MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
The 4535 meeting of the Brisbane City Council,
held at City Hall, Brisbane
on Tuesday 22 August 2017
at 2pm
Prepared by:
Council and Committee Liaison Office
City Administration and Governance
[4535 (Ordinary) Meeting – 22 August 2017]
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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE 4535 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY 22 AUGUST 2017
AT 2PM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS i
PRESENT: 1
OPENING OF MEETING: 1
MINUTES: 3
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: 3
QUESTION TIME: 5
CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS: 17
ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE 17
A 2016-17 BUDGET – FINAL AUTHORISATIONS REVIEW 31
B 2017-18 BUDGET – FIRST REVIEW 31
PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE 33
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – MANDATORY HELMET LAWS 49
INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE 49
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – GOLD COAST 2018 XXI COMMONWEALTH GAMES TRANSPORT NETWORK IMPACTS 53
B PETITION – REQUESTING TRAFFIC CONTROL ON WHITES ROAD, LOTA 54
C PETITION – REQUESTING PARKING RESTRICTIONS IN CORTIS, VULCAN AND MARLENE STREETS, MOUNT GRAVATT EAST 57
D PETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL NOT MOVE A BUS STOP TO 156 SWANN ROAD, TARINGA 59
CITY PLANNING COMMITTEE 60
A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION UNDER SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ACT 2009 – DEVELOPMENT PERMIT – MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE FOR INDOOR SPORT AND RECREATION (INDOOR SNOW SPORTS AND ADVENTURE FACILITY) ON LAND AT 370 NUDGEE ROAD AND 128GERLER ROAD, HENDRA – URBAN XTREME ADVENTURES PTY LTD 64
ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE 66
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – GREEN HEART WALKING TOURS 67
B COMMITTEE REPORT – BUSHLAND PRESERVATION LEVY REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED JUNE 2017 68
C PARK NAMING – FORMAL NAMING OF THE PARK CURRENTLY KNOWN AS LAWSON STREET PARK, OXLEY, TO ‘ED KUEPPER PARK’ 68
D PETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL IMPROVE THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF THE DOG PARK IN HEPWORTH STREET, CHAPELHILL 69
FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE 71
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – FIELD SERVICES STRUCTURES – EMERGING INNOVATIONS IN BRIDGE MAINTENANCE 72
LIFESTYLE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE 73
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – EAT SAFE FOOD EDUCATION PROJECT 75
FINANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 76
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS 2016-17 77
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS: 78
GENERAL BUSINESS: 80
QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 88
[4535 (Ordinary) Meeting – 22 August 2017]
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PRESENT:
The Right Honourable, the LORD MAYOR (Councillor Graham QUIRK) – LNP
The Chairman of Council, Councillor Angela OWEN (Calamvale Ward) – LNP
LNP Councillors (and Wards) / ALP Councillors (and Wards)Krista ADAMS (Holland Park)
Adam ALLAN (Northgate)
Matthew BOURKE (Jamboree)
Amanda COOPER (Bracken Ridge)
Vicki HOWARD (Central) (Deputy Chairman of Council)
Steven HUANG (Macgregor)
Fiona KING (Marchant)
Kim MARX (Runcorn)
PeterMATIC (Paddington)
Ian McKENZIE (Coorparoo)
David McLACHLAN (Hamilton)
Ryan MURPHY (Doboy)
Kate RICHARDS (Pullenvale)
Adrian SCHRINNER (Chandler) (Deputy Mayor)
Julian SIMMONDS (Walter Taylor)
Steven TOOMEY (The Gap)
Andrew WINES (Enoggera)
NormWYNDHAM (McDowall) / PeterCUMMING (Wynnum Manly) (The Leader of the Opposition)
Jared CASSIDY (Deagon) (Deputy Leader of the Opposition)
SteveGRIFFITHS (Moorooka)
Charles STRUNK (Forest Lake)
ShayneSUTTON (Morningside)
Queensland Greens Councillor (and Ward)
Jonathan SRI (The Gabba)
Independent Councillor (and Ward)
Nicole JOHNSTON (Tennyson)
OPENING OF MEETING:
The Chairman, Councillor Angela OWEN, opened the meeting with prayer and acknowledged the traditional custodians, and then proceeded with the business set out in the Agenda.
Chairman: Are there any apologies?
Councillor JOHNSTON: Point of order, Madam Chairman.
Chairman: Point of order, Councillor JOHNSTON.
