LANDERS, seconded by Councillor Sarah HUTTON.
Chair: Councillors, can I please invite Mrs Monique Lowndes, who will address us today on eWaste Connection.
Welcome, Mrs Lowndes, you have five minutes which commences when you begin and you can choose whether you sit or stand.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:
Mrs Monique Lowndes – eWaste Connection
Mrs Monique Lowndes: Thank you. Mr Chair, LORD MAYOR, Councillors, thank you for the opportunity to come here and share a bit about eWaste Connection. So eWaste Connection is an electrical waste recycling centre. We’re a not-for-profit social enterprise, addressing the issue of e-waste, which is the fastest growing waste stream worldwide. So in a nutshell, what we do is accept electrical waste, our participants then process it, sort it and then we send it on to the next stage of recycling. We also try and refurbish and rehome technology where we can.
We’re very proud of our environmental contribution, but our main aim is to provide a meaningful activity for people with a disability or a disadvantage, in a place that’s fun, gives a sense of belonging and purpose. So eWaste Connection began in 2016, in answer to a personal need for my son as he was approaching graduating from special school. So we’ve created a unique, innovative offering that became part of the fabric of the communities where we operate, so there’s a really special vibe in our workshops when they’re running.
Now four years old, we’re seeing growing demand for our program. We need your support to meet this demand, particularly in the form of additional facilities. So late last year, we were recognised with a special mention as finalists in the Lord Mayor’s Business Awards in the Social Enterprise category and were also winners of the WasteSMART Community Award in 2020. So we know that you think we’re doing something good and we just need your help to do much, much more.
So eWaste Connection is offering solutions to many people and families, so people experiencing loneliness, depression, isolation, lack of purpose, amongst people with or without a disability. We’re also providing environmental solutions, respite for families and carers and also to volunteers who are looking to create positive outcomes.
So we currently operate our workshops from a Brisbane City Council site at Kenmore Hills, which is now full and since late last year, from a second privately held site at Yeronga. So we can only operate as we do because these sites are rent-free and we need to secure more long-term, low-cost facilities, so that we can expand and meet demand and we hope Brisbane City Council can help us with this. We know our social impact in Brisbane is already significant, we’ve helped the physical and emotional wellbeing of over 250 participants so far.
We’ve reduced the landfill in Brisbane, we’ve processed over 100,000 kilograms of e-waste so far. So we’ve developed a low-cost replicable model, with a broad range of positive impacts for the community and we achieve all of this through a mostly volunteer workforce. So we need Council’s support to increase our impact. eWaste Connection has proven the saying ‘build it and they will come’, it’s true. So we need new sites, especially in the north of Brisbane, we know there are a lot of participants in the north waiting for us to come, so that they can participate locally. So please help us build it, because we know that the participants will come.
We would point out that helping us achieve our goals will also help Brisbane City Council achieve a lot of their goals of diversity, inclusion, environment sustainability and creating a smart, clean, green, connected city. So we stand ready to face our challenges and we seek your involvement to overcome them.
The key one is the need for long-term, low-cost locations that offer security for our participants and our volunteers. We’d also like some support as far as understanding government regulations across the e-waste industry, especially related to plastics and we’re always looking for new, innovative uses for e-waste commodities. We need resources like wheelie bins to help us sort and transfer our commodities. I think we could really benefit significantly from some connections that Brisbane City Council could bring, so that we could develop some mutually beneficial working relationships with other entities.
Finally, we would love to establish certainty over our tenure at Kenmore, which has been a little bit of a saga. So we’re looking forward to the future and we really hope that it involves Brisbane City Council engaging with us to bring more positive outcomes for our environment and our shared community. Thanks.
Chair: Thank you.
Can I call on Councillor MARX to respond please?
Please take a seat.
Response by Councillor Kim Marx, Chair of the City Standards, Community Health and Safety Committee
Councillor MARX: Thank you, Mr Chair, and thank you, Mrs Lowndes, for taking the time to come in and address the Chamber this afternoon. My name is Kim MARX and I’m the Chair of City Standards, Community Health and Safety Committee. Relevant to the comments you’ve made this afternoon and the work your organisation does, part of that falls under my portfolio, which is the Waste and Resource Recovery Service, otherwise known as WaRRS.
I know that you and eWaste enjoy a fantastic working relationship with Councillor ADERMANN and the Pullenvale Ward Office. I know that’s something that Councillor ADERMANN has spoken to me about on a number of occasions. I’m also aware just recently about your outlet at Yeronga, which is Councillor JOHNSTON’s ward, so I’m aware that she’s also, as a local Councillor in that area, working with you too to help you achieve what you would like to do. It’s great that the local communities embrace the work you do and are providing opportunities for people with a disability to bring disused electrical products back to life.
I have two special schools in my own ward, Kuraby and Sunnybank, and I know have helped them in this space to get themselves set up for this kind of thing. Also in doing so, you’ve been able to create an important revenue stream to allow eWaste to expand, as I’ve said, as you’ve done recently by establishing new premises at Yeronga. I’m aware that there have been a few issues with your facilities in Kenmore, but I know Councillor ADERMANN has made himself available to contact the community services team on your behalf to have necessary repair works undertaken as quickly as possible.
I know that last week, Councillor ADERMANN supported a grant from the Lord Mayor’s Community Fund for eWaste to purchase a number of urgently required waste bins for storage purposes. I got that email from you via Councillor ADERMANN and Councillor JOHNSTON. Even though Council does empty the rubbish bins, as we all know, we actually don’t own them, our contractor does. But we’re able to secure a very good reduced price that Councillors can purchase bins at, that they can then give onto communities such as yours, other than the quite high advertised price that the general public can buy. So that’s a good bit of information for other Councillors, if they’re interested.
I know that Councillor ADERMANN is also working with the Federal Government to look at facilities that meet the needs of the local community. So on behalf of all the Councillors, I want to congratulate you and your team at eWaste on winning the Community Award and the CitySmart waste presentations late last year. The LORD MAYOR, DEPUTY MAYOR and I remember the ceremony here in City Hall and the excitement from those in the room, particularly from the Councillor who nominated you for the award when eWaste was announced as the winner.
In terms of opportunities for further partnership and cooperation with Council in the waste space, that’s a conversation that I’m more than happy to continue to have with you and with Councillor ADERMANN, in whatever way we as a Council can assist you in that space. E-waste, as you’ve mentioned, is a big concern and has been for some time and that’s only growing, given our throwaway society. I know when I first bought my 10-year-old a laptop back in the day, it was $6,000 and that was a lot of money. But now you can get them for $300 or $400, so they tend to be thrown away, which is a bit of a shame.
You mentioned landfill. We spend many millions of dollars digging holes in the ground to bury stuff, so the more we can keep out of those holes is definitely beneficial for all of us as ratepayers. So thank you for taking this on and I’m quite looking forward to working with you and Councillor HOWARD in the Connected Communities space and what we can do to assist your endeavours. Thank you.
Chair: Thank you, Mrs Lowndes. Mr Peers will assist you.
Councillors, I would draw your attention to the item on the agenda, Question Time.
Are there any questions of the LORD MAYOR or Chair of any Standing Committee?
Councillor CASSIDY: Point of order.
Chair: I have a point of order to Councillor CASSIDY.
553/2020-21
At that juncture, Councillor Jared CASSIDY moved, seconded by Councillor Charles STRUNK, that the Standing Rules be suspended to allow the moving of the following motion(
That Brisbane City Council offers financial support to the not-for-profit organisation ‘Hairdressers with Hearts’ as part of its Domestic and Family Violence Strategy.
Chair: Councillor CASSIDY—I’ll just reset your clock there—three minutes, you have three minutes to urgency please.
Councillor CASSIDY: Thanks very much, Chair. The reason I’m moving this urgency motion today is because in the middle of Queensland Women’s Week and yesterday being International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate the achievements of all women across the world and to continue to challenge the social constructs that cause gender inequality, one of the biggest and most pressing challenges facing women in our community and our community more broadly is of course the scourge of domestic violence. We see horrific physical attacks on women in the news almost every day. We know there’s a huge hidden issue of coercive control in our community that’s ruining and taking the lives of women.
This is urgent, Chair, because we should act on this issue now. We can stand here and talk all day about it, but if we don’t actually do anything, we aren’t helping anyone in our community. It’s urgent because Council has a Domestic and Family Violence Strategy, Chair, a strategy that was first initiated through an urgency motion just like this by Councillor COOK. But that’s a strategy that is yet to be fully implemented and this is something that can certainly help with that.
A great way to get the ball rolling is for Council to commit here today to supporting a great community cause. It’s working wonders for victims of domestic violence. Hairdressers with Hearts is a not-for-profit organisation that trains hairdressers to counsel clients that are the victims of domestic violence and help them get the professional support that they need. It’s urgent because over the weekend there was a launch of Hairdressers with Hearts and each Labor Councillor has donated, or is in the process of doing that to that organisation, either through the Lord Mayor’s Community Fund or ward office funds.
We would certainly today, building on that, advocate for Council to do the same in the spirit of International Women’s Day. It’s urgent, Chair, because we have hairdressers in every single suburb of Brisbane that can lend a hand and support this amazing cause. So by Council supporting this cause, we could have a real and genuine impact on the entire city at a community level.
Chair: I now put the resolution on the matter of urgency.
The Chair submitted the motion for the suspension of the Standing Rules to the Chamber and it was declared carried on the voices.
Chair: Councillor CASSIDY, could you please move your resolution.
Councillor CASSIDY: Thanks, Chair.
554/2020-21
At that juncture, Councillor Jared CASSIDY moved, seconded by Councillor Charles STRUNK—
That Brisbane City Council offers financial support to the not-for-profit organisation ‘Hairdressers with Hearts’ as part of its Domestic and Family Violence Strategy.
Chair: As I say, all Councillors should have received that through your email system. Councillor CASSIDY, you have 10 minutes. Could we please reset his clock? You have 10 minutes.
Councillor CASSIDY: Thanks very much, Chair, and I thank Administration Councillors for allowing this urgency motion to go to a full debate. Hairdressers with Hearts is a great grassroots organisation that addresses DV (domestic violence) at a frontline community level. The structure of the organisation is to train hairdressers and barbers to see the signs of domestic violence in their clients and link them to professional help and services. They’re obviously not training hairdressers to be professional counsellors, but they’re training hairdressers to see those signs and to connect those clients with professional services.
So the more Brisbane hairdressers that are trained to recognise those signs of domestic and family violence, the more victims can get the help they need before it’s too late. The founder of Hairdressers with Hearts has already helped more than 200 domestic violence victims herself and so far she had been doing this on her own and has, of course, now established Hairdressers with Hearts and is in the process of training a lot more hairdressers.
This training and this concept has potentially already saved lives and can save thousands more. Australia has over 55,000 hairdressers and barbers and of course, as the largest Council in Australia, we can be leading the charge and I think with the support of the Chamber will be supporting this cause and leading this charge out in the community. As I said earlier in the urgency motion, I understand all Councillors have been contacted and other LNP Councillors may have made those contributions as well, but all of the Labor Councillors have committed $1,000 so far to the organisation and that will train eight hairdressers or barbers.
So each trained hairdresser or barber can help around 50 DV victims each year on average and that’s statistics out of what has already occurred through the founder of this program’s experience. So if in the very least, 26 Councillors contribute $1,000, 208 trained hairdressers and barbers would be around 10,000 domestic violence victims being helped each and every year. So by a very small action, could have a huge impact out in the community.
The Brisbane City Council Domestic and Family Violence Strategy states that the only way Council can have a direct role in these matters is to partner with organisations and to fund them and this is a perfect way that we can do that. We can partner as a council with Hairdressers with Hearts and we can offer funding as well, whether it’s via individual Councillors, ward office budgets or Lord Mayor’s Community Funds, or through the organisation itself. So this is a perfect way to extend the strategy beyond a document and certainly into actions as well.
So I commend the motion to the Chamber and certainly hope that we’ll have that support. Of course, details in terms of specific funding levels can be worked out, but I think this sends a very clear and strong message that Council will be supporting this. Thank you.
Chair: Further speakers?
The LORD MAYOR.
LORD MAYOR: Thank you, Mr Chair. We will be supporting this motion and certainly for what we know about the work of Hairdressers with Hearts, it is a fantastic initiative. These are the sorts of things that we do absolutely want to support as a community, as a council, as individual Councillors through the Lord Mayor’s Community Fund, through also potential programs in our rollout of the domestic violence strategy outcomes. There’s a whole range of organisations that we’re working with and want to work more with in this field. This is one of those ones that we’re more than happy to support.
There is no way we are going to vote against providing financial support to an organisation that is doing some great work. Obviously this motion is a little bit light on detail, it simply requests financial support. Now, as I said, there’s a number of ways in which that can come. So we can obviously work through the appropriate way in which that financial support can be provided and we’re certainly happy to do that. So obviously I want to join Councillor CASSIDY in commending Hairdressers with Hearts for their great work.
I think it’s a unique perspective on getting to the bottom of some really challenging issues and certainly I know, not that I go to the hairdresser very often, but when I do, it’s a great opportunity to strike up a conversation that might go in directions you might not expect. So obviously, a great avenue in which hairdressers can identify challenges with domestic violence and then know what to do next if they hear about something with one of their clients. So it is, from what I know, something that we should support and we’re happy to support this motion.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor JOHNSTON.
Councillor JOHNSTON: Yes, thank you. I rise to speak on the urgency motion before us today. I spoke to Councillor COOK about this a little while ago and I did receive the letter from the organisation asking for funding. It is a most worthy cause, it is important that we have a wide range of channels available to people who are experiencing domestic violence to get advice, outreach and be connected into appropriate services. I would certainly support Council as an organisation contributing some funding towards the initiative.
However, this year the LORD MAYOR cut the Lord Mayor’s—what’s it called now? Community Fund, thank you—from $75,000 to just $34,000. So that’s more than halved that fund, which has put enormous pressure back on local Councillors to fund more and more organisations with a 60% funding cut. Now, I want to make it clear I absolutely support financial support, but I do not have funds in the Lord Mayor’s Community Fund to provide that support. This money would need to come from the organisation.
That’s the message that I communicated to Councillor COOK and to the organisation itself. I call on the LORD MAYOR to restore the funding. Every event in our wards is back on and there is no money to do those events, let alone the one-off programs like this that would offer some significant educational and awareness value for people experiencing domestic violence. So the funding cuts the LORD MAYOR made in the budget last year were real, they are having an impact and they are restricting Councillors from undertaking this sort of project.
So I would just say that Council as an organisation needs to find some funding to do this. Perhaps Councillor HOWARD is going to stand up and speak, it’s certainly been in her portfolio area, or perhaps Councillor ALLAN as the Finance Chair. Council just cut projects all over the city last week very flippantly, so there’s definitely money out there. The BUGs (bicycle user groups) tell me that Riverwalk’s running and Indooroopilly’s running millions of dollars under speed, so there is money available in this Council budget and I think that it is incumbent on the LORD MAYOR to find it within the organisation first, rather than take the very small amounts that are available to ward Councillors to support initiatives in their area, which he cut by more than half this year.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor SRI.
Councillor SRI: Thanks, I’d just say really quickly I support the motion. I think it’s a valuable project and I think it’s good to see the Council Administration recognising that and supportive of the project, but I did just want to add to the debate that if we’re talking seriously about addressing and helping to prevent domestic violence, educating hairdressers about how to support survivors is a good start, but it’s woefully inadequate and nowhere near what this Council Administration could and should be doing. This is a Council that has an annual budget in the range of $3 billion.
You would think with that kind of capacity the Council might be more proactive in this space in terms of helping to set up and create domestic violence shelters, for example and crisis accommodation and delve in a little bit deeper into the issue. I think it would be nice to see something a little bit more significant from Council as part of the domestic violence strategy. Certainly I would argue that providing crisis accommodation and domestic violence shelters would be right up there as a priority.
I’m aware that other councils in South East Queensland have in the past entered into agreements with non-profits and community providers to hand over land on leases, for example. I know Council has a lot of land that’s often used for fairly low value uses, like car parking. It would seem to me that there are sites around the city that maybe Council could reallocate towards use for domestic violence shelters that can be developed and delivered as non-profit projects. That’s certainly a form of development I’d be supportive of and would like to see more of.
That’s really, I think, where the conversation should move to. Of course we should be giving money to projects like this, but let’s think a little bit bigger, let’s actually get to some of those root issues. We know that one of the big challenges in this space is that even when people know and recognise that they’re in a violent or abusive situation, they don’t have anywhere to leave to. They don’t have an alternative housing option available and as a result, they remain in very unsafe situations.
I think Council could and should be playing a role in actually providing or helping to provide crisis accommodation and domestic violence shelters, rather than simply saying that’s not our business, that’s a State Government issue. Domestic violence is an issue that all levels of government should be taking responsibility to address and find a little bit of funding for some shelter projects, or find a little bit of land that can be used for crisis accommodation housing, would be a far more significant and noble step for this Administration to take, considering just how big our budget is and how much we spend on other areas of the Council budget. I’ll leave it at that, thanks.
Chair: Further speakers?
There being none, Councillor CASSIDY.
Councillor CASSIDY: Thanks very much, Chair. I thank our LORD MAYOR and Councillors JOHNSTON and SRI for speaking on this motion and supporting it. Picking up on some of those points, particularly that Councillor SRI made, that the statistics around homelessness and women and children particularly accessing homelessness services as a result of domestic and family violence is startling. These are old statistics, a couple of years old, but it was 72,000 women and 34,000 children in a year just a few years ago.
I suspect that’s underreported and those services are underutilised, because in a lot of those circumstances those women and children are not able to escape those situations in their home. We loath to use that word ‘statistics’, because I think in a big way it dehumanises the people that we’re talking about, but when there is one in five women having been sexually assaulted and/or threatened since the age of 15, and one in six women having experienced physical and/or sexual violence by a cohabiting partner since the age of 15, anything we can do is important.
I do take that point, that this is a very small thing, but it is a very meaningful thing and I absolutely agree that the strategy, the Domestic and Family Violence Strategy, needs constant review and constant implementation. This is a good example and I appreciate the LORD MAYOR and the Administration’s support in this and funding for this program, but I think this should be the first step in finding a lot of ways in which this Administration and Council as a whole can support the implementation of the strategy. So I thank all Councillors.
Chair: We’ll now put the resolution.
The Chair submitted the motion to the Chamber and it was declared carried on the voices.
QUESTION TIME:
Chair: Councillors, we will now move to Question Time.
Are there any questions of the LORD MAYOR or a Chair, of any Standing Committee?
Councillor ATWOOD.
Question 1
Councillor ATWOOD: Thank you, Chair. My question is to the LORD MAYOR. LORD MAYOR, the South East Queensland Council of Mayors have been working since last year to develop a region-wide waste minimisation and recycling strategy. Can you please update the Chamber on this strategy and what we can expect from it?
Chair: LORD MAYOR.
LORD MAYOR: Thank you, through you, Mr Chair, to Councillor ATWOOD for the question. It’s been incredible, the positive things that have come out of the Councils of South East Queensland working together. As we well know, the Olympic Games was an initiative of the Councils of South East Queensland that has since been adopted by the Federal Government and, eventually the State Government, finally, but it started with the South East Queensland Council of Mayors.
Something else that is underway now, which is very important for our region, is a region-wide waste minimisation strategy and recycling strategy. There is a working group and some very focused work that started last year that is now well underway and due for completion this year, to develop a region-wide strategy on how we can get waste out of landfill and to deal with gearing up our recycling network. Now we have a very good recycling scheme in place for the yellow-top bin when it comes to materials like plastic bottles, materials like cans, cardboard and paper and the things that go into the yellow-top bin.
But where there is a lack of infrastructure in South East Queensland is dealing with things like FOGO, which is food and organic waste. At the moment, there is only one operator in South East Queensland of any scale that can provide support to councils. It’s important to remember that in South East Queensland, we have five of Australia’s top 10 largest councils, so the scale here is massive. There are other councils around Australia that might be dealing with FOGO, that are nothing like the scale we see here in South East Queensland.
So to have a solution that works for the region is something that needs to be geared up and that is a big part of the strategy that we’re looking at as a group of councils in South East Queensland. Now, Councillor MARX is my representative on the waste working group for this strategy, but we’re going to see some very exciting things come out of that. It’s something that we’ve been working on with the State Government’s support as well. In fact, State Government officers have been involved in this working group and provided presentations and it’ll be good to see these efforts gear up.
Now, from Council’s point of view, we’re not sitting idly waiting for the outcome of this strategy. We’ve been gearing up a network and a process for many years. That gearing up started with Stage 1, with the rollout of the green bin opportunity for our households. That was an LNP initiative and I’m pleased to say that as of today, more than 110,000 households have a green bin. Now, that’s equivalent—if you take away the units, because not all units have a need for a green bin, not having that yard work that goes on to the same extent, some do, but not all.
But if you take away the units and you look at the standard households, so the standalone houses, that’s equivalent to one in three households having a green bin at this point in time. So that is a good uptake, particularly given that this is a user pay system, where people pay $21 a quarter to have their green waste collected on a fortnightly basis. So we’re looking at opportunities to further increase the reuse of FOGO before it even goes into the green bin, for example, if that was an option.
Things like composting, we’re gearing up. We’ve supported residents composting in their homes and whether that’s the provisions of thousands and thousands of those kitchen caddies which are so popular, or whether it’s support for composting in people’s own homes with a $70 rebate that we have provided to thousands of residents as well. So getting that material, or stopping it from going into the waste stream to start with, is a good first step. Because if you think about the way that we deal with waste, it’s got to be reduce, reuse, recycle and usually in that order as well.
So we’re encouraging people to reduce their food waste with the Love Food Hate Waste program, which has been very popular and we’ve been gearing up over a number of years. We’re encouraging residents to reuse those scraps by composting in their very own homes and they’re taking up that opportunity with vigour. Finally, we’re also looking at opportunities to deal with that waste stream for people that do still have food waste that they’re disposing of in the red-top bins. So that three-prong strategy, reduce, reuse, recycle, is a big part of our plan and I’m looking forward to making sure that we have a region-wide strategy.
Chair: LORD MAYOR, your time has expired.
Further questions?
Councillor CASSIDY.
Question 2
Councillor CASSIDY: Thanks very much, Chair. My question is to the Chair of the Finance, Administration and Small Business Committee, Councillor ALLAN. It’s been revealed that this LNP Administration purchased the Sherwood bus depot recently for $133 million. The LNP purchased the same property for just $21 million in 2009, sold it to a private owner, who then built the bus depot.
Council then rented that depot off them for almost a decade, only to buy it back for an extra $112 million. Ratepayers also forked out over $50 million in rent over that same period. This LORD MAYOR said that Council could have built the bus depot itself, but that would have cost $80 million back then and other projects would have to have been sacrificed.
Ironically, the decision to sell it, rent it back and buy it back has cost ratepayers almost $100 million more. The impacts of this ignorant decision are being felt by residents right across Brisbane. Kerbside collection has been cut, public transport services have been terminated, with Council refusing to upgrade ferry terminals. So, Chair, my question to Councillor ALLAN is what other projects and services will the LNP have to cut to make up for the hundreds of millions of dollars you’ve wasted on the Sherwood bus depot?
Chair: Councillor ALLAN.
Councillor ALLAN: Well thank you, Mr Chair, and thank you to Councillor CASSIDY for the question. So what other services will Council have to cut? Well I’m not aware of any that are going to be cut as a direct result of the Sherwood bus depot transaction. This has been in this Chamber—we’ve had a lengthy debate about the purpose for the acquisition and why we have gone ahead with that. At the moment, we’re looking at the process of that bus depot passing to our Urban Future Fund, CBIC (City of Brisbane Investment Corporation). The asset is a strategic asset for Council.
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: No interjections please.
Councillor ALLAN: It’s key to our bus network, so it was a very, very sensible acquisition for us to make. So I’m not sure where Councillor CASSIDY gets his numbers from, but I won’t dispute those—
Councillors interjecting.
Chair: Councillors, please allow—
Councillor ALLAN: I think the point is, his final question there is what other services is Council intending to cut? Now, there’s going to be nothing as a result of the acquisition of Sherwood bus depot, as I’ve indicated. It’s going to save us money in the long term and it’s also going to be passed through to CBIC on commercial terms. Now—right now, we are in the process of developing and finalising what will be one of the most challenging budgets this Administration has had to put together—
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: Councillor JOHNSTON, please cease interjecting.
Councillor ALLAN.
Councillor ALLAN: It’s too early at this stage to say what the shape of that budget will be, but for Councillor CASSIDY to suggest that there is a connection between the Sherwood bus depot acquisition and cutting services elsewhere in Council, is an incorrect conclusion to draw. In terms of the shape of the budget, which we’ll hand down in mid-June, he’ll just have to wait for that. Thank you.
Chair: Further questions?
Councillor DAVIS.
Question 3
Councillor DAVIS: Thank you, Chair. My question is to the Chair of Environment, Parks and Sustainability Committee, Councillor CUNNINGHAM. Councillor CUNNINGHAM, this week marks National Parks Week and the Schrinner Council team is committed to providing clean and green spaces for all Brisbane residents. Can you speak to some of our best parks?
Chair: Councillor CUNNINGHAM.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: Thank you, Mr Chair, and through you, thanks to Councillor DAVIS for the question. Yes, it is indeed Parks Week, a week where we particularly celebrate the vital role that parks play in creating liveable cities and thriving communities, as well as how spending time in our parks and open spaces positively influences our wellbeing. We have a city of parks in Brisbane and the Schrinner Council is committed to making them better, whether it’s local parks or our visionary transformation of Victoria Park. It’s about making the most of Brisbane’s beautiful climate with our spaces, to connect with family and friends in the places that make our city great.
Now, in the tradition of Councillor McLACHLAN, back by popular demand, I thought I’d run through an A to Z, this time of parks to celebrate over 2,100 parks right across Brisbane. New parks, parks being upgraded and some of our iconic parks that we all love. So let’s get into it. A is for Ascot Park, with specially designed cubby houses, fire trucks and water play. B is for Bradbury Park in Kedron, home of the Magic Forest and Brisbane’s best scooter track, with an amazing adventure playground coming later this year. C is for our City Botanic Gardens, a space of quiet retreat in our CBD and home to more than 1,000 species.
D is for Davies Park in West End, home to the West End Markets and also due for an additional upgrade works this year. E is for Eildon Hill lookout in Windsor, where Stage 2 upgrade works are currently underway. F is for Frew Park, formerly the Milton Tennis Centre and now home to the incredible Arena Playground for older children and teens. G is for Grinstead Park in Alderley, where we have recently completed a new learn-to-ride facility. H is for, surprise, surprise, Hanlon Park, we’ve ripped out the concrete to create a naturalised waterway in the heart of Stones Corner.
I is for Indooroopilly’s Witton Barracks, with a military theme playground, featuring Morse code puzzles, a toy jeep and climbing walls. J is for Jamboree Ward’s Rocks Riverside Park, a summer favourite for families across Brisbane. K is for Kangaroo Gully Road Park in Bellbowrie, where a fantastic new children’s bicycle circuit has just been completed. L is for Lutwyche, where we’re delivering a brand new local park at Chalk Street.
M is for Murarrie Recreation Reserve, where a new playground has been delivered and there are more exciting things planned there in coming years, Councillor ATWOOD. N is for Nudgee Waterhole Reserve, where a range of upgrades are on the way to reinstate facilities and vegetation that were temporarily lost during the Gateway Upgrade North project. O is for the award-winning Oxley Creek Transformation, which has delivered the Warril Parkland in Larapinta, with work starting at Archerfield this year. P is for our iconic parklands, Roma Street and South Bank, managed and activated by the City Parklands team.
Councillors interjecting.
Chair: Councillors—
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: Q is for Queensland AILA (Australian Institute of Landscape Architects) award-winning projects, like the Hills Avenue Boardwalk at the City Botanic Gardens. R is for Richlands, where the Castamore Way Park concept plan has been completed and work will get underway next financial year. S is for Sherwood Arboretum, Brisbane’s third botanic garden, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2025. T is for Thrush Street Park in Inala, where we have a new signature playground on the way. U is for our urban commons, with the latest being completed in Woolloongabba at Carl Street this year, featuring specially designed parkour equipment.
V is for Victoria Park, of course, our biggest new park in 50 years and we can’t wait for work to start in July. W is for Wally Tate Park in Runcorn, a massive park undergoing some significant works, including new cricket facilities. X, now this was a tough one, but X is for xylophones. I’ve been informed from Councillor MACKAY that he recently installed a xylophone in a public space in his ward and there’s also one in the playground at Whites Hill. Y is for the Yeronga Memorial Park dog off-leash area (DOLA), one of many DOLAs receiving lighting this year.
Finally, Z, Z for zebra crossings, two of which are part of the accessibility works which will be completed at the iconic New Farm Park this year. Thanks, Mr Chair.
Chair: Further questions?
Councillor SRI.
Question 4
Councillor SRI: Thanks, Chair. My question is to Councillor CUNNINGHAM. Development application information for the Kangaroo Point active transport bridge suggests the project may need to remove approximately 15 mangroves in the riparian zone and a further 34 trees on Council land, including some large and well established specimens. The shortage of parkland in the inner city means that suitable sites for canopy offset planting have not been identified. So while Council claims replacement trees will be planted, it doesn’t actually know where.
All up, the bridge pylons and associated structures seem likely to result in the loss of close to 800 square metres of greenspace, which is roughly the same size as Bunyapa Park, which is the only new park that’s been created within The Gabba Ward boundaries in at least the past 10 years. So my question is, for residents who are concerned about the greenspace impacts of other proposed bridges, what reassurance can you offer that Council will offset not only the lost canopy cover, but also the loss of actual parkland? When will new parkland be created to meet the needs of the rapidly growing population on Brisbane’s inner southside?
Chair: Councillor CUNNINGHAM.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: Thank you, Mr Chair, and through you, thanks to Councillor SRI for the question. Now, before I get into some of the detail, I have to say that this is not my project primarily, but I will have a go regarding the loss of parkland, or the alleged loss of parkland. I don’t accept the premise of the question, that improving our public space and improving access to our parklands is in fact a loss of parkland.
When will this end? If you put in a playground, is that loss of parkland for our children? If you put in a toilet block, is that loss of park for our playground? Now, Councillor SRI, I’m happy to speak to you more specifically around the project, after getting some further details, you mentioned some trees and mangroves. But I don’t accept the premise of your question with regards to the lack—
Chair: Councillor CUNNINGHAM, I must insist you address your comments to me please.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: Sorry, Mr Chair. I don’t accept the premise of the question. Thank you.
Councillor SRI: Point of order, Chair.
Chair: Point of order, Councillor SRI.
Councillor SRI: The substance of the question was when will new parkland be delivered from the inner south and, just on relevance, I think, we’re skirting round that question.
Chair: There was quite a bit to that question and I was of the view that the question was broadly about a specific project. Then there were other issues that you raised as part of your question.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM, have you got further comments? All right.
Further questions?
Councillor TOOMEY.
Question 5
Councillor TOOMEY: Thank you, Chair. My question is to the Chair of City Standards, Community Health and Safety Committee, Councillor MARX. Councillor MARX, this past weekend marked Clean Up Australia Day. Can you outline Council’s involvement over the weekend and the importance of keeping our Brisbane clean and green?
Chair: Councillor MARX.
Councillor MARX: Yes, thank you, Mr Chair, and thank you for the question, Councillor TOOMEY, and the opportunity to update the Chamber on what another successful Clean Up Australia Day we’ve had in keeping Brisbane clean and green. As the Chamber will know, every year, we see hundreds of thousands of Australians volunteer to help clean up our parks, streets, beaches, bushland, waterway and conserve our beautiful environment. It was remarkable to see yet again so many Brisbane residents, schools, community groups, organisations and businesses taking part.
It’s hard to believe that what began as an idea by one individual in 1990, now generates so much enthusiasm and community spirit. Mr Chair, I can advise the Chamber that this year in Brisbane we had a total of 397 official sites registered. That’s the highest number of registered sites since the flood recovery efforts in 2011, that’s a terrific result. We additionally had more than 24,000 registered volunteers in Brisbane participating as part of the schools, business and community clean ups, and I’d like to give a special mention to our schools and business clean ups, because I know many residents only associate the initiative with the event held on the Sunday just gone.
In fact, what we saw was a fantastic response from our business community—many still doing it tough as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, by getting out and about on Tuesday 2 March. We also saw our schools organise clean up events during school hours last Friday and there was a school in my ward that actually did a clean-up on their—two schools, so it was two in one, which is great. We’ve yet to receive the figures on the amount of rubbish collected and, of course, Brisbane’s waste challenges, as we know, can’t be solved in one day. Which is why litter prevention and collection is so important to the Schrinner Council in our efforts to keep Brisbane clean and green.
Mr Chair, I’m sure the Chamber will be aware of our 104 or more litter initiatives, which encourage residents to pick up two pieces of litter per week, every week of the year, to keep 104 pieces of litter made out of our streets, bushlands and waterways. Some Councillors who potentially are new to the Chamber might not be aware of this program. We do have bags and they are language specific as well, if people are interested in that. So if you are a Council ward officer and would like a collection of those bags, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me and I’m happy to get some out to you for you to get out to your residents.
Helping in picking up litter, combined with Council’s litter bins and street cleansing, helps make a big difference in keeping our city litter free. Council also has a litter clean up kits that are available for loan to schools, sporting hubs, kindergartens, businesses and even for children’s parties. I’m not sure how that would go, but you could always give it a go. The kits include litter pickers, I call them litter picker-upperers and lightweight handheld bins. I encourage any Councillor who knows a group that may be interested in the service to also get in contact with our friendly waste team.
As a Council, we have so many initiatives and programs, I could list that work towards reducing litter in our public spaces. Mr Chair, I’ll finish by extending my thanks, I’m sure on behalf of the entire Chamber, to all volunteers who got out as part of the clean up events last week, as well as thanks to all the residents who complement Council’s efforts by doing their bit in keeping their bit of Brisbane clean and green. Thank you.
Chair: Further questions?
Councillor CASSIDY.
Question 6
Councillor CASSIDY: Thanks very much, Chair. My question is to the Chair of the Finance, Administration and Small Business Committee, Councillor ALLAN. We just heard from Councillor ALLAN that the LNP apparently won’t be cutting any other services to account for the massive waste to ratepayer funds they have spent on the Sherwood bus depot. Well if no other services are being cut, then Council has to get extra revenue from somewhere and that means a rates hike. So my question to Councillor ALLAN is how much will you be hiking rates by in July to make up for the hundreds of millions of dollars this LNP Administration has wasted on renting and repurchasing the Sherwood bus depot?
Chair: Councillor ALLAN.
Councillor ALLAN: Thank you, Mr Chair, and thank you to Councillor CASSIDY for the question. It’s a little bit difficult to unpick the point he’s trying to make here, but I’ll be brief and try and endeavour to do that. So we have certainly spent money acquiring the Sherwood bus depot and we’re currently in negotiations with CBIC to sell that particular depot to them as a long-term asset that we will then lease from them.
Now, that has no impact on the Council budget, so that in and of itself doesn’t lend any weight to a suggestion that services are going to be cut. The notion that what’s the rate increase likely to be in the coming financial year, I’ve said in this Chamber multiple times in recent weeks, we are right in the thick of budget development at the moment. It is an extremely difficult budget to compile in the circumstances. Councillor CASSIDY will find out the shape of that budget when the LORD MAYOR hands it down on Wednesday 16 June and until then, he’ll just have to wait. Thank you.
Chair: Further questions?
Councillor OWEN.
Question 7
Councillor OWEN: Thank you, my question is to the Chair of the Public and Active Transport Committee, Councillor MURPHY. Councillor MURPHY, with the development application (DA) recently lodged with Council for the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge, can you please update the Chamber on the progress of this project?
Chair: Councillor MURPHY.
Councillor MURPHY: Thank you, Mr Chair, and thank you, Councillor OWEN, for the question. The Schrinner Council’s reached an exciting new step in the Green Bridges Program, with the development application for the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge lodged last week. Now, this forms part of the largest investment in active transport that this city has ever seen, breathing life into our economy and expanding supplier opportunities for local industry. This will be one of our city’s most used pedestrian and cycling connections.
It’s forecast to accommodate 5,300 walking and cycling trips per day, with that figure expected to increase to more than 6,100 trips by 2036. That means 84,000 fewer cars on our roads. We’re fast-tracking delivery of this project to support the economy and to boost employment, with the green bridge set to support more than 300 jobs during its construction. The development application is based on Council’s reference design for a single-mast, cable-stayed structure that will complement the city skyline.
It will be an elegant river crossing that celebrates Brisbane’s identity, our subtropical environment, the River City lifestyle offering open views to the Kangaroo Point Cliffs and, of course, over to the Story Bridge, which we heard about only last week. The draft reference design has been informed by a range of technical studies and investigations, including an analysis of the bridge alignment and form options, flooding and environmental assessments and consideration of visual and social impacts, as well as community feedback.
This includes input during the design development from groups representing people with disabilities, such as Spinal Life and Guide Dogs Queensland, to ensure that the bridge is highly accessible and meets the needs of all of its users. Key features include a dedicated cycle and pedestrian path with a minimum width of 6.8 metres along the length of the bridge, a navigable clearance height of 12.7 metres per the Captain Cook Bridge, with provision for a 60-metre-wide navigational channel. A variety of places to safely pause and enjoy the expansive river and city views.
As major projects such as Brisbane Metro come online, last mile travel and connecting people with public transport hubs is going to become increasingly important in our city. That’s why the Schrinner Administration is embarking on this bold agenda to build five new green bridges for Brisbane. The Kangaroo Point Green Bridge will provide an accessible, user-friendly experience for residents and visitors alike. It will make it easier for those wishing to explore the CBD reach over the river on foot, by bicycle or by scooter. It will mean greater access to the city centre, the City Botanic Gardens, QUT (Queensland University of Technology) Gardens Point, Kangaroo Point Cliffs and the City Reach Waterfront.
Residents will enjoy enhanced access to dining and entertainment precincts, such as Riverside at Eagle Street Pier, the Queen’s Wharf redevelopment, Council’s award-winning Howard Smith Wharves redevelopment, the South Bank, enabling them to spend more time enjoying Brisbane’s unique lifestyle. Imagine on Sunday morning being able to stroll from the riverside markets in the city over the green bridge to C.T. White Park. Or enjoying a day at Captain Burke Park and then jumping on an e-scooter or an e-bike that are coming midway through this year, for an afternoon inside the city.
Or even further afield, over to South Bank, across the CityLink Cycleway. A bridge connecting Kangaroo Point and the city centre has been considered since the 1860s. Council recommended detailed planning in 2014, and in 2018, engaged consultants to undertake further technical studies on the bridge, including providing recommendations on the preferred alignment, landing and bridge options. Council has undertaken multiple rounds of consultation with residents to date, with the program enthusiastically welcomed by the community.
In September 2019, we released the project’s preliminary business case findings, which clearly demonstrated the benefits of the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge and the value for money offering that it presents to Brisbane ratepayers. The preliminary business case identified a preferred alignment for the corner of Alice Street to Edward Street, all the way over to Scott Street at Kangaroo Point. At that stage, key feedback included that approximately 60% of respondents indicated they would use the bridge daily or weekly. Strong support for the preferred alignment from Alice Street to Scott Street, with approximately 72% supporting that alignment.
In August and September 2020, Council undertook further community consultation on our draft reference design. Approximately 1,800 people had their say on that design, with 71% supporting the final design and the landing points. Chair, in the midst of economic hardship, fast-tracking the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge will ensure that we get people into jobs and that we deliver critical infrastructure projects for the future of our city.
