MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
The 4525 meeting of the Brisbane City Council,
held at City Hall, Brisbane
on Tuesday 16 May 2017
at 2pm
Prepared by:
Council and Committee Liaison Office
City Administration and Governance
[4525 (Ordinary) Meeting – 16 May 2017]
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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE 4525 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY 16 MAY 2017
AT 2PM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PRESENT:
OPENING OF MEETING:
APOLOGY:
MINUTES:
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:
QUESTION TIME:
CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE
ASTORES BOARD SUBMISSION – SIGNIFICANT CONTRACTING PLAN – MOGGILL DISTRICT SPORTS PARK – PRINCIPAL CONTRACTOR
BSALE OF LAND FOR OVERDUE RATES – LIST NUMBER 278
CMAJOR AMENDMENT TO BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2014 – BULIMBADISTRICT
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN
PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – ALICE STREET/EDWARD STREET BRIDGE,
CITY BOTANIC GARDENS
INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – FREIGHT AUTOMATION
BPETITION – OPPOSING AND SUPPORTING THE CAVENDISH ROAD AND GORING STREET INTERSECTION UPGRADE PROJECT IN COORPAROO
CPETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL TO STOP THE NOISY NIGHT WORK IN HAMILTON WITHIN _500METRES OF ANY RESIDENCE
CITY PLANNING COMMITTEE
ADEVELOPMENT APPLICATION UNDER SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ACT 2009 –
DEVELOPMENT PERMIT – MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE FOR A COMMERCIAL OFFICE, FOOD AND DRINK OUTLET, SHOP, HOTEL (BAR) – 36-52 AND 100108ALFRED STREET, AND 234BRUNSWICKSTREET, FORTITUDEVALLEY – LAOF IV OCEAN AND LAOF IV OCEAN1 PTY LTD AND QUEENSLAND RAIL LIMITED
ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – LAND FOR WILDLIFE MOU
BPETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL INSTALL A BASKETBALL COURT AT MOSSVALE ESTATE, WAKERLEY
FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – URBAN AMENITY NIGHT SHIFT
BPETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL REMOVE A LEOPARD TREE BETWEEN ______11AND15CABERNET STREET, CARSELDINE
CPETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL CLEAR THE DEBRIS AND RUBBISH IN ______CABBAGETREECREEK, IN THE SECTION ADJACENT TO COOLABAH CRESCENT,
BRIDGEMAN DOWNS
LIFESTYLE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – BRISASIA FESTIVAL 2017
FINANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL BRISBANE 2017
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS:
GENERAL BUSINESS:
QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN:
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN:
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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)
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:I thank all Councillors for wearing their Cystic Fibrosis (CF) rose badges today, and advise that, when we adjourn for afternoon tea, there will be a wholeofChamber photo that we will send to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to acknowledge our support of their ongoing research and assistance of people with Cystic Fibrosis.
I declare the meeting open.
APOLOGY:
531/2016-17
An apology was submitted on behalf of Councillor Kim MARX, and she was granted leave of absence from the meeting on the motion of Councillor Andrew WINES, seconded by Councillor Steven TOOMEY.
MINUTES:
532/2016-17
The Minutes of the 4524 meeting of Council held on 9 May 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:
Chairman:I would now like to call on Ms Lisa Renneisen who will address the Chamber on generationYOU, a program to help young people in Brisbane with information and advice on career challenges and opportunities.
Welcome, Ms Renneisen. You have five minutes, please proceed.
Lisa Renneisen - generationYOU, a program to help young people in Brisbane with information and advice on career challenges and opportunities
Lisa Renneisen:Thanks Madam Chairman, LORD MAYOR and Councillors.
Good afternoon, my name is Lisa, and I am here today to discuss Council’s strategy on delivering a youth-friendly city. For young people to thrive in our city, to be healthy, resilient, confident citizens that can deal with the challenges of tomorrow, we need them to not only have jobs, but also to add value and be productive in their roles.
My vision is to enable Brisbane’s youth, especially the 170,000 17 to 25yearolds who live in our city, to unleash their potential in both in their work and personal lives. We’re doing this through a product we have created called generationYOU. It is a program and an experience that provides young people with the opportunity to improve their employability and enterprise skills.
