MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE 4402 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY 7 MAY 2013
AT 2PM
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
The 4402 meeting of the Brisbane City Council,
held at City Hall, Brisbane
on Tuesday 7 May 2013
at 2pm
Prepared by:
Council and Committees Support
Chief Executive’s Office
Office of the Lord Mayor and the Chief Executive Officer
[4402 (Post Recess) meeting – 7 May 2013]
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE 4402 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY 7 MAY 2013
AT 2PM
[4402 (Post Recess) meeting – 7 May 2013]
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE 4402 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY 7 MAY 2013
AT 2PM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
MINUTES: 1
QUESTION TIME: 1
CONSIDERATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE: 13
NOTATION OF DECISIONS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE AS DELEGATE OF THE COUNCIL: 13
ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE (Information report) 13
A PROPOSED RESUMPTION OF LAND FOR PARK AND RECREATION GROUND PURPOSES SITUATED AT 41 BARNES AVENUE, 35 TO 37 LACKEY STREET, AND 67 HOLDSWORTH STREET, COORPAROO 16
ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE (Adoption report) 18
A REPORT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE MEETING ON 7 MARCH 2013 33
B CONTRACTS AND TENDERING - REPORT TO COUNCIL OF CONTRACTS ACCEPTED BY DELEGATES FOR FEBRUARY 2013 34
C AMENDMENTS TO THE HERITAGE REGISTER PLANNING SCHEME POLICY 42
D MOGGILL BELLBOWRIE DISTRICT NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 44
E RICHLANDS WACOL CORRIDOR NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 45
F TEMPORARY LOCAL PLANNING INSTRUMENT 01/13 PROTECTION OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTED PRIOR TO 1911 46
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE 48
A PETITION - OBJECTING TO THE REDEVELOPMENT OF AN AGED CARE ACCOMMODATION FACILITY AT 139 AND 139A GOLD CREEK ROAD, BROOKFIELD 55
B PETITIONS – REQUESTING CHARACTER PROTECTION OF A DWELLING AT 73 PRIMROSE STREET, SHERWOOD, WITH A TEMPORARY LOCAL PLANNING INSTRUMENT AND BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2000 AMENDMENTS 56
C PETITION – requesting Council to CONSIDER traffic and parking impacts on local streets when assessing applications to build new apartment blocks in Everton Park 58
NOTATION OF DECISIONS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE AS DELEGATE OF THE COUNCIL: 58
FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE 58
A TWO PETITIONS – Requesting that Council install an anti-jump fence along the footpath of the Story Bridge 59
BRISBANE LIFESTYLE COMMITTEE 60
A PETITION – CALLING ON COUNCIL TO INVESTIGATE THE DEATH OF TREES ALONG THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY OF THE COOPERS PLAINS LIBRARY AND TO INSTALL A PHYSICAL BARRIER TO RESTRICT ACCESS TO THE AREA 61
B PETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL PLACE CONDITIONS ON BUSINESS ACTIVITIES, RELATING TO INDUSTRIAL NOISE, AND REFUSE ANY FURTHER DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS FOR POTENTIALLY NOISY BUSINESS OPERATIONS IN THE VICINITY OF CROCKFORD STREET, NORTHGATE 63
CONSIDERATION OF NOTIFIED MOTION - Parking and traffic in the Nundah Shopping Village area, surrounding streets and local schools: 65
CONSIDERATION OF NOTIFIED MOTION - Parking and traffic in the Nundah Shopping Village area, surrounding streets and local schools: 72
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS: 85
GENERAL BUSINESS: 87
QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 96
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 98
[4402 (Post Recess) meeting – 7 May 2013]
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PRESENT:
The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR (Councillor Graham QUIRK) – LNP
The Chairman of Council, MargaretdeWIT (Pullenvale Ward) – LNP
LNP Councillors (and Wards) / ALP Councillors (and Wards)Councillor Krista ADAMS (Wishart)
Matthew BOURKE (Jamboree)
Amanda COOPER (Bracken Ridge)
Vicki HOWARD (Central)
Steven HUANG (Macgregor)
Fiona KING (Marchant)
GeraldineKNAPP (The Gap)
Kim MARX (Karawatha)
PeterMATIC (Toowong)
Ian McKENZIE (Holland Park)
David McLACHLAN (Hamilton)
Ryan MURPHY (Doboy)
Angela OWEN-TAYLOR (Parkinson) (Deputy Chairman of Council)
Adrian SCHRINNER (Chandler) (Deputy Mayor)
Julian SIMMONDS (Walter Taylor)
NormWYNDHAM (McDowall)
Andrew WINES (Enoggera) / Milton DICK (Richlands) (The Leader of the Opposition)
Helen ABRAHAMS (The Gabba) (Deputy Leader of the Opposition)
PeterCUMMING (Wynnum Manly)
KimFLESSER (Northgate)
SteveGRIFFITHS (Moorooka)
VictoriaNEWTON (Deagon)
ShayneSUTTON (Morningside)
Independent Councillor (and Ward)
Councillor Nicole JOHNSTON (Tennyson)
OPENING OF MEETING:
The Chairman, Councillor Margaret de WIT, opened the meeting with prayer, and then proceeded with the business set out in the Agenda.