As I’ve mentioned, the development application is based on Council’s reference design, with the potential for design changes to be made after awarding the contract to the successful bidder. That includes design changes in respect of vegetation management. Two shortlisted tenderers were announced in November last year.
Chair: Councillor MURPHY, your time has expired.
Councillor MURPHY: Thank you, Chair.
Chair: Are there any further questions?
Councillor CUMMING.
Question 8
Councillor CUMMING: Thank you. Mr Chair, my question is to the Chair of the Community, Arts and Nighttime Economy Committee, Councillor HOWARD. Councillor HOWARD, the Wynnum Manly Cricket Club has been crying out for help from Council for a decade now. Their grounds in Tingalpa flood badly and regularly. It costs the club tens of thousands of dollars every single year to repair the fields.
The club’s drains are constantly blocked, full of weeds and stagnant water, but they’re outside the club’s lease area so they can’t fix them. It’s up to Council to fix them and restore the drainage infrastructure, but time after time Councillor HOWARD and the local Doboy Councillor, Lisa ‘Slippery’ ATWOOD fail to listen to club members and fail to act.
Councillor MARX: Point of order, Mr Chair.
Chair: Point of order to you, Councillor MARX.
Please pause, Councillor CUMMING.
Councillor MARX.
Councillor MARX: That’s an outrageous slur on one of our female Councillors.
Chair: Councillor CUMMING, would you please consider withdrawing that comment?
Councillor CUMMING: I’ll withdraw it, I don’t want to offend this person.
Chair: Thank you.
Could you please also return to an earlier point in your question, so that we can all hear it.
Councillor CUMMING: What, just before—
Chair: I probably missed the last two sentences.
Councillor CUMMING: It’s up to Council to fix them and restore the drainage infrastructure, is that what you want?
Chair: Please proceed from there.
Councillor CUMMING: But time after time Councillor HOWARD and the local Doboy Councillor, Lisa ATWOOD, failed to listen to club members and failed to act. Councillor HOWARD is truly aware of the problem, she’s been there for herself, but still has done nothing. Council did, however, find half a million dollars to build a fishing platform on the nearby creek. Councillor HOWARD, why does this LNP Administration hate community cricket clubs so much and why do you want to destroy them?
Chair: Councillor HOWARD.
Councillor HOWARD: Well thank you, Mr Chair, and through you, I think thank you to Councillor CUMMING for the question. Mr Chair, I have had the privilege of meeting onsite with Graham, the President of the Wynnum Manly District Cricket Club and Councillor ATWOOD to hear their concerns. This is a fantastic club, they’re very engaged with the local community and are always working hard to make their club and its facilities better and stronger. Sadly, the Opposition have oversimplified this issue and that benefits no one.
The fields, like many sports fields in our city, are in low-lying areas. The facility is located within the main Bulimba Creek flood path and is therefore subject to creek, storm tide and overland flow flooding. It is also adjacent to residential properties in Tingalpa and any works done on the fields could have an adverse impact on these residents. Council wants to help all clubs be as successful as possible and we will continue to work with the clubs at Carmichael Park. I understand the club has developed some plans and Council is reviewing these. Officers will be meeting onsite in the very near future to discuss these with Councillor ATWOOD and the club.
Can I say at this point through you, Mr Chair, what an amazing job Councillor ATWOOD has been doing with this club. When I met with Councillor ATWOOD and the club, she was totally across the issues. She had been talking to them on a regular basis and I was absolutely impressed with her knowledge and her ability to bring the club to talk to me about the issues. So we’ve continued to work with Councillor ATWOOD and with the club over the—
Councillors interjecting.
Chair: All right, Councillors, there’ll be no interjections.
Councillors, no.
Councillors, please allow the answer to be heard in silence.
Councillors interjecting.
Chair: No, no, there will be no name-calling. I asked for no interjections. I want this answer to be heard in silence please.
Please give Councillor HOWARD the due respect.
Councillor HOWARD.
Councillor HOWARD: Thank you, Mr Chair. As I said, we’re hearing from the Opposition, oversimplifying an issue that is very complicated and that benefits no one. What they should be doing is working with Councillor ATWOOD and with the officers to make sure that we all work together on this very difficult site. Officers will be meeting onsite in the very near future to discuss—
Councillors interjecting.
Chair: Councillors—Councillor CASSIDY, I’ve asked for silence please.
Councillor HOWARD.
Councillor HOWARD: Thank you, Mr Chair. I would like to give the answer because as I said, the club has developed some plans and Council is reviewing those plans. Officers will be meeting onsite in the very near future to discuss these with Councillor ATWOOD and the club. I have so much respect for clubs like this, they are the result of hard work and sacrifice by volunteers. I was pleased that the club was able to be supported with the Lord Mayor’s COVID-19 Direct Assistance Program, receiving a $10,000 grant last year. I will continue to listen and do what we can to support this great club and also, once again, want to acknowledge Councillor ATWOOD, who has been such a strong advocate for them.
Chair: Councillors, before I call the next question it appears likely that there will be a 10th question today. I will inform the room that to keep the ratios in line with what the rules require, that will go to a crossbench Councillor.
Further questions?
Councillor HAMMOND.
Question 9
Councillor HAMMOND: Thank you, Mr Chair. My question is to the Chair of City Planning and Economic Development Committee, Councillor ADAMS. DEPUTY MAYOR, Council recently received an Arts Queensland grant to extend and enhance our Outdoor Gallery spaces. Can you outline what this will mean for our public art going forward?
Chair: Councillor ADAMS.
DEPUTY MAYOR: Thank you, Mr Chair, and thank you, Councillor HAMMOND. I’m very excited that I’ve got the opportunity today to tell everybody about this fantastic new program coming to Brisbane. It is timely for the support of the arts in Brisbane, because we know just how tough this past year has been for them in the creative industry, locally, nationally and, of course, on a global scale as well. Theatres, galleries, art centres, concert halls, cinemas and festivals were all brought to a grinding halt this time last year and sadly, are some amongst the slowest to reopen and recover.
The Schrinner Council Administration recognises just how essential the creative sector is, not only to our identity and reputation as a global city, but as a key pillar in our local economy. Over the past few years, BC, or before coronavirus as I like to call it, Brisbane’s creative economy and jobs in the creative sector were growing at nearly twice the national rate. We were on the cusp of the most exciting period of change, with unique opportunity to leverage its growth and strengthen our city’s liveability as a vibrant, creative hub. Putting Brisbane a cut above other global cities as a premier location for talented people to live, work, play and invest.
We are a city of neighbourhoods and we’re a very large city when it comes to that, but we also recognise that our city centre is our main engine room and epicentre for arts, culture and entertainment. With an exciting and growing live local music scene, year-round festivals and world-class art galleries and museums, we are taking it a step further. How about if the entire city was an art gallery? That is exactly what we are going to see with Brisbane’s Outdoor Gallery in the coming months.
We are uniting 11 locations across the city, where you can wander Brisbane’s laneways and city streets to discover new and exciting art, instead of inside on gallery walls. From lightboxes and banners down Fish Lane, Eagle Lane and Edison Lane. Vitrines along Edward Street, Elizabeth and Queen Streets, to our newest Outdoor Gallery additions, art projections, on the Howard Smith Wharves cliffs. You can spend an entire day exploring the city, discovering hidden treasures and best kept secrets. Our latest exhibition, Sunny Side Up, features some of Brisbane’s best up and coming local artists and has been brilliantly curated by Sarah Thomson and Alex Holt.
The exhibition has been up since November last year and will run through to mid-April. But you’re definitely not too late to catch up with those, because it’s just about to get a little more exciting. Councillors, leading the way in digital and innovative art and for the first time ever, you can experience each artwork come to life through augmented reality (AR). So supported by Arts Queensland’s Open Air grant, funding is being used to transform the work of the current exhibiting artists from 2D (two-dimensional) pieces into digital forms. A fantastic opportunity, not only to upskill some of Brisbane’s brightest emerging artists in a new and innovative field, but introduce a whole new world of art to the residents and visitors in Brisbane.
Earlier this year, all 13 artists, collectors and curators participated in augmented reality workshops, facilitated by one of our very own locals, Helena Papageorgiou, resulting in the creation of 20 new AR works to join the Sunny Side Up exhibition. Each one is unique and one of a kind. All you need to do is scan the QR (quick response) code and hover the phone over the art to see it come to life. But that’s not all, as the enhanced version of the Outdoor Gallery will include a treasure hunt series, giving art lovers a chance to get their hands on their very own limited edition prints from Brisbane’s hottest up-and-coming artists.
You have to be quick, as only the first 100 participants to complete each hunt will walk away with a signed print. There are three official hunts with 300 prints in total. But as you race through the city unlocking the AR artworks, don’t forget to stop along the way, get out the wallet, buy a coffee, have a drink, browse some of our tucked away boutiques.
Don’t worry, if you do miss out on one of those 100 prizes, you’ll also go into the draw for a main prize which is a $150 Museum of Brisbane gift voucher. It is gearing up to be one of the unique treasure hunts Brisbane has ever seen, attracting hundreds of visitors back into the city and encouraging Brisbanites to explore their backyard. The first one’s on 21 March, the second on 26 March and your last chance on Saturday 10 April. With that, we wrap up another exciting Outdoor Gallery exhibition. Brisbane just keeps getting better.
Chair: Further questions?
Councillor JOHNSTON.
Question 10
Councillor JOHNSTON: Yes, my question is to the LORD MAYOR. LORD MAYOR, last week you dodged a question about stormwater upgrades in Yeronga, which are listed in the LGIP (Local Government Infrastructure Plan). Instead, you sent your Parks Chairperson out to provide incorrect information to the Council Chamber last week. All of the stormwater projects listed in the LGIP, which are publicly available on Council’s website, are scheduled to be delivered between 2016 and 2021.
As you dodged the question last week, will you now explain why the massive amount of development in Yeronga, including major five-storey developments in multiple locations, huge amounts of infill in low to medium density areas, the loss of greenspace and open space to development, why that development isn’t enough to get your promised stormwater drainage upgrades delivered as listed in the Council LGIP for Yeronga West, a community that suffers badly from localised and major flooding.
Chair: The LORD MAYOR.
LORD MAYOR: I’m not sure what the question was. What was the question?
Chair: The question was about the allocation of drainage funding.
Councillor JOHNSTON, could you please repeat your question?
Councillor JOHNSTON: I think—honestly, it was International Women’s Day yesterday and the LORD MAYOR is not a stupid man. He knows exactly what question I asked.
Chair: Councillor JOHNSTON, there’s no need to call people names. If I recall, in your question you had a go at a fellow lady Councillor as well. So let’s please keep some perspective on this. The rules allow for the person answering the question to ask the question to be read again. Please do so.
Councillor JOHNSTON: I’ll just say what a petty and juvenile response that was.
Chair: No, you will not call people names.
You will repeat your question or the question will be passed to someone else.
Councillor JOHNSTON, no—
Councillor JOHNSTON: I’m happy to repeat it, but let me be—
Chair: Well clearly you aren’t happy to repeat it, because if you were you would have done so already.
Please repeat your question.
Councillor JOHNSTON: As the LORD MAYOR didn’t get it the first time, I’ll say it again.
Chair: There’s no need for commentary.
Councillor JOHNSTON: Last week you dodged—
Chair: Please read your question.
Councillor JOHNSTON: I don’t read it because you told me five minutes ago that I was going to do it. That’s why he just did this. What do you think, that I wrote something down in the two minutes?
Chair: I do expect Councillors to be prepared for Council.
Councillor JOHNSTON, please proceed.
Councillor JOHNSTON: You people are ridiculous.
Chair: I am not ridiculous.
Councillor JOHNSTON: You are.
Chair: I have instructed Councillors to cease name-calling. Councillor JOHNSTON, I consider you’re displaying unsuitable meeting conduct and according to section 21(5) of the Meetings Local Law 2001, I hereby request you cease calling people names, in particular myself, and refrain from exhibiting that conduct into the future and I hereby request that you apologise.
Councillor JOHNSTON: For calling this whole charade that you’re just doing ridiculous?
Chair: No, for calling me ridiculous for asking you to ask your question.
Councillor JOHNSTON: The situation is ridiculous.
Chair: No, it isn’t. No, I’ve asked you to apologise. Either you will or you won’t.
Councillor JOHNSTON: No, I’m not apologising.
Chair: Councillor, you have refused to comply with the request to take remedial action for your unsuitable meeting conduct. I hereby warn you in accordance with section 21(7) of the Meetings Local Law 2001, that failing to comply with the request may result in an order being issued.
Chair: Could you please comply with my request?
Councillor JOHNSTON: No, I’ve just said I’m not. I think this whole process that’s just unfolded here is ridiculous—unnecessary and the LORD MAYOR knows exactly what I asked him about.
Chair: Councillor, as you fail to comply with the request to take remedial action for your unsuitable meeting conduct, in accordance with section 21(9) of the Meetings Local Law 2001, I hereby order you to leave and stay away from the Chamber, the Antechamber and the Public Gallery for the duration of this meeting. If you refuse to comply with this order, your conduct will also be dealt with at the next meeting of Council as inappropriate conduct in accordance with section 21(11)(b) of the Meetings Local Law 2001.
|Order – Councillor Nicole JOHNSTON |
|The Chair then advised Councillor Nicole JOHNSTON that as she had failed to comply with his request for remedial action for her |
|unsuitable meeting conduct, in accordance with section 21(9) of the Meetings Local Law 2001, an order for her to leave the meeting, |
|including any area set aside for the public, and stay out for the duration of the meeting was being issued. |
Councillor JOHNSTON: So no warning?
Councillor CASSIDY: Point of order, Chair.
Councillor JOHNSTON: No nothing, just straight to ejection. The whole point of this is to stop this behaviour.
Chair: Point of order to you, Councillor CASSIDY.
|555/2020-21 |
|Councillor Jared CASSIDY moved, seconded by Councillor Steve GRIFFITHS, that the Chair’s ruling be dissented from. Upon being submitted|
|to the Chamber, the motion of dissent was declared lost on the voices. |
Thereupon, Councillors Jared CASSIDY and Nicole JOHNSTON immediately rose and called for a division, which resulted in the motion being declared lost.
The voting was as follows:
AYES: 6 - The Leader of the OPPOSITION, Councillor Jared CASSIDY, and Councillors Peter CUMMING, Steve GRIFFITHS, Charles STRUNK, Jonathan SRI and Nicole JOHNSTON.
NOES: 20 - The Right Honourable, the LORD MAYOR, Councillor Adrian SCHRINNER, DEPUTY MAYOR, Councillor Krista ADAMS, and Councillors Greg ADERMANN, Adam ALLAN, Lisa ATWOOD, Fiona CUNNINGHAM, Tracy DAVIS, Fiona HAMMOND, Vicki HOWARD, Steven HUANG, Sarah HUTTON, Sandy LANDERS, James MACKAY, Kim MARX, Peter MATIC, David McLACHLAN, Ryan MURPHY, Angela OWEN, Steven TOOMEY and Andrew WINES.
Chair: The decision stands, Councillor JOHNSTON, please leave the room.
Councillor Nicole JOHNSTON left the meeting.
Chair: Councillor SRI, would you like the crossbench question?
Councillor SRI: I’ve got the call?
Chair: Councillor SRI.
Question 11
Councillor SRI: Thanks, Chair, my question’s to the LORD MAYOR. LORD MAYOR, you might have heard my previous question to Councillor CUNNINGHAM, which particularly raised concerns about the number of trees that are likely to be removed as part of the Kangaroo Point active transport bridge. What I’m seeking from you is some clarity and confidence that you can offer to residents that similar projects for the West End bridges won’t involve the same scale of tree clearing. So my question to you is will the potential removal of established trees that might be necessitated as part of future footbridge projects be factored into the cost benefit analysis of those projects?
Chair: LORD MAYOR.
LORD MAYOR: Thank you, Councillor SRI, for the question, through you, Mr Chair. I’ve spoken on this matter a number of times before and I will return in a second to the comments that I have previously expressed. But I would say that as we go through this process we will follow the appropriate process that identifies vegetation that may be impacted by a project. Whether it’s a bridge, whether it’s any kind of other project that we do. We have established processes to identify that and we also have established processes to offset that vegetation as well.
We take this very seriously and we invest a significant amount of funds each year into providing those offsets. It is in stark contrast to what we see at other levels of government. The State Government projects, they exempt themselves from the requirement to provide offsets. So when we saw the Gateway Upgrade North, they’re worth thousands of trees—
Councillor SRI: Point of order, Chair.
Chair: Point of order to you Councillor SRI.
Councillor SRI: On relevance, it’s about whether the asset value of trees for these bridge projects will be factored in the cost benefit analysis. I’m not interested in commentary about the State Government.
Chair: I believe the LORD MAYOR is making a point by example and comparison.
LORD MAYOR.
LORD MAYOR: This relates specifically to the question asked. My point is that we take our obligations and our policies very seriously. So where we provide a project upgrade infrastructure, we actually provide offsets. So of course we take those into account when it comes to the planning of the project.
Councillor SRI: Point of order, Chair.
LORD MAYOR: Of course we—
Chair: Point of order to you, Councillor SRI.
Councillor SRI: The question is not about factoring in the cost of offset planting. The question is about factoring the asset value of the trees that would be removed. Which is a very different thing.
Chair: Thank you.
LORD MAYOR, please take that into consideration.
LORD MAYOR: Thank you. It is fascinating that we see the biggest investment in active transport a council has ever done, being undermined by a Greens Party Councillor. This is exactly what is happening here.
Councillor SRI: Point of order, Chair.
LORD MAYOR: It’s happening—
Chair: Point of order to you, Councillor SRI.
Councillor SRI: Claim to be misrepresented.
Chair: With—
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: Councillor SRI, misrepresentations can occur in reports, but not in Question Time.
LORD MAYOR.
LORD MAYOR: Thank you. As I was saying, Green by name, but not by actions, because here’s the reality, when you build infrastructure, whether it is sustainable infrastructure or not, there are always impacts that need to be managed. Impacts that need to be offset in this case, but impacts that need to be managed. We are not in a greenfield city here. So we have to work with what we’ve got.
Yes, projects do generate some requirements that impact on vegetation. We offset those. So, of course, we take that into account, but let’s be clear, Councillor SRI—
Councillor SRI: Point of order Chair.
Chair: Point of order Councillor SRI.
Councillor SRI: I’m sorry, just on relevance, I don’t think the LORD MAYOR is answering the question. The question is about whether that asset value of trees which would need to be removed is factored into the cost benefit analysis.
Chair: Thank you. You’ve made this point of order a number of times.
LORD MAYOR, can you address the matter in your question. You have one minute and 45 seconds.
LORD MAYOR: So it’s interesting that Councillor SRI who, as a Greens Party Councillor, doesn’t tend to see things in a financial way often. Now wants us to treat trees as an accounting measure.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: Wants trees to be an accounting standard on our books. Well, trees are not part of our accounts or our asset base. Now, we obviously value trees highly, but it’s something that I know, personally is very difficult to put a value on. How do you value an asset like a tree?
Councillor interjecting.
So we have an asset base of, from memory, around $30 billion which doesn’t include trees and nor have we ever included trees on that asset base, but we value them highly. Which is why we have a Bushland Acquisition program. Which is why we planted two million trees over a period of four years. Which is why we’re planting around 10,000 street trees a year and we have ongoing programs of planting offsets. So of course we value them, but they’re not appearing in our accounts as a line on an accountant’s page.
So what we do is we make sure that when we have to impact on a particular type of vegetation. That within a reasonable period of years, that we not only have that vegetation replaced, but there’s more of it. So we plant more than what we remove and that’s our way of dealing with it. That’s our way of valuing it. That’s what we’ll be doing for the Kangaroo Point and other green bridges.
Chair: LORD MAYOR your time has expired and that concludes Question Time.
We will now move to the reports.
Councillors the Establishment and Coordination Committee report please.
CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE
The Right Honourable, the LORD MAYOR (Councillor Adrian SCHRINNER), Chair of the Establishment and Coordination Committee, moved, seconded by the DEPUTY MAYOR (Councillor Krista ADAMS), that the report of the meeting of that Committee held on 1 March 2021, be adopted.
Chair: Is there any debate?
The LORD MAYOR.
LORD MAYOR: Thank you, Mr Chair, we have just yesterday celebrated International Women’s Day. As we have mentioned a number of times before, I’m incredibly proud that for the first time in the city’s history we have an equal number of women and men in my Administration, but also in the senior leadership team as well in the Civic Cabinet. It is the first time that that has ever happened in the city’s history.
So a lot can be said about support for women in business or women in leadership, but here we are making it happen. I’m very proud of the strong female leaders we have. Whether they’re Councillors or whether they’re Civic Cabinet members, we have such a fantastic team.
I think it is absolutely reprehensible, Mr Chair, that the day after International Women’s Day we have a Labor Councillor here calling derogatory and demeaning names of one of our female Councillors. One of our female Councillors who does a fantastic job.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: Not rated by me, but I obviously rate her, but rated by her community.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: Who gave her an incredible double-digit swing in the recent election.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: And the day after International Women’s Day calling names in the Council Chamber. Now, these are the people who claim all the virtue when it comes to support for women, but show none of the action—
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: None of the action. These are the people that say all the right things, but they don’t actually do them. Except today, they didn’t say all the right things, they were calling names of one of our female Councillors.
Now, the theme of International Women’s Day this year was Choose to Challenge. I choose to challenge, Councillor CASSIDY, your team and choose to challenge you to ensure that your Councillors don’t call our female Councillors names like that.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: That don’t demean and call them derogatory names.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: It is just not on. Now, you can call me whatever you want and you do.
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: LORD MAYOR, can I please—
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: But—
Chair: —insist you address comments to and through me please?
LORD MAYOR: Through you, Mr Chair, and I know they do and I know they do.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: But—
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: You know, practice what you preach.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: Practice what you preach.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: You want some credibility on these issues, practice what you preach. We will continue to support the fantastic female Councillors that we have in this city. We will continue to support the leadership of those fantastic female Councillors in our Civic Cabinet.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: It’s not—this is not a laughing matter Councillor GRIFFITHS.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: You know what? If you want to support women, give up your safe Labor seat to a female candidate.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: That’s what you can do, through you, Mr Chair.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: Councillor CASSIDY, Councillor CUMMING, Councillor STRUNK, how about making way for some fresh talent in your team? How about opening positions up that are safe Labor wards for some female candidates? That would be a good way to show your active support, but what we hear is them sitting here saying all the right things.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: That they support women and then attacking them—
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: —and calling them names.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: The other thing I wanted to address is the motion that came forward as an urgency motion. Look, I raised this issue previously about urgency motions. I just really do wonder—
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: I really do wonder—
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: Councillor GRIFFITHS—
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: Councillors GRIFFITHS, please—
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: No, no do not call people gutless, do not call people names.
Councillor GRIFFITHS, I direct you to cease calling people names.
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: No, no, no, no, no. No, one—
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: Okay. Councillor GRIFFITHS, the point is we can debate each other, but there’s no point in calling people names.
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: Councillor GRIFFITHS, I consider you’re displaying unsuitable meeting conduct and in accordance with section 21(5) of the—
Councillor SRI: Point of order, Chair.
Chair: —of the Meetings Local Law 2001, I hereby request you cease calling people names and refrain from exhibiting that conduct.
The LORD MAYOR.
Councillor SRI: Point of order, Chair.
Chair: Point of order to you, Councillor SRI.
Councillor SRI: Look, I’m not trying to be difficult, but I do just want to note that the Mayor did invite people to call him whatever he wanted.
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor SRI: That’s created a disjunct of expectations here where you’re—
Chair: I appreciate that, I appreciate that point, but he may have invited people to call him names, but I will not tolerate people calling anyone in this place names. Please, there has been a degradation of standards. Please do not call each other names. All right, I’m going to be very clear about this. Please don’t call people names. Please play the issue at hand.
The LORD MAYOR.
LORD MAYOR: Thank you Mr Chair. In relation to the urgency motion, I really do wonder why Labor were so disorganised that they couldn’t have put this motion on the agenda by Thursday last week. Look, obviously we’re happy to support it. But it just shows a lack of preparation and that they are literally flying by the seat of their pants when it comes to how they do their job in this place. They quite quickly resort to calling names—
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: While I said, Mr Chair, and thank you for clarifying, while I said—
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: —that they will call me whatever they want, they also must adhere to the standards in the place—
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: —that you set and I do support that. So, I do support what you said there, Mr Chair. But it really does just reflect on them, it reflects on them and the way they approach this job and it’s disappointing. We will move forward and change the rules for urgency motions to give them more time to get organised. So we can actually have good, informed and proper debate in this place.
It’s been disappointing in the past to see them just try and use urgency motions as a political tool, to try and make a political point or to try and score points, or try and misrepresent what happens in this Chamber. So look, we will give them more time. Acknowledging that they are a rabble who are disorganised, and they can have until midday—
Councillor SRI: Point of order, Chair.
LORD MAYOR: —on Monday.
Chair: Point of order, Councillor SRI.
Councillor SRI: Look, just on double standards. You’ve just told Councillors not to call each other names and then you’ve allowed the Mayor to call the Opposition Councillors a rabble.
LORD MAYOR: I withdraw that they are a rabble, Mr Chair. They are disorganised.
Chair: Thank you, LORD MAYOR.
Please continue.
LORD MAYOR: We will give them extra time to put in their motions. Acknowledging that that way we can have a more informed debate about things with the information at hand. So that we can actually have a better democratic system here to debate these issues as they come up.
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: So—
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: So, Mr Chair, we will be going ahead with those actions to change the rules that give them more flexibility to put motions forward and all Councillors in fact. Whether it’s Councillor JOHNSTON, Councillor SRI, anyone else that wants to submit a notified motion and I think that’s important.
Obviously, we’ve got the city’s assets lit up this week in support of International Women’s Day and that will continue throughout the week, but also on Friday we have the city being lit up in support of Curiocity Brisbane—
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: Which is a fantastic event and festival that Council supports, together with the Queensland Government. Which includes also the World Science Festival which is a great boon to have here in Brisbane—
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: The only place in the world other than New York, isn’t it that—
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: New York’s not having theirs, so it is fantastic that this is going ahead here in Brisbane. Curiocity obviously supports Queensland’s position and Brisbane’s position as a leader in innovation technology and includes a range of events, music, conversations, interactions and art. As well as digital installations in public spaces.
At the agenda in terms of the formal items, we have the contracts and tendering report for January 2021 coming through. Once again, a number of important projects gearing up as we build a better Brisbane. Whether they’re park upgrades and a whole range of other improvements into the city.
I would also like to mention and thank Councillors for their efforts on Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday. It’s a responsibility we all take very seriously about bringing the community together on Clean Up Australia Day. I’m pleased to say that we had the largest number of sites registered for Clean Up Australia Day that we’ve had since the 2011 floods—
Councillor interjecting.
LORD MAYOR: That is fantastic. Obviously, we expected a big year after the 2011 flood, but this year was the largest since then. So it was great. There were more than 300 sites registered across the city. I know all Councillors got actively involved in those clean up events. Some of them discovered a few surprises and interesting finds, but it was quite interesting where I was in the morning with the family, and also Councillor Adam ALLAN up at Nudgee Beach. There was a group that had been working there, it was the Lions, wasn’t it? That had been working there for many, many years and they commented that progressively over the years the site was getting cleaner and cleaner.
Now, obviously there are still too many people that throw rubbish out of cars and litter, but as a society there’s some positive signs where people are coming together to deal with litter. We know the impact that it can have on our native wildlife, on our environment and particularly on our marine wildlife as well. So capturing that waste before it goes into creeks and waterways, and rivers, and the bay, is critically important. I want to thank every single Councillor who was involved in Clean Up Australia Day and every single member of the public that volunteered their time to help make Brisbane a better place on the weekend.
Item B on the agenda is the SCP (significant contracting plan) for the construction, restoration, maintenance and demolition of buildings and associated infrastructure. For many of the significant infrastructure projects that we have, we need to engage these type of services. Includes things like removal of asbestos for older buildings, removal and demolition of buildings—
Chair: LORD MAYOR your time has expired.
556/2020-21
At that point, the LORD MAYOR was granted an extension of time on the motion of the DEPUTY MAYOR Councillor Krista ADAMS, seconded by Councillor Sandy LANDERS.
Chair: The LORD MAYOR.
LORD MAYOR: Thank you, Mr Chair. The removal and demolition of buildings, as I was saying. This is for things, anything from major road upgrades to Brisbane Metro project for example where we’ve acquired the depot site out at Rochedale. We’ve had to remove some buildings to make way for the depot to be built. So this is about renewing the panel for the works associated with our many infrastructure projects across the city.
I think this is just basic but important work that needs to happen to facilitate the great projects like Brisbane infrastructure, the Better Roads initiative—across the suburbs, it includes projects like the Indooroopilly roundabout upgrade and a dozen other projects across the city. Supporting the renewal of this panel will support that work. Thank you, Mr Chair.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor CASSIDY.
Councillor CASSIDY: Thanks very much Chair, I rise to speak on both of these items. That was a very strange performance by the LORD MAYOR just now and very rich I think coming from that side of the Chamber. We just had that motion that went through with great bipartisan support and then the LORD MAYOR comes in here and tries to grandstand politically.
I think it’s very rich when members of his Administration catcalled Labor Councillors—
Chair: Councillor CASSIDY.
Councillor CASSIDY: —and Independent Councillors on this side.
Chair: Councillor CASSIDY can I ask you—
Councillor CASSIDY: A member of that Administration—
Chair: —can I please ask you to return—
Councillor CASSIDY: —called a female Councillor a witch.
Chair: Can I please ask you to return to—
Councillor CASSIDY: The previous LNP Lord Mayor, Graham Quirk, and the previous—
Chair: Councillor CASSIDY, I appreciate the point you’re making.
Councillor CASSIDY: Well this is just ridiculous, Chair.
Chair: No, no.
Councillor CASSIDY: This can’t—I’m not going to accept a lecture—
Chair: Can I just, can I please—
Councillor CASSIDY: —from him on this.
Chair: Can I please ask you to return to the topic in hand?
Councillor CASSIDY: If he wants to debate this, let’s debate this now. This is ridiculous. I’m not going to sit here—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CASSIDY: —and accept a lecture from him in such political terms, Chair.
Chair: I appreciate that but can I please ask—
Councillor CASSIDY: It’s absolutely ridiculous.
Chair: —you to return to the topic?
Councillor CASSIDY: On item A, Chair, contracts and tendering. We have 13 contracts totalling $36 million. Now $20 million has been put aside for the repair and construction of concrete paths and driveways. You would think, Chair, that the construction and repairing and building concrete footpaths should be Council’s bread and butter work. You would think that, and you would think that it would be done in-house, it’s one of those basic roads, rates and rubbish type things.
But no. Under this Administration, under this LORD MAYOR, this work is being contracted out once again. So there’s a $20 million contract that is that work and that money is being sent off to the private sector—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CASSIDY: —to casualise Brisbane’s workforce further when we should be creating solid full-time Council jobs with this basic, ongoing Council work. Now we know previous LNP Lord Mayors have said that where there is ongoing work that should be done by Council employees. This LORD MAYOR has deviated from that, so we know his true colours. He has said that it’s not an ideological position, but it quite clearly is.
When you had a previous LNP Lord Mayor who said if there’s ongoing Council work, it should be done by Council employees. This new LNP LORD MAYOR says no, we don’t really care about that. We’re more in favour of the private sector getting these contracts at bargain basement prices for them.
So, again, we see this movement towards a mass casualisation in our city. Not just in our city Council, but basic works that should be done by full-time employees. So, Chair, the basic math is simple. The less secure jobs there are in Brisbane, the less money people will have to spend in our city, in our businesses and supporting our economic recovery here in Brisbane as we emerge from COVID-19.
So the ignorance and arrogance of this LNP Administration is doing harm. Not just to the organisation here in Council, but to Brisbane’s economy as well and to the livelihoods of Brisbane workers. So we certainly won’t be supporting that item.
In contracts as well we’ve got $700,000 being spent on park upgrades across six parks. Around $400,000 of that money is going to Hanson Pty Ltd and the remaining $300,000 or so is going to A_Space Australia Pty Ltd. Both of these companies are not based in South East Queensland. One is in WA (Western Australia) and the other is in Victoria.
So, the LNP Chair, talked big about their so called buy local policy, but the reality is many of these companies just have a small office here in Brisbane and manufacture their equipment either interstate or overseas. Nothing is actually manufactured locally here in Brisbane or Queensland. So it’s not really buying local at all.
We’ve seen in previous contracts the exact same scenario. With companies even manufacturing their projects overseas and facing serious supply chain issues. Which means delays for projects and less jobs here in Brisbane. So this anti-buy local policy from the Administration is leading to these delays in park projects quite clearly.
This Administration, Chair, is quite clearly not learning from those mistakes. We had that situation last year where park projects had to be delayed because there were such big holes in the buy local policy you could drive a Mack truck through them. Those playgrounds were left overseas and are not being able to be imported into Australia. So, the claim that they buy local is rolled out all the time, but the reality is that is very rarely actually happening.
The sixth contract on the list is bridge painting for $500,000. So, we know how much of a debacle the last bridge painting contract was, which is the Story Bridge painting contract. It was decided halfway through the execution of that contract that it should be brought in-house. Because this is basic Council work, it could be done in-house and can be controlled by Council. All of those moving factors outside of Council’s control can be eliminated.
But here we go again. Not learning from previous mistakes we’ve got the LNP contracting out this basic work. So it is impossible, it is impossible for this LNP Administration to change and to learn from their mistakes. They do the same things repeatedly over and over again. Expecting a different result and, Chair, I think in this case that is the definition of stupidity.
On Clause B, the significant contracting plan for construction, restoration, maintenance and demolition of buildings and associated infrastructure. This is for $82.5 million being spent on some kind of vague contracting plan. $82.5 million with zero details. When I say vague, that is, I think, being pretty kind to what is before us, Chair.
You can’t find details of how this $82 million is proposed to be expended and for specifically what. I went up to level 23, looked at the file expecting there would be a lot of information there which Councillors can go—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CASSIDY: Of course—you know for Councillors to be able to access before we’re making such a huge funding commitment on behalf of ratepayers—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CASSIDY: But of course you can guess—anyone have a guess what was on file? Nothing. That’s right, Councillor STRUNK, absolutely nothing was on file for this expenditure. So I don’t know how we can support—I don’t know how any LNP Councillor can support this expenditure. Because they don’t have any further information than us, unless they do. Unless they do. Unless we are being denied information—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CASSIDY: —on this side of the Chamber, Chair. So, we are all elected to make these decisions on behalf of the ratepayers, but we cannot make an educated decision, partly on such a large contract if we don’t have any facts about what this expenditure is for. It’s not a small amount of money by any stretch of the imagination and ratepayers deserve to know what their hard earned is going on.
Perhaps when you look at what it’s for in terms of its title, it’s for not just that demolition of buildings and maintenance of buildings, but also construction and things like that. So, perhaps, I don’t know, this is a very vague contracting plan. Perhaps, maybe it’s so vague that they want to demolish and build things in Victoria Park, for instance—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CASSIDY: Maybe they do, maybe they do, Chair, because there’s no details in here. We know that the LORD MAYOR has earmarked Victoria Park for commercial development. So perhaps—maybe this is something they’re going to do in-house in—manage this project, get these contractors in to start building commercial buildings within Victoria Park—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CASSIDY: —maybe give them over to CBIC and then they can rent them out for a while and then they can sell them off. The $82.5 million could be spent entirely on demolishing and constructing buildings and commercial activities in Victoria Park for all we know, Chair, because there is absolutely nothing contained in this contract before us today to suggest otherwise. It would certainly explain why the LNP wants to keep the details of this contract so secret, Chair.
I think residents in Brisbane would be outraged, Chair, to learn that this LORD MAYOR is spending $82.5 million of their rates money without any explanation whatsoever. So, we won’t be supporting this item.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor HAMMOND.
Councillor HAMMOND: Thank you Mr Chair, I rise to speak on item A. I’m delighted that we have a new park for Lutwyche. The Chalk Street Park was identified in the Lutwyche neighbourhood plan and it’s great to see it coming alive. The houses have now gone off the site. There is some works happening to level the ground in the new Chalk Street Park, but the new Chalk Street Park will have a playground, of course, the centre of the playground, centre of the park will be a place that you can kick a ball, throw a frisbee or just exercise in general.
Round the outside there’ll be a playground, a walking track, of course, picnic shelters and exercise equipment, and a bike rack and pump station as well. Once—when we did the community consultation with our NEWS (Natural Environment, Water and Sustainability) branch that we did include—the fantastic NEWS branch I might say—who have designed this park and installing this brand new greenspace into the Lutwyche area. It was brought up that needed some more car parking available at this site. So, I’m delighted that Council listened. Our wonderful, hardworking Council officers listened and we’re installing that new parking area into this park that’s going to be, I’m sure, very, very popular into the local area.
But I wonder how long it’s going to be called Chalk Street Park for? Because we have contacted the Windsor Historical Society because I’ve had a lot of community groups come to me, or residents in the area, come to me with ideas of what this park can be called. So, I approached the Windsor Historical Community because what you probably don’t know, Lutwyche in the early days was actually a big Irish community. So, there’s a lot of Irish names that have come up in naming of this park.
But then it is also a massive, big Italian community. There was a beautiful nonna—and I won’t mention her name because her name might be coming up and I don’t want to lead anybody in a certain direction, but this one nonna basically used to cook for the whole community in that Lutwyche area. So, I’m sure her name will be brought up.
But in closing, I’d like to thank the LORD MAYOR, our hardworking Council officers who don’t get enough support from those on the other side of this room. But certainly on this side we would like to thank you for all your hard work and making our greenspaces even better for tomorrow than what they are today. Thank you.
Chair: Further speakers? Further speakers? Anyone at all?
Councillor LANDERS.
Councillor LANDERS: Chair, I rise to speak on item A and the Tinchi Tamba Wetlands Reserve walking tracks upgrade. Specifically, the 1.5-kilometre island circuit track. These wetlands are an important part of Bracken Ridge and Deagon Wards and form the boundary of Brisbane City Council where it meets the Pine River. It’s also an important home for fauna and flora that continues to thrive and provide a large natural asset only 19 kilometres from the Brisbane CBD.
Councillor MARX might like to know that Tinchi Tamba is named after the Aboriginal words for ibis and mangroves. Having grown up on the edge of these wetlands, I am very familiar with its importance and appreciate the boardwalks and carefully planned tracks, that over the years have enabled us to cross the main roads and salt marshes and safely observe the shore birds while ensuring the protection of this ecosystem.
To look after this habitat, it is important that walkers stick to the tracks that have served us well over the years. I welcome this upgrade that will also ensure the safety of walkers. I understand that these works are reliant on working with the tides and the logistics of getting material on location can be tricky, especially with current weather conditions. So, the island circuit track will be closed during these works. However, walkers can still access the one-kilometre bird hide track.
Although it may take some time to complete this project. It will be well worth it in the end and continue to provide more to see and do in a clean and green Brisbane.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor HOWARD.
Councillor HOWARD: Oh, thank you, Mr Chair, I rise to speak in support of item A. Since 2011, the Schrinner Council Administration has delivered more than $268 million in accessibility enhancements to transport, services and facilities right across Brisbane. We all know that Brisbane is the most accessible city in Australia, but there is much more we can do to make the Brisbane of tomorrow even more inclusive and accessible, and item A is doing just that.
The Schrinner Council Administration is continuing our commitment to make Brisbane even more accessible. By investing more than $25 million over this term to deliver accessibility upgrades and programs. Including more than $6 million this financial year alone.