Councillor JOHNSTON: Madam Chairman, as you were unwilling to speak to me prior to the meeting, I’m just drawing to your attention that the clock that we use to keep track of time is not working in the Chamber, and I’d appreciate if you could organise to have it repaired.
Chairman: Councillor JOHNSTON, there are multiple timing devices in this Chamber, and particularly that the Clerks and I have access to, and I don’t need you to tell me how to tell the time, thank you.
There being no apologies—
Councillor JOHNSTON: Point of order, Madam Chairman. Madam Chairman, I’m not telling you—
Chairman: Councillor JOHNSTON, I—
Councillor JOHNSTON: —how to tell the time.
Chairman: —hadn’t called you, so you know the rules in this place. You speak when you are called.
Councillor JOHNSTON.
Councillor JOHNSTON: Madam Chairman, I am not telling you how to tell the time, but that is the only clock that Councillors have, and I would appreciate it if you would take on board the advice the clock is not working and if you would please organise for it to be addressed at a suitable time.
Chairman: Councillor JOHNSTON, that is not an appropriate point of order, and I don’t uphold it.
Confirmation of Minutes, please.
Councillor JOHNSTON: Point of order, Madam Chairman.
Councillor WINES: Thank you, Madam Chairman.
Chairman: Point of order, Councillor JOHNSTON.
Councillor JOHNSTON: Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman. I have a procedural issue here where I seek your advice. In the Council papers provided to us today, item B, the First Budget Review in the Establishment and Coordination Committee Report, on the third last page of that report, which I’ll give you some time to find—so that’s the attachment which is Clause B, Attachment B—the third last page, under the subheading ‘Total Program 5 – Lifestyle and Community Services’, the fourth line item down, which is Community Facilities Planning and Development 5.5.1.1, in the explanation column talks about carryovers of capital, a transfer of capital and other financial arrangements, but the table has all zeros. So, I don’t know what the mistake is, whether there’s numbers missing, or whether or not the description is incorrect, but the explanation and the figures don’t match up in this, and I obviously want to draw this to your attention so we can either get the corrected papers or an explanation about why the figures are missing.
Chairman: And, Councillor JOHNSTON, you’ve been in this place long enough to know the Meetings Local Law, that if you’ve got a query in regards to a particular item on the agenda, at the beginning of the commencement and presentation of that item is when you can also raise that. That’s the relevant—
Councillor JOHNSTON: Point of order, Madam—
Chairman: I’m speaking; do not speak over me. I’m sure the relevant Chairman will have a look at that and deal with it appropriately.
Confirmation of Minutes, please.
Councillor JOHNSTON: Point of order, Madam Chairman.
Chairman: Point of order, Councillor JOHNSTON.
Councillor JOHNSTON: Madam Chairman, I’m drawing to your attention that we have been given incorrect Council papers. It’s not a question about what’s in them.
Chairman: Order, Councillor JOHNSTON!
Councillor JOHNSTON: It’s that they are incorrect—
Chairman: Councillor JOHNSTON, stop speaking. Stop speaking. You are making an assumption of the accuracy of that particular page and that particular item. When we come to that item, I am certain it will be dealt with by the relevant Chairman. We will now move on.
Confirmation of Minutes, please.
MINUTES:
69/2017-18
The Minutes of the 4534 meeting of Council held on 15 August 2017, copies of which had been forwarded to each Councillor, were presented, taken as read and confirmed on the motion of Councillor Andrew WINES, seconded by Councillor Steven TOOMEY.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:
Paul Kelsall – The Raymont Road and Grange Road intersection upgrade
Chairman: I would now like to call on Mr Paul Kelsall who will address the Chamber on the Raymont Road and Grange Road intersection upgrade.
Orderly, please show Mr Kelsall in.
Please proceed, Mr Kelsall; you have five minutes.
Paul Kelsall: Good afternoon, Madam Chairman, LORD MAYOR and Councillors. Thank you for this opportunity to address the Council in relation to the Raymont Road and Grange Road intersection upgrade. My name is Paul Kelsall and my family’s home is on the corner of Grange Road and Howard Street where the front of the property is to be resumed for road purposes. In doing so, the master bedroom of the house will be in a new environment, 3.396 metres from the new road reserve.
I ask the Brisbane City Councillors not to endorse the request from City Projects Office for the resumption to proceed because it’s not on just terms as referred to in the Australian Constitution. If a landowner wanted to move his house this close to the road reserve, would the Brisbane City Council approve their application? The answer is no, because it would fail the Brisbane City Council’s town plan and other associated Council policies. So why can the Brisbane City Council allow the house to be so close to the new road reserve? This seems to be a case of double standards.
