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00:00:00 Speaker 2: Good evening everyone. I'm here to be open. I would like to acknowledge that we're meeting on the traditional lands of the Kabi Kabi people and I pay my respects to the elders past, present and emerging. I note that all councillors are in attendance. Can I have a minute for the confirmation. Thank you Councillor Hawking. A seconder, thank you Councillor Winkler. All in favour? Carried unanimously. Thank you. There are no mayoral minutes. Does anyone have any petitions? Councillor Lorentson: That the online petition signed by 167 people requesting council cease development of 1332 Toulambi Street Noosa hence pending a local consultation and engagement be received and reserved to the chief executive officer to determine appropriate action. I'll second it. Thank you. Thank you Councillor. All in favour? Carried unanimously. Thank you Councillor Winslet.
00:01:00 That the online petition signed at the date of lodging 1171 people is tabled noting that the opposition to the proposal by MSQ for a permanent six knot speed limit on the Noosa River again be received and referred to the chief executive officer to determine appropriate action. Speaker 2: A seconder, thank you Councillor Winslet. All in favour? Carried unanimously. Thank you. There are no mayoral minutes. Does anyone have any petitions? A seconder, thank you Councillor Winslet. All in favour? Carried unanimously. Thank you. There are no mayoral minutes. Does anyone have any petitions? A seconder, thank you. There are no mayoral minutes. There are no notified motions. There are no presentations and no deputations. That brings us to item eight on page four of our agendas, which is a consideration of the committee reports. Firstly we have the planning environment committee recommendations page four. Item one. MC15-0109.04 minor change to the development approval for multiple housing type four conventional 39 units and 75 resort drivers. I would like to declare that I, Councillor Stewart, inform the meeting that I have a declarable conflict of interest in this matter in relation to the application by Ultram Constructions.
00:02:00 I have a personal friendship with Lee and Rob McCready who are associated with the applicant. As a result of my conflict of interest, I will now leave the meeting room while the matter is considered and voting on. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Stewart. Councillor Finzel: I, Councillor Finzel, inform the meeting that I have a declarable conflict of interest. in this matter in relation to the application by Ultram Constructions. Lee McCready, who is associated with the applicant, was involved in a volunteer capacity with my 2020 election campaign where I was one of three candidates that ran as a group known as Future Noosa, which is no longer an entity. As a result of my conflict of interest, I will now leave the meeting room while the matter is considered and voted on. Councillor Wilkie: Thank you, Councillor Finzel.
00:03:00 Deputy Mayor Stockwell: Yes, I too wish to inform the meeting that I have a declarable conflict of interest in this matter in relation to the application by Ultram Constructions. On 24th of February 2020, I saw a review by the Independent Council Election Observer as to the public claims of the Future Noosa team, of which Lee McCready was publicly identified as a campaign manager. Lee McCready is associated with the applicant. Although I have a declarable conflict of interest, I do not believe a reasonable person could have a perception of bias because the ICEO review was an advisory service, not a statutory process, and my queries at the time were in the public interest and neither Ms. McCready nor I stood to personally gain or lose from that advice. Therefore, I will choose to remain in the meeting room. However, I will respect the decision of the meeting on whether I can remain and participate in the decision. Thank you, Councillor Stockwell. Councillor Jones. Councillor Jurisevic: I'll move that the Council note the declarable conflict of interest by Councillor Stockwell determined it's in the public interest that Councillor Stockwell participates and votes on this matter because the Council believes that a reasonable person could not have a perception of bias because the ICEO review was an advisory service, not a statutory process, and Councillor Stockwell's queries at the time were in the public interest and neither he or Ms. McCready stood to personally gain or lose from that advice, and therefore a reasonable person would trust that the final decision is made in the public.
00:04:00 Councillor Wilkie: Any other councillors wish to speak to the motion? If the motion goes in favour, it's carried unanimously. Councillor Stockwell does not vote on the matter. Now I move to the council resolution. Councillor Jurisevic: Councillor Jurisdict. Yes, I'd like to move the staff recommendation with one minor addition to a clause relating to the car wash bay.
00:05:00 And that is condition 66 that the car wash bay, the original condition was the car wash bay must be bundled to prevent Lake Porter from leaving the site and must not enter the downstream drainage system. I'd like to add plans demonstrating compliance with this condition must be lodged with council prior to commencing works on site. The works must be desired to council's reasonable satisfaction. Councillor Wilkie: Thank you Councillor Jurisdict. Do we have a seconder for that motion please? I have a seconder by Councillor Stockwell. Councillor Jurisdict. Councillor Jurisevic: Yeah, I mean the conditions I think are sufficient to deal with the matter. The only issue I had with the car wash is that the only element that was conditioned with regard to preventing multiple cars being washed at any one time and the suds and the residue of that washing downstream was only protected by a bund. I think there's a greater opportunity there for better protection because it's not quite like a residential area where only one car is washed.