Item A includes a $1.3 million package of works to deliver major accessibility upgrades to three community facilities in Durack, Tarragindi and Bridgeman Downs. Works are underway at the Durack Inala Bowls Club with Council delivering new accessible parking spaces and a taxi drop off zone; accessible pathways between the car park building and bowling greens; upgrades to the terrace to provide step free transitions; a new, unisex people with disabilities toilet; as well as male and female ambulant toilets; modified counters; and new sliding doors.
Works are also underway at Wellers Hill Bowls Club, which I know are very excited about Council’s $750,000 investment to deliver a major accessibility upgrade at this well-loved bowls club, including new accessible parking bays; upgraded upper and lower level toilet amenities, that allow for separate function spaces; accessible entrance to the bowling green; a new, internal ramp to address the split-levels; and fully accessible principal and secondary entrances.
We have also begun works at Bridgeman Downs to deliver another major upgrade to the Grange Bowmen, including accessible car parking and drop off zones, upgrade access to all parts of the facility including the archery range, multiple and club house entries and patio, accessible toilets with shower, ramps and upgraded stairs, upgraded multiple entries for equitable access.
Mr Chair, all of these works are part of the Schrinner Council Administration’s continued commitment to make the Brisbane of tomorrow even better than the Brisbane of today, by making it more accessible and inclusive than any other city in Australia, thank you.
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: Further speakers?
DEPUTY MAYOR.
DEPUTY MAYOR: Thank you, Mr Chair, and I just rise too to support in particular item A here today. Contract 5 as Councillor HOWARD just mentioned, the access and inclusion package 1, which does have Wellers Hill Bowls Club in there for an access inclusion upgrade. This has been a fantastic program since it was introduced in 2010 with the first nationwide access and inclusion strategy—
Councillor interjecting.
DEPUTY MAYOR: Then the extension of this now to making sure it’s not just about Council buildings, it’s about our Council leased facilities as well. Can I say that—and I say generally the gentlemen, because it’s mainly gentlemen on the board with one secretary, but the members of the Wellers Hill Bowls Club are extremely excited about this upgrade.
I’m going to mention BC again, because BC, or before coronavirus, Wellers Hill had about 300 members. Last time I visited them just before Christmas their board was talking about 1,100 members that they had. So it has become a much-beloved local community hub now. With the community garden there that we launched during the middle of last year as well and the upgrades that we’ll see to make the toilets and the entries so much more usable. Whether you’re in a wheelchair, on a walker or just pushing a pram, is going to be fantastic for the community.
So, I thank LORD MAYOR, Adrian SCHRINNER, and Councillor HOWARD for the work.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor SRI.
Councillor SRI: Thanks, Chair. I rise to speak on item A and there are quite a number of these—the projects in this list—that involve impacts to greenspace or upgrades to greenspace. I think—thought this was an opportune moment to just highlight and perhaps clarify what I was saying a little bit earlier. Which I think maybe the Mayor and perhaps Councillor CUNNINGHAM slightly misinterpreted.
I’m not trying to be difficult when I say this, but I think sometimes the Administration overlooks, or underestimates, the difficulty of finding space for offset planting trees that have been removed by projects such as the ones in this list. Through you, Chair, to the LORD MAYOR, the problem often is that while Council can allocate money for offset planting, finding the space to actually plant those trees in constrained areas, where simultaneously trying to maintain open space for active recreation activities. While we’re also trying to find space for some of the great playground projects like the ones in this list.
It can be really difficult to find the space for those offset plantings when there’s so little public space to go around in general. We’re definitely finding that, particularly in the city but even in other parts of the city at the moment. Where the Council will allocate offset planting money. Then the arborists and the parks managers have a really difficult time actually finding suitable places to plant those trees.
Above and beyond that though, what tends to happen is that a large tree will be removed and replaced with several very small saplings. The idea being that the canopy, the combined canopy of those new small saplings, will equal the canopy of the removed tree in three to five years’ time.
Now, LORD MAYOR, through you, Chair, you might be able to see the problem there. If a tree is being removed that has a 20 square metre canopy now and is being replaced by a couple of trees. That in five years’ time will have a combined canopy of 20 square metres. That still represents a net loss of canopy cover.
That’s what I think is not captured in the discussions about these projects here. It’s not captured in Council’s approach to asset management, in Council’s approach to offsetting the removed trees that are associated with many of these projects.
So, I’m not trying to be difficult, I’m not trying to pick holes in the Administration’s approach. I’m simply pointing out that the current way of measuring these impacts on greenspaces is underestimating the losses to public greenspace and to established native trees. That we need to have a bit of a rethink of our attitude to asset—to offset planting in general.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor McLACHLAN.
Councillor McLACHLAN: Thank you, Mr Chair, I rise to speak on items A and B. A couple of things in item A that I wanted to talk to, contract six to respond partly to Councillor CASSIDY, through you, Mr Chair. This is indeed bridge painting. One of the reasons that this has gone out to contract is that the team that we might otherwise employ from within our own resources is busy doing the Story Bridge.
So, this is work that was necessary, works that were identified through the Council addressing the infrastructure building program, of maintaining our assets. Making sure that our assets are in good, functional condition. As a consequence work has gone out to a contractor to undertake this work.
It’s a standard operating procedure, Mr Chair, to put works out to contract. This is what we see week in, week out, contracts coming through the Council. This is just Council getting on with doing its work of making sure that we are maintaining our assets.
The other contract I wanted to speak on briefly is in relation to Hangar 7, the resheeting of the roof at Hangar 7 which is—this is contract eight. This is money that is being deployed as a consequence of funding from the Federal Government through its Local Roads and Community Infrastructure grant. Hangar 7, Mr Chair, is a fantastic asset owned by Council, on the Heritage Register of Queensland.
Built by Sir Manuel—was then Manuel Hornibrook, later knighted for his services to engineering. One of Queensland’s most famous engineers, was responsible for constructing this hangar in very short term for General Douglas MacArthur and his Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit during the Second World War as a temporary structure. That it was built as a temporary structure using timber from old packing crates and still there some 90 years later as a testament to its good design and construction.
The money that is being provided through the Federal Government grants means that we can accelerate works, restoration works, that were being done year by year. This means we can bring forward works and put this great asset out for the community use sooner rather than later, which is great to see. Again thank you to the Federal Government for providing that funding through the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure grants program.
I just wanted to finish off briefly, Mr Chair, addressing item B. I wasn’t going to speak to this but given the comments made by Councillor CASSIDY and his quite interesting observation about the item before us, which I found it very hard to correlate his comments to what is actually before us, which is a standard extension of our existing corporate procurement arrangements we have for the provision of these services.
It says so quite clearly what’s here and I don’t know what Councillor—through you, Mr Chair, Councillor CASSIDY couldn’t find either upstairs or just by reading the papers before us. The contract—the corporate procurement arrangements for the provision of these services have performed well to date. Due to expire on the 30 September this year and the existing procurement arrangement, given that it’s due to expire, is being extended through this item here before us.
There’s no great cover up here to your point, through you, Mr Chair, to Councillor CASSIDY’s claims about what was being hidden in this particular item. It’s a standard extension of an existing contract—a corporate procurement arrangement, CPA—the Council has done year in, year out. It’s about time that, through you, Mr Chair, Councillor CASSIDY learnt how to read the Council papers.
Chair: Further speakers?
There being no further speakers, LORD MAYOR?
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 Jared CASSIDY and Charles STRUNK immediately rose and called for a division, which resulted in the motion being declared carried.
The voting was as follows:
AYES: 20 - The Right Honourable, the LORD MAYOR, Councillor Adrian SCHRINNER, DEPUTY MAYOR, Councillor Krista ADAMS, and Councillors Greg ADERMANN, Adam ALLAN, Lisa ATWOOD, Fiona CUNNINGHAM, Tracy DAVIS, Fiona HAMMOND, Vicki HOWARD, Steven HUANG, Sarah HUTTON, Sandy LANDERS, James MACKAY, Kim MARX, Peter MATIC, David McLACHLAN, Ryan MURPHY, Angela OWEN, Steven TOOMEY and Andrew WINES.
NOES: 1 - Councillor Jonathan SRI.
ABSTENTIONS: 4 - The Leader of the OPPOSITION, Councillor Jared CASSIDY, and Councillors Peter CUMMING, Steve GRIFFITHS and Charles STRUNK.
The report read as follows(
A CONTRACTS AND TENDERING – REPORT TO COUNCIL OF CONTRACTS ACCEPTED BY DELEGATES FOR JANUARY 2021
109/695/586/2-005
557/2020-21
1. The Chief Executive Officer provided the information below.
2. Sections 238 and 239 of the City of Brisbane Act 2010 (the Act) provide that Council may delegate some of its powers. Those powers include the power to enter into contracts under section 242 of the Act.
3. 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.
4. The City of Brisbane Regulation 2012 (the Regulation) was made pursuant to the Act. Chapter 6, Part 4, section 227 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; and (3) also, if a person 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 Chapter 6, Part 4, section 227 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).
5. The contracts detailed in Attachment A, hereunder, represent contractual arrangements that Council has already entered into. The purpose of this report is not to consider making decisions about the contracts, rather for transparency of the decisions made on contracts entered into with a value greater than the threshold.
6. The Chief Executive Officer provided the following recommendation and the Committee agreed.
7. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT COUNCIL NOTES THE REPORT OF CONTRACTS ACCEPTED BY DELEGATES FOR JANUARY 2021, AS SET OUT IN ATTACHMENT A, hereunder.
Attachment A
|Details of Contracts Accepted by Delegates of Council for January 2021 |
|Contract number/contract |Nature of |Unsuccessful tenderers/VFM achieved |Comparative tender|Delegate/ |
|purpose/successful |arrangement/ | |price/s |approval |
|tenderer/comparative tender/price |estimate maximum | | |date/start |
|value for money (VFM) index achieved|expenditure | | |date/term |
|BRISBANE INFRASTRUCTURE |
|1. Contract No. 520712 |Lump sum | | |Delegate |
| | | | |CPO |
|DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF |$682,480 | | |Approved |
|PLAYGROUND UPGRADES | | | |16.12.2020 |
| | | | |Start |
| | | | |14.01.2021 |
| | | | |Term |
|Dunvegan Place Park, Greenways | | | |20 weeks |
|Esplanade Park and Peden Court Park | | | | |
| | |Dunvegan Place Park, Greenways Esplanade | | |
|Dunvegan Place Park | |Park and Peden Court Park | | |
| | | | | |
|Hansen Pty Ltd as trustee for The | |Dunvegan Place Park | | |
|Hansen Family Trust trading as | | | | |
|Forpark Australia – $123,000 | |A_Space Australia Pty Ltd | | |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 68 | |Achieved VFM of 63 |$117,000 | |
| | | | | |
| | |Willplay Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 62 |$142,912 | |
| | | | | |
| | |Urban Play Pty Ltd as trustee for Ben | | |
| | |Urban Service Trust |$130,738 | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 57 | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Adventure Playgrounds Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 54 |$119,410 | |
|Greenways Esplanade Park | | | | |
| | |Austek Constructions Pty Ltd | | |
|Hansen Pty Ltd as trustee for The | |Achieved VFM of 50 |$149,160 | |
|Hansen Family Trust trading as | | | | |
|Forpark Australia – $170,000 | |Greenways Esplanade Park | | |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 49 | | | | |
| | |A_Space Australia Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 46 |$167,000 | |
| | | | | |
| | |Urban Play Pty Ltd as trustee for Ben | | |
| | |Urban Service Trust |$181,653 | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 41 | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Willplay Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 40 |$205,906 | |
| | | | | |
|Peden Court Park | |Austek Constructions Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 40 |$182,564 | |
|Hansen Pty Ltd as trustee for The | | | | |
|Hansen Family Trust trading as | |Adventure Playgrounds Pty Ltd | | |
|Forpark Australia – $108,000 | |Achieved VFM of 38 |$179,720 | |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 74 | | | | |
| | |Peden Court Park | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Willplay Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 74 |$116,084 | |
| | | | | |
| | |A_Space Australia Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 70 |$109,350 | |
| | | | | |
| | |Adventure Playgrounds Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 68 |$109,280 | |
| | | | | |
|Federation Street Park, Regency | |Urban Play Pty Ltd as trustee for Ben | | |
|Place Park and Thornycroft Street | |Urban Service Trust |$111,251 | |
|Park | |Achieved VFM of 65 | | |
| | | | | |
|Federation Street Park | | | | |
| | |Austek Constructions Pty Ltd | | |
|A_Space Australia Pty Ltd – $119,995| |Achieved VFM of 62 |$117,779 | |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 66 | | | | |
| | |Federation Street Park, Regency Place | | |
| | |Park and Thornycroft Street Park | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Federation Street Park | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Adventure Playgrounds Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 59 | | |
| | | |$124,390 | |
| | |Hansen Pty Ltd as trustee for The Hansen | | |
| | |Family Trust trading as Forpark Australia| | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 58 |$137,350 | |
| | | | | |
| | |Willplay Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 57 | | |
|Regency Place Park | | | | |
| | |Urban Play Pty Ltd as trustee for Ben |$135,089 | |
|A_Space Australia Pty Ltd – $77,500 | |Urban Service Trust | | |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 98 | |Achieved VFM of 54 | | |
| | | |$128,377 | |
| | |M & N Enterprises Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 47 | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Regency Place Park |$149,950 | |
| | | | | |
| | |Willplay Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 94 | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Hansen Pty Ltd as trustee for The Hansen |$78,810 | |
| | |Family Trust trading as Forpark Australia| | |
|Thornycroft Street Park | |Achieved VFM of 93 | | |
| | | |$82,750 | |
|A_Space Australia Pty Ltd – $90,000 | |Urban Play Pty Ltd as trustee for Ben | | |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 89 | |Urban Service Trust | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 90 | | |
| | | | | |
| | |M & N Enterprises Pty Ltd |$79,986 | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 71 | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Thornycroft Street Park | | |
| | | |$91,429 | |
| | |Hansen Pty Ltd as trustee for The Hansen | | |
| | |Family Trust trading as Forpark Australia| | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 74 | | |
| | | | | |
| | | |$103,000 | |
|2. Contract No. 531995 |Schedule of rates |Pentacon Pty Ltd |$2,510,122* |Delegate |
| | |Achieved VFM of 28.1 | |CEO |
|BUS STOP ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENT |$2,295,924 | | |Approved |
|PROGRAM – PACKAGE 25 | |Aramira Civil Engineering Pty Ltd |$2,994,039* |18.01.2021 |
| | |Achieved VFM of 21.7 | |Start |
|Ertech (Queensland) Pty Ltd – | | | |21.01.2021 |
|$2,431,054* | |MMS Group Pty Ltd | |Term |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 35.2 | |Achieved VFM of 19.3 |$2,739,585* |26 weeks |
| | | | | |
|*Normalised for possible delay | | | | |
|costs, margins, program duration and| | | | |
|variations for new sites claimable | | | | |
|by the contractor. | | | | |
|3. Contract No. 532391 |Lump sum |Shortlisted offers not recommended | |Delegate |
| | | | |CPO |
| | |Rob Carr Pty Ltd | |Approved |
|SEWER MAIN RELOCATION, WICKHAM |$1,459,300 |Achieved VFM of 5.51 |$1,483,992 |21.01.2021 |
|STREET, FORTITUDE VALLEY | | | |Start |
| | |DJ MacCormick Contractors Pty Ltd | |27.01.2021 |
|GCE Contractors Pty. Ltd. – | |Achieved VFM of 5.01 |$1,470,293 |Term |
|$1,459,300 | | | |20 weeks |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 6.04 | |Offers not recommended | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Bothar Boring & Tunnelling (Australia) | | |
| | |Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 3.21 |$2,377,275 | |
|4. Contract No. 532538 |Lump sum |Shortlisted offers not recommended | |Delegate |
| | | | |CPO |
| | |JMac Constructions Pty Ltd | |Approved |
|CHALK STREET PARK UPGRADE |$1,492,009 |Achieved VFM of 59.74 |$1,506,646 |20.01.2021 |
| | | | |Start |
|Epoca Constructions Pty. Ltd. – | |Naturform Pty Ltd | |28.01.2021 |
|$1,492,009 | |Achieved VFM of 54.39 |$1,599,529 |Term |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 60.32 | | | |20 weeks |
| | |Offers not recommended | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Interface Landscapes Pty Ltd as trustee | | |
| | |for the Newscape Group Pty Ltd & the |$1,875,086 | |
| | |D Taylor Family Trust & the T Wilds | | |
| | |Family Trust | | |
| | | | | |
| | |The Landscape Construction Company Pty | | |
| | |Ltd |$1,523,384 | |
| | | | | |
| | |Penfold Projects Pty Ltd | | |
| | | |$1,556,264 | |
| | | | | |
| | |Probuild Industries Australia Pty Ltd | | |
| | | |$1,495,128 | |
| | |Glascott Landscape and Civil Pty Ltd | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Bland 2 Brilliant Landscapes Pty Ltd |$1,445,166 | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | |$1,992,755 | |
|5. Contract No. 532546 |Lump sum |Building Solutions Brisbane Pty Ltd |$1,427,800 |Delegate |
| | |Achieved VFM of 5.9 | |CPO |
|ACCESS AND INCLUSION 2020-21 – |$1,330,492 | | |Approved |
|PACKAGE 1 | |Box & Co Pty Ltd | |27.01.2021 |
| | |Achieved VFM of 5.6 |$1,499,931 |Start |
|Hawley Constructions Pty Ltd – | | | |05.02.2021 |
|$1,330,492 | |Probuild Industries Australia Pty Ltd | |Term |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 6.7 | |Achieved VFM of 4.9 |$1,655,070 |22 weeks |
|6. Contract No. 532573 |Lump sum |Shortlisted offers not recommended | |Delegate |
| | | | |CPO |
| | |Aim Contracting Australia Pty Ltd | |Approved |
|WATERWORKS ROAD BRIDGE BARRIER |$533,172 |Achieved VFM of 13.76 |$467,213 |21.01.2021 |
|PAINTING | | | |Start |
| | |The Trustee for Scott & Lexie Blair | |27.01.2021 |
|MMS Group Pty Ltd – $533,172 | |Family Discretionary Trust trading as | |Term |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 14.49 | |Satintouch |$586,812 |16 weeks |
| | |Achieved VFM of 11.53 | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Programmed Property Services Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 11.13 | | |
| | | |$635,089 | |
| | |Offer not recommended | | |
| | | | | |
| | |McElligotts (Qld) Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 7.42 | | |
| | | | | |
| | | |$675,608 | |
|7. Contract No. 532640 |Lump sum |Signature Projects Pty Ltd |$428,373 |Delegate |
| | |Achieved VFM of 17.62 | |CPO |
|HANGAR 7 MAIN ROOF AND ASSOCIATED |$435,500 | | |Approved |
|WORKS | |Kane Constructions (Qld) Pty Ltd |$578,909 |20.01.2021 |
| | |Achieved VFM of 14.51 | |Start |
|Dart Holdings Pty. Ltd. trading as | | | |28.01.2021 |
|A Dart & Co – $435,500 | |Building Solutions Brisbane Pty Ltd | |Term |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 19.75 | |Achieved VFM of 11.16 |$694,511 |18 weeks |
| | | | | |
| | |Box & Co Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 10.94 | | |
| | | |$768,013 | |
| | |Probuild Industries Australia Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 9.58 | | |
| | | |$897,380 | |
| | |Blackwood Projects Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 9.40 | | |
| | | | | |
| | | |$946,500 | |
|8. Contract No. 532653 |Lump sum | | |Delegate |
| | | | |CPO |
|NATURAL AREA – WALKING TRACK UPGRADE|$251,107 | | |Approved |
| | | | |16.12.2020 |
|Tinchi Tamba Wetlands Reserve | | | |Start |
| | | | |14.01.2021 |
|Park Forge Pty Ltd as trustee for | |Tinchi Tamba Wetlands Reserve | |Term |
|Park Forge Trust – $131,135 | | | |16 weeks |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 66 | |Peter John Wilson and Jodie Carol Wilson | | |
| | |as the Trustees for the Wilson Family |$125,145 | |
|Karawatha Forest Park | |Trust trading as Trailworx | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 55 | | |
|Park Forge Pty Ltd as trustee for | | | | |
|Park Forge Trust – $119,972 | |Karawatha Forest Park | | |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 70 | | | | |
| | |Naturform Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 69 | | |
| | | |$121,660 | |
|9. Contract No. 532747 |Preferred Supplier |Contract is exempt from tendering under |Not Applicable |Delegate |
| |Arrangement |Exemption 4 of Schedule A of Council’s |(N/A) |CPO |
|CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY EVENT | |SP103 Procurement Policy and Plan | |Approved |
|MANAGEMENT |Schedule of rates |2020-21, which allows for exemption under| |10.12.2020 |
| | |a contract made with, or a purchase from | |Start |
|Brisbane Green Heart CitySmart Pty |$330,000 |a contract made by, another government | |21.01.2021 |
|Ltd – $330,000 | |entity, government-owned entity or Local | |Term |
| | |Buy. | |Initial term of |
| | | | |one year with a |
| | | | |maximum term of |
| | | | |three years. |
|10. Contract No. WR7382028 |Lump sum |Contract is exempt from tendering and |N/A |Delegate |
| | |quoting under Exemption 3 of Schedule B | |CPO |
|NORRIS ROAD AND BARBOUR ROAD ENERGEX|$383,252 |of Council’s SP103 Procurement Policy and| |Approved |
|RELOCATION WORKS | |Plan 2020-21, which allows for exemption | |27.01.2021 |
| | |from tendering when the goods, services | |Start |
|Energex Limited – $383,252 | |or works can only be supplied by a single| |29.01.2021 |
| | |supplier or a restricted group due to | |Term |
| | |third-party ownership of a public utility| |24 weeks |
| | |plant asset. | | |
|LIFESTYLE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES |
|Nil | | | | |
|TRANSPORT FOR BRISBANE |
|Nil | | | | |
|CITY PLANNING AND SUSTAINABILITY |
|11. Contract No. 511406 |Lump sum and |Offer not recommended | |Delegate |
| |schedule of rates | | |CPO |
|PROVISION OF DATA FOR VIRTUAL | |Aerometrex Ltd |$675,224 |Approved |
|BRISBANE |$700,000 |Achieved VFM of 88.86 | |20.01.2021 |
| | | | |Start |
|AAM Pty Ltd – $695,450 | |Non-conforming offer | |28.01.2021 |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 97.06 | | | |Term |
| | |Nearmap Australia Pty Ltd | |Initial term of |
| | | | |one year with a |
| | | | |maximum term of |
| | | | |three years. |
|CITY ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNANCE |
|Nil | | | | |
|ORGANISATIONAL SERVICES |
|12. Contract No. 511439 |Corporate |Shortlisted offers not recommended | |Delegate |
| |Procurement | | |CEO |
|GAS SUPPLY TOOWONG AND ASPHALT |Arrangement (CPA) |Alinta Energy Retail Sales Pty Ltd | |Approved |
|PLANTS |(Preferred Supplier |Achieved VFM of 84.0 |$2,814,000 |25.01.2021 |
| |Arrangement) | | |Start |
|Origin Energy Retail Limited – | |AGL Sales Pty Ltd | |01.02.2021 |
|$2,904,000 |Schedule of rates |Achieved VFM of 82.0 | |Term |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 93.8 | | |$2,896,000 |Initial term of |
| |$6,300,000 |Non-conforming offer | |two years with a |
| | | | |maximum term of |
| | |FutureBus Pty Ltd | |three years. |
| | | | | |
| | |Weston Energy Pty Ltd | | |
|13. Contract No. 520646 |CPA (Preferred |Offers not recommended | |Delegate |
| |Supplier | | |CEO |
|CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF CONCRETE |Arrangement) |Nurich Pty Ltd |$3,810,140 |Approved |
|PATHS AND DRIVEWAYS | |Achieved VFM of 20 | |18.01.2021 |
| |Schedule of rates | | |Start |
|Probuild Industries Australia Pty | |Civil Contractors (Aust) Pty Ltd |$3,477,754 |23.01.2021 |
|Ltd – $2,469,627 |$20,000,000 |Achieved VFM of 19 | |Term |
|Achieved the highest VFM of 32 | | | |Initial term of |
| | |Benson Constructions (Qld) Pty Ltd |$3,684,252 |three years with a|
|Queensland Civil Group Pty. Ltd. – | |Achieved VFM of 19 | |maximum term of |
|$2,660,964 | | | |nine years. |
|Achieved VFM of 30 | |Setanta Constructions Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 17 |$3,319,427 | |
| | | | | |
|Bullet Concreting Pty. Ltd. – | |Augusta Landscape Constructions Pty Ltd | | |
|$2,529,288 | |Achieved VFM of 14 |$4,361,740 | |
|Achieved VFM of 29 | | | | |
| | |GCE Contractors Pty Ltd | | |
| | |Achieved VFM of 3 | | |
|M & J Keogh Pty. Ltd. – $2,996,365 | | |$19,461,988 | |
|Achieved VFM of 26 | | | | |
| | |Offers not recommended – did not meet | | |
| | |mandatory criteria | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Australian Marine & Civil Pty Ltd* | | |
| | | | | |
| | |CTE Projects Pty Ltd* |N/A | |
| | | | | |
| | |Novar Group Pty Ltd* | | |
| | | |N/A | |
| | |*Comparative price and VFM not applicable| | |
| | |as tenderers did not meet mandatory |N/A | |
| | |criteria. | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Non-conforming offer | | |
| | | | | |
| | |Allied Concrete Cutting & Drilling Pty | | |
| | |Ltd | | |
ADOPTED
B STORES BOARD SUBMISSION – SIGNIFICANT CONTRACTING PLAN FOR CONSTRUCTION, RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE AND DEMOLITION OF BUILDINGS AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE
165/590/543/66
558/2020-21
8. The Chief Executive Officer provided the information below.
9. The Chief Executive Officer and the Stores Board considered the submission, as set out in Attachment A (submitted on file), on 15 February 2021.
10. The submission is recommended to Council as it is considered the most advantageous outcome for the provision of the required services.
11. Commercial-in-Confidence details have been removed from this report, highlighted in yellow and replaced with the word [Commercial-in-Confidence].
Purpose
12. The Stores Board recommends approval of the Significant Contracting Plan to establish a Corporate Procurement Arrangement (CPA) in the form of a Panel Arrangement for Construction, Restoration, Maintenance and Demolition of Buildings and Associated Infrastructure. The CPA will be for an initial term of three years with options to extend for additional periods of up to two years, for a maximum term of five years. The estimated expenditure is $82.5 million over the potential five-year term.
Background/business case
13. Council has an ongoing need to engage construction contractors in the civic and building sector that specialise in the following segments.
Segment 1: Construction and Major Restoration
Scope of work typically valued at more than $2 million but less than $10 million.
Segment 2: Maintenance, Refitting, Restoration and Minor Construction
Scope of work typically valued at more than $25,000 but less than $2 million.
Segment 3: Demolition and Removal of Buildings
Scope of work typically valued up to $500,000.
Segment 4: Asbestos and Other Contamination (including Soil) Removal
Scope of work typically valued up to $500,000.
14. Renewal of the CPA for Construction, Restoration, Maintenance and Demolition of Buildings and Associated Infrastructure is expected to result in continued and cost-effective availability of suitable suppliers to undertake civic and building works which have been allocated budget funding by Council.
Policy and other considerations
15. Is there an existing CPA/contract for these goods/services/works?
Yes. CPA 510538 for Construction, Restoration, Maintenance and Demolition of Buildings and Associated Infrastructure. This CPA has performed well to date and is due to expire on 30 September 2021.
16. Could Council businesses provide the services/works?
No. Council does not have the capacity to provide the works that will be delivered via this CPA. The CPA will also provide specialist capabilities that Council does not have.
17. Are there policy, or other issues, that the delegate should be aware of?
No
18. Have the following issues been considered in the development of the specifications and evaluation criteria: Environmental sustainability, access and equity, zero harm, quality assurance (QA), local benefit and support for locally produced and Australian products?
Yes. Environmental sustainability, access and equity, zero harm, QA and local benefit will be considered in the evaluation of suppliers. Many suppliers on the current CPA, which are expected to tender for this CPA, have a strong presence in South East Queensland.
19. Does this procurement exercise need to be managed under the PM2 Governance and Assurance Framework?
No
20. Does this proposed contract involve leasing?
No
Market analysis
21. The industry has remained relatively constant over the past five years since the establishment of the current CPA. Strong demand for commercial building construction has underpinned the industry‘s expansion.
22. Demand for industrial building construction has been supported by strong investment in warehousing and distribution facilities and the current upswing in factory construction, despite weakening in manufacturing.
23. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a disruption to industry.
24. The performance of the Commercial and Industrial Building Construction industry is forecast to decrease over the next five years, in response to reduced investment following the completion of several large-scale developments in major capital cities.
25. Several suppliers on the current CPA have a strong local presence and have expressed a desire to tender for the new arrangement.
Procurement strategy and activity plan
26.
|Procurement objective: |To facilitate the procurement of civic and building infrastructure in a way which complies with |
| |the Sound Contracting Principles set out in section 103(3) of the City of Brisbane Act 2010 and |
| |provides the most advantageous outcome for Council. |
| | |
| |The achievement of the above procurement objective will be measured in post-market submissions |
| |following the seeking of quotes under the arrangement. |
|Title of contract: |Construction, Restoration, Maintenance and Demolition of Buildings and Associated Infrastructure |
|Type of procurement: |Establishing a CPA |
|Process to be used: |Request for Proposals (RFP) |
|RFP standard to be used (and |The RFP standard will be Council’s corporate standard with no amendments. |
|any amendments to the | |
|standard): | |
|Market engagement: |Proposals are to be sought publicly via Council’s supplier portal. Council will also notify all |
| |suppliers on CPA 510538, industry groups such as Master Builders and any other relevant suppliers|
| |known to Council. |
|How RFP is to be distributed |Via Council’s supplier portal |
|and submitted: | |
|How tenders/proposals are to |Via Council’s supplier portal |
|be lodged: | |
|Part offers: |A supplier may tender for one or more segments or sub-segments. |
|Joint offers: |Joint offers will only be considered from an incorporated joint venture. |
|Contract standard to be used |Council’s standard Panel Arrangement contract for construction and related work. The contract |
|(and any amends): |includes a provision allowing Council to add further panel participants or tender outside the |
| |panel as required. No amendments are proposed to Council’s standards. |
| | |
| |The panel will reference Council’s current standards for low-risk, medium-risk and high-risk |
| |works (AS4000 and AS4902 with Council’s standard amendments). |
|Period/term of contract: |An initial term of three years with options to extend for additional periods of up to two years, |
| |for a maximum term of five years. |
|Insurance requirements: |Insurance requirements (e.g. motor vehicle and supplementary bodily injury) will be specified on |
| |a quote by quote basis under this CPA. |
| | |
| |Council’s principal arranged construction insurance program and statutory WorkCover will apply. |
|Price basis: |To be determined on a quote by quote basis under this CPA. |
|Price adjustment: |To be determined on a quote by quote basis under this CPA. |
|Liquidated damages: |To be determined on a quote by quote basis under this CPA. |
|Security for the contract: |To be determined on a quote by quote basis under this CPA. |
|Defects liability |To be determined on a quote by quote basis under this CPA. |
|period/warranty period: | |
|Other strategy elements: |Suppliers will be encouraged (via Council’s supplier portal) to apply for this CPA at any time. |
| |New applicants will be assessed every six months on the same basis used to establish this |
| |arrangement. Decisions regarding new membership, or removal of existing suppliers, will be made |
| |by the Chief Procurement Officer, Strategic Procurement Office (SPO), Organisational Services |
| |(OS), on the recommendation of the Executive Manager, City Projects Office (CPO), Brisbane |
| |Infrastructure (BI); Executive Manager, Field Services (FS), BI; and Category Manager – |
| |Construction and Operations, Category Management, SPO, OS. |
| | |
| |While new applications may be submitted at any time, the size of the CPA will be managed to |
| |maintain an appropriate number of suppliers to meet Council’s anticipated needs. A smaller panel |
| |is anticipated to encourage stronger participation by panel suppliers when providing quotes for |
| |each project and reduce tendering costs for the market. The size of the panel can be actively |
| |managed through the refresh process. |
| | |
| |The arrangement will allow for other government organisations, including wholly government-owned |
| |entities, to use this CPA. |
| | |
| |The number of suppliers invited to quote for each project under this CPA will be approved in the |
| |relevant pre-market submission. |
|Alternative strategies |Procuring all projects via Council’s standard tendering thresholds. However, it is considered |
|considered: |that pre-qualification of suppliers on the basis of capability, capacity and agreement to |
| |contractual terms offers significant benefits for both Council and suppliers through reduced |
| |tendering and evaluation costs. |
Document preparation
27. Request document and specifications are currently being finalised and will be reviewed and approved prior to the RFP being released.
Anticipated schedule
28. Pre-market approval: 9 March 2021
Date of release to market: 18 March 2021
Tender closing: 28 May 2021
Evaluation completion: 30 July 2021
Contract prepared: 30 July 2021
Post-market approval: 16 August 2021
Contract commencement: 1 October 2021
Budget
29. Estimated total expenditure under this CPA (including any options):
Estimated $82.5 million over the potential maximum five-year term of the CPA.
30. Sufficient approved budget to meet the total spend under this CPA?
When established, a CPA of this form does not create a financial or contractual commitment or commit Council to any purchases. A commitment is only made when orders are placed under the CPA by appropriately delegated Council officers, subject to approved funding availability.
31. Anticipated procurement savings (if any):
Procurement savings are identified on a quote by quote basis and reported in the corresponding post-market submissions. In addition, this CPA is expected to deliver savings for Council and for suppliers in terms of reduced tendering and evaluation costs.
Procurement risk
32. Summary of key risks associated with this procurement:
|Procurement risk |Risk rating |Risk mitigation strategy |Risk allocation |
|Quality of product or service|Low |Capability and capacity are to be evaluated during the|Council |
| | |establishment of the CPA, including reference checks. | |
| | |High value works under the CPA are awarded following | |
| | |competitive quotes which typically include assessment | |
| | |of experience relevant to the project, proposed | |
| | |methodology and team. | |
| | |Documented contractor performance reporting for all | |
| | |contracts under this CPA. | |
| | |Active management of poorly performing suppliers which| |
| | |may result in the supplier(s) being removed from the | |
| | |CPA. | |
|Price competition |Low |Quoting activity within each segment by Council |Council |
| | |business areas is monitored by SPO to ensure | |
| | |competitive outcomes. | |
| | |Council is able to tender outside the panel should | |
| | |there be insufficient suitable suppliers on a specific| |
| | |segment. | |
33. Is this contract listed as a ‘critical contract’ requiring the contractor to have in place a Business Continuity Plan approved by Council?
No
Tender evaluation
34. Evaluation criteria:
a) Mandatory/essential criteria:
- Acceptance of the full suite of construction contracts (Segments 1 and 2).
- Acceptance of the Minor and Medium Works construction contracts (Segments 3 and 4).
- Satisfactory financial status.
- Satisfactory response in relation to legislative compliance.
b) Non-price weighted evaluation criteria:
|Weighted evaluation criteria |Weighting |
| |(%) |
|Local benefits |30 |
|Company experience and management systems |[Commercial-in-Confidence] |
|Experience and track record of key personnel |[Commercial-in-Confidence] |
|Track record, experience and systems in relation to environmental |[Commercial-in-Confidence] |
|and/or asbestos management | |
|Total: |100 |
c) Price model:
Not applicable to the CPA assessment stage. Pricing is to be considered during the award of works under the CPA.
35. Evaluation methodology:
a) Shortlisting process:
An initial shortlist, if required, will be based on the non-price weighted score. At any time during the evaluation, a submission may be excluded from further evaluation or a shortlist where:
- a score against any criterion (regardless of weighting) is so low that the proposal is considered to be high risk or not advantageous for Council
- the proposal/tenderer is considered to be high risk or not advantageous for Council, regardless of the criteria stated in the tender documents.
Any submission may be included on any shortlist where the Evaluation Team considers that, despite the score achieved, there are strong, documented commercial reasons for further consideration of the proposal.
b) Value for money (VFM) method:
The VFM index will be established by applying the non-price weighted evaluation criteria in section 10.2(b). The number and diversity of suppliers awarded to each segment of the CPA is intended to maximise the likelihood of competitive tension for all quoting opportunities.
36. The Chief Executive Officer provided the following recommendation and the Committee agreed.
37. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT THE STORES BOARD RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE SIGNIFICANT CONTRACTING PLAN TO ESTABLISH A CORPORATE PROCUREMENT ARRANGEMENT (CPA) IN THE FORM OF A PANEL ARRANGEMENT FOR CONSTRUCTION, RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE AND DEMOLITION OF BUILDINGS AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE. THE CPA WILL BE FOR AN INITIAL TERM OF THREE YEARS WITH OPTIONS TO EXTEND FOR ADDITIONAL PERIODS OF UP TO TWO YEARS, FOR A MAXIMUM TERM OF FIVE YEARS. THE ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE IS $82.5 MILLION OVER THE POTENTIAL FIVE-YEAR TERM.
ADOPTED
Chair: We will now move to City Planning and Economic Development please.
DEPUTY MAYOR.
CITY PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
The DEPUTY MAYOR, Councillor Krista ADAMS, Chair of the City Planning and Economic Development Committee, moved, seconded by Councillor Fiona HAMMOND, that the report of the meeting of that Committee held on 2 March 2021, be adopted.
Chair: Is there any debate?
DEPUTY MAYOR.
DEPUTY MAYOR: Thank you, Mr Chair. Just my report on the Business Hub. It’s going from strength to strength. In the last week we’ve seen an increase in the business drop ins, in particular for hot desking. So it’s great to see that there are businesses that want to come back in and be in the city centre and work in our city heart and hopefully then support our other businesses, but also taking that collaboration opportunity as well.
Through the month of February we’ve seen 351 attend free workshops and yesterday of course they had a fantastic International Women’s Day event which 61 people attended. This week they’ve got a Customer Service Loyalty Panel coming up on the ninth, being supported by Yodel, Customology and Connect Collaborative. It’s about people learning how to get customer loyalty and keep their customers.
On the ninth at 3pm to 5pm, Managing a Happy and a Safe Workplace Practically. Maybe, Mr Chair, you might want to see some ideas about how we can manage the workplace in happy and safe ways as well.
Councillor interjecting.
DEPUTY MAYOR: He knows how to do it—being provided by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland (CCIQ) for our community, for our businesses. On 11 March at 3pm, Insolvency and Liquidation, a good one I imagine in the current climate. How to handle the issues, how to proactively manage it, more likely how to prevent the situation and how to negotiate and communicate through the process, being supported by Gadens, BDO and the Small Business Commissioner.
Then finally on 17 March at 9am, Funding to Scale: Asset and Trade Finance, being supported by ScotPac on how to support your business. Can I also do a shout out to our Business Liaison Officers that I mention here frequently, who had a target to 30 June of hitting 2,400 businesses on their doorstep this year. They hit it today, 2,400 businesses—
Councillor interjecting.
DEPUTY MAYOR: —have been door knocked and that is a fantastic outcome. Learning about how we can support them in everything we do through the economic development work in Council, through the Business Hub and through Brisbane Economic Development Agency. So well done to the team on getting out there and spreading the word on how we can support them as well.
In the Committee last week, we had a presentation on the Woolworths dark store at 11 Interchange Place at Rochedale. For those unsure, a dark store is a supermarket that doesn’t accept walk-in customers, but operates a warehouse with only staff walking around picking and packing out your order for online orders. This is the first dark store in Queensland—excuse me, it will be held in Rochedale and something that is desperately needed with the online increase that we’ve seen over the last 12 months as well.