But before I tell you too much about what the program is, I’d like to take a moment to talk about why it is so important. The world is a tough place when you’re learning to be an adult. After having been guided through a system for most of your life, you’re suddenly free and independent, trying to establish your career, your purpose and, most importantly, work out what makes you happy.
Regardless of whether you want to be a barista, an entrepreneur, a nurse, a tradie, or perhaps even a future Councillor, the real objective is to fulfil your potential and be the best person you can be. Whilst formal education gives you the technical skills to unleash your potential, it’s only part of the picture and it’s not enough. Our young citizens need a whole other set of skills to succeed in the workplace and also in life.
The skills I’m talking about are enterprise and employability skills. Think communication, problem solving, personal branding, emotional intelligence, leadership, networking, resilience—the list goes on. And at this point I can hear you thinking, ‘but I was never taught those skills’,and you’re right. We learnt on the job, we looked things up, we learnt from our mistakes, we took up volunteer roles. There was even a time when we had to cope without Google.
However, in today’s fast-paced world, young employees are expected to walk in the door with their education and more. They do not have the luxury of pleading ‘young’.They need to be able to walk in, get results and contribute from day one. So how do we solve this problem?
At generationYOU, experience is our currency. And experience makes for an extremely valuable teaching tool, especially for millennials. We’re not simply sending young people on courses on how to communicate, problem solve, or become a better networker—we’re connecting our youth with local legends, people who have valuable life stories, who have learned from their own journeys and are ready to pass on their wisdom to the next generation.
In the words of one of our past attendees, sometimes all it takes is hearing from someone who has been there, done it, and achieved it, to understand you’re no different, all you need is a bit of guidance.
Over the past three years, we’ve helped and inspired over 1,300 millennials at eight, one-day events around Australia. More recently we also launched a digital program to increase our reach and our ability to help more young people unleash their potential. Instead of worrying about how to stand out from the crowd in a busy job market, we’ve offered students and graduates the chance to learn from local legends and managers in organisations such as Suncorp, PlantMiner, Neto, Little Tokyo Two, Brisbane Marketing, and much more.
Instead of worrying about how to get started as an entrepreneur, we have let legends such as Andre Eikmeier from Vinomofo, or Brisbane’s own StephenPhillips from Mawson Robotics tell us his story. Instead of simply telling the next generation to turn to Google, YouTube or Facebook for the answers, we are creating spaces where the prickly questions can be asked and honestly answered.
But it’s not easy, and that’s why I’m here today. Madam Chairman, LORDMAYOR and Councillors, there’s only so much I can tell you in five minutes. So my invitation today is to start a longer discussion on how you guys can get involved in generationYOU for the benefit of your constituents and the Brisbane community as a whole.
Thank you.
Chairman:Thank you, Ms Renneisen.
Councillor BOURKE, would you care to respond?
Response by Councillor Matthew BOURKE, Chairman of the Lifestyle and Community Services Committee
Councillor BOURKE:Thanks very much, Madam Chairman, and can I start off by thanking you for coming in today, Lisa, and speaking to us about generationYOU and the work that you’re doing with young people in our community.
We obviously have a Youth Strategy. We launched our Youth Strategy back in 2014, and for the first time, this term of Council, the LORD MAYOR has a Councillor assisting him on youth affairs, and that is CouncillorRyanMURPHY, who is in the Council Chamber here today.
We are a Council that is mindful about the ever-changing pace of technology in the world that we all live in, not just for us, but indeed young people in our communities as well. There are unique challenges, as you said when you were speaking just before, that many of the things that we talk about today, those challenges that we face as young people in our community weren’t there when we were growing up ourselves. So, programs that are designed to help and support and facilitate young people in our communities to achieve and to strive and to be better are very important to us as a Council.
It was great to hear about the 1,300 attendees that have already been part of your program, and also some of those partners that you’ve worked with, including Brisbane Marketing as you said, and Little Tokyo Two. Obviously mentoring is a valuable part of any program that is run, and it’s great to hear that you’ve been able to link in with businesses and prominent people in the Brisbane community to help provide that, and it’s a great one-on-one way for young people in our communities to engage and get that personal training and experiences that help them develop and grow as individuals as well.
So, more than happy to continue the conversation, and I particularly encourage Councillor MURPHY as well maybe to be part of those conversations, as he does take care of youth affairs in partnership with the LORD MAYOR and myself, and we look forward to sitting down and having a chat in the near future. So, thank you again for coming in and telling us about generationYOU this afternoon.