As outlined in our objection to the Brisbane City Council, we are also concerned about the asbestos that was recently brought to our attention. Not only are we concerned about the health of our own family, but also the wellbeing of our neighbours, the Council workers and contractors and public at large. As I have said, what if the asbestos sheets break during and after the construction due to heavy machinery operating on the road. Who would take responsibility for this?
We have lodged an objection which is based upon keeping my family safe. We have had a meeting with the Brisbane City Council’s delegate, MrKevinSouthern, who gave me the impression that he was considering option 1, stop the project; or option 4, ensuring a safe dwelling. I ask the LORDMAYOR and Councillors to view all documentation, including our objection and the recording between myself and Mr Southern, to make an informed decision regarding the resumption and the wellbeing of my family. As ratepayers, I feel the Brisbane City Council owes us at least that. I would like to thank you for your consideration today, and God bless all of you.
Chairman: Thank you, Mr Kelsall.
Response by Councillor Amanda Cooper, Chairman of the Infrastructure Committee
Chairman: Councillor COOPER, would you care to respond, please?
Councillor COOPER: Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and I thank Mr Kelsall for coming in to address the Council Chamber this afternoon. I understand that you are coming in to speak on behalf of yourself and your wife, and I absolutely have heard what you have had to say, and I know that you are well aware of how this process works. But I just want to give you a little bit of background.
This is a project that actually was an outcome of a whole precinct of work that Council undertook. So we did some work in 2014. We did a lot of work with local residents, local businesses, and we reviewed all of the activity in this area as part of this traffic study. There are about 21,000 residents that were invited to provide feedback, and we had three different community information sessions, and that report was then compiled and it came out as the Wilston Grange Precinct Transport Study that was released in 2015. They had specific recommendations in that particular body of work which has actually led to the project you’re talking about, which is the upgrade to that intersection.
So there’s been a lot of work, and that’s all available on Council’s website; all that information is there for anyone to have a look at. We’ve actually had funding for certain projects as outcomes of that work, and, in particular, there is money in this budget to deliver that particular project.
So there is a business case; there’s a key findings report; there’s a lot of information that talks about the congestion that that particular intersection experiences. There are safety issues also that this project can improve. At the moment we’re seeing queue lengths along Grange Road and Raymont Road, particularly in the AM peak, and you know that yourself. I drive through that area quite frequently, and understand that this project is absolutely about looking to the future and saying, as our city grows, as traffic increases, we want to make sure that we deliver capacity, to make sure that that intersection works well and is safe for all users. At the moment, pedestrians particularly do struggle to utilise that intersection also.
So this is about safety; it’s also about the public transport outcomes. At the moment, this is a significant public transport route. There’s quite a few services that run along Raymont Road and then go into Grange Road. At the moment the congestion at this intersection is severely impacting on the reliability of those bus services.
So we have done a lot of work as part of our preliminary design. The option that the officers did recommend was particularly the best in dealing with congestion and safety, to make sure that by the project widening Grange Road to make allowance for turning lanes, to provide that dedicated south bound right turn lane and the north bound left turn into Raymont Road, would deliver the outcomes in line with the traffic study that Council has undertaken.
We do work very hard to minimise the impacts of these kind of projects on people such as yourself. I do understand it is very difficult, and you certainly would prefer to leave things as they are, but this is something that Council is fully committed to, and has undertaken a lot of investigation about, and we believe it is the right outcome for the community. So, I really understand where you’re coming from. There is a process, you know, for this partial resumption. I think it’s about 22square metres of your property that is proposed to be resumed.
So we are working through that issue, of course, under the State legislation, so this goes under the Acquisition of Land Act, and you have been heard by that independent delegate, so that’s another party separate from Council officers who reviews your objection to the resumption, and will then provide recommendations to Council, and it will come to full Council for debate. So you are asking all Councillors to take on board your feedback. That absolutely will be the case as part of how that process continues.
So I just really want to say, on behalf of all Councillors in the Chamber; we understand that this is a difficult thing, and it’s not something that we take lightly in any way, shape or form. We are trying to make sure that we get good outcomes for our city as our city grows, and make sure it’s safe, make sure we get good public transport outcomes, improve pedestrian safety; all those sorts of things are very much taken into consideration as part of that process. So, I understand where you’re coming from, and we certainly will be looking to review that report, and it will be a decision of full Council as to whether it proceeds or not in future. Thank you very much for coming in.