Chairman: Councillors, before we go on I would like to extend a very warm welcome to the Mayor of Gold Coast City Council Tom Tate and his Chief of Staff who are here today to observe some of Brisbane City Council's meeting. Welcome.
MINUTES:
578/2012-13
The Minutes of the 4401 (ordinary) meeting held on 26 March 2013, copies of which had been forwarded to each councillor, were presented, taken as read and confirmed on the motion of Councillor MURPHY, seconded by Councillor MARX.
QUESTION TIME:
Chairman: Are there any questions of the LORD MAYOR or a Chairman of any of the standing committees? Councillor MURPHY?
Question 1
Councillor MURPHY: Thanks very much, Madam Chairman. Madam Chairman, my question is to the LORD MAYOR. LORD MAYOR I understand Council will be actively working with the Council of Mayors to lobby the Federal Government for enhanced infrastructure. Can you please detail why this is being done and why this course of action is necessary?
Chairman: LORD MAYOR.
LORD MAYOR: Yes thanks very much, Madam Chairman, and I thank Councillor MURPHY for the question. Madam Chairman, today we launched what is known as a ‘Give a Beep’ campaign. Whilst the question relates to the lobbying of the government, let me make it absolutely clear, Madam Chairman, that it is a program to lobby both the government and the Opposition in the lead up to the Federal election. The Council of Mayors as we know is a body that represents one in seven Australians. This body acts as a collective in the interests of South East Queenslanders.
Today, Madam Chairman, through the launching of the ‘Give a Beep’ campaign, we are calling on South East Queenslanders to join with the Mayors of South East Queensland in this campaign to ensure that South East Queensland receives its adequate share of infrastructure funding. It is a fact, Madam Chairman, that the collective from the South East Queensland Mayors and the people that we represent amount to some one fifth of the national economic growth. So it is that this is an important sector in terms of the gross domestic product of this nation. It is an important part of Australia in terms of what we are doing and the industries that we support.
So it is that the Council of Mayors are seeking a number of projects, some 36 in all that we are putting on the table as important projects in the region. They are projects that relate to all local authority areas. I am pleased to see that Mayor Tom Tate is in the Chamber today because clearly there are projects that the Council of Mayors have considered that are of regional benefit. These are decisions that we take where we draw away the barriers between councils. We recognise that the people of the South East sector of Queensland very much move between council areas, our business, our jobs, all of those things that support our community, ought to be looked at on a regional basis.
So it is that we have projects like the Pacific Highway upgrade, Mudgeeraba to Varsity Lakes is one of those projects that we believe is of regional significance. As we do the Toowoomba Second Range crossing and the Bruce Highway, Caloundra Road to Sunshine Motorway project. We see things like—I think someone just gave a beep right now, fantastic and that's what we want all South East Queenslanders to do, perhaps not in the Council Chamber DEPUTY MAYOR, but we want all South East Queenslanders to go online to www.giveabeep.com.au and to register their support for this campaign.
So in terms of Brisbane Kingsford Smith Drive, Northern and Eastern busways we see are projects of importance and significance. Gold Coast TransitWay upgrade is again another one representing the area belonging to Mayor Tom Tate. But, Madam Chairman, again this is a program where all South East Queenslanders can come together. We encourage them today through this launch to be a part of this campaign. Again, it's all about making sure that we get our fair share of the cake.
We acknowledge that there is not the infrastructure dollars around today that there once was. The economy is tight, that has meant a tightening of funds at all three levels of government. There's a tightening of funds in the community at large but, Madam Chairman, there is some money available and we need to make sure that we continue to have our voice heard as a part of South East Queensland, an integral part of this nation's economy. So I thank the other mayors of South East Queensland joining in this campaign. We will be having other launches in other Council areas to make sure that the message gets out right across the width and breadth of South East Queensland.
Chairman: Further questions? Councillor DICK.