00:06:00 There could be multiple vehicles at a time and as a result multiple residue washing down into the groundwater system. So just to ensure that I just think there's a little bit more protection required around the car wash bay and I've asked for that with this additional element of the condition. Councillor Wilkie: Thank you. Do the councillors have any questions or like to speak to the motion? Deputy Mayor Stockwell: I will do. I thank Councillor Jurisdict for being diligent in trying to ensure that those plans are added. Just by way of explaining that last night council funds a find a frog in February and we were told that one of the most significant threats to our local frogs is detergents coming down into the wetlands and we know, I'm not sure where it's exactly drained to but it's quite close to Lake Ivor which is a high ecological value wetland so it's quite appropriate to ensure we've got conditions that do meet that. And other than that I think the application in TOTO in terms of what it proposes is also a good step forward.
00:07:00 Councillor Wilkie: And now the councillors wish to speak before Councillor Jurisdict closes. Joe do you wish to close? No. Yeah. Put the motion in those in favour. That's unanimous. May we have councillors Stewart and Finzel back in the room please. Councillor Jurisevic: I just don't know if the conditions refer to the manger still. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: That provides accommodation for the 24th of September. Speaker 2: Thank you councillor. Pleasure. Councillor Wilkie: Thank you. Speaker 2: Thank you. Item 2 was referred, let me go back on page 7. Thank you. Item 2 was referred to the General Committee. Item 3, vegetation assessment project update. Item 4 was referred to the General Committee. Item 5, planning applications decided by delegated authority for January 2022.
00:08:00 Can I have a move to thank Councillor Stockwell and a seconder. Thank you Councillor Finzel. All in favour. Any opposed. So that is for the adoption of Planning and Environment Committee Recommendations except when dealt with separately. Thank you. Next are the Services and Organisation Committee Recommendations. These are on page 8 of the agenda. Item 1, Opposed Telecommunications Lease, 10 Bartlett Street, Noosaville. Councillor Wegener: I, Councillor Wegener, inform the meeting that I have a declarable conflict of interest in this matter as I have an NBN tower located on my property and receive income from NBN via a lease arrangement. In the past, I have left the room when dealing with construction of further NBN towers. It could be viewed that I have an interest in mobile phone networks and NBN towers. As a result of my conflict of interest, I will now leave the meeting room while the matter is considered and voted on. Speaker 2: Thank you. Councillor Wilkie: Just a question from the CEO. Is this application got anything to do with constructing a new mobile phone tower?
00:09:00 Through the Mayor, I would need to defer to the Planning Team and Relations Party. Just to clarify. Speaker 2: Karen. Councillor Wilkie: Karen. I'm leaving. Sorry. No. Speaker 2: This report is by the Property Team. Councillor Wilkie: Oh, look. I'll answer my own question. It has nothing to do with a mobile phone tower or NBN. It's about an equipment shed that Vodafone would like to use. I just wondered why Councillor Wegener wrote that. Went so far. Anyway. It's just to clarify if anyone's watching. It's got nothing to do with a new mobile phone tower going in anywhere. Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. Councillor Wegener, would you like to move this? Councillor Wilkie: I have to move it, Madam Mayor. Speaker 2: Thank you. Any second? All in favour? Unanimous. Thank you, Karen. Thank you. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: It wasn't a mobile tower. We can say that Councillor Wegener had his wires crossed.
00:10:00 Councillor Jurisevic: I guess telecommunications are telecommunications. Speaker 2: Thank you, Councillor Wegener. Item two. Contract number T000052. Provision of Noosa River Dredging Services. Item three. 2021 Inland Disaster Management Financial Report. Thank you, Councillor Wegener. So moved. Any second? All in favour? Unanimous. Thank you, Karen. Next are the Audit and Risk Committee recommendations. These are on page nine of the agenda. Item one. Queensland Audit Office Report. Item two. End of Financial Year Timetable. Item three. Effectiveness of Audit and Risk Committee. Item four. Internal Audit. Item five. Risk Management and Business Continuity. Item six. Regulatory Practices and Governance Matters. Councillor Wilkie: I'll move that, Madam Mayor. And I... Yeah, I'll move that. Thank you. And I'll let you speak to the report. Speaker 2: Again? Councillor Jurisevic: Second. It appears to be low risk with a little R there in it.
00:11:00 Absolutely. Councillor Wilkie: Thank you, Madam Mayor. This Audit and Risk Committee does a lot of very, very important work in the field of governance. And I understand that there are some very skilled external people that sit on this committee. And I'd like to call our Executive Services Director, Ed Goetze, to the table just to give us an update on the plans for a presentation from some of these external committee members to bring councillors up to speed with the work done and their observations of nursing council's governance matters. And I'd like to hear from you about some of the practices. Speaker 2: Thank you, Councillor. You're welcome, Chair. Speaker 1: Thank you. Through the Chair, yes. Point of order. I was worried about the thinking. You with the head. Sorry. Deputy Mayor Stockwell: I don't get often to pick on it. Speaker 1: So there was a report to the Audit and Risk Committee... the recent Audit and Risk Committee meeting which dealt with the effectiveness of the Audit and Risk Committee.