The largest one at the moment’s in Sydney and they get out 20,000 deliveries a week. So this was actually happened through our fast-track assessment for Minor changes. A policy which the other side of the Chamber labelled a free run for developers during the debate that we had in the budget—
Councillor interjecting.
DEPUTY MAYOR: —this year, but what we are seeing now is 200 full-time jobs created during construction which is being done by Spaceframe Construction which begins this month. $85 million worth of work into the economy and once complete it will cater for 400 to 500 workers on site. It is a fantastic outcome, not just for our industrial area through Rochedale, but for the whole of South East Queensland.
There’s also two petitions that I will leave to Chambers.
Chair: Further speakers? Any other further speakers at all?
Councillor LANDERS: Point of order, Chair.
Chair: Point of order.
Councillor LANDERS: I move that Council now adjourn for afternoon tea for 15 minutes.
Chair: Councillor LANDERS can I just resolve this?
Is there are no further speakers?
Councillor ADAMS—
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: Sorry excuse me, I misunderstood that, I thought no further speakers.
Councillor LANDERS, can I please have your point of order.
ADJOURNMENT:
|559/2020-21 |
|At that time, 3.59pm, it was resolved on the motion of Councillor Sandy LANDERS, seconded by Councillor Sarah HUTTON, that the meeting |
|adjourn for a period of 15 minutes, to commence only when all Councillors had vacated the Chamber and the doors locked. |
| |
|Council stood adjourned at 4.01pm. |
Councillor STRUNK: Point of order, Mr Chair, if I may.
Chair: The meeting is adjourned Councillor STRUNK—
Councillor STRUNK: Okay.
Chair: So you can talk to me like a normal person if you’d like.
Or you can bring it back after the meeting.
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: When we return afterwards.
UPON RESUMPTION:
Chair: Councillors, we have quorum.
Are there any further—are there any speakers on the report?
Councillor HUANG.
Councillor HUANG: Thank you, Mr Chair. I rise to speak on item B of the Committee report, and take this opportunity to thank the Committee for their decision on this petition. This development application in Wadley Street, MacGregor, has raised significant concerns with local residents. The development clearly does not meet the intended outcomes of the City Plan, and although the application has already been refused by the Development Assessment team, I understand the applicant has decided to appeal through the Planning and Environment (P&E) Court. I will keep a close eye on the development as it proceeds through the Court, and support the local residents in their opposition to this development application. Thank you. I commend this report to the Chamber.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor CASSIDY.
Seriatim - Clause C
|Councillor Jared CASSIDY requested that Clause C, PETITION – OBJECTING TO THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AT 999 STANLEY STREET EAST, EAST |
|BRISBANE (APPLICATION REFERENCE A005591790), be taken seriatim for voting purposes. |
Chair: Yes, please proceed.
Councillor CASSIDY: Thanks. This is regarding the proposed development at 999 Stanley Street, East Brisbane. What we have before us is a pretty significant petition from local residents opposing this development, and one that they believe will have a negative impact on their community out there, Chair. It’s a development application for a 7-Eleven service station (servo) at East Brisbane. On the site, there is currently a café and nursery, a real community hub for the area.
Hundreds of submissions have been made on the development application itself, primarily against the development application, and almost 400 people have signed this petition, but it’s our view that the response to this petition doesn’t go far enough. The community is making it clear they don’t want a service station here. No amount of further consultation is going to fix or change that. They have made their views pretty clear when it comes to this application. They want to keep the character of their neighbourhood. They don’t want Council to go back to the drawing board, they want the drawing board thrown away, Chair. There’s already five petrol stations within a stone’s throw from this site. Another 7-Eleven fuel station is not what locals—
Chair: Actually, sorry, point of order. It’s a—sorry, can I please stop you?
Councillor CASSIDY: Yes.
Chair: I may have a perceived conflict of interest on this matter, and I will excuse myself from this discussion.
Councillor TOOMEY.
Councillor CASSIDY: Shall I wait until the Chair—
Chair: Please.
Councillor CASSIDY: Yes.
At that time, 4.26pm, the Deputy Chair, Councillor Steven TOOMEY, assumed the Chair.
Deputy Chair: Please continue, Councillor CASSIDY.
Councillor CASSIDY: Thanks, Deputy Chair. So, there’s at least five petrol stations within a stone’s throw from this site, and a 7-Eleven fuel station is not something that the community wants or needs. What they want and need is to keep the character of their community. There are recent reports, as recent as today, in fact, Tuesday 9 March, which talks about service station oversupply looming in South East Queensland as servos replace corner stores. What this community already has in this place is this café and nursery, which is a community hub for this area.
They have raised multiple other concerns, as well, not just about the character of the community but also with regards to flooding issues, increased traffic and noise, and taking business away from other small businesses in the local area. I’m certainly interested to hear what the local Councillor, Councillor CUNNINGHAM, will say in regards to this petition today on the record, because what we know and what we’ve just heard from Councillor HUANG, as well, is that LNP Councillors will go out into the community and come in here and say, oh well, it’s before the courts and—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CASSIDY: —we don’t support this application, we refuse it, it goes to the court, then go out to the community and say, we fought it tooth and nail, only for the community to find out later that it was through an agreement behind closed doors, a consent order, that these developments then get approved. So what we want to make sure is that these LNP Councillors representing these areas are on the record and they are held to account when it comes to these developments, because this development, Deputy Chair, certainly doesn’t meet community expectations about how their community is being developed.
This Administration, Chair, rolls over time and time again when it comes to development applications, whether they are before a court or not, and then blames the Planning and Environment Court all too readily for decisions that are made. As I said earlier, they are more often than not just consent orders, that Council has agreed to all of the conditions generally that a developer wants. So, Chair, if it smells like a rat and walks like a rat, it usually is a rat, and if this development application—
DEPUTY MAYOR: Point of order, Mr Chair.
Councillor CASSIDY: —smells and walks like a closed-door developer deal—
Deputy Chair: Point of order.
Councillor CASSIDY—
DEPUTY MAYOR: The—
Deputy Chair: Hang on.
DEPUTY MAYOR, point of order, please.
DEPUTY MAYOR: That is definitely imputing motive on Council officers and Councillors in this place. I ask him to withdraw that.
Councillor CASSIDY, you care to withdraw?
Councillor CASSIDY: Sure.
DEPUTY MAYOR: Thank you.
Councillor CASSIDY: So, this development application smells and walks like a closed-door LNP developer deal, Chair, then people can only assume that it is.
Deputy Chair: Further speakers.
Councillor SRI.
Councillor SRI: Thanks, Chair. I also rise to speak on the petition regarding the petrol station DA, and I must say, I am very strongly opposed to this DA and I was particularly surprised to see that it even got lodged in the first place. I’ve seen developers and companies try a lot of stuff and often get away with stuff that I don’t think they should, but this particular project proposal is silly for so many reasons. It’s not just about the flooding vulnerabilities, it’s not just about the fact that it’s in quite close proximity to an environmentally sensitive and high-value ecological corridor.
Also, when you look at the urban form outcomes and the transport impacts, we’re talking about Stanley Street East here, which is already an extremely busy road corridor, and which Council has identified on its current bicycle network overlays and a really important cycling corridor, as well. So, presumably—and I think this will continue, even as cycling overlays and active transport network plans change in future—presumably, there’s an intention to get bike lanes along this corridor at some point, and I’m sure she’ll correct me if I’ve got this wrong through you, Chair, but I think Councillor CUNNINGHAM, even in the lead up to the last Council election, expressed some support for bike lanes along Stanley Street.
It’s certainly something that a lot of Council—it’s certainly something that Council officers are quite excited about the possibility of and it’s definitely something that a lot of cyclists have been really pushing for. Stanley Street is one of those major corridors connecting from the Norman Creek Bikeway and the Norman Creek parkland network through to the centre of Woolloongabba and stretching bike lanes further along Stanley Street will essentially connect through to the existing Woolloongabba Bikeway project and those bike lanes that start at Ipswich Road.
So it seems quite logical that, in the future, we’ll be wanting to stretch those bike lanes further along Stanley Street and reinforce the role of Stanley Street as a bicycle corridor. So a project like this, unfortunately, is going to directly undermine that potential because it would introduce additional driveways and additional vehicle movements at a particular pinch point on the road corridor where we really don’t want to see more cars coming in and out of this corner site.
We want to be preserving as much of that Stanley Street frontage for pedestrians and bicycles and minimising the number of driveway accesses along the Stanley Street corridor, because every time you have another service station with dozens of cars pulling in and out, that creates a significant safety issue for cyclists and pedestrians travelling along the corridor. It’s a great frustration, I know, to the transport teams when developments like this get approved without thinking ahead about the long-term impacts on the possibility for bike lanes and separated cycling infrastructure, in particular.
I also note that the service vehicle arrangement or the traffic arrangement for the big petrol tankers to come into this site requires them to turn into—I think it’s called Edgar Street. It’s the very small side street that certainly isn’t designed to carry heavy vehicles, and certainly won’t be able to cater—isn’t appropriate to cater to such large vehicles, delivering fuel regularly to the station site. I think that’s quite problematic. Unfortunately, that traffic impact doesn’t seem to have been given enough close attention to date.
Overall, I’m just really troubled that the Council—not so much that the Council Administration hasn’t yet rejected it, but perhaps more deeply, I’m troubled by the fact that the industry even sees this as an appropriate land use for this kind of site. We should have been cultivating a landscape where petrol companies or fuel companies know that a site like this is a really stupid idea for a petrol station and they don’t even waste the money on lodging a development application. I know the Council can’t directly control what people apply for, but the Council can set some norms and standards about what’s expected.
Surely, putting a petrol station down in a very flood-prone site next to a quiet residential side street on a major active transport corridor where increase in car movements is not desirable, surely the companies involved should be able to see that that’s not a great idea, and if they can’t, then I do think that reflects poorly on Council, that they haven’t educated the industry enough about their desires and where they hope to see more of this kind of land use in the future. The cars that are likely to be used in this facility are overwhelmingly going to be driving in from further out.
There are many other sites along these major road corridors that would be capable of sustaining a petrol station that aren’t in the flood zone and aren’t so close to an ecologically sensitive site, a creek corridor, certainly that aren’t as closely proximate to residential homes. As a Councillor who already has quite a few older petrol station sites that are in really close proximity to residential homes, I can tell the Chamber that they are a source of a lot of angst. The fumes and the smell from the petrol stations, the noise from vehicles arriving and departing at all hours of the day and night.
The impacts on amenity for the local area are quite significant and residents do really struggle and, unfortunately, those older petrol stations have been there for a long time, they have effectively already been approved, but here, we have a new application before us. I think it’s important for the Council to really consider holistically all those cumulative impacts on the site in question. It really is a shame that this is a—I think it’s a code assessable development application. Someone will correct me if I’m wrong on that. It’s a shame that residents don’t have legal objection rights, but the impacts here are very, very significant.
I think the Administration should not take them lightly and should not dismiss the very legitimate concerns of residents. There are environmental concerns, there are pedestrian safety concerns, there are amenity concerns for nearby neighbours, but overwhelmingly, I just don’t feel that this is a high value—an efficient land use of valuable inner city real estate. We don’t need petrol stations here in this inner city suburb. There are better land uses for such valuable land, and if petrol stations are needed to serve a broader motoring catchment, put them further along the corridor on areas where they are less likely to impact immediate neighbours and the local community.
Deputy Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor CUNNINGHAM.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: Thanks, Mr Deputy Chair. I rise to speak on item C. From the outset, I’d like to place on the record my support for residents in their opposition to this application. The site in question has been home to a beautiful nursery and very popular local café for many years, although it is zoned light industrial. It’s important, for the record, that late last year, when learning of the application, I actually wrote to residents in surrounding streets in East Brisbane alerting them to the proposal and encouraging them to lodge a submission.
I also met with residents and I have spoken with residents on the phone about their concerns. Issues raised with me over the application include traffic impact, decrease in available parking, contamination concerns, landscaping issues, increased noise and reduced amenity for nearby residents. As is the proper process for Councillors in this place, I lodged my comments with the officers, raising these concerns and requesting their specific attention on these matters, particularly the possible environmental impacts.
Additionally, I’ve written to the DEPUTY MAYOR, and I know that some of my residents have also met with her. As with all planning matters, there is a very specific process to be followed and I ask our hardworking planning officers to take into consideration the large number of submissions received on this, as well as the signatures, as part of this petition. Thank you.
Deputy Chair: Further speakers?
DEPUTY MAYOR.
DEPUTY MAYOR: Thank you, Mr Deputy Chair. Thank you, Councillor HUANG, and we were very happy to definitely refuse the Wadley Street townhouse. It was really crammed in, in where we don’t expect it anymore in low-density residential, either, beside the school, between the freeway, Westfield shopping town, but unfortunately, with the Planning Act, a P&E Court application has been made by the applicant and we will fight hard to make sure that we get the best outcome, as always, for the community.
The proposed development at 999 Stanley Street in East Brisbane, there was a petition that gained over 370 signatures objecting to this service station and no decision has been made at this point, which is reflected in the petition. So, the petition today says, we are looking at all of the aspects of this. It is not a yes or no against what the petitioners are asking for. It was lodged in November last year. It is code assessable, so yes, as Councillor SRI mentioned, there’s no submit or appeal rights on this because it is an accepted use on the zoning of this site. It has been zoned light industry since 2000, but it has actually catered for a service station since the 1987 Town Plan, under what the zoning was called then, Particular development zoning.
Can I say, as a local in the area that has been in that area for all of my life, on the southside, it was a petrol station in those days? It was a petrol station. A petrol station, as everybody knows, was on every corner in Brisbane, and then they disappeared for whatever reason and now they’re starting to come back. So, in the meantime, it has been a lovely cottage nursery, but the people that were running the cottage nursery are retiring and the owners of the land are doing—as of their right—is to offer it as an application for a petrol station or a light industry use. The officers are going through this application with a fine-tooth comb.
We have now issued two information letters to the applicants. As Councillor CUNNINGHAM mentioned, I met with residents in her ward office, but also at the Your City Your Say forum last Wednesday. They raised several issues, some of the prime importance, the three of them. We went back to the applicants and said, let’s see if we can make these changes that currently were on stop the clock for the applicants—or it might have just started again—for them to try and address those issues, to try and make those changes, because the reality is, this is a code assessable DA.
It is what we expect to see on light industry, but we are working very hard to make sure that we cater for, in particular, the direct neighbours—I won’t name them, even though I know them well—that are direct neighbours, and also for the businesses next door, as well, to get the best outcome for the community. So, the applicant, as I said, is in the process of addressing all these concerns, and the clock has been stopped for a further 20 business days which ends on 8 March.
So, we will see where we’re going as of yesterday, when the applicant comes back to us, but the petition before us relays exactly that information, that we haven’t made a decision. We can’t say outright no to it because the Planning Act says we have to assess it, and that’s what we’re doing at this point of time.
Deputy Chair: Thank you, DEPUTY MAYOR.
We’ll now put items A and B.
Clauses A and B put
Upon being submitted to the Chamber, the motion for the adoption of Clauses A and B of the report of the City Planning and Economic Development Committee was declared carried on the voices.
Deputy Chair: Now we have item C.
Clause C put
Upon being submitted to the Chamber, the motion for the adoption of Clause C of the report of the City Planning and Economic Development Committee was declared carried on the voices.
Thereupon, Councillors Jared CASSIDY and Charles STRUNK immediately rose and called for a division, which resulted in the motion being declared carried.
The voting was as follows:
AYES: 18 - DEPUTY MAYOR, Councillor Krista ADAMS, and Councillors Greg ADERMANN, Adam ALLAN, Lisa ATWOOD, Fiona CUNNINGHAM, Tracy DAVIS, Fiona HAMMOND, Vicki HOWARD, Steven HUANG, Sarah HUTTON, Sandy LANDERS, James MACKAY, Kim MARX, Peter MATIC, David McLACHLAN, Ryan MURPHY, Angela OWEN and Steven TOOMEY.
NOES: 5 - The Leader of the OPPOSITION, Councillor Jared CASSIDY, and Councillors Peter CUMMING, Steve GRIFFITHS, Charles STRUNK and Jonathan SRI.
The report read as follows(
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – 11 INTERCHANGE PLACE, ROCHEDALE (A005621545)
560/2020-21
1. The Planning Services Manager, Development Services, City Planning and Sustainability, attended the meeting to provide an update on 11 Interchange Place, Rochedale (A005621545) (the site). She provided the information below.
2. The Change Application Prioritisation Service was developed with the objective to streamline the assessment process where changes are required to the plans and/or conditions of a development approval. The initiative aimed to prioritise and streamline the assessment of changes for ‘shovel ready projects’ that often arise during or just prior to construction because of unforeseen challenges during detailed design, site conditions or market changes. A dedicated network of officers in Development Services was formed to ensure these decisions were prioritised and expedited, while maintaining good quality development outcomes, to ensure building and construction could proceed without delay.
3. The original approval at the site was granted on 23 June 2015 for Material change of use Preliminary Approval for variation in the level of assessment to allow the site to be considered General Industry for the purpose of Industry, warehouse, service station, car wash, container depot, display and sales activities, reconfiguring a lot, indoor sport and recreation, utility installation, telecommunication tower and outdoor lighting.
4. The site will be used as a customer fulfillment centre, otherwise known as a ‘dark store’, meaning it will operate online only with no customers. Dark stores have wider aisles and more shelf space than a standard supermarket to enable personal shoppers to hand-pick orders from a range of products without having to navigate around customers.
5. Dark stores are currently in operation in Lidcombe, Mascot and Brookvale, Sydney; West Footscray, Melbourne; and Rochedale, Queensland. Dark stores account for approximately eight per cent of Woolworths’ total sales. The largest dark store (Lidcombe) manages approximately 20,000 deliveries per week.
6. Upon delivery of the development, the site will provide the following key aspects:
- a total gross floor area (GFA) of approximately 30,767 square metres
- landscaping of approximately 17,458 square metres
- site coverage of approximately 40.8%
- 408 car spaces, including six persons with disabilities spaces
- vehicular access via Interchange Place
- two-staged development.
7. The Committee was advised of the following approved changes:
- internal estate access road relocated further towards Interchange Place
- changes in the GFA
- new loading dock area located in the south-eastern corner of the site
- changes in the number of car parks
- external materials and finish changes
- stormwater drainage layout changes
- stormwater management plan layout changes.
8. The minor change application was approved as the development:
- does not result in a substantially different development
- provides an appropriate balance of landscaping and site coverage that is commensurate to the locality
- facilitates significant monetary investment towards a South East Queensland catalyst site
- ensures that buildings are sufficiently located away from nearby residential and other sensitive uses, without causing an unacceptable impact on the amenity of the area
- is designed to accommodate the social and environmental needs of residents within the locality, and provides for the co-location of compatible industrial uses.
9. Approximately 200 full-time jobs will be created during the construction phase, with construction to be carried out by a local Brisbane-based construction company, Spaceframe. Construction is anticipated to begin in March 2021, with completion in December 2021.
10. During the operation phase, the dark store will generate approximately 30 full time management staff roles, 50 transport jobs and 400-500 operational roles. The development value upon completion is estimated to be approximately $85 million for both warehouse buildings, excluding the tenancy fit outs.
11. Following a question from the Committee, the Chair thanked the Planning Services Manager for her informative presentation.
12. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT COUNCIL NOTE THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE ABOVE REPORT.
ADOPTED
B PETITION – OBJECTING TO THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AT 34, 36, 36A AND 38 WADLEY STREET, MACGREGOR (APPLICATION REFERENCE A005426483)
CA20/1438107
561/2020-21
13. A petition from residents objecting to the proposed development at 34, 36, 36A and 38 Wadley Street, MacGregor (the site) (application reference A005426483), was received during the Summer Recess 2020-21.
14. The Divisional Manager, City Planning and Sustainability, provided the following information.
15. The petition contains 193 signatures.
16. The petitioners’ concerns include the following.
- The proposal is not consistent with the Low density residential zoning intent.
- The development does not incorporate sufficient landscaping and planting on site.
- The proposed building bulk and scale does not allow for suitable separation between buildings within the development and neighbouring residents.
- The traffic and noise generated from the proposed development will impact nearby residents.
17. On 6 April 2020, Council received a development application for a Multiple dwelling (27 units) under the Planning Act 2016 (the Act). The application was properly made on 14 April 2020. During the assessment of this application, the proposal was amended by the applicant to include 26 units.
18. The site and adjoining properties are located within the Low density residential zone in Brisbane City Plan 2014 (City Plan). The site is located near MacGregor State High School and is within the CF5 Community facilities (Education purpose) zone. The site is not within a neighbourhood plan.
19. The application is subject to impact assessment, and public notification was carried out from 24 November until 21 December 2020. Council received a total of 148 submissions, of which, 119 were properly made under the Act.
20. Following an assessment by Council’s Development Services, City Planning and Sustainability, against the requirements of City Plan and in accordance with the provisions of the Act, Council’s delegate refused the application on 29 January 2021.
21. It is noted that the head petitioner is not recorded as a submitter to the application and would not have been advised that the decision was made.
Consultation
22. Councillor Steven Huang, Councillor for MacGregor Ward, has been consulted and supports the recommendation.
23. The Manager recommended as follows and the Committee agreed.
24. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT THE HEAD PETITIONER BE ADVISED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DRAFT RESPONSE SET OUT IN ATTACHMENT A, hereunder.
Attachment A
Draft Response
Petition Reference: CA20/1438107
Thank you for your petition objecting to the proposed development at 34, 36, 36A and 38 Wadley Street, MacGregor (the site) (application reference A005426483).
Council notes the following concerns you raised in the petition.
- The proposal is not consistent with the Low density residential zoning intent.
- The development does not incorporate sufficient landscaping and planting on site.
- The proposed building bulk and scale does not allow for suitable separation between buildings within the development and neighbouring residents.
- The traffic and noise generated from the proposed development will impact nearby residents.
On 6 April 2020, Council received a development application for a Multiple dwelling (27 units) under the Planning Act 2016 (the Act). The application was properly made on 14 April 2020. During the assessment of this application, the proposal was amended by the applicant to include 26 units.
The site and adjoining properties are located within the Low density residential zone in Brisbane City Plan 2014 (City Plan). The site is located near MacGregor State High School and is within the CF5 Community facilities (Education purpose) zone. The site is not within a neighbourhood plan.
The application is subject to impact assessment, and public notification was carried out from 24 November until 21 December 2020. Council received a total of 148 submissions, of which 119 were properly made under the Act.
Following an assessment by Council’s Development Services, City Planning and Sustainability, against the requirements of City Plan and in accordance with the provisions of the Act, Council’s delegate refused the application on 29 January 2021.
To view all documents relating to this decision, the petitioners can visit Council’s Development.i website at developmenti.brisbane..au and search for application reference number ‘A005426483’.
Should you have any further questions, please contact Mr Brendan Gillham, Team Manager, Planning Services South, Development Services, City Planning and Sustainability, on (07) 3403 5958.
Thank you for raising your concerns.
ADOPTED
C PETITION – OBJECTING TO THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AT 999 STANLEY STREET EAST, EAST BRISBANE (APPLICATION REFERENCE A005591790)
CA21/17603
562/2020-21
25. A petition from residents objecting to the proposed development at 999 Stanley Street East, East Brisbane (application reference A005591790), was received during the Summer Recess 2020-21.
26. The Divisional Manager, City Planning and Sustainability, provided the following information.
27. The petition contains 374 signatures.
28. The petitioners’ requests include the following.
- Access to Edgar Street is removed to mitigate the introduction of industrial traffic into a residential street.
- Install traffic lights at the intersection of Stanley Street East and Edgar Street.
- Ensure there is no loss in the number of kerbside parking spaces.
- Fill the site to minimise contamination of runoff from the site during a flood event into Norman Creek.
- Restrict the operating hours until 8pm.
- Restrict access by the refuelling vehicle on the site to before 10pm.
- Manage noise, odour (fuel vents) and light including vehicle headlight impacts on nearby residences.
- Increase landscaping around the entire site boundary to a minimum of three metres.
- Reduce fencing heights to maintain access to light and breezes.
29. On 10 November 2020, Council received a code assessable development application for a Material Change of Use for a service station over the site. The application was properly made on 13 November 2020.
30. The area surrounding the site is characterised as a mix of low density residential, commercial, light industrial, and retail uses. Directly adjacent to the southern boundary is a low density residential dwelling, with commercial and retail uses located west along Stanley Street East. The site is included within the Coorparoo and districts neighbourhood plan, with an underlying Low impact industry zone.
31. In addressing the assessment benchmarks in Brisbane City Plan 2014, the application included technical reports addressing traffic, noise and air quality impacts.
32. Council’s Development Services, City Planning and Sustainability, sent the applicant an Information Request, dated 11 December 2020, which raised concerns about:
- traffic impacts on surrounding streets
- site access
- onsite servicing
- protection of a poinciana tree
- landscaping
- air quality
- stormwater runoff and acoustic attenuation.
33. Although no public notification was carried out, a total of 297 submissions on the development application were received.
34. Following assessment of the response to the Information Request and submissions received, officers from Development Services met with the applicant and the developer on 1 February 2021 to outline concerns with the proposed development. In response to this meeting, the applicant stopped the assessment process on 5 February 2021 for 20 business days pursuant to section 32 of the Development Assessment Rules to address the issues raised by Council.
Consultation
35. Councillor Fiona Cunningham, Councillor for Coorparoo Ward, has been consulted and supports the recommendation.
36. The Manager recommended as follows and the Committee agreed, with Councillor Charles Strunk dissenting.
37. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT THE HEAD PETITIONER BE ADVISED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DRAFT RESPONSE SET OUT IN ATTACHMENT A, hereunder.
Attachment A
Draft Response
Petition Reference: CA21/17603
Thank you for your petition objecting to the proposed development of a service station at 999 Stanley Street, East Brisbane (the site) (application reference A005591790).
Council notes the following concerns you raised in the petition.
- Access to Edgar Street is removed to mitigate the introduction of industrial traffic into a residential street.
- Install traffic lights at the intersection of Stanley Street East and Edgar Street.
- Ensure there is no loss in the number of kerbside parking spaces.
- Fill the site to minimise contamination of runoff from the site during a flood event into Norman Creek.
- Restrict the operating hours until 8pm.
- Restrict access by the refuelling vehicle on the site to before 10pm.
- Manage noise, odour (fuel vents) and light including vehicle headlight impacts on nearby residences.
- Increase landscaping around the entire site boundary to a minimum of three metres.
- Reduce fencing heights to maintain access to light and breezes.
On 10 November 2020, Council received a code assessable development application for a Material Change of Use for a service station over the site. The application was properly made on 13 November 2020.
The area surrounding the site can be characterised as a mix of low density residential, commercial, light industrial, and retail uses. Directly adjacent to the southern boundary is a low density residential dwelling with commercial and retail uses located west along Stanley Street East. The site is included within the Coorparoo and districts neighbourhood plan, with an underlying Low impact industry zone.
In addressing the assessment benchmarks in Brisbane City Plan 2014, the application included technical reports addressing traffic, noise and air quality impacts.
Council’s Development Services, City Planning and Sustainability, sent the applicant an Information Request, dated 11 December 2020, which raised concerns about:
- traffic impacts on surrounding streets
- site access
- onsite servicing
- protection of a poinciana tree
- landscaping
- air quality
- stormwater runoff and acoustic attenuation.
Although no public notification was carried out, a total of 297 submissions on the development application were received.
Following assessment of the response to the Information Request and submissions received, officers from Development Services met with the applicant and the developer on 1 February 2021 to outline concerns with the proposed development. In response to this meeting, the applicant stopped the assessment process on 5 February 2021 for 20 business days pursuant to section 32 of the Development Assessment Rules to address the issues raised by Council.
A copy of the development application, including any additional information, can be accessed by visiting Council’s Development.i. website at developmenti.brisbane..au and searching for application reference number A005591790.
Should you have any further questions, please contact Mr Rory Kelly, Team Manager, Planning Services East, Development Services, City Planning and Sustainability, on (07) 3403 4975.
Thank you for raising this matter.
ADOPTED
Deputy Chair: Thank you. Could somebody please let Councillor WINES know that he is free to return to the Chamber? Thank you.
Councillor MURPHY, Public and Active Transport, please.
At that time, 4.46pm, the Chair, Councillor Andrew WINES, resumed the Chair.
PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE
Councillor Ryan MURPHY, Chair of the Public and Active Transport Committee, moved, seconded by Councillor Sandy LANDERS, that the report of the meeting of that Committee held on 2 March 2021, be adopted.
Chair: Is there any debate?
Councillor MURPHY: Thanks very much, Deputy Chair. Last week’s Committee presentation was an update on the impact of COVID-19 on public transport patronage and on the public transport network more broadly. Prior to COVID-19, demand for public transport in Brisbane was actually quite strong. It was generally increasing year-on-year. However, in a normal year, outside of pandemic, changes in fares usually impacts performance, and whether we get an increase or not in our public transport patronage, I can tell you that in the year leading up to COVID-19, our bus and ferry patronage was exceeding expectations of that of the previous year, and I believe was presaging a great improvement in numbers of people using our bus, our train, our ferry and CityCat network.
Unfortunately, COVID-19 has taken the wind out of the sails, and I believe has probably set us back several years in terms of where we would want to be as we go on recovering. It will take some time for the city to return to a new normal. As we now recover from the impacts of COVID-19, bus patronage has been increasing in line with normal seasonal fluctuations and continues to increase in proportion to normal patronage levels, so we are on the way back up, Deputy Chair. Current Transport for Brisbane patronage is now approximately 70% of pre-COVID-19 levels with peak travel actually more affected than off-peak travel.
Office building occupancy in the Brisbane CBD is approximately 60% and pedestrian activity in the Queen Street Mall is approximately 80%—as we have heard from other Chairs—of pre-COVID-19 levels. The vaccination rollout and low or no locally transmitted COVID-19 case numbers will hopefully see more people with the confidence to hop on a bus more. However, there is a high level of uncertainty as to the duration and the long-term impacts of public transport—impacts of the pandemic on the public transport network, due to firstly, the number of patrons working from home. Certainly, Council is no stranger to remote working. We have throughout the pandemic almost moved some sections of Council to a 100% work from home arrangement.
Other organisations have moved rapidly in this space and have transitioned to a structure that allows their employees to participate in the workplace remotely. They’ve, unfortunately for the CBD, found great economies of scale in that, and have actually found either little loss of productivity or, indeed, an increase in productivity. So, we may find that there is a much longer tale to this than we expect as people do not return to the CBD or organisations choose not to come back to the CBD as a result of improved workflows.
Of course, secondly, the big impact, tertiary institutions who are continuing to deliver online learning modules which reduces the high demand students place on our public transport network, and we know that the University of Queensland was the second highest patronage generator in the network, outside the CBD. As we have had less international students inside Brisbane due to the travel restrictions—and indeed, many of those students in the opening months of the pandemic actually travelled back to their home countries, either under health advisory from the Australian Government or their home government, or indeed, because they could not afford to stay living here as a result of impacts to industries that are particularly affected by COVID-19 shutdowns, namely hospitality.
Now, this is not the first time, Chair, in recent history that we’ve seen a virus impact public transport usage. In 2003, SARS affected all of Asia and our public transport in Brisbane, although we weren’t badly affected by SARS, actually declined by 25-35%. So, not the first time this has happened, and it did return to normal within the next six months after that. One of the key differences with COVID-19 is the recent improvement, as I’ve said, in technology, to allow people to work from home, and that’s why we may see a residual, at least in the short-term, shift from public transport usage to private vehicle and active transport uptake.
I think it’s important to point out the silver lining that is there as a result of reduced public transport patronage is increased usage on active transport. I can actually report that e-scooter usage is now averaging over 5,000 trips per day in Brisbane and has exceeded pre-COVID-19 levels. So, people are roaring back into e-scooters. We know private e-bike sales, anecdotally, Chair, are skyrocketing. So, it is forcing people into other modes that they may not have previously considered, in order to conduct their commute into their place of work without other people present. Our presentation explored other jurisdictions and how they’ve grappled with COVID-19 and the impact on their public transport network.
We looked at Melbourne and Perth. Now, Melbourne estimates that public transport patronage will level out at 80% of pre-COVID-19 levels, so similar to Brisbane. Perth’s public transport patronage has actually already returned to approximately 80% of pre-COVID-19 levels, no doubt in no small part to the very strong border controls that the Premier instituted in Western Australia. Public transport patronage modelling shows that trips are expected to grow by 3.5 per cent per annum until 2041, and this is obviously the expectation, a conservative expectation. It’s not our goal. Our goal is to have a very significant amount of people in this city, at least two-thirds, in my lofty expectations, using public transport. Now, we may not be able to achieve those in my time, but I’m certainly going to give it a good shake, Chair.
I think the critical thing is we need to stabilise patronage on the network in the next few months as we roll out the vaccine and get people comfortable, particularly those high-risk, elderly people, people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander extraction, who have been given health advice, who say, actually, don’t travel on public transport. We want to make sure that they are the ones who feel comfortable to use our network again, so that we can start to rebuild patronage back to pre-COVID-19 levels and then take it even further with massive, game-changing projects like Brisbane Metro and Cross River Rail underway. I think it’s very possible that we can do that.
Now, finally, Chair, I just wanted to mention, there is one petition requesting Council reinstate the CityHopper service at the Dockside ferry terminal and provide information on a terminal upgrade. As I’ve said to the Chamber previously in regards to the ferry terminal replacement program, Dockside was taken out of commission because the KittyCats did not meet the DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) compliance with the terminal. The KittyCats were actually much higher freeboard height than the terminal itself. It would have created a safety issue with people boarding and alighting those KittyCats, so Dockside was taken out of rotation early.
That said, Dockside would have needed to have been upgraded in line with our Disability Discrimination Act compliance deadlines by 2022, so we have fast-tracked that. We have now issued land resumptions for Dockside and the design is very well-progressed, so looking forward to getting through the Dockside upgrade in the next few months, talking to residents about what that means in their community, with Dockside being upgraded. Of course, in the meantime, we are providing the—it was Baildon Street, it’s now the Main Street shuttle replacement for Kangaroo Point residents. I know it’s not perfect, but it is a replacement service for an unanticipated event, and I will leave further debate to the Chamber.
Chair: Thank you, Councillor MURPHY.
Councillors, thank you for your patience while I was excused from the room. Out of an abundance of caution, I excused myself before I may be conflicted on that matter. While I was away, I reviewed whether I was in fact conflicted or not. It appears that I am not, but I, along with all of you, encourage you all to bias against yourself in these matters and ensure that you do not become conflicted at any point. We always—and so, can I encourage you to be diligent in that matter? Thank you.
Further speakers?
Councillor SRI.
Councillor SRI: Sometimes I feel conflicted just being in this place, but that’s another matter.
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor SRI: Look, I’m rising to speak on the petition regarding the Dockside ferry terminal. We’ve had several discussions in the Committee about this, so I won’t—I’ll try not to go on for too long, but I do want to highlight again that, while the shuttle service connects residents from Kangaroo Point into the CBD, it doesn’t provide any of the connectivity to the other stops along the river that residents might previously have used the free CityHopper, in particular, for, but also the paid services from Dockside. I guess I’d note that, because that service was a free service, Council doesn’t actually have any data or any strong, hard data on exactly where people were getting on and off for that free CityHopper service.
So, I’m certainly not knocking the fact that there’s a free shuttle bus, I think it’s very important that that service is there as a temporary measure, and I’m glad that it’s there and available to residents, but it only provides that option in and out of the city for those Kangaroo Point residents. It doesn’t help them get across the river to New Farm or travel further around the peninsula down to South Bank, for example. So there has been, overall, a significant reduction in services for people in that precinct.
While Kangaroo Point is actually now getting to be one of the younger suburbs in the city, it’s still—that part of Dockside is still home to quite a high number of retirees and elderly people who don’t have a lot of mobility and for them, losing this service has been—it’s been really hard for them. It’s cut them off from some of the destinations and community groups and friends that they used to like to see. They relied on that free service in particular, or even the paid cross-river services, to be able to get to places that they were no longer able to drive to.
When Council took that service away from them at very short notice, some of them have told me that they felt trapped, and I think that’s a shame. I know that Council Administration doesn’t make decisions to cut ferry services lightly, and I know that at least in the case of the Dockside terminal, there is a plan to restore the service eventually, but when the Council Administration talks of fast-tracking a project and then we discover that it’s not going to be delivered until late 2022 at the earliest, a lot of residents are understandably quite disappointed, and I think we’re going to see probably more petitions coming through this place on this issue.
I had a meeting the other day with a couple of residents who definitely aren’t your stereotypical Greens voters. They struck me as being fairly politically conservative, and in general, they were quite a bit older and very well-dressed, I should say, but—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor SRI: Makes them less likely to be Greens? No, but what struck me though was that their question to me was, Councillor SRI, will you help us block the Story Bridge to protest these ferry terminal closures, which was certainly not a question I expected from this particular couple, given how they presented, but I share that anecdote just to highlight that people really are frustrated, and it’s a cumulative issue here. It’s not just the Dockside terminal going down. It’s not just that the Thornton Street terminal has also been closed down. It’s not just the fact that the Riverwalk still hasn’t been delivered after years and years of being promised.
It’s not just the fact that traffic congestion along major arteries is getting worse and worse, which means that the bus services are becoming even less reliable. It’s not just the fact that there’s been a significant increase in density in the area with way more people competing for limited space in public facilities and transport corridors. It’s all of those things together, and I think that’s what this petition response doesn’t really capture, is that residents are frustrated about losing the Dockside ferry terminal, but they’re also frustrated with the broader trajectory of development, transport planning, et cetera, within the Kangaroo Point peninsula.
I’m sure the Administration’s response—or I expect the Administration’s response will be along the lines of, well, we don’t control public transport funding, we can’t improve the bus routes without State Government funding and support, et cetera, et cetera, but you know what this Administration does have a lot of control over is land use zoning. BCC (Brisbane City Council) recently up-zoned that part of the peninsula for significantly greater density. Now, it did this knowing the impacts that would have eon the transport network, knowing how that would impact people’s lives, and presumably knowing that the State Government isn’t in a hurry to kick in more money for public transport services.
So, if the Administration says, well, we don’t control public transport, it’s up to the State Government to put on new bus routes or to fund better ferry services, but then is still insisting on up-zoning for higher density, then you’re simply creating a problem that you know there’s no solution to. So I don’t think it’s sufficient for Council to pass the buck or to point the finger at the State Government. There are some very real failures in Kangaroo Point and throughout the southside in terms of urban planning and transport planning that the Council really needs to take some responsibility for.
The premature closure of the Dockside ferry terminal, I think, is one of the more obvious examples of how poor planning and poor asset management ends up resulting in a significant reduction in quality of service and quality of life for local residents, but it’s by no means the only one. I think residents are right to be frustrated. I understand and empathise with their concerns. I’m personally very disappointed at how long it’s going to take to get this terminal stuff reconstructed and delivered. One specific question I’d like to just clarify from Councillor MURPHY is that, I understand that the KittyCat vessels are on a 12-month lease.
Maybe I’m wrong, hopefully he’ll clarify that, but I guess I would wonder that, if the earliest we’re looking at to get that Dockside terminal back is late 2022, then perhaps we could get another kind of vessel for the next year or two of the contract that can use these older terminals. That seems like not an unreasonable request considering also that the KittyCats have had some problems with engine noise and other complaints about them. So, is it the case that there is only a one-year lease on these vessels, and what is the barrier for Council to get some other interim vessel that can continue to dock at the current Dockside terminal before construction starts, noting as I’ve said before that we’re also going to be losing the Mowbray Park terminal in the near future as that gets under construction.