Question 2
Councillor DICK: Thank you, Madam Chair, my question is to the LORD MAYOR. LORD MAYOR do you support the Costello Commission of Audit Recommendation number 17 that says, competitive tendering should be introduced for bus service contracts including evaluating the number of routes serviced and frequencies, franchisers and franchisees before initiating the tender. Do you support this recommendation yes or no?
Chairman: LORD MAYOR?
LORD MAYOR: Madam Chairman, it's nothing new. It is nothing new. Brisbane Transport has faced competitive tendering in the past. I made statements in this Chamber, Madam Chairman, in March about what I saw as the future of Brisbane Transport. I challenge or I'll allow the Opposition to go back and look at what I said on that occasion, I think it was 6 March from memory. But nothing's changed in terms of what I said at that time. Now can I just say that Brisbane Transport has faced competitive tendering. We faced it when the issue regarding transportation of people to major venues occurred and they were successful at that time.
There have been other instances of competitive tendering. So look, Madam Chairman, the State Government will make its own decisions around this and I don't know, I don't know, nor do you Councillor DICK, know what those decisions will be. The Costello Report has come down, it's not to say that every aspect of that report will be adopted. The government—
Councillor interjecting.
Chairman: Councillor DICK—just a minute LORD MAYOR. Councillor DICK you've asked a question. Please remain quiet while the answer is given.
LORD MAYOR: If you read the whole part of that Costello Report and I don't have it in front of me but I'm going from memory, it also issued some warnings around competitive tendering and the nature of what Mr Costello was recommending to the government. Again, I make the point that there are a whole raft of recommendations contained in the Costello Report. The government will have to work through those recommendations and make their own decisions relative to them. In the same way that we have when we brought private consultants into this Council, under various administrations over the years, considered the recommendations and made our own judgement. Accepted some recommendations, rejected others.
So, Madam Chairman, I just say this that if an organisation is efficient it will survive any competitive tendering, that's the reality. What is to fear about competition Opposition leader? What is there to fear about competition? It seems to me, Madam Chairman, that this is Labor's problem. They don't understand the fundamentals. They think that there is just an endless money pot that people have to keep taking money from to push into things.
Now, Madam Chairman, the Opposition leader's question around competitive tendering is a fair one but it is one which is going to be a while before any answers have to be made I would have thought in relation to it.
Councillor DICK: Point of order, Madam Chair.
Chairman: Yes Councillor DICK.
Councillor DICK: The LORD MAYOR is misleading the Chamber. I tabled the Commission of Audit which said the government is accepting, the paper, it is accepting the recommendation.
Chairman: Councillor DICK. Thank you LORD MAYOR.
LORD MAYOR: Well, Madam Chairman, that's fine. If it's in The Courier-Mail.
Councillor interjecting.
Councillor DICK: Point of order, Madam Chair.
Chairman: Order. Yes?
Councillor DICK: The LORD MAYOR is misleading the Chamber again. That is not The Courier-Mail. That is the Commission of Audit's own recommendation the government is supporting.
LORD MAYOR: Madam Chairman, I was referring to the interjection that was being offered by Councillor ABRAHAMS when she said it was in The Courier-Mail. So I was just responding to that. Look can I just say that I've had—
Chairman: Just a moment LORD MAYOR. Councillor DICK I don't believe the LORD MAYOR is misleading the Chamber. What I've heard the LORD MAYOR say is that we shouldn’t be frightened of competition and that there is already contestability.
Councillor DICK: No, Point of order, Madam Chairman, the LORD MAYOR was saying that the government hasn't made up its mind on those decisions. Clearly in black and white it says it has accepted the recommendations. There's no ifs or buts, will they or won't they. They've announced it and the recommendation clearly states that they will accept the recommendation.
LORD MAYOR: Yes so, Madam Chairman, let's be clear. The Costello Report came down. There was a whole raft of recommendations in that Costello Report. The government may have made reference to intending to support certain aspects of it or not supporting other aspects of it or staging support for other components. But what I'm saying today is that we have not received anything formally here to suggest what the government may or may not be doing.
We don’t know what terms of reference there might be, we don't know what would be the nature of any competitive tendering process, if that was their intention or indeed contestability around services. If so what services? We don't know because we've not had anything formal from the government in relation to this. So I'm not going to speculate here today for the sake of Councillor DICK. I'm just making the statement that contestability is not something new. It's not something new to Brisbane Transport and it's not something new to this administration, or indeed to the former Labor administration, Madam Chairman, there have been times when contestability has occurred.