00:12:00 And the Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee actually undertakes that evaluation of the committee. And it can be done in different ways. What was discussed at this meeting was, and came out of that meeting, was that the suggestion that the external members of the Audit and Risk Committee actually do a presentation to council on progress of the committee, key areas that have been looked at, whether it be over a year. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. The actual timeframe hasn't been decided yet. But it was very important to be able to report back to the full council about the progress and the achievements of the Audit and Risk Committee. So that was discussed as part of the effective... in measuring the effectiveness of the Audit and Risk Committee. So... Thank you, Chair. Speaker 2: That's all. Thank you, Chair. Anything further, Councillor? Councillor Jurisevic: I forgot something about Matt. Thank you. I'd just like to support that.
00:13:00 I think it's very important that we read the report, but also the communication that goes on in that room. I think it's... So I would welcome the opportunity for further presentations by those external members on the effectiveness of the committee and what improvements may or may not need to be done with any councillors on it. Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. Does anyone else like to speak to this? Councillor Wilkie: Yeah. I'd just like to thank the members of the Audit and Risk Committee for their work. And that includes the councillors that sit on it. Councillor Stewart and Councillor Amelia Lorentson have also been part of the committee. It's a gruelling... It's a gruelling undertaking. The reports are extensive and very detailed. And I'm hoping that at future meetings, ordinary meetings like this, when Audit and Risk Committee meeting reports are part of the agenda, if we could get a little pricey of each of the items. Because it is very important work. And the governance of Risk Council depends on the work that's being done there.
00:14:00 And I feel we might just be skimming over some very important work. But if you'll... Would you be able to do on that, Deb, at future meetings? Speaker 1: Through the Chair, I'm happy to take that back to the Audit and Risk Committee and communicate that with them. We are well placed to be able to do that. Some of our reports are very detailed, but we could easily provide a pricey at a high level back to Council for following our meetings, which occur roughly quarterly also. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Speaker 2: Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. All right. I'll put it to a vote. Yes. Thank you. Unanimous. Thank you, Deb. Thank you. Now to the general committee recommendations on page 11. Item 1. NCU-19-0089.02 and OPW-19-0160.02. Minor change to development approval for retail business type 5 vehicle uses.
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00:15:00 Retail business type 2 shop and operational works. Signed, Yuki Tu, Yuki Paul, Mary Street, Noosaville. Item 2. Noosa River Stakeholder Advisory Committee update. Councillor Armstrong. Councillor Lorentson: I'd like to move the motion, please. Speaker 2: Sure. I'll second it. Thank you. Thanks, Deb. Councillor Lorentson: Yep. I just want to just speak to the committee update, and this is just a follow-on from the general meeting. It's my understanding that there's been some concern in the community and also by some of the members of the Boating Fishing Alliance, the Noosa Boating Fishing Alliance, that the views of boat users and commercial operators were not represented nor supported by some of the reps on the advisory committee. I can confirm, after further consultation with staff, that their views were supported and aired by the reps on the Noosa River Stakeholder Advisory Group, and for purposes of public
00:16:00 record that the speed restriction was not unanimously supported. As part of the MSQ process, their viewpoints opposing the 6 knot speed restriction as well as the viewpoints of the broader community are invited and will be considered by MSQ. And again, as a matter of clarity, I'd like to reiterate what was stated at the general meeting, that the proposal to change the speed limit is an MSQ, or state-driven process, and a MSQ, or state decision, that sits outside the scope of both the Noosa River Stakeholder Advisory Committee and outside the scope of Noosa Council. Speaker 2: Thank you, Ms. Larkin. Would anyone else like to speak to this? We'll put the mic on.
00:17:00 We're now up to item 9 on page 13 of the agenda. We have one report directly to the ordinary meeting. Now before we discuss this report I note that there is a confidential attachment so if anyone wishes to discuss any elements of the confidential attachment please keep in mind that we will have to go into a closed session. Councillor Jurisevic: I'm happy to move the staff recommendation. I'll send it. Speaker 2: Okay, thank you. Would anyone like to speak to this? No, I don't think so. Would anyone like to speak to this? Okay, we'll put it to a vote. All in favour? Carriage and amendment. Thank you. There are no confidential items. There are no submissions to public question time.
00:18:00 Thank you everyone. That brings us to the end of our agenda. I'd just like to welcome our new CEO Scott. This is the first ordinary meeting also with a short and sweet one for you Scott. Appreciate it. Thank you. All the hard working for me. That's alright. Thank you. And the next meeting will be held on Thursday 23rd April 2022. Councillor Finzel: Declare the meeting. Thank you.