So, we’ve had a significant reduction in ferry services along that stretch of the river. We’ve had no improvements to bus services and public transport, and in fact, we’ve had a de facto reduction in public transport services because the Administration has continued to widen roads along that eastern corridor, dragging more traffic into the peninsula, and thus causing greater congestion that impedes the reliability of bus routes. At the very minimal, I think it’s time to start talking quite seriously about bus lanes or transit lanes on the Story Bridge itself, but certainly on Shafston Avenue and Lytton Road, because the issues with bus reliability are really kind of reaching crisis point.
While Council doesn’t control how many services are put onto these routes or the overall funding, Council does have a fair level of influence over how lane space on Council roads is allocated, and I think there’d be a very strong case for looking seriously at that, given how serious these concerns about public transport in the peninsula are becoming. The residents have asked me to relay a number of alternative solutions that they have come up with where the steel hull ferry that’s currently using the Bulimba-Hawthorne—or currently servicing the Bulimba-Hawthorne reach—could be repurposed for the Dockside stop, et cetera.
I won’t go into detail about those now. I’m sure Council has considered them, but it does strike me as disappointing that there is a vessel on the river that’s capable of servicing the Dockside terminal at the moment, and it is instead servicing other terminals that could be serviced by a KittyCat, as far as I understand. It’s not really clear to me why one of the KittyCats wasn’t used for the Bulimba-Teneriffe connection while the—and that steel hull ferry couldn’t be repurposed to service one of the terminals in the inner city in some way, at least to provide a cross-river service.
I know these issues are complex. I know it’s difficult to have multiple services both in at the same stop, but as I said, the loss of ferry services at Dockside, plus Thornton Street, plus the imminent closure of Mowbray Terrace, plus the fact that the City Planning team have dramatically increased density in this area and are cramming more and more people into an already crowded neighbourhood, all adds up to a pretty suboptimal outcome in terms of transport, forcing more people to drive and further exacerbating congestion, which again just creates more problems.
So, hopefully, the Administration is alert to these issues and will seriously consider bringing forward a bit more funding so we can at least complete the Riverwalk and address some of those other connectivity concerns to offset these very serious negative impacts.
Chair: Further speakers? Any further speakers?
Councillor MURPHY.
Councillor MURPHY: Thank you very much, Chair. I often feel that debate in the Chamber on the Public and Active Transport Committee is sometimes a direct conversation between Councillor SRI and I, in which everybody else is a public participant. I’ll just briefly address, look, some of the points that he’s made. At the outset, can I just say, this Administration is entirely apologetic to all the residents who have suffered from the loss of the wooden hull ferries on the network. This was not a planned event. This is something that took us by surprise, as well.
I know that the ferries team in Council, in Transport for Brisbane, have moved heaven and earth to restore a semblance of services for the people of Brisbane since they were taken off the water in July last year. In November last year, to be able to restore services, to bring those KittyCats to our city, to see them as a pack of five streaming down the river to provide those services again was a very proud moment, I’m sure, for all our LNP Councillors, making the best out of what was a very, very poor situation that had developed.
Now, I accept what Councillor SRI is saying around the 2022 timeframe for replacement of the Dockside ferry terminal. Now, when it comes to managing major infrastructure projects, 2022 is a fast-track in this place because we know how long it takes to get major infrastructure projects delivered, and this Administration has a very strong track record of delivering major infrastructure projects, but we accept and I accept that the residents out there may not see the end of 2022 as a fast-track, necessarily, for restoration of that ferry terminal.
I’m glad, Chair, that Councillor SRI is meeting with ‘well-dressed’ people in his ward and taking ideas from them about—they’re obviously taking a little bit of a leaf out of his book, wanting to organise some sit-in protests, and he’s obviously taking a bit of a leaf out of their book by showing some restraint and not indulging them in that idea. I do think that is good, and I’ll tell you what, Councillor SRI, you’ve inspired me today that, in an act of bipartisanship, I will look into modifications that we may be able to make to the Dockside ferry terminal in order to bring that terminal back into rotation.
I’m conscious that, particularly when Mowbray Park comes out of operation, we will have an entire side of the Kangaroo Point peninsula that will be without a ferry service, and that’s not something that I want to see as Chair. God knows, the people of Kangaroo Point have suffered enough from the lack of services that have been—since July last year, since we had to take those ferries off the water. So, I’m happy to investigate that to see if it’s possible.
What I will say is that those modifications may be at significant cost, and we will need to look at—as you say, the cost of all the services that we provide, and I must again reiterate to you, as I have many times in this place, Kangaroo Point, South Brisbane, the parts of the city that you represent are some of the best-served parts of the city when it comes to public transport. There are other parts of this city—city of 1.2 million people—that have very little access to public transport that your residents have.
So, we will look at all those issues with a whole-of-city approach to make sure that we can deliver something that provides a good, balanced outcome for your residents and for transport for Brisbane, and obviously the budget issues that Councillor ALLAN has made us very aware of today, so thank you, Chair.
Chair: We’ll now put the resolution.
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.
The report read as follows(
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – COVID-19 – IMPACT ON NETWORK
563/2020-21
1. The Manager, Strategy and Network Services, Transport for Brisbane, attended the meeting to provide an update on the impact of COVID-19 on public transport patronage and the public transport network. He provided the information below.
2. Prior to COVID-19, demand for public transport in Brisbane was strong, with bus patronage generally increasing each year. Ferry patronage, while more variable, was also performing well. The Committee was shown graphs indicating patronage trends. Changes in fares always impact patronage performance, with the following increases to fares in recent years:
- December 2016 (fairer fares introduced)
- January 2018 – increase of 1.5%
- January 2019 – increase of 1.8%
- January 2020 – increase of 1.9%.
3. In the year leading up to COVID-19, bus and ferry patronage was exceeding that of the previous year. The Committee was shown graphs indicating patronage trends. Patronage declined in January 2020 following the fare increase and it began to further decline in March, reaching its lowest point in April as follows:
- bus patronage fell to 18.92% of normal levels
- ferry patronage fell to 13.96% of normal levels
- these rates were driven by more patrons working from home, universities and school delivering online learning and concerns about social distancing onboard.
4. As we recover from the impacts of COVID-19, bus patronage has been increasing in line with normal, seasonal fluctuations and continues to increase in proportion to normal patronage levels. The Committee was shown graphs indicating patronage trends. Ferry patronage increased until July 2020, before decreasing slightly, and strengthening again from September 2020.
5. Current Transport for Brisbane patronage is approximately 70% of pre-COVID-19 levels with peak travel more affected than off-peak travel. Office building occupancy in the Brisbane CBD is at approximately 60% and pedestrian activity in the Queen Street Mall is at approximately 80% of pre-COVID-19 levels.
6. There is a high level of uncertainty as to the duration and long-term impacts of the pandemic on the public transport network due to:
- the number of patrons working from home (noting that working from home is not available to all patrons and the main beneficiaries are professional, managerial, clerical and CBD-based workers)
- tertiary institutions continuing to deliver online learning which reduces the high demand from students, with The University of Queensland previously being the second-highest patronage generator in the network
- the rate at which international students will return to Brisbane
- the reduced revenue and implications for service levels, potentially exacerbating overcrowding on certain trips
- long-term changes to customer practices or expectations in relation to personal space
- the ability for people to alter travel times due to constraints around school, childcare and work arrangements.
7. When SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) affected Asia in 2003, public transport patronage declined by 25-35% and returned to normal levels within six months. A key difference with COVID-19 is the recent improvements in technology to enable patrons to work from home.
8. Travel patterns post-COVID-19 are expected to see a reduction in public transport use compared to previous levels, impacted significantly by the continued increase in working from home. It is likely to see a residual, at least short-term, shift from public transport use to private vehicle reliance and active transport uptake.
9. Monash University’s Public Transport Research Group projections for Melbourne estimates that public transport patronage will level out at 80% of pre-COVID-19 levels. Perth’s public transport patronage has already returned to approximately 80% of pre-COVID-19 levels. Even if there is a reduced level of public transport patronage, population growth is expected to result in a return to pre-COVID-19 levels of patronage in a few years. Bus transport is generally more resilient than other public transport modes, so it is expected to return to higher patronage levels more quickly than other modes.
10. There remains underlying trends of growth and mode shift towards public transport in response to increasing congestion and population. Public transport trips are expected to grow by 3.4% per annum until 2041. Public transport weekly mode share is expected to grow from 7.3% in 2016 to 11.7% in 2041.
11. There has been a short-term shift from public transport patronage to private and active transport modes. However, there is an underlying trend of continued population growth driving public transport patronage and mode share. The medium to long-term public transport growth trend is driven by increases in population and congestion and is anticipated to make up for reduced demand due to working from home arrangements.
12. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chair thanked the Manager, Strategy and Network Services, for his informative presentation.
13. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT COUNCIL NOTE THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE ABOVE REPORT.
ADOPTED
B PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL REINSTATE THE CITYHOPPER SERVICE AT THE DOCKSIDE FERRY TERMINAL AND PROVIDE INFORMATION ON A TERMINAL UPGRADE, IF REQUIRED
CA20/1426439
564/2020-21
14. A petition from residents, requesting Council reinstate the CityHopper service at the Dockside Ferry Terminal and provide information on a terminal upgrade, if required, was received during the Summer Recess 2020-21.
15. The Divisional Manager, Transport for Brisbane, provided the following information.
16. The petition contains a total of 51 signatures, with the majority of signatories residing in Kangaroo Point.
17. Council provides ferry and CityCat services through a contract with RiverCity Ferries Pty Ltd. There is also an agreement between Council and TransLink, in which TransLink provides integrated ticketing arrangements on ferry and CityCat services. Council works in conjunction with TransLink to ensure the residents and visitors of Brisbane have access to a reliable and accessible public transport network.
18. In July 2020, Council’s nine monohull ferries that provided the cross-river and CityHopper ferry services were removed from service due to safety concerns. The decision to remove them from service at short notice was not taken lightly and was made to ensure the safety of the passengers and crew.
19. Council sourced additional ferries and returned the only steel monohull, Kalparrin, to cover some of the cross-river and CityHopper ferry services as an interim measure while it assesses the capability of the fleet. In November 2020, RiverCity Ferries Pty Ltd began operating additional ferries, known as KittyCats.
20. Dockside Ferry Terminal is an older terminal and is not currently compatible with the modern KittyCats due to the difference in height between the terminal and vessel.
21. Council has started planning for the terminal to be upgraded to restore serviceability as soon as possible and will continue to keep Kangaroo Point residents informed of the plans for this terminal.
22. In the interim, Council is providing a free replacement shuttle bus service, route 27, which operates at 25-minute intervals. This shuttle service will be assessed in the coming months.
Consultation
23. Councillor Ryan Murphy, Chair of the Public and Active Transport Committee, has been consulted and supports the recommendation.
24. The Divisional Manager recommended as follows and the Committee agreed, with Councillor Jonathan Sri dissenting.
25. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT the information in this submission be noted and the draft response, as set out in Attachment A, hereunder, be sent to the head petitioner.
Attachment A
Draft Response
Petition Reference: CA20/1426439
Thank you for your petition requesting Council reinstate the CityHopper service at the Dockside Ferry Terminal and provide information on a terminal upgrade, if required.
Council provides ferry and CityCat services through a contract with RiverCity Ferries Pty Ltd. There is also an agreement between Council and TransLink, in which TransLink provides integrated ticketing arrangements on ferry and CityCat services. Council works in conjunction with TransLink to ensure the residents and visitors of Brisbane have access to a reliable and accessible public transport network.
In July 2020, Council’s nine monohull ferries that provided the cross-river and CityHopper ferry services were removed from service due to safety concerns. The decision to remove them from service at short notice was not taken lightly and was made to ensure the safety of the passengers and crew.
Council sourced additional ferries and returned the only steel monohull, Kalparrin, to cover some of the cross-river and CityHopper ferry services as an interim measure while it assesses the capability of the fleet. In November 2020, RiverCity Ferries Pty Ltd began operating additional ferries, known as KittyCats.
Dockside Ferry Terminal is an older terminal and is not currently compatible with the modern KittyCats due to the difference in height between the terminal and vessel.
Council has started planning for the terminal to be upgraded to restore serviceability as soon as possible and will continue to keep Kangaroo Point residents informed of the plans for this terminal.
In the interim, Council is providing a free replacement shuttle bus service, route 27, which operates at 25-minute intervals from the Dockside Ferry Terminal. This shuttle service will be assessed in the coming months.
The above information will be forwarded to the other petitioners via email.
Should you wish to discuss this matter further, please contact Ms Selena Beaverson, Executive Assistant, Divisional Manager’s Office, Transport for Brisbane, on (07) 3407 2216.
Thank you for raising this matter.
ADOPTED
Chair: Councillors, the Infrastructure Committee report, please.
INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE
Councillor David McLACHLAN, Chair of the Infrastructure Committee, moved, seconded by Councillor Sandy LANDERS, that the report of the meeting of that Committee held on 2 March 2021, be adopted.
Chair: Is there any debate?
Councillor McLACHLAN?
Are there any further speakers? Any other speakers?
Councillor McLACHLAN?
I’ll now put the resolution.
Upon being submitted to the Chamber, the motion for the adoption of the report of the Infrastructure Committee was declared carried on the voices.
The report read as follows(
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – ENERGY EFFICIENT LIGHTS FOR BRISBANE PROJECT
565/2020-21
1. The Program Director, Civil and Transport, Project Management, City Projects Office, Brisbane Infrastructure, and the Manager, Asset Management, Brisbane Infrastructure, attended the meeting to provide an update on the Energy Efficient Lights for Brisbane Project (the project). They provided the information below.
2. The project began in 2018-19, with upgrades to existing lights in Council parks and bikeways to Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting. Council pays for all public lighting in the city and is responsible for compliance and determining the standard and level of public lighting. Council sub-contracts to Energex for the provision and maintenance of approximately 88.66% of Council’s public lighting. Council is responsible for determining the illumination levels of lighting on Council roads, bikeways and parks.
3. The benefits of LED lighting include:
- energy savings of up to 60%
- reduced maintenance and replacement costs as LED lighting lasts three to four times longer
- increased safety for all users due to improved visibility.
4. The Committee was shown before and after photos of Ellen Grove District Sports Park, Ellen Grove; Kedron Brook Bikeway, Wavell Heights; Cathedral Square, Brisbane CBD; and photos of Admiralty Towers, Brisbane CBD and the Bicentennial Bikeway, Brisbane CBD following LED upgrades.
5. Under the project, approximately 1,380 lights across 115 parks and 266 lights on seven bikeways were transitioned to LED lighting in 2018-19, at a cost of approximately $3.3 million. In 2019-20, approximately 2,488 lights across 423 parks and 198 lights on seven bikeways were transitioned to LED lighting, at a cost of approximately $4.8 million. Approximately 619 lights across 88 parks and 55 lights on one bikeway are proposed for the transition to LED lighting in 2020-21, at an estimated cost of $3.5 million.
6. The Committee was shown a graph highlighting the increase in the use of LED lights and the decrease in the number of other lights in operation as they are replaced with LED lighting.
7. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chair thanked the Program Director and Manager for their informative presentation.
8. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT COUNCIL NOTE THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE ABOVE REPORT.
ADOPTED
B PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL CONSIDER INSTALLING PAINTED PEDESTRIAN CROSSING LINES AT THE EXISTING REFUGE ON WAMINDA STREET, NORMAN PARK
CA20/1437965
566/2020-21
9. A petition from residents, requesting Council consider installing painted pedestrian crossing lines at the existing refuge on Waminda Street, Norman Park, was received during the Summer Recess 2020-21.
10. The Manager, Transport Planning and Operations, Brisbane Infrastructure, provided the following information.
11. The petition contains 84 signatures. Of the petitioners, 62 live in Morningside Ward, 21 live in other wards of the City of Brisbane and one lives outside the City of Brisbane.
12. Waminda Street has a 60 km/h speed limit and functions as a suburban road in Council’s road hierarchy under Brisbane City Plan 2014. Suburban roads connect arterial routes in and around suburbs and form an important link in the public transport and inter-suburban freight network. Suburban roads are primarily designed to carry traffic movements rather than provide property access. Attachment B (submitted on file) shows a locality map.
13. The petitioners’ request for a zebra crossing at the existing refuge on Waminda Street has been noted. Council has reviewed the latest available data from the Queensland Government’s crash database between 1 January 2015 and 31 July 2020, and notes that there have been no reported crashes of any kind in the vicinity of the existing pedestrian refuge island.
14. When considering a location for a pedestrian crossing facility, Council‘s primary focus is the safety of pedestrians while maintaining efficient traffic movement on the road network. In order to achieve the best solution, an assessment of individual environments is conducted using the Queensland Government’s Department of Transport and Main Roads’ Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), in conjunction with Australian Standard (AS) 1742.10-2009.
15. Council has considered if it would be suitable to install a zebra crossing in this location. One of the assessment criteria of the MUTCD requires that the crossing point be used regularly throughout the day. While it is appreciated that school children and other pedestrians may use the crossing during the morning and afternoon school peak times, outside of these times the existing pedestrian refuge is not used on a regular basis.
16. Zebra crossings are not suitable in all locations as they can lead to dangerous interactions between vehicles and pedestrians. Studies have shown that pedestrians often assume drivers will always stop at zebra crossings and may walk in front of oncoming vehicles. In addition, at under-utilised crossings, drivers can grow accustomed to not seeing pedestrians using the crossing and tend to disregard them over time. This creates a highly dangerous situation where conflict between pedestrians and vehicles is likely.
17. It is noted that the existing refuge has advanced warning signage in place on both approaches, to inform motorists that pedestrians may be present on the road ahead. The refuge provides a space for pedestrians to wait while negotiating only one direction of traffic at a time. In accordance with the MUTCD, zebra crossings are not permitted on roads with an approach speed greater than 50 km/h. Accordingly, the existing refuge is considered to be the most appropriate crossing for this location, and upgrading the refuge island to a zebra crossing is not able to be supported.
18. However, given the traffic carrying function of Waminda Street, Council will request for a seven-day traffic survey to be conducted at the location, to help determine vehicle volumes and speeds. Once completed, an assessment of the results will be undertaken to determine if any further traffic management measures may be warranted, such as a Speed Limit Review (SLR).
19. Roads identified as potentially suitable for a SLR are then subject to a formal process which considers the road’s function, recorded traffic speeds and volumes, environmental characteristics and crash data. Where the review supports a change to the posted speed, the proposal is then presented to the Speed Management Committee (SMC) for a decision. The SMC has representatives from the Queensland Police Service, TMR and Council.
20. Should the seven-day traffic survey deem a SLR is warranted, and the SLR recommends a speed limit reduction from 60 km/h to 50 km/h on Waminda Street, and this is also supported by the SMC, then a pedestrian survey will be conducted to determine if it meets the requirements for a zebra crossing under the MUTCD and AS.
Consultation
21. Councillor Kara Cook, Councillor for Morningside Ward, has been consulted and supports the recommendation.
Customer impact
22. The submission will respond to the petitioners’ concerns.
23. The Manager recommended as follows and the Committee agreed.
24. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT THE INFORMATION IN THIS SUBMISSION BE NOTED AND THE DRAFT RESPONSE, AS SET OUT IN ATTACHMENT A, hereunder, BE SENT TO THE HEAD PETITIONER.
Attachment A
Draft Response
Petition Reference: CA20/1437965
Thank you for your petition requesting Council consider installing a zebra crossing at the existing refuge on Waminda Street, near Moolabar Street, Norman Park.
Your request for a zebra crossing at the existing refuge on Waminda Street has been noted. Council has reviewed the latest available data from the Queensland Government’s crash database between 1 January 2015 and 31 July 2020, and notes that there have been no reported crashes of any kind in the vicinity of the existing pedestrian refuge island.
When considering a location for a pedestrian crossing facility, Council‘s primary focus is the safety of pedestrians while maintaining efficient traffic movement on the road network. In order to achieve the best solution, an assessment of individual environments is conducted using the Queensland Government’s Department of Transport and Main Roads’ Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), in conjunction with Australian Standard (AS) 1742.10-2009.
Council has considered if it would be suitable to install a zebra crossing in this location. One of the assessment criteria of the MUTCD requires that the crossing point be used regularly throughout the day. While it is appreciated that school children and other pedestrians may use the crossing during the morning and afternoon school peak times, outside of these times the existing pedestrian refuge is not used on a regular basis.
Zebra crossings are not suitable in all locations as they can lead to dangerous interactions between vehicles and pedestrians. Studies have shown that pedestrians often assume drivers will always stop at zebra crossings and may walk in front of oncoming vehicles. In addition, at under-utilised crossings, drivers can grow accustomed to not seeing pedestrians using the crossing and tend to disregard them over time. This creates a highly dangerous situation where conflict between pedestrians and vehicles is likely.
It is noted that the existing refuge has advanced warning signage in place on both approaches, to inform motorists that pedestrians may be present on the road ahead. The refuge provides a space for pedestrians to wait while negotiating only one direction of traffic at a time. In accordance with the MUTCD, zebra crossings are not permitted on roads with an approach speed greater than 50 km/h. Accordingly, the existing refuge is considered to be the most appropriate crossing for this location, and upgrading the refuge island to a zebra crossing is not able to be supported.
However, given the traffic carrying function of Waminda Street, Council will request for a seven-day traffic survey to be conducted at the location, to help determine vehicle volumes and speeds. Once completed, an assessment of the results will be undertaken to determine if any further traffic management measures may be warranted, such as a Speed Limit Review (SLR).
Roads identified as potentially suitable for a SLR are then subject to a formal process which considers the road’s function, recorded traffic speeds and volumes, environmental characteristics and crash data. Where the review supports a change to the posted speed, the proposal is then presented to the Speed Management Committee (SMC) for a decision. The SMC has representatives from the Queensland Police Service, TMR and Council.
Should the seven-day traffic survey deem a SLR is warranted, and the SLR recommends a speed limit reduction from 60 km/h to 50 km/h on Waminda Street, and this is also supported by the SMC, then a pedestrian survey will be conducted to determine if it meets the requirements for a zebra crossing under the MUTCD and AS.
Should you wish to discuss this matter further, please contact Ms Maheshi De Silva, Transport Network Officer, Transport Planning and Operations, Brisbane Infrastructure, on (07) 3178 8841.
ADOPTED
Chair: Councillors, the Environment, Parks and Sustainability Committee meeting, please.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM.
ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE
Councillor Fiona CUNNINGHAM, Chair of the Environment, Parks and Sustainability Committee, moved, seconded by Councillor Tracy DAVIS, that the report of the meeting of that Committee held on 2 March 2021, be adopted.
Chair: Is there any debate?
Councillor CUNNINGHAM.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: Thank you, Mr Chair. Our Committee presentation last week was an update on the Norman Creek Master Plan. This was of course of particular interest to me as Norman Creek plays a huge role in both the geography and community of my ward. In 2010, the master plan was announced as Australia’s first master plan for an entire waterway catchment. In 2011, Council gathered community ideas, conducted preliminary studies, developed a vision and concept plan, and began master planning.
In 2012, the master plan was developed, and in 2013, Council undertook further community engagement to finalise this master plan. Coorparoo Creek Park was delivered as a priority project from 2013 to 2017. From 2016 to 2018, works were delivered at Glindemann Park in Holland Park Ward. Currently, works are underway at Hanlon Park in Stones Corner, and it’s a project that you really need to see to understand its scale and how transformative it will be. If any Councillors would like to go on a tour, please let me know.
We also had, Mr Chair, item B which is the quarterly Bushland Acquisition report. In the financial year to December 2020, Council secured 60 Klumpp Road, Upper Mount Gravatt. This 1.2-hectare property supports remnant vegetation and forms part of an important ecological corridor, connecting habitat near Toohey Forest. The acquisition of the property will also consolidate Council-owned bushland at Mount Gravatt Park. Council has been progressing negotiations to acquire numerous other priority properties across the city.
Other than the acquisition of land through the program, Council also expended some funds in the financial year to date on cleaning up recently acquired properties. This includes demolishing houses and removing rubbish from acquired properties so they can be restored and established as public conservation reserves. Mr Chair, it was Lord Mayor Sallyanne Atkinson who started Brisbane’s Bushland Acquisition program in 1990, and it was this Administration which reached an accelerated target of 750 hectares of bushland purchased and protected in just four years, from 2016 to 2020.
Since 1990, Council has bought over 4,270 hectares into public ownership and protection, including Brisbane’s most significant koala habitat areas and large sections of natural areas such as Mt Coot-tha Forest. Mr Chair, we also had a park naming and three petitions, and I’m sure there’ll be plenty of comments in the Chamber.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor GRIFFITHS.
Councillor GRIFFITHS: Yes, thank you, Mr Chair, and I’m delighted to be able to speak to this report, as well. First off, I’d like to speak to the bushland preservation report, and we always get the gloss from the LNP in relation to their performance in relation to bushland preservation. Unfortunately, it’s a sad story and it is not the case. The gloss hides a lot of, unfortunately, muck in relation to what is going on with the Bushland Preservation Levy and funding. Disappointingly, we spent less than 18% of monies collected in the last year on bushland—on the purchase of bushland.
That is—when you talk to residents, when you let them know how little of their bushland preservation money is actually being used by this Council to purchase bushland, they get a shock. They are dismayed, and I know time and again, residents and when I speak to habitat groups, talk about the poor performance of this Administration in purchasing bushland and in actually looking after our environment. Certainly, one of the things we have called on or we’ve asked for or expect the Administration to do is to actually come up with a strategy for the environment, come up with a strategy, an environmental strategy for the city.
As of yet, the LNP have done nothing. Of course they don’t want to do anything because if you had an environment strategy that actually said where the land was that we actually wanted to preserve, you would suddenly remove a whole lot of hocus pocus about how land and funding is happening in relation to bushland. It’s an uncomfortable fact that it would actually make bushland purchasing by this Council transparent to the residents of Brisbane. So, we believe there should be an environmental strategy for the city, that this should inform our bike strategy, it should also inform our purchase of bushland strategy.
Now, in relation to this report, disappointingly, we collected $16 million for bushland purchase, and yet we only spent three on actually purchasing or acquiring properties, which meant a whole lot of money that was previously used and contained in our core budget is now being taken out of this fund. It means that what we’re doing is missing out on purchasing really important bushland for the city. That brings me to the next point which is in relation to the two petitions in the report today, so item D and E.
Seriatim en bloc - Clauses D and E
|Councillor Steve GRIFFITHS requested that Clause D, PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL ACQUIRE 409, 411, 415, 427, 432 AND 440 BECKETT ROAD,|
|BRIDGEMAN DOWNS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF A WILDLIFE CORRIDOR ACROSS BECKETT ROAD; and Clause E, PETITIONS – REQUESTING COUNCIL PURCHASE |
|BUSHLAND AT 415 AND 427 BECKETT ROAD, BRIDGEMAN DOWNS, AS PART OF THE BUSHLAND ACQUISITION PROGRAM, be taken seriatim en bloc for |
|voting purposes. |
Chair: Please proceed.
Councillor GRIFFITHS: Sorry, okay, you’ve got that. Yes, requesting Council acquire land at Beckett Road, Bridgeman Downs, for the purpose of a wildlife corridor across Beckett Road. Of course, that land has been very contentious. It’s home to significant amounts of flora and fauna, to a healthy koala population, and unfortunately, despite three urgency motions, despite numerous calls for this Administration to use some of the bushland funds that we have here to purchase this property—or these properties threatened by development, this Council and this LNP Administration has outright refused to do anything, outright refused to do anything.
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor GRIFFITHS: Even—well, that’s right, what did they do? I’ll take that interjection, what did they do at Carrara Street at Mount Gravatt, land that was cleared, that had no koalas on it, that had no flora and fauna on it? It was actually purchased back. We spent a huge amount of our acquisition money buying that land back, and then, now we’re rehabilitating it. Yet, here we have a significant amount of land, a significant corridor, and this land here, we won’t buy back. You’ve really got to wonder about the logic of what this Administration and what this Council stands for.
What we would say is, if we had—if this Council actually had a strategy for what are the significant areas of the city that we should be trying to preserve and keep for generations into the future, then we could check it off against this strategy, rather than have these decisions hang out there—hang out there and nothing happens. So we won’t be and we can’t be supporting what this Administration is doing in terms of the environment, and particularly in terms of these petitions. Residents out there should be really feeling let down by the way they’ve been treated in relation to this land, and by the way they’ve been treated by this Administration.
I can tell you strongly that habitat groups, wildlife groups, across Brisbane are watching eagerly for this bikeway strategy in our forests to see how this Administration responds to that. Thank you, Mr Chair.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor MURPHY.
Councillor MURPHY: Thank you very much, Chair. I rise in support of the park naming submission for the park known as Manly Road Park at 880 Manly Road, Wakerley, to be named ‘Bill McFarlane Park’. This is the Wakerley sports park which was in Doboy Ward prior to the last election, but now faithfully falls within Chandler Ward. I’m very pleased that this park naming submission has made it here, and I’d like to record my thanks to the staff at Asset Services East and NEWS, as well as Councillor CUNNINGHAM’s office, who helped progress this very important proposal, and I’ll tell you why it’s so important at the end.
Bill McFarlane, or Mr Mac, as he was affectionately known by, has very strong ties to the eastern suburbs of Brisbane, through his service to women’s sport, Meals on Wheels, and the Wynnum Manly community. It’s actually very fitting that we are naming a park after this man, who did so much for women’s sport, just the day after International Women’s Day. Bill’s legacy began when he played an important role in the development of McFarlane Field at 388 Wondall Road in Manly West, where he mowed the field’s grass to perfection every week on his old Ferguson tractor.
The fields were later utilised by the Wynnum Manly Marching Girls Association and the Wynnum Manly Women’s Basketball Association for more than 20 years. Bill is the past president of the now-defunct Wynnum and District’s Marching Girls Association, and he and his late wife Olive were actively involved in the association for 30 years. Eventually, during the 1990s, the fields at Wondall Road were ceased to be used by the Marching Girls Association after the group was wound up in 2007, marching girls no longer being the flavour at the time.
Bill then generously gifted the Association’s site at 388 Wondall Road to the Wynnum and Manly District’s Meals on Wheels Association for a new facility to be developed. Meals on Wheels is a charity organisation that helps people stay living in their home and connect to their communities by providing meals, a safety and wellbeing check, and social cohesiveness to their clients, and Wynnum and Manly Districts certainly service a large and growing base. Unfortunately, due to a lack of funds, Meals on Wheels was forced to reluctantly sell the parcel of land to Bunnings, but with the land sold, the charity service now had the funds to construct a kitchen, but no land to build it on.
In 2014, they petitioned myself to construct the site at 880 Manly Road, which is actually the preferred site for a new sports facility, and it was a long journey, a very long journey to take Wynnum and Manly District’s Meals on Wheels’ money, partner it with a sports organisation—we’re very glad and pleased that we found Netball Queensland to partner with—to then develop that facility. On 25 July last year, I had the honour of officially opening the $7.2 million Wakerley District Sports Park, and with a new commercial kitchen for Meals on Wheels with our LORD MAYOR, Adrian SCHRINNER. Councillor Lisa ATWOOD was there, as well as the CEO of Netball Queensland, Catherine Clark.
It was a great day because Wynnum and Manly District’s Meals on Wheels had fought for that day since the 1990s. They successfully moved into their new building in May last year and have been continuing their essential work of providing food services to the local community ever since. I launched a petition in July last year to rename the new sports park to Bill McFarlane Park, and on it closing, it received 217 signatures from locals who agreed that this man’s legacy is one that is still having an impact on people today and it deserves to be remembered and honoured by people in this place and the community more broadly.
Without the generosity of Bill McFarlane in gifting that initial piece of land to Wynnum and District’s Meals on Wheels and his push for transfer and development of the site, this important community and sports facility would never have been made possible. It’s only fitting that Council named their new park in his honour. I would also like to take this time to thank Bill’s family, especially his granddaughter, Nelly Hilder, for meeting with me, leading the petition to have this great man recognised for his work in the community.
I said I would tell you why this is so important at the start. When we set out to get this facility constructed, Bill McFarlane was 88, and I believe he’s now 96. So very important that we got this park named because Bill has been waiting a long time to see it happen, and I’m sure he will be very pleased to know that this Council will have supported the submission. I hope all Councillors do so.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor CUMMING.
Councillor CUMMING: Thanks, Mr Chair. Mr Chair, I also rise in support of item C, as Bill is one of my constituents. The land, as Councillor MURPHY said, is occupied by the new Meals on Wheels kitchen, which appears to be going well every month when I go down there. The netball courts have been leased to Queensland Netball and they’re getting greater use of those courts, as well. As Councillor MURPHY said, Bill’s involvement was he was President of the Wynnum Manly Marching Girls Association and he actually told me that he and a few of the other gentlemen involved with the organisation actually put up their own money to buy some of the land which the Marching Girls and the Women’s Basketball Association occupied.
It was when those groups folded that they were looking for a worthy, non-for-profit group to support. Bill, as a strong supporter of Meals on Wheels, gave a substantial amount of land to Meals on Wheels and, as Councillor MURPHY said, Meals on Wheels sold that land and then they had plenty of money to put towards this new project, and it’s turned out really well. Bill lives in Manly West. He’s one of nature’s gentlemen. He is, I think—I’ve got him as 95, so he’s 95 years young and he’s—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CUMMING: —fit as a proverbial fiddle and as sharp as a proverbial tack. He had a successful career and business and was a great community supporter, as well. One of my lasting memories of Bill was he’s a great contributor of raffle prizes. They used to run a big raffle at the Meals on Wheels volunteers’ Christmas party. It was a free raffle, and Bill would provide about 75% of the 100 or so prizes for—I said, Bill, where did you get all those prizes from? He said, I go to a few of the other clubs and win some of their raffles, too, and then I bring them down here for Meals on Wheels to sell off.
All the people who work on Meals on Wheels really enjoyed that and really enjoyed the chance of winning some of the prizes that Bill had provided. So congratulations to Bill for being honoured with a park named after him, especially such a prominent park with so many great facilities. He’s a worthy recipient and we strongly support this item.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor HUANG.
Councillor HUANG: Thank you, Mr Chair. I rise to speak with excitement on item B of the Committee report on the Bushland Preservation Levy Report for the period ending December 2020. Mr Chair, I’d like to congratulate the Schrinner Council Administration on securing 60 Klumpp Road, Upper Mount Gravatt. As Councillor CUNNINGHAM stated, this is a 1.2-hectare property, supports remnant vegetation, and forms an important ecological corridor connecting Mount Gravatt Conservation Reserve and Roly Chapman Reserve, where there are constant koala sightings.
Mr Chair, acquiring these parts of land will consolidate Council-owned bushland at Mount Gravatt Park and lay a good foundation for the future wildlife corridor. That is also being supported by the Federal Government and that is something local habitat groups are extremely grateful. I happened to run into Mr Michael Fox from Habitat Brisbane at Mount Gravatt Lookout last week, and I’m sure he will be so excited to tell you how excited he is about the progress of the Schrinner Council Administration has made in preserving our environment and wildlife. So I cheerfully commend the report to the Chamber.
Chair: Further speakers? Further speakers?
Councillor CASSIDY.
Councillor CASSIDY: Oh, thanks, Chair. I’m very surprised—and perhaps she will shortly—to see that Councillor DAVIS hasn’t spoken on these petitions, Clause D and E, which I’ll speak on very briefly and in support of what Councillor GRIFFITHS has just said. These are very important petitions that have come to Council, calling on Council to purchase this land. I understand the members of Councillor DAVIS’ community are watching right now as we speak and will be disappointed—online, I believe, Councillor CUMMING, not up there—will be disappointed to see that she’s not contributing. She may, she may.
She may get up after this and contribute to that debate, but picking up on the point that Councillor GRIFFITHS made, that the use of the bushland acquisition levy and fund—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CASSIDY: Yeah, that’s exactly right, Councillor STRUNK. I think the better term is the misuse of the bushland acquisition fund we now see in Council, under the LNP Administration. It’s all about priorities and there’s very little logic, as Councillor GRIFFITHS said, to how this money is being used. This is a prime piece of land in the Mountains to Mangroves Corridor that, if it is developed—and what we know—this is before the Planning and Environment Court and it’s at the stage now, we understand, where Council is negotiating with the developer. What we know, time and time again, when Council and this LNP Administration—
DEPUTY MAYOR: Point of order.
Councillor CASSIDY: Here we go.
Chair: Point of order to you, Councillor ADAMS.
DEPUTY MAYOR: It’s not here we go, it’s impugning motive. This isn’t P&E Court.
Councillor CASSIDY: I didn’t say anything there, I didn’t say it was P&E Court.
Chair: Well, if it is in P&E Court—I suppose the first thing I’ll say is always, please stick to the topic at hand, please don’t impugn motive, but if it is in the P&E Court—
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: —please give consideration to any sub judice matters, as well, that may arise from this, and so—
Councillor CASSIDY: Yes.
Chair: Just again, for your own good, really.
Councillor CASSIDY.
Councillor CASSIDY: Thanks, Chair. All I mentioned was the word P&E Court and the Administration is—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CASSIDY: —very defensive, very defensive about that. What we know from history and their actions in many of these cases—and this is directly relating to this Chair, because this development is before the P&E Court—what we know from plenty of other deals that this Administration has done with developers behind closed doors results in—
Chair: We had a discussion about this last week.
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: The implication is not appropriate, and the—as you well know, and as we’ve discussed many times in this place, there are orders that are given to this Council, so can we please just have the comments reflect that?
Councillor CASSIDY.
Councillor CASSIDY: What we see is that Council, on many, many occasions, agrees with a developer to an outcome, and that’s just the fact. They’re the facts of these cases, and that’s what’s currently happening at the moment. So local residents are worried that they’re going to lose what is part of Brisbane’s ecological heritage. This will be a missing link in the Mountains to Mangroves Corridor if this gets developed, and people are genuinely worried about that. This is something that this Administration should be taking very seriously. We’ve got the Chair getting up and saying that they’re very proud of their Bushland Acquisition program, but we find out that only 18% of the funding has been allocated to actually spend—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CASSIDY: —preserving pieces of bushland that are under threat, and this is one that is under serious threat. If there is any outcome that results in a development on this site, whether it is a scaled-back service station or a scaled back townhouse development, that will see the destruction of this entire Mountains to Mangroves Corridor which stretches from the hills beyond Brisbane up around your neck of the woods, Chair and Deputy Chair, all the way up to the Ramsar listed Moreton Bay.
So, this is of the most importance that this land is preserved, and when locals petition their local Councillor and this Administration to actually use the bushland acquisition levy for what it was designed, to protect some of the most significant land in this city, and they are refusing—and they see what happens over there at Nurran and Carrara Streets, where that fund is politicised and land that is not of high ecological value is purchased, when land like this on Beckett Road is not purchased and not protected. They know that those decisions are politically made.
Councillor HAMMOND: Point of order.
Chair: Point of order, Councillor HAMMOND.
Councillor HAMMOND: Will the Councillor take a question?
Chair: Councillor CASSIDY, will you take a question?
Councillor CASSIDY: No, Chair.
Chair: He has declined.
Councillor CASSIDY, please continue.
Councillor CASSIDY: So, when residents see those decisions being made, they know that they are made politically. They know that a political decision is made by this Administration where to purchase this land, that is clearly not made using the science, that is not made on ecological values, because what we have is a well-established koala population, as Councillor GRIFFITHS has said. There’s a whole lot of other animals and birds and insects that live on this site and rely on this site to survive.
If this Administration doesn’t purchase this, we know what’ll happen. This site will be developed and that Mountains to Mangroves Corridor that successive administrations—LNP administrations in the past and Labor administrations—have protected, and this is where it comes to an end. Councillor DAVIS and Councillor ADAMS and Councillor CUNNINGHAM and this LORD MAYOR, this is where that corridor comes to an end if this Administration doesn’t protect this land.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor DAVIS.
Councillor DAVIS: Thank you, Chair, and I rise to speak to items D and E, regarding petitions asking that Council acquire properties on Beckett Road in Bridgeman Downs through the Bushland Acquisition program. Two of the petitions are in respect of 415 and 427 Beckett Road and are subject of the Planning and Environment Court appeal, and the third petition sought to add adjacent properties and some on the opposite side of Beckett Road. There is particular local interest in 415 and 427 Beckett Road and the nature of the development that is proposed on them.
The current DA seeks to establish on the core properties a childcare centre, a service station, a food and drink outlet, and multiple dwellings. This is a development which is at odds with the wishes of the local residents for the character of their suburbs, and I strongly agree with them. I provided that feedback both to the planning officers and to the DEPUTY MAYOR. In fact, I letterboxed around 250 homes in the vicinity of the two blocks, alerting residents to the development application and providing them with submission details.
As Councillors would be aware, Council refused the application. However, the developer is appealing Council’s rejection of their application and currently, Council is vigorously defending its decision in the Planning and Environment Court, in line with court directions. It is disappointing that, despite the two blocks containing vegetation considered State significant, the State Labor Government chose not to protect the site—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: —through the powers available to the Planning Minister—
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: —which would have ensured the development would not go ahead.
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: Bridgeman Downs is one of a few remaining suburbs on Brisbane’s northside, where expansion of the urban footprint into former rural residential areas is slated for development under the State Labor Government’s South East Queensland plan. It’s why Council has been working with the local community on the Bridgeman Downs neighbourhood plan—
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: —to help guide future development in the suburb, with an aim that the neighbourhood plan meets community expectation of a relaxed suburb, combining city convenience with bushland beauty. The strategy for the neighbourhood plan has identified areas of environmental significance, and I have every confidence that, as part of the draft plan, we will see added protections for our waterways and vegetation that the communities so value.
Mr Chair, I would like to address the confected outrage by the Leader of the Opposition, not only today but in previous meetings. As Councillors may be aware, one of the petitions was jointly sponsored by the Leader of the Opposition and the State Member for Aspley. I would note, Mr Chair—
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: —that the only time that the Leader of the Opposition and the State Member for Aspley had the remotest bit of interest in Bridgeman Downs was during the last year’s State election, where the subject properties fell within the tightly contested seat boundary.
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: It is a bit rich—
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: It is a bit rich—
Chair: Councillors, Councillors, please.
Councillors interjecting.
Chair: All right, Councillors.
Councillor DAVIS.
Councillors, please allow Councillor DAVIS to be heard in silence.
Councillor DAVIS.
Councillor DAVIS: Thank you, Mr Chair. It is a bit rich for the Member for Aspley to petition Council to buy these blocks of land—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: —when three kilometres down the road in Carseldine—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: —the local residents have a very special name for the Member for Aspley—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: —Bulldozer Bart.
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: The reason for it, Mr Chair—
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: Not my words, residents’ words.
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor SRI: Point of order, Chair.
Chair: Is there a point of order? Is—excuse me, did you call a point of order, Councillor SRI?
Could you please state your point of order?
Councillor SRI: Just disorderly conduct in the Chamber, it’s obvious that different Councillors are goading one another and it’s starting to get out of hand.
Chair: I have asked them to be quiet. I’ll do so again.
Councillor SRI: And noting that—
Chair: I appreciate the point you’re about to make.
Councillor SRI: —when one speaker says something provocative, that provokes others to further responses, and perhaps—
Councillors interjecting.
Chair: All right, okay.
Councillors interjecting.
Chair: No, no, no. There will be no debate about this. Councillor SRI, you’ve made your point of order. Please be seated. I will make a decision. I have asked for the Councillor to be heard in silence. I will do so again.
Please, Councillor DAVIS.
Please, Councillors, allow her the ability to have her speech provided in silence.
Councillor DAVIS.
Councillor DAVIS: Mr Chair, why did they name the Member for Aspley in those terms? It’s because he’s a bit gung-ho about redeveloping existing sporting fields to medium density housing—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: —and cutting down a healthy number of trees in the process.
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: As I mentioned earlier, the fact is that last year, had the Member for Aspley truly cared about the blocks of land on Beckett Road, he would have arranged for the Planning Minister to call in the development at no—
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: —cost to the ratepayer, but Councillor CASSIDY and the Member for Aspley weren’t actually interested in preserving the bushland on those sites. They were only interested in petty politicking during the State election.
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: The State Government claimed that the bushland was not significant enough to call it in—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor DAVIS: —and the State Member did nothing about it except to try and shift the blame to Council. Mr Chair, that’s nothing but pathetic. I know that there is very strong community desire to preserve the vegetation on the two blocks, and I’m in furious agreement with them. As outlined in the petition response, we will continue to advocate for the community through the Court’s appeal process and through the development of the neighbourhood plan. Mr Chair, the Opposition Councillors know full well that we cannot speculate on the outcome of the matter before the Courts, but I can assure local residents that Council will continue to oppose this development with the ultimate aim of protecting the land at no cost to ratepayers.
Councillors interjecting.
Chair: All right, further speakers? Further speakers?
Councillor CUNNINGHAM.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: Thanks Mr Chair. Well, look, we’ve had a predictable, but no less disappointing response from Councillors opposite on this debate on bushland acquisition and on the petition. It is this side of the Chamber that has the runs on the board when it comes to taking real action to protect bushland, and those Councillors on the opposite side of the Chamber hate it. They absolutely hate it, Mr Chair. It’s been quite incredible seeing the Opposition’s campaign on Beckett Road, given they spent so much energy previously campaigning on bushland purchases in LNP wards. Who can forget that Labor comrades spent many months on the ground in the DEPUTY MAYOR’s ward campaigning for a purchase there, before they decided they were against it.
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: We have clear corporate rules. We are rightly transparent and accountable to this Chamber—
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: —and I am very proud of the work done—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: —by this Administration to protect and enhance our bushland in Brisbane.
Councillors interjecting.
Chair: All right.
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: When it comes to Beckett Road, Mr Chair—
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: —the application is before the Planning and Environment Court. Council refused the DA on this site and we have been consistent in saying that we do not support the destruction of koala habitat in this matter, and that is our clear position. As Opposition Councillors are well aware, there are a number of ways the bushland can be saved. We have a proud record of making sure that critical bushland in private ownership is protected through the use of legislative requirements. We use our mapping to make sure as much privately owned bushland as possible can be protected.
That’s why Council officers refused the application in the first place, because we don’t support the development on the site in a way that is proposed. We do support the protection of this bushland, and I believe that Council officers made the right decision. If the Opposition were truly so concerned about this site, then instead of playing politics as they are here today, they should have picked up the phone to their colleagues down the road and asked for them to call in the application. They had that power, Mr Chair, and they squibbed it.
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: We know that the State Government can and does use their call-in powers when they want to. We saw it with West Village, but they refused to act on Beckett Road.
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: So forgive me if I don’t buy the crocodile tears from those opposite. The Labor Government could have called in the development and they did nothing. Now, when it comes to Bushland Preservation Levy, Council’s approach to conserving and restoring our habitat is more than just searching on .au.
Councillors interjecting.
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: One hundred per cent of the Bushland Levy goes towards bushland preservation and restoration. The levy funds invasive species management. It supports Wipe Out Weeds, which I’m often hearing from those opposite saying we should expand.
Councillors interjecting.
Chair: Councillors, Councillors, there’s been quite a bit of interjecting. Can I just ask you to be silent for the balance of Councillor CUNNINGHAM’s presentation?
Councillor CUNNINGHAM: The levy supports our Oxley Creek Transformation. It supports the Community Conservation Partnerships program, including Habitat Brisbane. So, Mr Chair, through you, which Habitat Brisbane groups does the Opposition want to shut down? Or perhaps the Opposition want to tell pensioners that they can no longer get a remission on the Bushland Preservation Levy? In summary, Council has numerous biodiversity policy experts advising on how best to manage our bushland, and this Administration will listen, always listen to the experts and the science behind their decisions.
Chair: On items A, B and F—excuse me, A, B, C and F.
Clauses A, B, C and F put
Upon being submitted to the Chamber, the motion for the adoption of Clauses A, B, C and F of the report of the Environment, Parks and Sustainability Committee was declared carried on the voices.
Chair: On items D and E, items D and E.
Clauses D and E put
Upon being submitted to the Chamber, the motion for the adoption of Clauses D and E of the report of the Environment, Parks and Sustainability Committee was declared carried on the voices.
Thereupon, Councillors Jared CASSIDY and Steve GRIFFITHS immediately rose and called for a division, which resulted in the motion being declared carried.
The voting was as follows:
AYES: 19 - DEPUTY MAYOR, Councillor Krista ADAMS, and Councillors Greg ADERMANN, Adam ALLAN, Lisa ATWOOD, Fiona CUNNINGHAM, Tracy DAVIS, Fiona HAMMOND, Vicki HOWARD, Steven HUANG, Sarah HUTTON, Sandy LANDERS, James MACKAY, Kim MARX, Peter MATIC, David McLACHLAN, Ryan MURPHY, Angela OWEN, Steven TOOMEY and Andrew WINES.
NOES: 5 - The Leader of the OPPOSITION, Councillor Jared CASSIDY, and Councillors Peter CUMMING, Steve GRIFFITHS, Charles STRUNK and Jonathan SRI.
The report read as follows(
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – NORMAN CREEK MASTER PLAN UPDATE
567/2020-21
1. The Major Project and Asset Coordination Manager, Natural Environment, Water and Sustainability, City Planning and Sustainability, attended the meeting to provide an update on the Norman Creek 2012-2031 Master Plan (the master plan). He provided the information below.
2. In 2010, the master plan was announced to develop Australia’s first master plan for an entire waterway catchment. In 2011, Council gathered community ideas, conducted preliminary studies, developed a vision and concept plan and began master planning. In 2012, the draft master plan was developed and, in 2013, Council undertook community engagement to finalise the master plan.
3. The master plan is focused on stakeholder engagement and has four goals as follows.
- Healthy ecosystem – connect catchment ecosystems and ensure water remains healthy as it enters and moves through the catchment.
- Recreation and activity – improve the accessibility and diversity of open space areas and create sport and recreation activities to meet the needs of a growing community.
- Living with Brisbane’s climate – design homes, buildings, streets and neighbourhoods with water in mind so they are resilient, even during times of drought and flood.
- Connected communities – strengthen community connections to history, place, activities and services within the catchment.
4. The master plan, to date, has made the following progress:
- 2010 to 2011 – vision and concept plan
- 2012 to 2013 – the master plan was developed and finalised
- 2013 to 2017 – Coorparoo Creek Park (priority project)
- 2017 – Coorparoo downstream works
- 2016 to 2018 – Glindemann Park
- 2018 to present – Stones Corner Precinct and Hanlon Park (priority project).
5. Coorparoo Creek Park, as a priority project, aims to create a connected and open space network that provides a pedestrian and cyclist pathway that links the waterway corridor and open space areas to the Coorparoo centre and public transport nodes. The Committee was shown aerial progress photos of the site in October 2013 and June 2017, as well as images of the green corridor development and completed park features.
6. The Committee was shown images of the completed Coorparoo Creek corridor downstream works, and the construction and landscaping of Glindemann Park.
7. The Committee was shown images of the Stones Corner Precinct and Hanlon Park upgrade (priority project). Stage 1(a) of the Hanlon Park upgrade involved excavation and creation of a meandering channel, bank stabilising, cycle and pedestrian pathways, and tree and ground cover planting. Stage 1(b) involved infilling the concrete channel. Stage 2(a) is underway and excavation has commenced.
8. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chair thanked the Major Project and Asset Coordination Manager for his informative presentation.
9. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT COUNCIL NOTE THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE ABOVE REPORT.
ADOPTED
B COMMITTEE REPORT – BUSHLAND PRESERVATION LEVY REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED DECEMBER 2020
134/695/317/1132
568/2020-21
10. The Divisional Manager, Organisational Services, provided the Committee with a report on expenditure for bushland purposes for the period ended December 2020.
11. The Bushland Preservation Levy Report is prepared on a quarterly basis in order to show the balance of funds held for environmental bushland purposes along with details of environment bushland expenditure.
12. The Committee received and noted the information contained in the attached report (submitted on file) and that the balance of the funds for environmental bushland purposes as at the end of December 2020 is ($54,274,608) due to the accelerated program.
13. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT THE CONTENT OF THE BUSHLAND PRESERVATION LEVY REPORT, submitted on file, FOR THE PERIOD ENDED DECEMBER 2020 BE RECEIVED AND NOTED.
ADOPTED
C PARK NAMING – FORMAL NAMING OF THE PARK KNOWN AS MANLY ROAD PARK (NO. 880), 880 MANLY ROAD, WAKERLEY, AS ‘BILL MCFARLANE PARK’
161/540/567/208
569/2020-21
14. The A/Manager, Asset Services, Field Services, Brisbane Infrastructure, provided the following information.
15. Council received a petition requesting Council name the park known as Manly Road Park (No. 880) (D1582, B-RE-0453), 880 Manly Road, Wakerley, as ‘Bill McFarlane Park’. The petition received 218 signatures supporting the park naming request and was approved by Council at its meeting held on 3 November 2020.
16. Manly Road Park (No. 880) is a large park with many classifications including District general outdoor sports, Local nature conservation, Local access/recreation corridor and Local general recreation. Manly Road Park (No. 880) contains a playground node, picnic facility nodes, pathways, a car park and two leased facilities.
17. Mr Bill McFarlane was well known to locals in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane through his services to local sport as the past president of the Wynnum Manly Girls’ Marching Association. Mr McFarlane was also known for his wider community work and was a life member of the Wynnum and Manly District Meals on Wheels Association Incorporated.
18. Mr McFarlane played an important role as the original owner, and developer, of the old McFarlane sporting fields, once located at 398 Wondall Road, Manly West. The McFarlane sporting fields were used by the Wynnum Manly Girls’ Marching Association and the Wynnum Manly Women‘s Basketball Association. In 2007, Mr McFarlane gifted the parcel of land to the Wynnum and Manly District Meals on Wheels Association Incorporated in order to develop a new facility to replace their ageing facility located on Tingal Road, Wynnum.
19. In 2014, Council was approached by the Wynnum and Manly District Meals on Wheels Association Incorporated, with the support of Councillor Ryan Murphy, Councillor for Chandler Ward, who at the time was Councillor for Doboy Ward, to assist in locating a parcel of land where they could enter into an agreement with Council to construct a kitchen facility to maintain their operations, having disposed of the Wondall Road parcel the previous year.
20. An agreement was reached with Council, and construction of the new kitchen facility was aligned with the planned provision of a community sporting facility in Manly Road Park (No. 880). Both the sporting precinct and the kitchen facility were completed in June 2020.
21. East Region, Asset Services, Field Services, Brisbane Infrastructure, has considered the park naming request, consulted with internal stakeholders, and been given the support by the local community. Council therefore supports the naming of Manly Road Park (No. 880) as ‘Bill McFarlane Park’.
Funding
22. Funding for the name sign is available in the East Region, Asset Services, Field Services, Brisbane Infrastructure, recurrent budget allocation for 2020-21.
Consultation
23. Councillor Ryan Murphy, Councillor for Chandler Ward, has been consulted and supports the recommendation.
Customer impact
24. Formally naming Manly Road Park (No. 880), 880 Manly Road, Wakerley, as ‘Bill McFarlane Park’, will acknowledge Mr McFarlane‘s contributions to sport in the local area, and also his longstanding association with the Wynnum and Manly District Meals on Wheels Association Incorporated.
25. The A/Manager recommended as follows and the Committee agreed.
26. RECOMMENDATION:
that approval be granted to name the park known as Manly Road Park (No. 880), 880 Manly Road, Wakerley, as ‘Bill McFarlane Park’, in accordance with Council’s OS03 Naming Parks, Facilities or Tracks Procedure.
ADOPTED
D PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL ACQUIRE 409, 411, 415, 427, 432 AND 440 BECKETT ROAD, BRIDGEMAN DOWNS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF A WILDLIFE CORRIDOR ACROSS BECKETT ROAD
CA20/467918
570/2020-21
27. A petition from residents, requesting Council acquire 409, 411, 415, 427, 432 and 440 Beckett Road, Bridgeman Downs, for the purpose of a wildlife corridor across Beckett Road, was presented to the meeting of Council held on 5 May 2020, by Councillor Tracy Davis, and received.
28. The Divisional Manager, City Planning and Sustainability, provided the following information.
29. The petition contains 581 signatures.
30. The properties at 409, 411, 415 and 427 Beckett Road are located in the Emerging community zone of Brisbane City Plan 2014 (City Plan), and the properties at 432 and 440 Beckett Road are in the Rural zone of City Plan. The sites at 409, 411, 432 and 440 Beckett Road include owner occupied homes on large lots.
31. The properties at 415 and 427 Beckett Road were subject to a development application for a food and drink outlet, Childcare centre, Service station and Multiple dwellings. The application was refused by Council on 22 May 2020 because it did not comply with the City Plan.
32. All the properties support native vegetation, with several of the sites supporting endangered, remnant vegetation. The properties form part of a terrestrial ecological corridor linking Cabbage Tree Creek, Darien Street Park and Dawn Road Reserve (which is located in the Moreton Bay Region). However, this corridor is fragmented by some development and Beckett Road, which is a multi-lane corridor.
33. The vegetation on these properties is covered by the Biodiversity area overlay of City Plan. These properties, along with many others in the suburb of Bridgeman Downs, contain environmentally significant features that are worth retaining and are mapped as State significant vegetation. However, given the large number of properties in the suburb with environmental values it is not possible to protect every property in the suburb through purchase of the entire allotment.
34. Council has used a range of measures to secure environmentally significant land in Bridgeman Downs as part of the development of the suburb. This has primarily included covenants where subdivisions have been allowed but are required to have statutory instruments in perpetuity binding property owners to retain and protect vegetation on their properties.
35. Council is currently creating a neighbourhood plan for Bridgeman Downs. Neighbourhood plans can provide enhanced protections focused on retention of existing vegetation and waterway corridors and this will be a key focus guiding any development in Bridgeman Downs.
36. Council will be able to use a combination of measures through targeted precincts to ensure appropriate development that protects significant vegetation and waterway corridors, conserving significant habitat and wildlife corridor connections. The draft strategy for the neighbourhood plan was released in October 2020 following the completion of Community Planning Team meetings earlier in the year. Once completed, the neighbourhood plan may change zones, overlays and other parts of City Plan to implement the new vision for the area. Residents interested in the neighbourhood plan are encouraged to sign up to receive updates on the project through Council’s website.
37. Council is also continuing to invest in wildlife movement infrastructure in the area around Beckett Road to help facilitate the safe movement of wildlife. For example, Council has installed LED wildlife awareness monitor signage, wildlife exclusion fencing and wildlife escape poles on parts of Beckett Road to help keep native wildlife safe. Council also recently purchased 818 Rode Road Stafford Heights to add to the Mountains to Mangroves Corridor from Moreton Bay to the D’Aguilar Range.
38. Given the planning provisions mentioned above, combined with the properties being either subject to court action or owner-occupied properties, they are not currently being considered for purchase as part of the Bushland Acquisition Program.
Consultation
39. Councillor Tracy Davis, Councillor for McDowall Ward, has been consulted and supports the recommendation.
40. The Divisional Manager recommended as follows and the Committee agreed, with Councillors Jared Cassidy and Steve Griffiths dissenting.
41. RECOMMENDATION:
that THE information in this submission be noted and the draft response, as set out in Attachment A, hereunder, be sent to the petitioners.
Attachment A
Draft Response
Petition Reference: CA20/467918
Thank you for your petition requesting Council acquire 409, 411, 415, 427, 432 and 440 Beckett Road, Bridgeman Downs, for the purpose of a wildlife corridor across Beckett Road.
The properties at 409, 411, 415 and 427 Beckett Road are located in the Emerging community zone of Brisbane City Plan 2014 (City Plan), and the properties at 432 and 440 Beckett Road are in the Rural zone of City Plan. The sites at 409, 411, 432 and 440 Beckett Road include owner occupied homes on large lots.
The properties at 415 and 427 Beckett Road were subject to a development application for a food and drink outlet, Childcare centre, Service station and Multiple dwellings. The application was refused by Council on 22 May 2020 because it did not comply with the City Plan.
All the properties support native vegetation, with several of the sites supporting endangered, remnant vegetation. The properties form part of a terrestrial ecological corridor linking Cabbage Tree Creek, Darien Street Park and Dawn Road Reserve (which is located in the Moreton Bay Region). However, this corridor is fragmented by some development and Beckett Road, which is a multi-lane corridor.
The vegetation on these properties is covered by the Biodiversity area overlay of City Plan. These properties, along with many others in the suburb of Bridgeman Downs, contain environmentally significant features that are worth retaining and are mapped as State significant vegetation. However, given the large number of properties in the suburb with environmental values it is not possible to protect every property in the suburb through purchase of the entire allotment.
Council has used a range of measures to secure environmentally significant land in Bridgeman Downs as part of the development of the suburb. This has primarily included covenants where subdivisions have been allowed but are required to have statutory instruments in perpetuity binding property owners to retain and protect vegetation on their properties.
Council is currently creating a neighbourhood plan for Bridgeman Downs. Neighbourhood plans can provide enhanced protections focused on retention of existing vegetation and waterway corridors and this will be a key focus guiding any development in Bridgeman Downs.
Council will be able to use a combination of measures through targeted precincts to ensure appropriate development that protects significant vegetation and waterway corridors, conserving significant habitat and wildlife corridor connections. The draft strategy for the neighbourhood plan was released in October 2020 following the completion of Community Planning Team meetings earlier in the year. Once completed, the neighbourhood plan may change zones, overlays and other parts of City Plan to implement the new vision for the area. Residents interested in the neighbourhood plan are encouraged to sign up to receive updates on the project through Council’s website.
Council is also continuing to invest in wildlife movement infrastructure in the area around Beckett Road to help facilitate the safe movement of wildlife. For example, Council has installed LED wildlife awareness monitor signage, wildlife exclusion fencing and wildlife escape poles on parts of Beckett Road to help keep native wildlife safe. Council also recently purchased 818 Rode Road, Stafford Heights, to add to the Mountains to Mangroves Corridor from Moreton Bay to the D’Aguilar Range.
Given the planning provisions mentioned above, combined with the properties being either subject to court action or owner-occupied properties, they are not currently being considered for purchase as part of the Bushland Acquisition Program.
Should you wish to discuss this matter further, please contact Ms Susan Dymock, Senior Program Officer, Bushland Acquisition, Biodiversity and Conservation Planning, Biodiversity Management, Parks and Natural Resources, Natural Environment, Water and Sustainability, City Planning and Sustainability, on (07) 3403 9149.
Thank you for raising this matter.
ADOPTED
E PETITIONS – REQUESTING COUNCIL PURCHASE BUSHLAND AT 415 AND 427 BECKETT ROAD, BRIDGEMAN DOWNS, AS PART OF THE BUSHLAND ACQUISITION PROGRAM
CA20/835768 and CA20/938631
571/2020-21
42. Council has received two petitions from residents, requesting Council purchase bushland at 415 and 427 Beckett Road, Bridgeman Downs, as part of the Bushland Acquisition Program. The first petition (CA20/835768) was received during the Spring Recess 2019-20. The second petition (CA20/938631) was presented to the meeting of Council held on 1 September 2020, by Councillor Jared Cassidy, Councillor for Deagon Ward, and received.
43. The Divisional Manager, City Planning and Sustainability, provided the following information.
44. The first petition (CA20/835768) contains 549 signatures. The second petition (CA20/938631) contains 64 signatures.
45. On 25 June 2019, Council received a development application for a Service station, Food and drink outlets, Child care centre, Multiple dwelling and Subdivision of land over 415 and 427 Beckett Road, Bridgeman Downs (application reference A005226738). Following an assessment by Council’s Development Services, City Planning and Sustainability, against the requirements of Brisbane City Plan 2014 (City Plan), Council refused the application on 19 June 2020.
46. Subsequently, an appeal against Council’s decision to refuse the application was filed with the Planning and Environment Court (the Court) (Court reference 1760/20). The appeal process has not been finalised but Council will seek to defend the decision to refuse the application through the Court process.
47. Council will continue to oppose development of the nature proposed, with the intention to protect the sites at no cost to ratepayers. However, due to the properties being subject to court action, they are not currently being considered for purchase as part of the Bushland Acquisition Program.
Consultation
48. Councillor Tracy Davis, Councillor for McDowall Ward, has been consulted and supports the recommendation.
49. The Divisional Manager recommended as follows and the Committee agreed, with Councillors Jared Cassidy and Steve Griffiths dissenting.
50. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT the information in this submission be noted and the draft response, as set out in Attachment A, hereunder, be sent to the head petitioner.
Attachment A
Draft Response
Petition References: CA20/835768 and CA20/938631
Thank you for your petition requesting Council purchase bushland at 415 and 427 Beckett Road, Bridgeman Downs (the sites), as part of the Bushland Acquisition Program.
The protection of wildlife and the natural environment are key priorities for Council. Council continues to invest in the purchase and protection of significant habitat through the Bushland Acquisition Program to ensure these areas are preserved for current and future generations to enjoy.
On 25 June 2019, Council received a development application for a Service station, Food and drink outlets, Child care centre, Multiple dwelling and Subdivision of land over the sites (application reference A005226738). Following an assessment by Council’s Development Services, City Planning and Sustainability, against the requirements of Brisbane City Plan 2014 (City Plan), Council refused the application on 19 June 2020.
Subsequently, an appeal against Council’s decision to refuse the application was filed with the Planning and Environment Court (the Court) (Court reference 1760/20). The appeal process has not been finalised but Council will seek to defend the decision to refuse the application through the Court process.
Council agrees that these properties support important habitat and this is why the vegetation on these properties has been mapped in the Biodiversity area overlay of City Plan. Therefore, Council will continue to oppose development of the nature proposed, with the intention to protect the sites at no cost to ratepayers.
Due to the properties being subject to court action, they are not currently being considered for purchase as part of the Bushland Acquisition Program.
You may be interested to know that Council is currently creating a neighbourhood plan for Bridgeman Downs. Many homes that are now in Bridgeman Downs were on land that was used for rural purposes or contained large homes on lots which contained established vegetation. As demand to live in the Bridgman Downs area increases, Council recognises the importance of ensuring the area continues to be a great place to live. Therefore, a whole-of-suburb approach to protecting vegetation and waterways is needed for Bridgeman Downs.
The draft strategy for the neighbourhood plan was released in October 2020, following the completion of Community Planning Team meetings earlier in the year. Once completed, the neighbourhood plan may change zones, overlays and other parts of the City Plan to implement the new vision for the area. Residents interested in the neighbourhood plan area are encouraged to sign up to receive updates on the project by visiting Council’s website at brisbane..au and searching ‘Bridgeman Downs neighbourhood plan’.
Council is also continuing to invest in wildlife movement infrastructure in the area around Beckett Road to help facilitate the safe movement of wildlife. For example, Council has installed LED wildlife awareness monitor signage, wildlife exclusion fencing and wildlife escape poles on parts of Beckett Road to help keep native wildlife safe. Council also recently purchased 818 Rode Road, Stafford Heights, to add to the Mountains to Mangroves Corridor from Moreton Bay to the D’Aguilar Range.
Should you have any further enquiries about this matter, please contact Ms Susan Dymock, Senior Program Officer, Biodiversity and Conservation Planning, Parks and Natural Resources, Natural Environment, Water and Sustainability, City Planning and Sustainability, on (07) 3403 9149.
Thank you for raising this matter.
ADOPTED
F PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL INSTALL AN ADDITIONAL SHELTER IN THE SMALL DOG OFF-LEASH AREA OF CURLEW PARK, 74 CURLEW STREET, SANDGATE
CA20/1185171
572/2020-21
51. A petition from residents, requesting Council install an additional shelter in the small dog off-leash area of Curlew Park, 74 Curlew Street, Sandgate, was presented to the meeting of Council held on 3 November 2020, by Councillor Jared Cassidy, and received.
52. The A/Executive Manager, Field Services, Brisbane Infrastructure, provided the following information.
53. The petition contains 129 signatures.
54. The Curlew Park dog off-leash areas are popular with dog owners and consist of a large and small dog off-leash area with lighting for night use. The lighting of these dog off-leash areas was funded in the 2018-19 Council budget. There are currently two shelters located in the large dog off-leash area and one shelter located in the small dog off-leash areas, as shown in Attachment B (submitted on file).
55. Asset Services, North Region, Field Services, Brisbane Infrastructure, has listed the installation of an additional shelter in the small dog off-leash area in Curlew Park for consideration as part of Council’s future capital works program.
56. In June each year, all such listed works are assessed in relation to the overall needs of the City. Those works that are approved are considered to have the highest priority in terms of public safety, convenience and the number of people directly benefited in relation to the cost.
57. This request has also been forwarded to Councillor Jared Cassidy, Councillor for Deagon Ward, for his consideration as part of the Deagon Ward Suburban Enhancement Fund.
Funding
58. Funding may be obtained from Council’s future capital works program or the Deagon Ward Suburban Enhancement Fund.
Consultation
59. Councillor Jared Cassidy, Councillor for Deagon Ward, has been consulted and supports the recommendation.
Customer impact
60. It is anticipated the installation of an additional shelter in the small dog off-leash areas of Curlew Park would have positive customer impact for park users.
61. The A/Executive Manager recommended as follows and the Committee agreed.
62. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT the draft response, as set out in Attachment A, hereunder, be sent to the head petitioner.
Attachment A
Draft Response
Petition Reference: CA20/1185171
Thank you for your petition requesting that Council install an additional shelter in the small dog off-leash area of Curlew Park, 74 Curlew Street, Sandgate.
Council has completed an onsite investigation and considered your request.
Council has listed the installation of an additional shelter in the small dog off-leash area in Curlew Park for consideration as part of Council’s future capital works program.
In June each year, all such listed works are assessed in relation to the overall needs of the City. Those works that are approved are considered to have the highest priority in terms of public safety, convenience and the number of people directly benefited in relation to the cost.
Your request has also been forwarded to Councillor Jared Cassidy, Councillor for Deagon Ward, for his consideration as part of the Deagon Ward Suburban Enhancement Fund.
Each local Councillor decides which new park projects are funded from their Suburban Enhancement Fund, following consultation with adjacent property owners. In the 2020-21 financial year, $14.68 million has been distributed evenly between each ward to enable the delivery of ward-focused projects relating to pedestrian infrastructure, parks, road reserve and community facility improvements.
If you would like to discuss your request directly with Councillor Cassidy, please contact the Deagon Ward Office on (07) 3667 6011.
Please let the other petitioners know of this information.
Should you wish to discuss this matter further, please contact Mr Ted Krosman, Regional Coordinator Parks, North Region, Asset Services, Field Services, Brisbane Infrastructure, on (07) 3407 0841.
Thank you for raising this matter.
ADOPTED
Chair: We will now proceed to the City Standards, Community Health and Safety Committee, please.
Councillor MARX.
CITY STANDARDS, COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE
Councillor Kim MARX, Chair of the City Standards, Community Health and Safety Committee, moved, seconded by Councillor Steven TOOMEY, that the report of the meeting of that Committee held on 2 March 2021, be adopted.
Chair: Is there any debate?
Councillor MARX.
Councillor MARX: Thank you, Mr Chair. Last week, we had a Committee presentation on the domestic animal population survey. No petitions, and I’m happy to leave any debate to the Chamber.
Chair: Further speakers? Further speakers?
Councillor MARX?
I will now I put the resolution to the Chamber.
Upon being submitted to the Chamber, the motion for the adoption of the report of the City Standards, Community Health and Safety Committee was declared carried on the voices.
The report read as follows(
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – DOMESTIC ANIMAL POPULATION SURVEY AND DOG REGISTRATION BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHTS
573/2020-21
1. The Manager, Compliance and Regulatory Services, Lifestyle and Community Services, attended the meeting to provide an update on Council’s domestic animal population survey (the survey) and dog registration behavioural insights. She provided the information below.
2. Council manages all domestic animals in Brisbane under the Queensland Government’s Animal Management (Cats and Dogs) Act 2008 (the Act) and the Animals Local Law 2017.
3. Council conducted the survey in 2020 to obtain detailed data on domestic pet ownership and compliance, including dog registration, microchipping and desexing. The survey identified that more than 58% of households in Brisbane own a domestic pet.
4. The Committee was shown the key trends, identified from the survey, for ownership, desexing and microchipping compliance from 2012 to 2020.
5. Dog registration is a mandatory requirement under the Act. In 2020, the survey identified that only 59% of the dog population in Brisbane was registered. Council undertook research in five stages in order to understand the barriers to dog registration. The five stages included:
- immersion and kick off
- registration deep dive
- large scale market quantitative survey
- stop and think registration strategy
- unregistered dog owners quantitative survey.
6. The second stage, registration deep dive, identified that customers have four different dog owner personas: fur babies, lifestyle lover, happy go lucky and practical pet loyalists. Behavioural economics were applied to understand the triggers and barriers to dog registration.
7. The survey identified the following barriers to dog registration:
- being unaware of the legal requirement
- not being applicable to their circumstances
- believing they are already registered
- not seeing where the money goes.
8. The survey identified the following drivers to dog registration:
- a law-abiding dog owner
- socially responsible dog owner
- caring dog owner
- reunification.
9. The survey identified the following behavioural economic motivators:
- 24-hour lost and found service
- social proof
- fee distribution
- fines.
10. The key findings from the survey include:
- the biggest benefit is the desire to be a good citizen and do the right thing
- the two biggest barriers to dog registration is the lack of knowledge and motivation
- the most surprising insights include:
- the need to renew registration annually
- by not registering, dog owners are breaking the law
- dog owners can incur a fine for not registering
- those most likely to register their dogs are:
- first time dog owners
- dog off-leash area users
- younger dog owners.
11. Council has identified a number of behavioural change opportunities, including:
- clarify – ensuring clear messages
- unit – explaining how one contributes to community benefit
- formalise – offering certificates of registration
- gratify – introducing personalised dog tags
- rethink – reviewing communication and education material.
12. The Committee was advised of the following benefits currently provided to registered dog owners:
- proof of ownership
- funding and maintenance of facilities
- staff to attend investigations
- personalised dog registration tags
- lost and found service.
13. Council’s focus is on optimising the understanding and awareness of the benefits of dog registration through targeted messaging, social proof, new social norms and simplifying dog registration.
14. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chair thanked the Manager for her informative presentation.
15. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT COUNCIL NOTE THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE ABOVE REPORT.
ADOPTED
Chair: Councillors, Community, Arts and Nighttime Economy Committee, please.
COMMUNITY, ARTS AND NIGHTTIME ECONOMY COMMITTEE
Councillor Vicki HOWARD, Chair of the Community, Arts and Nighttime Economy Committee, moved, seconded by Councillor Sandy LANDERS, that the report of the meeting of that Committee held on 2 March 2021, be adopted.
Chair: Is there any debate?
Councillor HOWARD.
Councillor HOWARD: Thank you, Mr Chair. We had a very informative Committee presentation on the flora and fauna management in Council cemeteries, and that was presented to us by Lea-Ann McNeill, who is the Cemetery and Crematoria Manager. It was Lea-Ann’s last presentation as she is sadly leaving Brisbane City Council, and just to—I’d just like to place on record our—
Councillors interjecting.
Chair: Councillors, please allow the speaker to be heard in silence.
Councillor HOWARD.
Councillor HOWARD: Thank you, Mr Chair. I would like to place on record our appreciation to Lea-Ann. She joined Council in 2010 and has been in the cemeteries and crematoria area since 2015. Lea-Ann has achieved a great deal in her time there and is renowned for her advocacy, promotion and championing of Council’s cemetery network and ensuring best practice behaviours occur. Lea-Ann became a subject matter expert in a field she didn’t have any previous experience, and as she continued to expand and share this knowledge, she was recognised as a leader in this arena.
She was often invited to speak at industry and leadership forums, and she has been a long serving board member of the peak body, Australasian Cemeteries and Crematoria Association. She has developed and fostered great people through the leadership of her team, and it is—as you would be aware, Mr Chair—a very sad occasion, in most cases, for people needing to use the services of our cemeteries and crematoria, and also a very important work that they do in supporting the families of the bereaved.
So, I really want to pay tribute to Lea-Ann for her amazing work and the work that her team does. The presentation was so well received. We had so many questions. It was really something very special. Lea-Ann is leaving Council to continue her work in the cemetery industry at a national level. We wish her well, knowing her experience will benefit not just Brisbane residents, but many other cemetery and crematorium providers across Australia as they support people through a real time of need. So, Mr Chair, on that note, we also had two petitions, which I will leave for debate to the Chamber.
Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor CUMMING: Yes.
Chair: Councillor CUMMING.
Councillor CUMMING: Thank you, Mr Chair.
Seriatim - Clause B
|Councillor Peter CUMMING requested that Clause B, PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL PROVIDE PROPER PARKING WITH BITUMEN ROAD SURFACING AND |
|LINE MARKING ALONG THE WILSTON RECREATION RESERVE SIDE OF MARK STREET, NEWMARKET, be taken seriatim for voting purposes. |
Councillor CUMMING: Just speaking in relation to item B, it’s a petition containing 59 signatures. It’s part of an area leased to Brisbane City Soccer Club and it includes an area between Mark Street and the bollards surrounding the soccer fields. It seems to be an error to me, the fact that an area leased to a sports club would be a road including a field. I believe the road and the kerb and channel should remain with Council, and Council needs to amend the lease and clarify the situation.
Also, instead of relying upon legal technicalities, there’s a need for this job to be done. Council needs to adopt the Nike approach and just do it. It’s ridiculous to expect a club to be responsible for repairs to a road service that’s part of a Council-leased area. I feel this is just another example of this Administration treating local sporting clubs with contempt. So I oppose the response to the petition.
Chair: Further speakers? Are there any further speakers?
Councillor HOWARD.
Councillor HOWARD: Thank you, Mr Chair. Mr Chair, I would just place on record that, of course, the response was that Mark Street will be listed for consideration in Council’s future capital works program, and commend all to the Chamber.
Chair: On items A and C.
Clauses A and C put
Upon being submitted to the Chamber, the motion for the adoption of Clauses A and C of the report of the Community, Arts and Nighttime Economy Committee was declared carried on the voices.
Chair: On item B.
Clause B put
Upon being submitted to the Chamber, the motion for the adoption of Clause B of the report of the Community, Arts and Nighttime Economy Committee was declared carried on the voices.
Thereupon, Councillors Charles STRUNK and Peter CUMMING immediately rose and called for a division, which resulted in the motion being declared carried.
The voting was as follows:
AYES: 18 - DEPUTY MAYOR, Councillor Krista ADAMS, and Councillors Greg ADERMANN, Adam ALLAN, Fiona CUNNINGHAM, Tracy DAVIS, Fiona HAMMOND, Vicki HOWARD, Steven HUANG, Sarah HUTTON, Sandy LANDERS, James MACKAY, Kim MARX, Peter MATIC, David McLACHLAN, Ryan MURPHY, Angela OWEN, Steven TOOMEY and Andrew WINES.
NOES: 4 - Councillors Peter CUMMING, Steve GRIFFITHS, Charles STRUNK and Jonathan SRI.
The report read as follows(
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – FLORA AND FAUNA MANAGEMENT IN COUNCIL’S CEMETERIES
574/2020-21
1. The Cemeteries and Crematoria Manager, Community Facilities and Venues, Lifestyle and Community Services, attended the meeting to provide an update on flora and fauna management in Council’s cemeteries. She provided the information below.
2. During the 1800s, when there were no formal parks for residents and visitors to enjoy, cemeteries were the first publicly accessible greenspaces, often offering views of the City.
3. Council manages 12 cemeteries, including operational cemeteries and crematoria in Pinnaroo, Hemmant and Mount Gravatt, as well as nine historic cemeteries which are closed to new burials. The historic cemeteries are less impacted by people and machinery, creating spaces for nature to flourish. A variety of reptiles are located throughout the cemeteries and both Griffith University and The University of Queensland have conducted population counts of bearded dragons within the historic Toowong Cemetery. Images of various fauna at Toowong Cemetery were shown to the Committee.
4. Council’s operating cemeteries experience more activity through various works and visitors. Despite this, Council continues to manage and support the flora and fauna. Extensive work has been undertaken at Mount Gravatt Cemetery to support the koala population, including ensuring the significant scribbly gum eucalyptus trees along University Road remain undisturbed. Images of koala fencing at Mount Gravatt Cemetery were shown to the Committee.
5. In addition to supporting the koala population, both Mount Gravatt Cemetery and Pinnaroo Cemetery have become home to bee hives. Bees have become pivotal in the memorial gardens and support flowering plants. There are a combination of both European and native bees and their honey has been bottled on a single occasion resulting in ‘Pinnaroo Gold’.
6. At Mount Gravatt Cemetery, native bees were donated to Council by their owner’s family after his passing and were placed in a memorial within the gardens, along with a bird bath provided by the owner’s friends. Images of the memorial at Mount Gravatt Cemetery and the Pinnaroo Cemetery bee hives were shown to the Committee.
7. A variety of bird populations are found throughout Council’s cemeteries. The natural waterway at Pinnaroo Cemetery is a popular location for bird watchers, with over 60 different types of birds that can be seen throughout the year. Images of birds at the Pinnaroo Cemetery waterway were shown to the Committee.
8. In addition to the significant scribbly gum eucalyptus trees at Mount Gravatt Cemetery, Toowong, South Brisbane and Moggill Cemeteries also contain flora of significant heritage and environmental value. Images of flora found at Toowong Cemetery were shown to the Committee.
9. Supporting the conservation of Council’s historic cemeteries and the trees within them, is not without its challenges. Where possible, Council works with families to manage and repair any damage, although the heritage and significant nature of many of these trees means removal is not always possible.
10. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chair thanked the Cemeteries and Crematoria Manager for her informative presentation.
11. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT COUNCIL NOTE THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE ABOVE REPORT.
ADOPTED
B PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL PROVIDE PROPER PARKING WITH BITUMEN ROAD SURFACING AND LINE MARKING ALONG THE WILSTON RECREATION RESERVE SIDE OF MARK STREET, NEWMARKET
CA20/991636
575/2020-21
12. A petition from residents, requesting proper parking with road surfacing and line marking along the Wilston Recreation Reserve side of Mark Street, Newmarket, was received during the Spring Recess 2020.
13. The Divisional Manager, Lifestyle and Community Services, provided the following information.
14. The petition contains 59 signatures.
15. Wilston Recreation Reserve is currently leased by Brisbane City Football Club Ltd (BCFC), with the community facility lease area running all the way up to the road base on Mark Street (refer to Attachment B, submitted on file). The area in question is the section of leased land between Mark Street and the bollards that border the soccer fields. BCFC is a regional level club with approximately 820 junior and senior members.
16. BCFC is currently not in a financial position to fund the surfacing and line marking of the leased area, however, to improve the safety of the area, Council’s Asset Services filled the potholes on 30 November 2020.
17. In relation to the surface of Mark Street and the request for drainage, Council’s Asset Services, Field Services, Brisbane Infrastructure, has investigated and advised that the installation of kerb and channel and the road resurfacing of Mark Street will be listed for consideration in Council’s future capital works program. Each year in June, all such listed works are assessed in relation to the overall needs of the City. Those works that are approved are considered to have the highest priority in terms of public safety, convenience and the number of people who directly benefit in relation to the cost. The existing vegetation and utilities on this site would also need to be taken into consideration for any future works.
Consultation
18. Councillor Andrew Wines, Councillor for Enoggera Ward, has been consulted and supports the recommendation.
Customer impact
19. The response will address the petitioners’ concerns.
20. The Divisional Manager recommended as follows and the Committee agreed, with Councillor Peter Cumming dissenting.
21. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT THE INFORMATION IN THIS SUBMISSION BE NOTED AND THE DRAFT RESPONSE, AS SET OUT IN ATTACHMENT A, hereunder, BE SENT TO THE HEAD PETITIONER.
Attachment A
Draft Response
Petition Reference: CA20/991636
Thank you for your petition requesting Council provide proper car parking with road surfacing and line marking along the Wilston Recreation Reserve (the park) side of Mark Street, Newmarket.
The area in question along the park side of Mark Street is land that is currently leased from Council by Brisbane City Football Club Ltd (BCFC). The park has a high level of patronage due to the popularity and programming of this space by the lessee and other park users for informal recreation.
BCFC are currently not in a financial position to fund the road surfacing and line marking of the leased area, however, to improve the safety of the area, Council’s Asset Services filled the potholes on 30 November 2020.
In relation to the surface of Mark Street and the request for drainage, Council’s Asset Services, Field Services, Brisbane Infrastructure, has investigated and advised that the installation of kerb and channel and the road resurfacing of Mark Street will be listed for consideration in Council’s future capital works program. Each year in June, all such listed works are assessed in relation to the overall needs of the city. Those works that are approved are considered to have the highest priority in terms of public safety, convenience and the number of people who directly benefit in relation to the cost. The existing vegetation and utilities on this site would also need to be taken into consideration for any future works.
Alternatively, should you have any further questions about this matter, please contact Ms Nikki Williams, Facilities Project Officer, Healthy and Vibrant Communities, Connected Communities, Lifestyle and Community Services, on (07) 3403 7917 or by email at communityfacilities@brisbane..au.
The above information will be forwarded to the other petitioners via email.
Thank you for raising this matter.
ADOPTED
C PETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL REMOVE OR DEMOLISH THE UNUSED DEMOUNTABILE BUILDING IN O’CALLAGHAN PARK, 340 ZILLMERE ROAD, ZILLMERE
CA20/1323491
576/2020-21
22. A petition from residents, requesting the removal or demolition of the unused demountable building in O’Callaghan Park, 340 Zillmere Road, Zillmere, was presented to the meeting of Council held on 24 November 2020, by Councillor Jared Cassidy, and received.
23. The Divisional Manager, Lifestyle and Community Services, provided the following information.
24. The petition contains 14 signatures.
25. The petition raises the following concerns.
- The demountable building has been a site of congregation and anti-social behaviour for an extended period of time.
- Rubbish and broken glass is left in the park and around the demountable building.
- On 13 September 2020, a tragic incident occurred, which resulted in the death of a teenager and several people suffering injuries.
- There is significant damage to the demountable building, including broken windows, graffiti and acts of arson.
26. The demountable building was previously leased by the Brisbane Softball Association Inc. and was vacated in March 2019, due to the facility being surplus to the needs of the tenant.
27. After receiving advice from the Queensland Police Service, Council removed the demountable building on 26 October 2020.
Consultation
28. Councillor Jared Cassidy, Councillor for Deagon Ward, has been consulted and supports the recommendation.
Customer impact
29. The response will address the petitioners’ concerns.
30. The Divisional Manager recommended as follows and the Committee agreed.
31. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT THE INFORMATION IN THIS SUBMISSION BE NOTED AND THE DRAFT RESPONSE, AS SET OUT IN ATTACHMENT A, hereunder, BE SENT TO THE HEAD PETITIONER.
Attachment A
Draft Response
Petition Reference: CA20/1323491
Thank you for your petition requesting the removal or demolition of the unused demountable building in O’Callaghan Park, 340 Zillmere Road, Zillmere.
Your concerns regarding the use and safety of the building have been noted. After receiving advice from the Queensland Police Service, Council removed the demountable building on 26 October 2020.
The above information will be forwarded to the other petitioners via email.
Should you wish to discuss this matter further, please contact Mr Kyron Williams, Communities Team Leader, Healthy and Vibrant Communities, Connected Communities, Lifestyle and Community Services, on (07) 3178 2083.
Thank you for raising this matter.
ADOPTED
Chair: Councillors, the Finance, Administration and Small Business Committee, please.
Councillor ALLAN.
FINANCE, ADMINISTRATION AND SMALL BUSINESS COMMITTEE
Councillor Adam ALLAN, Chair of the Finance, Administration and Small Business Committee, moved, seconded by Councillor Steven HUANG, that the report of the meeting of that Committee held on 2 March 2021, be adopted.
Chair: Is there any debate?
Councillor ALLAN.
Councillor ALLAN: Thank you, Mr Chair. In the last Committee meeting we had a presentation on how we manage master data, and last week’s Committee presentation was specifically around data quality management and how Council manages master data in critical Council business systems. The presentation included describing what master data is and why it is important, explaining how Council manages master data, providing an overview of vendor master data, ratepayer master data, and other customer master data. High quality data supports good decision making and the delivery of Council’s goals.
Council uses its information assets to deliver business advantage for the ratepayers of the city. Master data is important as it is the core set of data that describes entities with which Council conducts business. The types of master data include employee and staff data, organisational structure data, vendor data, and ratepayer data. It is fundamental that Council appropriately manages master data so that it is accurate and is available in real time.
In addition to the presentation, we had a regular report, a Financial Report on Receivables, Rates, Payables, Provisions, and Malls for the period ended December 2020. Now, importantly, this report contains a lot of detailed information around Council receivables, the rates and utility charges that are outstanding and are expected to come into Council, payables—obviously funds that we need to pay out—and provisions. Typically, I guess most people wouldn’t have a good look at that report, but if you do, it gives some really valuable insights. I’ll leave further debate to the Chamber.
Chair: Further speakers. Any further speakers?
Councillor ALLAN?
I’ll now put the resolution.
Upon being submitted to the Chamber, the motion for the adoption of the Finance, Administration and Small Business Committee was declared carried on the voices.
The report read as follows(
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT – HOW WE MANAGE MASTER DATA
577/2020-21
1. The Manager, Support Services Centre, Organisational Services, attended the meeting to provide an update on data quality management and how Council manages master data. She provided the information below.
2. The Committee was advised how Council manages master data in critical Council business systems including:
- describing what master data is and why it is important
- explaining how Council manages master data
- providing an overview of vendor master data, ratepayer master data and other customer master data.
3. High-quality data supports good decision making and the delivery of Council’s goals. Data provides information, knowledge and wisdom and/or insight. Some different classifications of data types are:
- master data
- reference data
- transactional data
- metadata
- unstructured data.
4. Council uses its information assets to deliver business advantage for the benefit of the city and is supported in Council’s budget under Program 8 – Strategy 8.6.1 Information Driven Organisation.
5. Master data is important as it is the core set of data that describes entities with which Council conducts business. Types of master data include:
- vendor
- ratepayer
- employee/staff
- organisational structure.
6. Master data is used by multiple business systems, such as SAP and Microsoft Outlook, and in many different ways, such as producing Single Touch Payroll reports for the Australian Tax Office.
7. It is fundamental that Council appropriately manages master data so that it is:
- the single source of truth
- available in real time
- trusted.
8. The Committee was shown a number of example images of how employee/staff and vendor master data is presented in Council systems.
9. Council maintains centralised management of master data for its most important entities. The lifecycle of master data is governed by rigorous processes to ensure the data is of a high quality, and meets the following key dimensions:
- completeness
- uniqueness
- timeliness
- accuracy
- consistency
- conformity.
10. Vendor master data is a database of suppliers that provide goods and services to Council. Council relies on this data to pay its suppliers and also reports on this data to obtain insights such as local procurement spend. Council effectively manages vendor master data by ensuring:
- standardised customer maintenance request forms
- third party verification is undertaken, including confirming details directly with the supplier
- segregation of duties
- all changes classified as high risk (such as updating bank account details) are audited by Data Reporting and Analysis, Support Services Centre, Organisational Services, for quality assurance on a weekly basis
- the data quality monitoring program has automation tools to continuously search for data quality inconsistencies (such as a missing phone number) and immediately flags them for correction.
11. Ratepayer master data is land and property information, such as lot/plan and valuation information, and account information, such as ownership, category and applied rebate details. This data covers all rateable and non-rateable properties across Brisbane to support Council’s primary source of income to fund citywide outcomes and meet the legislative requirement to charge rates. Maintaining strong ratepayer master data also promotes a positive customer experience. Council effectively manages ratepayer master data by ensuring:
- operation under a certified quality management framework (ISO9001:2015)
- seven key principles are met, for example customer focus, process approach and continuous improvement
- the rating system is stable and mature
- well-documented procedures and work instructions are kept
- assurance activities (such as sample checking and reconciliations) are undertaken
- proactive collaboration with customers and other stakeholders such as the Queensland Government’s Department of Resources.
12. Examples of other customer master data include sundry billing, such as customer contact details, terms of payment, credit limits and management of customer accounts. This data is important as it provides a wide variety and number of customers from asphalt sales to gym memberships. It represents significant revenue streams for Council and correctly maintaining this data promotes a positive customer experience. Council effectively manages other customer master data by ensuring:
- well-documented procedures and work instructions are kept
- assurance activities (such as reconciliations and account reviews) are undertaken
- proactive collaboration with customers and internal business units.
13. Following a number of questions from the Committee, the Chair thanked the Manager, Support Services Centre, for her informative presentation.
14. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT COUNCIL NOTE THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE ABOVE REPORT.
ADOPTED
B COMMITTEE REPORT – Financial Reports (Receivables, Rates, Payables, Provisions and Malls) for the period ended December 2020
134/695/317/1133
578/2020-21
15. The Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Finance, Organisational Services, provided a detailed report (submitted on file) on Council’s position relating to receivables, rates, payables, provisions and malls for the period ended December 2020.
16. The Chair and the Committee noted the report. The financial report on Council’s position relating to receivables, rates, payables, provisions and malls for the period ended December 2020 is now presented for noting by Council.
17. RECOMMENDATION:
THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE REPORT, as submitted on file, BE NOTED.
ADOPTED
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS:
Chair: Councillors, are there any petitions? Any petitions, anyone at all?
Councillor ALLAN.
Could you please turn your microphone on?
Councillor ALLAN: Sorry. Mr Chair, I have a petition requesting Council install traffic calming measures on Main Avenue, Wavell Heights.
Chair: Councillor GRIFFITHS.
Councillor GRIFFITHS: Yes, thanks. I have a petition I’m putting in for Councillor COOK, requesting upgrading of the Junction, Lytton, and Colmslie Roads roundabout, and another one requesting Council provide a KittyCat and CityHopper stop at Mowbray Park.
Chair: Councillor CUMMING.
Please turn your microphone on.
Councillor CUMMING: Sorry. I have a petition requesting traffic calming around the Lota School area.
Chair: Any others?
Councillor LANDERS, may I have a resolution to receive them?
579/2020-21
It was resolved on the motion of Councillor Sandy LANDERS, seconded by Councillor Charles STRUNK, 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 |
|CA21/249934 |Adam Allan |Requesting Council install traffic calming measures, more speed limit signs, |
| | |and pedestrian crossings (at Main Avenue Park and the intersection of Bilsen |
| | |Road); and reduce the speed limit to 50 km/h on Main Avenue, Wavell Heights. |
|CA21/250091 |Steve Griffiths on behalf of |Requesting Council upgrade the roundabout at Junction, Lytton and Colmslie |
| |Kara Cook |Roads, Morningside, as a priority. |
|CA21/250142 |Steve Griffiths on behalf of |Requesting Council provide a KittyCat CityHopper stop at Mowbray Park ferry |
| |Kara Cook |terminal, East Brisbane. |
|CA21/250217 |Peter Cumming |Requesting Council install speed bumps along Corinth Road and Bethania Street, |
| | |Lota, and crossing lights at the Avadne Road entrance to Lota State School. |
GENERAL BUSINESS:
Chair: Councillors, General Business.
Are there any statements required as a result of the Office of the Independent Assessor or Councillor Ethics Committee order?
Are there any matters of ordinary General Business?
Councillor OWEN.
At that time, 5:53pm, the Deputy Chair, Councillor Steven TOOMEY, assumed the Chair.
Councillor OWEN: Thank you, Mr Chair. Mr Chair, I rise to speak tonight of 12 months of achievement of the Schrinner Council Administration in Calamvale Ward. Mr Chair, the last 12 months have been a difficult 12 months for people in the community and also a difficult 12 months for business in our city, but I would like to take this opportunity to convey a very special thank you to the Council officers who have been working consistently to deliver for the residents of Calamvale Ward, and also across the city, Mr Chair, there are many things across all of our wards that I’m sure that we could all acknowledge that the Council officers have worked with us as local Councillors to deliver for our individual communities.
So tonight, I would like to just touch on a few of the things that have been delivered and are underway as projects within the Calamvale Ward. So to start with, we have had a good resurfacing of roads program that has taken place across the last 12 months. Just to mention a few streets, we had Crestone Place at Algester; Falkland Street East at Pallara; Vanda Close at Drewvale; Grevillea Park Crescent at Calamvale; Gentian Close, Drewvale; and Rose Court, Calamvale.
We have certainly shared things around, as well, and even though it was difficult during COVID-19 to put on the Brisbane Festival, the Street Serenades went out to Warril Parklands in Larapinta, went to Pallara District Park, they were at Heathwood in one of our local streets, in Byrony Place in Parkinson, in Calamvale District Park, in Karawatha Forest, and also in Tamarisk Way in Drewvale. We have also seen extensions of footpaths in Delathin Road, Algester. We have seen a congestion busting project on Algester Road, Parkinson, where it meets Beaudesert Road, with the extension of the right turn lane. That certainly helps when traffic is trying to turn right, particularly in the peak traffic at school pickup time.
We have seen the Greenways Cycle Park, Parkinson completed. We have seen the Christmas for Kids event continue again, as well as the wonderful Lord Mayor’s Seniors Christmas Parties that many of my residents took the opportunity to come in for. I know that Councillor HOWARD and I have worked very, very hard on making sure that the pop-up library has been a success, and certainly the people of Pallara are greatly appreciative of the pop-up library, which now comes every fortnight. We have new bus stops for the 460 and 118 routes on Wadeville Street at the end of Kent Street, and this is connecting both The Avenues and Heathwood Rise to our public and active transport services.
We have seen at the Parkinson Aquatic Centre extra competition blocks that have been installed to enhance the capacity for our young squad swimmers and making sure that they can achieve their full potential. We have also seen extra car parks, terraces, and shade sails, we’ve also got another car park extension that will be open later this week. We have seen the extension of the 803 school bus service into Pallara. We have seen the installation of a barbecue into Regency Place Park, Stretton and by the end of May we will also have an outdoor gym there.
We have three new dog off-leash areas going in in Calamvale Ward. We have Ming-Shan Park DOLA going in in March in Calamvale. We have Pardalote Park in Algester DOLA going in by May, and we also have a DOLA going in Macquarie Way at Drewvale by June. We have the Stage 2 of the Col Bennett Park, Algester playground upgrade, which will be completed by the end of this month, which has play equipment, swings, shade sails, and rubber soft fall, as well as extra play equipment, swings, shade and rubber soft fall going in at Macquarie Way, Drewvale by June, Peden Court, Calamvale by May, and Dunvegan Street, Heathwood by May.
We have also seen our SAMS, our Speed Awareness Monitors, go in on Ritchie Road in Pallara and Acacia Road at Karawatha, outside the Pallara State School and the Islamic College of Brisbane, respectively. I am very pleased to support the Safer Routes to School program across our city and, in particular, the Gowan Road, Stretton upgrade that will be going in over the Easter school holidays in April. Heathwood Park will also see a new double barbecue going in very shortly. The icing on the cake is the Warril Parklands, Larapinta which are new parklands which were $5.7 million of investment in this local area, six hectares, 58 car parks, toilets, barbecues, picnic shelters, nature-based playgrounds, walking trails through our environmental corridor, and a great place for our local community.
So, this is just part and parcel of what this Schrinner Council Administration is about. It is about delivering for our local communities in our local wards, and Mr Deputy Chair, I say that this is about getting on with the job and delivering for our communities, and that is what we are about on this side of the Chamber. Thank you.
Deputy Chair: Further speakers?
Councillor STRUNK.
Councillor STRUNK: Thank you, Mr Deputy Chair.
Deputy Chair: My pleasure.
Councillor STRUNK: I rise to speak in regards to a number of community groups that took part in Clean Up Australia Day. I just want to recognise these groups because they have been ongoingly, they’ve been doing a lot of work in my ward in regards to keeping the ward neat and tidy. So the—about a week ago, actually, because not all of them are able to take part on Australia Day itself, the day itself, but they still contribute within about two or three weeks. So, the first one was the Baha’i faith group, and Davinia brought her team into Thrush Street Park, which was named as one of those parks that was going to be upgraded in the next, I suppose, six months or so.
I’ll tell you what, after having a look at what they’ve done at that park, it’s ready for the upgrade. It’s spick and span. D.J. Sherrington, last weekend, was undertaken that work by the Harvest Community Church, and I’d just liked to pay tribute to the fact that they brought their—I think the whole congregation was there, actually, because it is a very large park and it needed to have that sort of numbers, I suppose.
But probably the most interesting part of the clean-up was in the skate bowl, the very deep skate bowl in this park, which I think is the deepest skate bowl in Brisbane. I saw one of the guys, young lads down there and he’s probably about 13, maybe 14. I looked down and I said, how did you get down there? He says, oh, I jumped down. I said, how are you going to get out? He says, oh, I can get out. I’ll tell you what, generally speaking, this skate bowl is so deep that you need to throw someone rope to get out, unless they’ve got a skateboard that they can come out on. So, at the end of the day, when I was thanking them very much for all the work that they’d done, I said, how did you get out of the skate bowl? He says, oh, I ran out. It was just amazing, absolutely amazing.
Anyways, and then this coming weekend, the St Johns Leos, which are part of the Forest Lake Lions Club, they’ll be doing their adopted road on Forest Lake Boulevard, which they do on a regular basis. Even through COVID-19, we were able to—I think they were able to do a little bit in small numbers. So it’s really an area that really needs that ongoing care, as well, so I’d just like to thank them in advance.
Lastly, I’d like to speak about the International Women’s Day. We had an event on Monday, 7am start, which is always good to get out of bed at 6am to get there at seven. Listen, we had a great turnout. It was just at Simply Bliss, which is a café and coffee house on the lake. Denise got up very early to get the decorations up and everything, and one of my team, as well, Nadya Hernandez, was there helping her, and a number of other people as well. We had a really good turnout.
We had three good speakers, very great speakers, actually. Haley from Inala Community House, who’s been with that group for many a year now, and she really is so well thought of within the community, not just with Inala and Durack but also in the Forest Lake area as well. We had Belinda from the—the manageress at the Heritage Community Bank. Again, a really hands-on manager for this community bank, and she’s out—whether there’s a project going, whether they’re funding it or not, she’s always out there. It seems to be she’s always out there on the weekends just helping out, being part of the community.
Then we had Alanna of from the Ray White Real Estate, as well. Again, Ray White, the local Ray White office franchise, again, they have always helped the community, whether it’s a little bit of funding for an event or an event that they take on themselves, right, they’re one of our great real estate groups in the area that have been around for a long time and have been really a part of the community. So, with those words, I’ll conclude.
Deputy Chair: Thank you, Councillor.
Further speakers?
Councillor MACKAY.
Councillor MACKAY: Thank you, Deputy Chair.
Deputy Chair: Very quick on your feet.
Councillor MACKAY: I just wanted to make sure you saw me there.
Deputy Chair: Oh, I couldn’t miss you, mate.
Councillor MACKAY: I rise to speak about some local achievements. Big news, we’re approaching 12 months since the election of the LORD MAYOR and myself, and it’s been a big year, so I thought I’d take two minutes to share some of the achievements in our local area. The Ninja Warrior Park in Guyatt Park is now up and running and is possibly one of the most popular parks in Brisbane. We’ve got three community gardens in Taringa, St Lucia and Chapel Hill with construction started, and we keep building them so locals can get together.
A cricket net opened in Robertson Park in Indooroopilly for the budding Ashes players to practice at, and we put rugby posts into Taringa Playground Park at Fig Tree Pocket for the local Wallabies. We upgraded the bench seating all over the ward, including Sir John Chandler Park. There’s an avenue of shade built at Indooroopilly State School with two more coming, one for Ironside and one for Indooroopilly State High School. The Burbong Street wall down in Moggill Road looks beautiful now with its new Chapel Hill sign. We’ve put some more up in Taringa and Indooroopilly with more coming.
The toddler playground in St Lucia opened to great appreciation from the local kids. St Lucia got a new public toilet, in addition to the refurbed toilet in Taringa. Also, we put soap in all of our public toilets. We’ve been running a fix a footpath blitz in Walter Taylor and we’ve fixed and constructed a literal mile of footpaths, including Hillsdon and Swann Roads in Taringa; Woodville, Jenkinson, Disraeli and Lambert Roads in Indooroopilly; Macquarie and Mitre Streets in St Lucia; with Central Avenue and the 176-metre Esplanade footpath coming this month. Moordale Street, Chapel Hill and Chapel Hill Road, Gower Street, Toowong and Sylvan Road coming soon, and a long stretch in Gunnin Street, Fig Tree Pocket.
It’s been a busy year in the environment space in Walter Taylor. We gave away more than 200 native tree vouchers. In fact, we gave away 100 more native trees at our event last night. Nine hundred street trees have been planted in our local area. We’re delivering the first 45 of 100 nesting boxes for local wildlife. There was creek rehabilitation, including Anzac Park in Toowong and other work in creeks in the area to stop erosion and to promote a healthy ecosystem.
The Toowong underpass renovation has started to make it an attractive alternative for pedestrians. The popular basketball fence was built in Perrin Park, Toowong. The first tranche of funding was committed to Witton Barracks so it can be reactivated to be a history and arts base, using the old cell and administration blocks. Anti-skid treatment was installed in a pedestrian crossing, got put in at Swann Road near Gailey Road to further improve road safety.
West Toowong Bowls got solar panels with the Lord Mayor’s Community Fund contribution. St Lucia Bowls got the Lord Mayor’s COVID-19 Recovery Grant to install their air conditioning system, powered by their solar panels, paid for by their Lord Mayor’s Community Fund. I’m happy to announce road safety improvements with the speed limit reductions in Harts Road, Indooroopilly; Sherwood Road, Toowong; Swann Road, Taringa; Russell Terrace in Indooroopilly; and Chapel Hill Road.
Locally, we had great events presented by the Lord Mayor’s Community Fund, including last night’s wonderful International Women’s Day movie screening, Clean Up Australia Day, the Mud Army anniversary, dog breakfasts, and so on.
Okay, my time’s nearly up, but that’s just a snippet of what we’ve had going on locally over the past year. So I’ll wrap up by saying our LORD MAYOR continues to offer residents of this city a fully costed plan so Brisbane can keep getting better. Congratulations to the LORD MAYOR and this Schrinner Council team on one year.
Deputy Chair: Well done. Councillor MACKAY, for future reference, you’ve got 10 minutes, mate. You don’t need to squeeze that in at three.
Further speakers?
Councillor MURPHY.
Councillor MURPHY: Thank you, Deputy Chair. I wish I had a ward like Councillor MACKAY’s. Look at all the stuff going on there, wow. Chair, look, as other Councillors have reflected, Deputy Chair, we are approaching the one-year anniversary of the election of the Schrinner Administration, and I’m going to reflect on some of the achievements that we’ve made together in my own ward in Chandler. This term started out like no other, Deputy Chair. You would remember, we were being sworn into Council via a Zoom call.
We had ward offices that remained closed for several weeks due to the COVID-19 threat, and then community event after community event was cancelled, which added a very interesting way, I think, to start this term. Important to remember how far we’ve come. We’re here in person. So, as we put the difficulties of last year behind us, Deputy Chair, Chandler Ward is progressing many projects that will not only make our community better—we are building the roads, the parks, the public infrastructure, that I feel will enhance our suburbs for generations to come.
Just going on a little tour through the ward: in Mansfield and its surrounds, I’m happy to say that Council is undertaking three key projects that were part of my election commitments in 2020. We’ve already completed a major upgrade of Geoff Toakley Park in Mount Gravatt East; Stage 1 of the Aminya Street Village Precinct Project will commence in mid-2021; and the Newnham and Wecker Roads upgrade is also commencing later this year. Council has released the design for the Newnham and Wecker Roads upgrade earlier this year after the Federal Government committed $12 million to overhaul the intersection.
Now, this upgrade will not only ensure that the intersection remains viable with the traffic volumes expected to come through into the future, but also this widens the existing road and improves the safety of those two very busy arterial roads as they come together. This is funding that I know was secured by the former local Councillor SCHRINNER and Councillor ADAMS working together with the local Member there, Ross Vasta, the end of a multi-decade lobbying effort to improve safety at the intersection. I’m very pleased to be the Councillor that will be there when we deliver that very important upgrade.
Once completed, of course, the upgrade of Aminya Street will tie in with this road upgrade. Stage 1 of the VPP (Village Precinct Project) will commence this year and will include a concept design and internal investigations which will end in feedback from the community in November this year. Stage 2 commences the following year in January, the planning phase, includes design development, procurement documentation and full costings, and then final design completed by July next year. So we’re very much looking forward to progressing with that.
As I said, the Geoff Toakley Park upgrade was recently completed. We have a native animal theme for that park, and refreshed landscaping and fencing. It looks really amazing and we’ve had local kids just lining up to play on this park, Deputy Chair. It’s been really good because this is a park that hadn’t seen an upgrade since the Soorley administration, so quite a long time for that one to come to pass. Further north east, Council is tackling traffic congestion, improving safety at a number of intersections and roads in and around Belmont, Wakerley and Ransome, including the intersection of Rickertt and Chelsea Roads in Ransome, and the recently completed upgrade of London and Stanbrough Roads in Belmont.
The London and Stanbrough Roads intersection upgrade has just been completed with a roundabout replacing existing stop signs, and delivering safety by providing a low speed environment through to the intersection and enhanced visibility for oncoming traffic. This was jointly funded through Council and the Federal Government’s Black Spot program, a very important program, another collaboration with Ross Vasta, the Member for Bonner.
Another project jointly funded by the Federal Government and Council is the Chelsea and Rickertt Roads upgrade, which will deliver better access through Wakerley and Ransome, as well as providing greater accessibility to pedestrians and cyclists, because the other project that we’ll deliver in concert with this one is the Wakerley Bikeway. Work is set to commence this month, Deputy Chair, and we will see the installation of traffic signals, signalised crossing facilities and right turn lanes on the four approaches, as well as a two-and-a-half metre shared path extending 1.3 kilometres from the intersection all the way to the intersection of Rickertt and Green Camp Roads, to Chelsea and Rickertt Roads.
As an additional bonus for Wakerley residents, I’m very pleased to announce the return of the Wakerley Carols this year, God willing, and hoping that there will be a successful vaccine rollout across the city, but fingers crossed that we will be back in with the Wakerley Carols, and planning is already underway. In Carindale, we’ve been focusing on improving parks, with the completion of the Cadogan Street Disc Golf Park, a great 18-basket course that’s been a real hit with local residents. They love that one.
Big upgrades are also coming to Bridgnorth Street Park as Council finalises the design based off submissions from local residents. I’m hearing—I can’t confirm—there may be a flying fox. I don’t know, I don’t know. We’ll see, we’ll see. The Winstanley Street Bridge has also received a facelift from its old, faded cream colour to a modern, deep-forest colour scheme, and plans are currently underway to paint a mural wall on the concrete abutment below the bridge. We’ve just got to get it cleaned. So, that’s happening, as well.
Some of the big projects that are happening in Chandler Ward, Deputy Chair. The Carindale Library in Westfield—sorry, the Carindale Library in Westfield Carindale is getting a $1 million upgrade and refurbishment. I’m very happy with that one. A new colour scheme, we’re also acquiring the adjacent gym site, adding more event space as well as studying space for the half a million visitors to Carindale Library each and every year, Deputy Chair.
So, I’m very excited to continue the work that I have been doing in Chandler Ward and, of course, the very important work in the Public and Active Transport portfolio. So, I thank the Chamber, or at least most of the Chamber, for your continued support as we deliver Team Schrinner’s commitments for Chandler and for Brisbane.
Chair: Thank you, Councillor MURPHY.
Any further speakers? No?
Can I remind Councillors please to sign the attendance book, and for those who have committed to come to the Chamber meeting in two weeks’ time, can I remind them that they need to resign in the correct column?
Councillor interjecting.
Chair: Well, everybody’s missed next week and gone for the week after, but with that, I declare the meeting closed. Thank you.
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 Steve Griffiths (received on 4 March 2021)
Q1. What are the costs incurred by Brisbane City Council in establishing a new property within the general rates program?
Q2. What are the costs incurred by Brisbane City Council in transferring an owner from one property to another property?
Q3. How long does the task take for a Brisbane City Council staff member to change the owner of a property to another property in the rates system?
Q4. Does the Brisbane City Council computer system automatically detect a new property owner in the system or is this information manually entered by a staff member?
Q5. Please provide the average annual rates bill and average percentage increases for Category 1 - Residential Owner Occupied properties for each of the following years, excluding water and sewerage charges:-
|FINANCIAL YEAR |AVERAGE ANNUAL RATES BILL |AVERAGE ANNUAL INCREASE (%) |
|2004/05 | | |
|2005/06 | | |
|2006/07 | | |
|2007/08 | | |
|2008/09 | | |
|2009/10 | | |
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN:
(Answers to questions of which due notice has been given are printed as supplied and are not edited)
Submitted by Councillor Nicole Johnston (from meeting on 2 March 2021)
Q1. What is the total amount of the Lord Mayor’s COVID-19 Direct Assistance Programme funding approved to date?
A1. $2,998,462.85.
Q2. What is the total amount of the Lord Mayor’s COVID-19 Direct Assistance Programme funding pending approval?
A2. $0.
Q3. How much of the $3m allocated in the Budget for the Lord Mayor’s COVID-19 Direct Assistance Programme remains available?
A3. $1,537.15.
Q4. When is the Lord Mayor’s COVID-19 Direct Assistance Programme closing?
A4. The program closed on 19 February 2021.
Q5. Please provide a list by name and grant amount of all groups who have received the Lord Mayor’s COVID-19 Direct Assistance Programme funding to date?
A5.
|APPLICANT |FUNDING PROVIDED |
|Acacia Ridge Community Support Inc |$8,393.39 |
|Acacia Ridge Community Support Inc |$1,348.38 |
|Acacia Ridge F.C. Inc |$8,449.56 |
|Acacia Ridge F.C. Inc |$1,426.70 |
|AFL Queensland Limited |$10,000.00 |
|AFL Queensland Limited |$8,641.27 |
|Algester Branch Little Athletics Centre Inc |$10,825.10 |
|Algester Sports Inc |$10,000.00 |
|All About Living Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Annerley Recreation Club Incorporated |$10,000.00 |
|Arana Contract Bridge Club Inc |$3,281.34 |
|Aspley Leagues Club Limited |$10,000.00 |
|Aspley Little Athletics Centre Inc |$10,433.28 |
|Aspley Rugby League Football Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Aspley Rugby League Football Club Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Australian Pensioners & Superannuates League QLD Inc. |$9,414.78 |
|Backbone Youth Arts |$8,843.88 |
|Balmoral Cycling Club Inc |$2,989.66 |
|Banyo Rugby League Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Bardon Bowls Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Bardon Latrobe Football Club Inc. |$9,104.03 |
|Bayside Community Legal Service Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Bayside United Sports and Recreation Club Inc. |$8,794.60 |
|Bayside Woodturners and Woodcrafters Club Inc |$2,253.70 |
|Bellbowrie Sports & Community Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Belmont Services Bowls Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Benarrawa Community Development Association |$7,597.88 |
|Beyond DV Ltd |$3,766.42 |
|Beyond DV Ltd |$1,050.00 |
|Booroodabin Community & Recreation Club Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Bracken Ridge District Cricket Club Inc |$10,214.60 |
|Brighton District Soccer Club Inc |$6,534.84 |
|Brighton Roosters Junior Rugby League Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane Athletic Football Club Inc |$11,000.00 |
|Brisbane Basketball Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane Bayside Steam Railway Society Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club Limited (auspice for Coorparoo Kings Australian Football club) |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane Bridge Centre Incorporated |$11,000.00 |
|Brisbane Canoeing Inc |$3,297.48 |
|Brisbane Citizens Concert Band |$3,056.75 |
|Brisbane City Football Club Limited |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane City Football Club Limited |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane Hockey Management Group |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane Institute of Art |$9,591.62 |
|Brisbane Jazz Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane Metropolitan Touch Association |$9,774.00 |
|Brisbane Netball Association |$9,967.57 |
|Brisbane North Junior Cricket Association |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane Powerhouse |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane River Dragons Dragon Boat and Outrigger Canoe Club |$8,988.12 |
|Brisbane Rugby League Referees Association Incorporated |$9,820.00 |
|Brisbane Sailing Squadron |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane Softball Association Inc. - Downey Park |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane Softball Association Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane Softball Association Inc. |$9,743.00 |
|Brisbane Strikers |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane Table Tennis Association Inc |$7,712.77 |
|Brisbane Tramway Museum Society |$4,818.00 |
|Brisbane Tramway Museum Society |$1,652.00 |
|Brisbane Tramway Museum Society |$3,530.00 |
|Brisbane Visual Arts Community Inc |$5,143.60 |
|Brisbane Visual Arts Community Inc |$1,528.77 |
|Brisbane Women‘s Hockey Association Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Brisbane Women‘s Hockey Association Inc |$9,052.00 |
|Brookfield Horse & Pony Club Inc |$7,837.50 |
|Brothers JRLFC Ltd |$10,000.00 |
|Brothers Rugby Club |$10,000.00 |
|Brothers St Brendans Rugby League Football Club Inc. |$8,695.00 |
|Bulimba Community Centre |$9,738.33 |
|Bulimba Hockey Club Incorporated |$11,000.00 |
|Bulimba Junior Sports Club |$11,000.00 |
|Bulimba Memorial Bowls and Community Club |$10,000.00 |
|Calamvale Leopards JAFC |$11,000.00 |
|Camp Hill Community and Sporting Club |$10,000.00 |
|Cannon Hill Kindergarten & Community Pre-school Association Inc |$3,500.00 |
|Carina & Districts Committee on the Ageing Inc |$9,489.97 |
|Carina Senior Citizens Club Inc |$7,860.51 |
|Carole Park & Districts Darts Association Inc |$5,032.92 |
|Carrington Boating Club Corinda Incorporated |$10,600.51 |
|Centenary Archers Club |$7,341.45 |
|Centenary Rowing Club |$10,000.00 |
|Centenary Stormers F.C. |$10,000.00 |
|Centenary Suburbs Men‘s Shed Inc |$2,604.90 |
|Chelmer Sports Incorporated |$11,000.00 |
|Chelmer-Graceville Kindergarten Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Chermside Bowls Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Commercial Hockey Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Commercial Rowing Club |$9,598.12 |
|Communify Queensland Ltd |$10,000.00 |
|Communify Queensland Ltd |$10,000.00 |
|Communify Queensland Ltd |$10,000.00 |
|Communify Queensland Ltd |$7,615.81 |
|Community Plus Queensland Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Coorparoo Junior AFC |$10,000.00 |
|Corinda Bowls Club Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Corinda Horse and Pony Club Inc |$6,011.03 |
|Creative Glass Guild Queensland |$10,014.61 |
|Crosby Park Meals on Wheels Inc. |$6,803.93 |
|Cubberla-Witton Catchments Network Inc |$2,215.70 |
|Darra Oxley Pony Club Inc |$9,681.76 |
|Downey Park Netball Association |$10,000.00 |
|Durack Inala Bowls Club Inc |$6,496.64 |
|East Brisbane Croquet Club Inc. |$4,893.35 |
|Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club Inc |$7,227.04 |
|(auspice for Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club Incorporated Junior Division) | |
|Eastern Suburbs Soccer Club Ltd |$10,000.00 |
|Easts Mt Gravatt Junior Rugby League Football Club Incorporated |$10,000.00 |
|Easts Rugby Union Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Everton Districts Sporting Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Everton Park Bowls and Community Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Everton Park Junior Rugby Union Club |$10,616.55 |
|Everton Park Kindergarten Assoc Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Ferny Grove Bowls, Sports and Community Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Fiji Senior Citizens Assn of Qld Inc |$4,058.18 |
|Filipino Australian Foundation of Qld Inc |$1,234.43 |
|Forest Lake Junior Rugby League Club |$11,000.00 |
|Forest Lake Junior Rugby Union Club Inc |$11,000.00 |
|Fortitude Valley Rugby League Football Club |$10,000.00 |
|Gaythorne Bowls Sport and Community Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Geebung Bowls Club Incorporated |$10,000.00 |
|Geebung Kindergarten and Preschool |$7,729.91 |
|Gibson Park Committee |$9,985.82 |
|Girl Guides Queensland - Bulimba District |$10,000.00 |
|Gold Crest Cricket Club Inc |$3,745.88 |
|Graceville Croquet Club |$4,000.00 |
|Graceville Croquet Club |$5,192.00 |
|Graceville Normanby United Sports Club |$11,000.00 |
|Grange Bowmen Inc |$10,319.05 |
|Grange Thistle Football Club |$8,899.95 |
|Greenslopes Bowls Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Guides Queensland |$7,087.93 |
|Guides Queensland |$8,870.85 |
|Guides Queensland – Algester District |$6,272.88 |
|Guides Queensland – Walton Bridge/The Gap District |$8,360.00 |
|Guides Queensland – Moggill District |$10,000.00 |
|Gumdale Horse and Pony Club Inc |$10,994.50 |
|Gunyah Lapidary Club Inc |$10,765.00 |
|Hamilton Wheelers Cycling Club Inc. |$5,773.16 |
|Hands-on-art Inc |$8,727.00 |
|Hawks Sporting Club Inc T/A Sandgate Australian Football Club |$10,000.00 |
|Help Enterprises Limited |$9,735.51 |
|Help Enterprises Limited - Ascot |$5,987.55 |
|Hendra Pony Club Inc |$6,600.00 |
|Hendra Pony Club Inc |$4,240.45 |
|Hockey Queensland |$10,000.00 |
|Holland Park Hawks Football Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Holland Park Junior Cricket Club Inc |$9,883.70 |
|Holland Park Sports and Community Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Hope Foundation T/A The LoveWell Project Pty Ltd |$9,792.97 |
|Impress Printmakers Studio Brisbane |$9,558.30 |
|Impress Printmakers Studio Brisbane |$1,408.00 |
|Inala & Districts Darts Association & Allsports Inc. |$8,547.19 |
|Inala Community Kindergarten Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Inala Wangarra Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Indians Baseball Club Inc. |$7,764.28 |
|Indooroopilly Activity Hub Inc |$6,411.71 |
|Indooroopilly Canoe Club Inc. |$7,700.78 |
|Indooroopilly Districts Cricket Club |$9,547.26 |
|Indooroopilly Men‘s Shed Inc |$5,966.80 |
|Jindalee Bowls Club Inc |$9,423.00 |
|Jindalee District Australian Football and Netball Club |$10,000.00 |
|Jugglers Art Space Inc |$10,635.30 |
|Kangaroo Point Rovers Football Club |$8,932.93 |
|Karana District Kayak and Canoe Club Incorporated |$5,341.30 |
|Karana Downs Pony Club Incorporated |$771.98 |
|Kedron Football Club |$6,204.60 |
|Kedron Heights Community Kindergarten Association Inc |$9,961.31 |
|Kedron Wavell Snooker Inc. |$11,000.00 |
|Kenmore District Junior Australian Football Club Inc. |$8,200.01 |
|Kenmore Districts Rugby Club |$10,000.00 |
|Koobara Aboriginal and Islander Family Resource Centre Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Kuraby Knights Cricket Club |$9,533.48 |
|Lions Club of Bracken Ridge Central Inc. |$4,016.25 |
|Lutwyche Windsor Kindergarten & Pre School |$10,000.00 |
|MacGregor Netball Association |$10,000.00 |
|Macgregor Souths Cricket Club Incorporated |$7,179.35 |
|Marchant Park Kindergarten Assn |$9,963.09 |
|Mayne Junior Australian Football Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|McIlwraith Croquet Club Inc |$11,000.00 |
|Meals on Wheels St Lucia Inc |$8,603.63 |
|Merthyr Croquet Club |$10,307.00 |
|Metro Arts Ltd |$9,893.07 |
|Metropolitan Districts Netball Association Incorporated |$9,213.25 |
|Mitchelton & District Senior Citizens Club Inc |$8,613.10 |
|Mitchelton & Districts Gem Club Inc |$10,590.25 |
|Mitchelton Meals on Wheels Association Incorporated |$10,000.00 |
|Mitchelton Sports Club Inc |$9,624.80 |
|Mitchelton Youth Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Moggill Cricket Club Inc |$7,122.50 |
|Moorooka AFC |$10,000.00 |
|Morningside Australian Football Club Limited |$10,000.00 |
|Mount Gravatt District Horse and Pony Club Inc |$9,152.58 |
|Mt Gravatt Australian Football Club Inc |$6,333.82 |
|Mt Gravatt Bowls Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Mt Gravatt Community Kindergarten Inc |$8,000.00 |
|Mt Gravatt Lapidary Society Inc |$11,000.00 |
|Mt Gravatt Youth and Recreation Club |$10,000.00 |
|Multicap Limited |$10,000.00 |
|Multicultural Australia Ltd |$9,570.00 |
|National Servicemen’s Association of Australia (Queensland) Inc |$9,735.68 |
|National Servicemen’s Association of Australia (Queensland) Inc |$10,000.00 |
|New Farm United Junior Soccer Club |$10,000.00 |
|Newmarket Soccer Football Club Inc. |$4,217.27 |
|Norman Park Community Kindergarten Inc |$10,000.00 |
|North Brisbane FC Inc |$10,000.00 |
|North Brisbane Junior Motorcycle Club |$10,000.00 |
|North Brisbane Lapidary Club Inc. |$4,265.17 |
|North Brisbane Rugby Union Club Inc |$4,200.00 |
|North Brisbane Rugby Union Club Inc |$5,530.55 |
|North East Community Support Group Inc |$10,000.00 |
|North Star Football Association Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Northern Suburbs Bowls Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Northern Suburbs Bridge Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Northern Suburbs District Cricket Club Incorporated |$10,000.00 |
|Northern Suburbs Hockey Club |$10,000.00 |
|Northern Suburbs Pony Club Inc |$9,625.00 |
|Northern Suburbs Rugby League Football Club Limited |$10,000.00 |
|Northey Street City Farm Association Inc. |$9,741.23 |
|Northside Christian Football Club Inc. |$9,316.47 |
|Nundah & Districts Historical Society Inc. |$412.01 |
|Nundah Memorial Hall Association Inc |$8,804.10 |
|Nundah Northgate RSL Sub Branch |$4,948.00 |
|Olympic FC Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Oxley Bowls Club Incorporated |$10,000.00 |
|Oxley Sailing Club Inc |$8,700.00 |
|Oxley United Soccer & Sporting Club Inc. |$1,100.00 |
|Pacific Islands Council Of QLD Inc |$2,127.92 |
|Picabeen Community Association Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Qld Eidfest Association Inc |$1,814.11 |
|Queensland African Communities Council |$10,000.00 |
|Queensland Country Women’s Association – Annerley Yeronga Sub-Branch |$6,964.60 |
|Queensland Country Women’s Association – Oxley Branch |$5,587.88 |
|Queensland Cricket Association |$10,000.00 |
|Queensland Jewish Kindergarten Association |$8,542.72 |
|Queensland Lions Football Club |$10,000.00 |
|Queensland Lions Football Club |$10,000.00 |
|Queensland Maritime Museum Association |$10,000.00 |
|Queensland Miniature Race Car Club Inc. |$11,000.00 |
|Queensland Musical Theatre and Arts Inc |$9,328.23 |
|Queensland Ornithological Society Incorporated |$10,000.00 |
|Queensland Police Citizens Youth Welfare Association - Sandgate Branch (Sandgate PCYC) |$10,000.00 |
|Queensland Police Citizens Youth Welfare Association - Zillmere Branch (Zillmere PCYC) |$10,000.00 |
|Queensland Police-Citizens Youth Welfare Association - Bayside Branch (Bayside PCYC) |$10,000.00 |
|Queensland Police-Citizens Youth Welfare Association - Carindale Branch (Carindale PCYC) |$10,000.00 |
|Queensland Police-Citizens Youth Welfare Association - Mt Gravatt Branch (Mt Gravatt PCYC) |$10,000.00 |
|Queensland Services Heritage Band Association |$999.30 |
|Red Hill Community Sports Club Inc |$9,000.00 |
|Regional Service Office Qld Incorporated |$11,000.00 |
|Returned & Services League of Australia (Queensland Branch) Holland Park - Mt Gravatt Sub Branch |$8,457.03 |
|Returned and Services League of Australia (QLD Branch) Banyo RSL Sub Branch Inc |$9,230.00 |
|Ridge Hills United Football Club Inc |$11,000.00 |
|Rowing Queensland |$10,000.00 |
|RSL SED LTD |$10,000.00 |
|Runcorn Horse and Pony Club Inc. |$8,692.20 |
|Salisbury Bowls Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Sandgate & District Meals on Wheels Incorporated |$9,979.67 |
|Sandgate and District Youth Tennis Association Inc |$4,765.78 |
|Savoyards Musical Comedy Society Inc. |$5,136.36 |
|Savoyards Musical Comedy Society Inc. |$4,716.95 |
|Seikukan Karate Club Wavell Heights Brisbane Incorporated |$10,491.51 |
|Sherwood Community Kindergarten Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Sherwood Football Club Limited |$9,750.00 |
|South Brisbane District Cricket Club |$10,000.00 |
|South Western Metro Basketball Incorporated |$9,786.77 |
|Southern Suburbs Rugby League Football Club (Brisbane) Ltd |$10,000.00 |
|Souths Junior Cricket Club |$10,000.00 |
|Souths Rugby Union Club Incorporated |$9,314.00 |
|Souths Sunnybank JRLFC |$9,187.24 |
|Southside Eagles Football Club Inc |$6,278.85 |
|Southside Pony Club Inc |$9,982.50 |
|St Catherine‘s United Football Club Inc |$8,297.17 |
|St Catherine‘s United Football Club Inc |$1,702.83 |
|St Lucia Bowling Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Stafford & District Meals on Wheels |$7,067.35 |
|Stephens Croquet Club Inc |$7,733.11 |
|Stones Corner Community Kindergarten Inc |$8,225.00 |
|Sunnybank and District Brass Band Inc |$1,951.40 |
|Sunnybank Bridge Club Inc. |$2,167.40 |
|Sunnybank Bridge Club Inc. |$6,207.90 |
|Sunnybank Junior Rugby Club |$10,000.00 |
|Sunnybank Rugby Union Club Ltd |$10,000.00 |
|Sunnybank Senior Rugby Club |$10,000.00 |
|Sunnybank Theatre Group (Inc) |$5,167.40 |
|Sunnybank Theatre Group (Inc) |$2,375.00 |
|Taiwan Women‘s League of Queensland (Australia) Incorporated |$2,280.60 |
|Taringa Rovers Soccer Football Club Inc |$7,784.24 |
|The Australian Hellenic Sports and Cultural Association |$10,000.00 |
|The Boys‘ Brigade Queensland Limited |$3,480.75 |
|The Community Place Inc |$10,000.00 |
|The Community Place Inc |$7,330.29 |
|The Creche and Kindergarten Association Limited - Ascot Community Kindergarten |$8,063.26 |
|The Creche and Kindergarten Association Limited - C&K Arnwood Place |$10,000.00 |
|The Creche and Kindergarten Association Limited - Community Kindergarten Acacia Ridge |$9,749.80 |
|The Creche and Kindergarten Association Limited - Community Kindergarten Mt Crosby |$2,668.74 |
|The Creche and Kindergarten Association Limited - Coorparoo Community Kindergarten |$9,124.50 |
|The Gap Football Club |$10,000.00 |
|The Half Dozen Group of Artists |$3,589.77 |
|The Hut Environmental and Community Association Inc |$4,766.30 |
|The Korean Society of Queensland Inc. |$8,274.29 |
|The Portuguese Family Centre Sport and Recreation Association Inc. |$10,716.68 |
|The Scout Association of Australia Queensland Branch Inc - Bayside Sea Scout Group |$5,927.69 |
|The Scout Association of Australia Queensland Branch Inc - Wilston Scout Group |$8,536.96 |
|The Scout Association of Australia Queensland Branch Inc - St Johns Wood Scout Group |$10,000.00 |
|The Tarragindi Churches Tigers Sporting Association Inc |$9,212.48 |
|The Trustee for General Douglas MacArthur Brisbane Memorial Foundation |$6,500.00 |
|The Trustee for General Douglas MacArthur Brisbane Memorial Foundation |$3,500.00 |
|The Young Men‘s Christian Association of Brisbane (Acacia Ridge Gymnasium) |$9,379.41 |
|Tingalpa Model Aero Club Inc. |$11,000.00 |
|Toombul Bowls Club Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Toombul Croquet Club Inc |$10,949.40 |
|Toowong Bridge Club Incorporated |$10,000.00 |
|Toowong Harriers Inc. |$11,000.00 |
|Toowong Rowing Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Upper Mt Gravatt Kindergarten Assn Inc |$5,058.00 |
|UQFC Inc |$20,000.00 |
|Valley Hockey Club |$9,948.56 |
|Veterans Support and Advocacy Service Australia Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Vintage Speedcar Assn (QLD) Inc |$10,252.56 |
|Virginia United Football Club |$10,000.00 |
|Voices of Birralee Inc |$9,999.86 |
|Vulcana Women‘s Circus |$9,470.00 |
|Warehouse Cricket Association Qld (Inc) |$20,000.00 |
|Waterloo Bay Leisure Centre Association Incorporated |$11,000.00 |
|Welcome Sports Ltd. |$8,590.00 |
|Wellers Hill Bowls Club Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Wesley Mission Queensland - Elorac Place |$7,129.88 |
|Western Districts Baseball Club Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Western Districts Netball Association |$10,000.00 |
|Western Districts Rugby Football Club Ltd |$10,000.00 |
|Wests (Brisbane) Junior Rugby League Football Club Inc. |$10,000.00 |
|Wests Juniors Australian Football Club INC |$10,000.00 |
|Wests Mitchelton Rugby League Football Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Westside Sports Club Inc |$11,000.00 |
|Wilston Grange Australian Football Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Wilston Grange Kindergarten and Pre-School Association Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Windsor Bowls Club Inc |$9,872.84 |
|Windsor Croquet Club Inc |$4,400.00 |
|Windsor Croquet Club Inc |$4,786.17 |
|Windsor Royals Sports Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Wise Foundation |$10,000.00 |
|Woodturners Society of Queensland Inc. |$10,585.00 |
|Wynnum and District Horse and Pony Club |$494.26 |
|Wynnum and District Rugby Union Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Wynnum Croquet Club Inc |$7,467.75 |
|Wynnum Manly District Cricket Club |$10,000.00 |
|Wynnum Manly Historical Society Inc. |$448.16 |
|Wynnum Table Tennis Association Inc |$11,000.00 |
|Wynnum Tennis Association Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Wynnum Vikings Australian Football and Sporting Club Inc |$9,238.63 |
|Wynnum Wolves Football Club Inc |$10,000.00 |
|Wynnum-Manly Junior Rugby League Football Club Limited |$10,000.00 |
|YMCA Brisbane |$10,000.00 |
|YMCA Brisbane |$10,000.00 |
Q6. Please provide a list of community groups eligible for the of the Lord Mayor’s COVID-19 Direct Assistance Programme that have not applied for funding?
A6.
|ORGANISATION NAME |
|Acacia Ridge Meals on Wheels Inc. |
|Arana Leagues Club Ltd |
|Ashgrove Golf Club |
|Ashgrove Memorial Kindergarten Inc. |
|Ashgrove/The Gap Men‘s Shed Inc. |
|Aspley East Kindergarten and Preschool Assoc. Inc. |
|Australian Academy of Martial Arts Karate-Do Club Inc |
|Bardon Community Kindy Inc. |
|Baseball Queensland, Hendra |
|Bayside BMX Club Inc. |
|Bayside Radio Controlled Car Club Inc. |
|Beelarong Community Farm Association Inc. |
|Bellbowrie Kindergarten and Preschool Association Inc. |
|Blue Care Brisbane, Ashgrove |
|Blue Care Brisbane, Mount Gravatt |
|Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Club Ltd - Field and Gym Lease |
|Brisbane Racing Club Limited |
|BrisStyle |
|Burnie Brae Ltd |
|Cannon Hill District Netball Association Inc. |
|Cannon Hill Stars Rugby League Club Inc. |
|Carina Kindergarten & Pre-School Association Inc. |
|Central Service Office Brisbane Inc. |
|Chermside Meals on Wheels Inc. |
|Citroen Car Club of Qld |
|Colleges United Soccer Club Inc. |
|Communify Queensland Ltd - Woolloongabba Substation No 5 |
|Community Living Association |
|Community Supporting Police Incorporated |
|Craigslea Kindergarten Association Inc. |
|Crushers Leagues Club Limited |
|Department of Emergency Services - Queensland Ambulance Services |
|Downey Park Netball Association Inc. |
|Emily Foord Memorial Kindy & Preschool |
|Equipping For Life Ltd |
|Everton Districts Cricket Club Inc. |
|Ferny Grove & Districts Junior Australian Football Club Inc. |
|Geebung Meals on Wheels Inc. |
|Good Samaritan Housing |
|Greening Australia |
|Guides Queensland, Yeronga |
|Guides Queensland, Carindale |
|Guides Queensland, Coorparoo |
|Guides Queensland, Tarragindi |
|Guides Queensland, Holland Park |
|Guides Queensland, Everton Park |
|Guides Queensland, Sandgate |
|Guides Queensland, Camp Hill |
|Guides Queensland, Ascot |
|Guides Queensland, Oxley |
|Guides Queensland, Bracken Ridge |
|Guides Queensland, Aspley |
|Guides Queensland, Middle Park |
|Guides Queensland, St Lucia |
|Guides Queensland, Chermside West |
|Guides Queensland, Stafford |
|Guides Queensland, Wynnum |
|Guides Queensland, Chermside |
|Guides Queensland, Geebung |
|Guides Queensland, Coopers Plains |
|Guides Queensland, Wavell Heights |
|Guides Queensland, Sherwood |
|Holland Park & District Meals on Wheels Inc. |
|Holland Park Kindergarten Association Inc. |
|Horizon Foundation Inc. |
|Inala Community House, Inala |
|Inala Community House, Bamboo St, Inala |
|Inala Youth Care Community Inc. |
|Iranian Society of Queensland, Milton |
|Jabiru Community Youth and Children‘s Services Association Inc. |
|Jabiru Community Youth and Children‘s Services Association Inc. - Library & Community Centre |
|Jamboree Community Kindergarten & Pre-School Association Inc. |
|Jindalee Golf Club |
|Karana Downs Rotary Club Inc. |
|Kedron Wavell Services Club Inc. - Historical Precinct |
|Kedron Wavell Services Club Inc. - Main Club & Hockey Fields |
|Kenmore District Australian Football Club Inc. |
|Kenmore District Kindergarten & Pre-School Association Inc. |
|Kyabra Community Association Inc., Richlands |
|Kyabra Community Association Inc., Sunnybank |
|Lady Gowrie Child Care Inc. |
|Link Vision Inc. |
|Lions Club of Brisbane Macgregor Inc. |
|Manly Community Kindergarten Association Inc. |
|Montessori School Ltd |
|Mott Park Kindergarten Association Inc. |
|Mt Crosby Bowls Club Inc. |
|Mt Gravatt Hawks Soccer Club Inc |
|Muddies Cricket & Recreation Club Inc. |
|Mustang Owners Club of Australia Inc. Qld Branch |
|NAPCAN |
|Naval Association of Australia - Brisbane Sub-Section Incorporation |
|Norman Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee |
|Norman Park Sports & Community Club |
|Play Matters Toy Library & Therapy Centre Ltd |
|Queensland Association of Four Wheel Drive Clubs Inc. |
|Queensland Blind Cricket Association Inc. |
|Queensland Christian Soccer Association Inc. |
|Queensland Gaelic Football Association Inc. |
|Queensland Police Service |
|Queensland Sporting Club Incorporated (i.e. Bulimba Golf) |
|Red Hill Kindergarten & Pre-School Association Inc. |
|Returned and Services League of Australia (Queensland Branch) The Gap Sub Branch Inc |
|Rotary Club of Jindalee |
|Salisbury & District Senior Citizens Welfare Association Inc. |
|Sandgate & District Senior Citizens Centre Inc. |
|Sandgate Kids Early Education Inc. |
|Sandgate-Redcliffe District Cricket Club Inc. |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Chermside West |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Karana Downs |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Bracken Ridge |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Wynnum |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Hemmant |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Manly |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Stafford |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Ascot |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Bellbowrie |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Keperra |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Enoggera |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Moorooka |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Toowong |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Tarragindi |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Sandgate |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Middle Park |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Upper Mount Gravatt |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Mount Gravatt |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Jindalee |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Bald Hills |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Sunnybank |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Nundah |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Boondall |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Abbeville Street, Upper Mount Gravatt |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Algester |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), The Gap |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Wavell Heights |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Beenleigh Road, Sunnybank |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Yeronga |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Morningside |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Coorparoo |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Alderley |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Kedron |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Pamphlett Sea Scouts |
|Scouts Association of Australia (Queensland Branch), Wonargo Revue Branch |
|SeQual Association Inc. |
|South Brisbane Federal Band Inc. |
|South Brisbane Sailing Club Inc. |
|Souths Graceville Rugby League Club Inc. |
|Souths Rugby Union Club Inc. |
|Souths United Soccer Club Inc. - 5 Lease - Field Only |
|Souths United Soccer Club Inc. - Clubhouse Only |
|Southside Community Group Pty Ltd - Southside Community Group Pty. Ltd. |
|Spanish Centre Ltd |
|Spinal Home Help Inc. |
|St Paul‘s Uniting Soccer Club Inc. |
|St Thomas‘s Riverview Kindergarten Inc. |
|Tarragindi War Memorial Preschool & Kindergarten |
|The Australian Red Cross Society |
|The Fig Tree Pocket Equestrian Club Inc. |
|The Lions Rugby Union Club Inc. |
|The Richmond Fellowship of Queensland |
|The Society for Creative Anachronism |
|The Women’s Community Aid Association (Qld) Limited |
|The Young Men‘s Christian Association of Brisbane (YMCA) - Early Childhood Centre |
|The Young Men‘s Christian Association of Brisbane (YMCA) - Youth and Community Centre |
|Toombul District Cricket Club Inc. |
|Toowong Football Club Inc. |
|Valley District Cricket Club |
|Volunteering Qld |
|Wavell Heights Kindergarten Inc. |
|West Arana Hills Rugby League Football Club |
|Western Districts Youth Club Inc. |
|Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Inc. |
|Wolston Park Centenary Cricket Club |
|Wynnum 60 & Better |
|Wynnum Family Day Care |
|Wynnum Golf Club Inc |
|Wynnum Manly Arts Council |
|Wynnum Softball Association |
|Yeronga Park Kindergarten Association Inc |
|Yeronga Tennis Club Inc. |
|Zone 4 Eastern Districts Junior Cricket Association Inc. |
Q7. Have any community groups been refused funding for the Lord Mayor’s COVID-19 Direct Assistance Programme? If yes, please provide a list and reason for refusal.
A7. Nine organisations that applied did not receive funding. See below:
|APPLICANT |REASON FOR INELIGIBILITY |
|Brisbane Girls Grammar School |Educational Institution ineligible entity under program guidelines |
|Moggill Football Club |The organisation is ineligible as they do not hold a lease or sub-lease|
| |of a Council facility. |
|Bulimba Judo Club Inc. |The organisation is ineligible as they do not hold a lease or sub-lease|
| |of a Council facility. |
|The Silk Shed Studio Group Inc (Art Space |The organisation is ineligible as they do not hold a lease or sub-lease|
|Toowong) |of a Council facility. |
|Tigers Australian Football Club (Mayne) Inc |The organisation is ineligible as they do not hold a lease or sub-lease|
| |of a Council facility. |
|Brisbane Super Kings Cricket Club Inc |The organisation is ineligible as they do not hold a lease or sub-lease|
| |of a Council facility. |
|Bracken Ridge Branch Little Athletics Centre |The organisation is ineligible as they do not hold a lease or sub-lease|
| |of a Council facility. |
|Kenmore Bridge Club inc |The organisation is ineligible as they do not hold a lease or sub-lease|
| |of a Council facility. |
|Brisbane Excelsior Band Inc |The organisation is ineligible as they do not hold a lease or sub-lease|
| |of a Council facility. |
Q8. Will the Lord Mayor make any left over funding available to not-for-profit community groups who are not on Council leased land but provide valuable support and services to their local communities in Brisbane and have missed out because they are on Church land, own their own property or State land?
A8. This is not applicable as the program is closed, with funds effectively fully allocated.
Submitted by Councillor Steve Griffiths (from meeting on 2 March 2021)
Q1. Please provide the rates revenue by suburb in the 2019-20 financial year.
|SUBURB |2019-2020 REVENUE FROM RATES |
| | |
A1.
|SUBURB |AMOUNT |
|Acacia Ridge |$10,767,936.11 |
|Albion |$5,425,365.22 |
|Alderley |$5,889,661.76 |
|Algester |$4,536,395.22 |
|Annerley |$9,727,500.77 |
|Anstead |$766,764.68 |
|Archerfield |$3,397,801.75 |
|Ascot |$8,292,918.64 |
|Ashgrove |$11,551,378.49 |
|Aspley |$9,510,445.76 |
|Auchenflower |$5,836,833.24 |
|Bald Hills |$3,798,820.92 |
|Balmoral |$3,804,279.14 |
|Banyo |$7,014,144.44 |
|Bardon |$8,659,369.65 |
|Bellbowrie |$2,614,051.68 |
|Belmont |$3,087,055.23 |
|Boondall |$5,667,784.08 |
|Bowen Hills |$9,668,102.57 |
|Bracken Ridge |$8,580,753.55 |
|Bridgeman Downs |$6,549,589.61 |
|Brighton |$6,055,957.68 |
|Brisbane Airport |$2,830,272.80 |
|Brisbane City |$98,825,748.84 |
|Brookfield |$2,663,142.15 |
|Bulimba |$8,839,713.98 |
|Bulwer |$138,218.38 |
|Burbank |$1,145,302.96 |
|Calamvale |$10,123,237.97 |
|Camp Hill |$10,639,049.22 |
|Cannon Hill |$6,357,591.58 |
|Carina |$8,813,761.67 |
|Carina Heights |$5,364,890.83 |
|Carindale |$13,431,133.77 |
|Carseldine |$5,499,605.90 |
|Chandler |$2,098,088.83 |
|Chapel Hill |$6,949,729.48 |
|Chelmer |$3,373,534.63 |
|Chermside |$12,183,440.75 |
|Chermside West |$4,329,683.80 |
|Chuwar |$42,031.95 |
|Clayfield |$10,818,459.49 |
|Coopers Plains |$7,065,184.23 |
|Coorparoo |$16,709,732.03 |
|Corinda |$4,082,648.48 |
|Cowan Cowan |$149,443.76 |
|Darra |$6,348,376.33 |
|Deagon |$2,609,927.58 |
|Doolandella |$3,040,750.21 |
|Drewvale |$1,903,352.62 |
|Durack |$3,145,285.70 |
|Dutton Park |$1,981,431.50 |
|Eagle Farm |$6,182,843.90 |
|East Brisbane |$7,774,535.98 |
|Eight Mile Plains |$10,663,890.24 |
|Ellen Grove |$1,924,815.53 |
|Enoggera |$4,576,071.48 |
|Enoggera Reservoir |$27,870.56 |
|Everton Park |$7,859,288.65 |
|Fairfield |$2,530,596.24 |
|Ferny Grove |$3,333,013.92 |
|Fig Tree Pocket |$3,424,576.43 |
|Fitzgibbon |$3,162,287.16 |
|Forest Lake |$11,300,757.32 |
|Fortitude Valley |$25,657,092.98 |
|Gaythorne |$2,598,602.37 |
|Geebung |$6,455,828.33 |
|Gordon Park |$3,373,993.51 |
|Graceville |$4,149,018.67 |
|Grange |$3,897,167.28 |
|Greenslopes |$7,269,051.62 |
|Gumdale |$1,744,606.57 |
|Hamilton |$12,278,546.24 |
|Hawthorne |$6,035,280.19 |
|Heathwood |$3,629,930.76 |
|Hemmant |$5,729,487.62 |
|Hendra |$5,885,592.74 |
|Herston |$2,200,817.19 |
|Highgate Hill |$5,417,765.29 |
|Holland Park |$6,650,815.91 |
|Holland Park West |$5,621,347.71 |
|Inala |$7,414,205.93 |
|Indooroopilly |$14,244,611.71 |
|Jamboree Heights |$1,740,927.23 |
|Jindalee |$3,549,568.19 |
|Kalinga |$1,661,327.19 |
|Kangaroo Point |$12,054,732.62 |
|Karana Downs |$1,786,851.54 |
|Karawatha |$612,770.81 |
|Kedron |$9,006,075.69 |
|Kelvin Grove |$7,363,965.22 |
|Kenmore |$7,270,402.83 |
|Kenmore Hills |$1,643,359.76 |
|Keperra |$4,930,707.26 |
|Kholo |$205,174.83 |
|Kooringal |$237,016.79 |
|Kuraby |$4,113,567.22 |
|Lake Manchester |$3,439.64 |
|Larapinta |$1,633,983.55 |
|Lota |$2,117,899.28 |
|Lutwyche |$4,314,172.20 |
|Lytton |$3,350,527.89 |
|MacGregor |$4,904,777.44 |
|Mackenzie |$1,321,301.56 |
|Manly |$4,140,900.96 |
|Manly West |$7,608,439.42 |
|Mansfield |$7,125,578.78 |
|McDowall |$4,431,159.05 |
|Middle Park |$2,214,531.01 |
|Milton |$8,217,905.46 |
|Mitchelton |$7,320,188.01 |
|Moggill |$2,438,655.54 |
|Moorooka |$9,157,658.05 |
|Moreton Island |$44,650.28 |
|Morningside |$11,970,518.10 |
|Mount Coot-tha |$145,687.20 |
|Mount Crosby |$777,763.69 |
|Mount Gravatt |$3,632,648.49 |
|Mount Gravatt East |$9,405,911.47 |
|Mount Ommaney |$2,342,945.08 |
|Murarrie |$7,865,649.04 |
|Nathan |$1,193,151.42 |
|New Farm |$15,163,504.90 |
|Newmarket |$4,572,836.77 |
|Newstead |$12,545,541.56 |
|Norman Park |$6,145,447.68 |
|Northgate |$6,168,541.80 |
|Nudgee |$2,482,149.58 |
|Nudgee Beach |$217,890.78 |
|Nundah |$12,035,526.05 |
|Oxley |$6,355,280.90 |
|Paddington |$10,294,229.21 |
|Pallara |$1,675,357.01 |
|Parkinson |$6,626,068.54 |
|Petrie Terrace |$1,570,926.96 |
|Pinjarra Hills |$479,889.19 |
|Pinkenba |$5,980,676.42 |
|Port of Brisbane |$4,399,301.34 |
|Pullenvale |$2,108,924.69 |
|Ransome |$330,772.96 |
|Red Hill |$5,514,139.58 |
|Richlands |$6,473,294.83 |
|Riverhills |$2,145,912.20 |
|Robertson |$3,643,261.01 |
|Rochedale |$5,862,972.37 |
|Rocklea |$6,401,462.15 |
|Runcorn |$8,141,966.76 |
|Salisbury |$6,741,975.10 |
|Sandgate |$4,152,802.59 |
|Seven Hills |$2,374,278.94 |
|Seventeen Mile Rocks |$2,464,545.97 |
|Sherwood |$5,788,593.62 |
|Shorncliffe |$1,462,172.11 |
|Sinnamon Park |$3,742,560.15 |
|South Brisbane |$23,657,271.54 |
|Spring Hill |$13,805,329.28 |
|St Helena Island |$2,610.12 |
|St Lucia |$10,025,346.96 |
|Stafford |$7,293,622.60 |
|Stafford Heights |$5,215,678.40 |
|Stones Corner |$3,229,518.04 |
|Stretton |$3,102,053.95 |
|Sumner |$2,191,395.00 |
|Sunnybank |$8,133,166.09 |
|Sunnybank Hills |$12,117,611.36 |
|Taigum |$4,157,490.47 |
|Taringa |$7,945,370.80 |
|Tarragindi |$8,663,425.76 |
|Teneriffe |$7,524,472.63 |
|Tennyson |$1,537,925.60 |
|The Gap |$11,102,518.38 |
|Tingalpa |$7,315,796.27 |
|Toowong |$13,817,560.42 |
|Upper Brookfield |$663,525.72 |
|Upper Kedron |$2,751,014.75 |
|Upper Mount Gravatt |$11,783,437.23 |
|Virginia |$4,848,824.49 |
|Wacol |$6,656,388.44 |
|Wakerley |$5,553,467.66 |
|Wavell Heights |$7,783,751.84 |
|West End |$17,928,292.62 |
|Westlake |$2,676,306.29 |
|Willawong |$1,852,276.04 |
|Wilston |$3,825,412.92 |
|Windsor |$7,627,702.66 |
|Wishart |$6,662,573.80 |
|Woolloongabba |$12,124,319.93 |
|Wooloowin |$3,402,274.34 |
|Wynnum |$11,993,432.64 |
|Wynnum West |$7,870,263.46 |
|Yeerongpilly |$1,858,299.34 |
|Yeronga |$6,070,288.03 |
|Zillmere |$6,250,771.63 |
Q2. Please provide a list of complaints made under Council’s AP186 Administrative Action Complaints Procedure as an Administrative Action Complaint (AAC) in 2020 and 2021 (to date) with the details of the subject of the complaint, the party which submitted the complaint and the date the complaint was lodged.
|SUBJECT OF COMPLAINT |PARTY |DATE LODGED |
| | | |
A2. Please find below a list of complaints made under Council’s AP186 Administrative Action Complaints Procedure from 2020 to date.
Please note, the party which submitted the complaint cannot be provided as they contain personal information which, if disclosed, would breach the provisions of the Information Privacy Act 2009 and Council’s AP174 Privacy Policy.
Further, section 171 of the City of Brisbane Act 2010 and AP038 – Acceptable Requests Guideline prevents Councillors from accessing personal details of complainants relating to specific Administrative Action Complaints.
|SUBJECT OF COMPLAINT |DATE LODGED |
|Complaint regarding a building development. |12/02/21 |
|Complaint regarding the eviction of a sporting club from their premises. |05/02/21 |
|Complaint in relation to the outcome of noise testing on a resident’s air conditioning unit. |31/12/20 |
|Request for an AAC into concerns about the removal of a mature street tree to accommodate |14/12/20 |
|the construction of a larger driveway and fence. | |
|Complaint in relation to pruning/removal of an Obesia tree outside a resident’s property, which is |07/12/20 |
|causing damage to their property by shedding its leaves, flowers, and seedpods onto their roof/gutters | |
|Complaint regarding compliance action in response to the planting of trees on the footway outside |07/12/20 |
|properties. | |
|Complaint with respect to pollution in a local creek. |04/12/20 |
|Concerns regarding removal of landscaping and addition of a concrete path at a property. |24/11/20 |
|Concerns with a retaining wall between two residents’ properties. |09/11/20 |
|Complaint about various components of a development approval. |06/11/20 |
|Complaint concerning a neighbour’s stormwater, encroachments, and dividing fence on their private |20/10/20 |
|property. | |
|Concerns with a development approval. |15/10/20 |
|Concerns with a development approval. |08/10/20 |
|Development application review. |25/09/20 |
|Safety concerns about a protected tree overlaying a road. |25/09/20 |
|Council’s decision not to exercise discretionary powers under the Plumbing and Drainage Act 2018 and |24/09/20 |
|coordinate remedial works on a combined sanitary drain that serves neighbouring properties. | |
|Concerns with the upgrade of a bus stop outside a residence. |23/09/20 |
|Objection to development approval. |20/09/20 |
|Council‘s investigation into complaints about noise from an air conditioner. |16/09/20 |
|Administrative actions of Council in reviewing a complaint about an RTI issue. |15/09/20 |
|Complaint regarding a development. |09/09/20 |
|Complaint about an unemptied recycle bin from neighbour’s property. |07/09/20 |
|Complaint about the awarding of a contract. |07/09/20 |
|Complaint regarding a development. |03/09/20 |
|Complaint regarding trees on Council land affecting an investment property. |07/08/20 |
|Council’s management of street trees. |31/07/20 |
|Concerns about a request for additional stormwater drainage infrastructure to mitigate stormwater |29/07/20 |
|flooding. | |
|Concerns regarding the proposed relocation of a bus stop. |24/07/20 |
|Ongoing concerns regarding a house raising assessment as part of Flood Resilient Homes Program (FRHP). |24/07/20 |
|Concerns regarding a request for additional stormwater drainage infrastructure to mitigate stormwater |24/07/20 |
|flooding. | |
|Complaint in relation to concerns with the decision of the Council not to declare the neighbour’s dog as |20/07/20 |
|dangerous. | |
|Complaint regarding a development. |29/05/20 |
|Review of a claim for compensation in respect of an alleged incident that occurred in Brisbane City in |24/05/20 |
|February 2020. | |
|Complaint regarding a synthetic sports field. |22/05/20 |
|Investigation of a complaint regarding non-compliance with contract specifications by other contractors. |19/05/20 |
|Complaint in relation to a development. |18/05/20 |
|Concerns about lighting at a sports field. |12/05/20 |
|Complaint regarding an NBN pit in the same location as a proposed driveway. |24/04/20 |
|Dissatisfied with response regarding the relocation of a bus stop. |19/04/20 |
|Complaint regarding light pollution emanating from an LED light installed on the exterior of a primary |15/04/20 |
|school. | |
|Dissatisfied with Council‘s investigation and response to complaints about the operation of a commercial |03/04/20 |
|premises. | |
|Complaint regarding a possible privacy breach at a library. |10/03/20 |
|Complaint regarding a parking infringement. |29/01/20 |
|Rectification and compensation issues regarding a project. |28/01/20 |
|Complaint regarding stormwater. |28/01/20 |
|Complaint about reinstatement of a bus stop. |27/01/20 |
|Noise complaint regarding a property. |16/01/20 |
|Complaint regarding stormwater flow into properties. |16/01/20 |
|Complaint regarding Council‘s investigation of a barking dog matter. |15/01/20 |
|Smoke nuisance complaint. |13/01/20 |
RISING OF COUNCIL: 6:13pm.
PRESENTED: and CONFIRMED
CHAIR
Council officers in attendance:
Victor Tan (Council and Committee Coordinator)
Katie Loader (A/Council and Committee Officer)
Billy Peers (Personal Support Officer to the Lord Mayor and Council Orderly)
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