Chairman:Thank you, Ms Renneisen.We wish you well in your endeavours for generationYOU.
QUESTION TIME:
Chairman:Councillors, are there any questions of the LORD MAYOR or a Chairman of any of the Standing Committees?
Councillor RICHARDS.
Question 1
Councillor RICHARDS:My question is to the LORD MAYOR.
I understand Councillors have now received the report into the bus driver fatality incident at Moorooka, a report that was commissioned by Council and conducted by independent consultant firm AusSafe.
Can you please give the Chamber an update on the findings of this report, and how Council intends to respond to the recommendations?
LORD MAYOR:Well, thanks very much, Madam Chairman, and I thank Councillor RICHARDS for the question.
Madam Chairman, I can confirm that last week Cabinet was briefed on the findings of an independent review which we commissioned on 15 November last year, following the tragic loss of Manmeet Sharma on 28 October. This review is separate to, but certainly I believe will complement, the StateGovernment’s own bus driver safety review that is still under way, and I will make sure that a copy of this report today is tabled within my E&C Report. Madam Chairman, I’ll say more about the copy that will be tabled a little later.
Importantly, though, Madam Chairman, the independent review found that there was no single measure that could have prevented this tragedy. The report, prepared by a highly qualified safety expert, reflects on the unpredictable nature of the tragic event that occurred on 28 October 2016, and the positive actions taken by Council following this.
This review provided several recommendations, all of which I am accepting in full. Today, Madam Chairman, I have given a direction for five priority actions to occur as soon as possible in response to these recommendations. The first of those is to upgrade emergency exit signage within our bus fleet. This will be with a high visibility signage. It will be also one which sees, in a number of buses, the transfer of the safety button—the exit button—further to the left.
Then we’re looking at a program as a second action, to educate bus passengers about emergency procedures, including the location of emergency exits. The third recommendation for action, Madam Chairman, is to expand Council’s driver training program. Already, we have an extensive driver training program, but we want to give additional tools, if you like, to our drivers, to be able to respond to volatile circumstances where they can face a potential assault.
Madam Chairman, the fourth aspect of the recommendations for action is involving the installation of an additional emergency exit in the rear of the bus. So as it stands, about 600 of our buses currently have a secondary emergency exit at thesecond portion of the bus,and we will then, on those further 600buses, be installing a further emergency exit point.
The fifth recommendation for action, Madam Chairman, was to provide the findings of this report to the State Government. The issue of barriers is one of the issues that are contained in the report, and so, Madam Chairman, it is the view of Cabinet and myself that we ought to send that report to the State Government so that they can include the information contained therein as a part of their considerations and ongoing review, which will lead to at some stage in the future a final report being produced by them in regards to driver safety.
So, Madam Chairman, these actions will complement what is already a raft of Council’s existing bus safety programs. We’ve had a program over a number of years now of installing everything from extensive driver training to CCTVcameras in buses, duress alarms, radio communication systems, shatter-proof windows, and so, Madam Chairman, again this review was about seeing what things we could do better, and so we will look forward to outlining these particular recommendations.
The timing of each will vary. So, some recommendations will be able to be completed, Madam Chairman, in the space of around three months. Others, such as the replacement windows, will be an 18-month rolling program. That has to be so. That’s the creation of that second exit, emergency exit point, in the rear half of the bus. So, again, we have 1,200 buses, 600 of which will need to have those changes made to them, and we will do that by way of a rolling program.
So, Madam Chairman, I again will indicate today that we will—
Councillor JOHNSTON:Point of order, Madam Chairman.
Chairman:Point of order; Councillor JOHNSTON.
Councillor JOHNSTON:Clearly you have been advised that five minutes has finished, and I would ask you to ensure that the Standing Orders are respected so that we can have adequate Question Time for all questioners.
Chairman:Councillor JOHNSTON, when the Clerks get ready to get the timing devices—and I looked at that—it was four minutes, 56 seconds. I do not need you to be doing the jobs of the Clerks. They are quite competent, and the LORD MAYOR was just finishing the last couple of words as it was, which you interjected and took up the last couple of seconds.
LORD MAYOR, did you—
Further questions?
Councillor JOHNSTON.
Question 2
Councillor JOHNSTON:Thank you, Madam Chairman. My question is to the LORD MAYOR.
I refer you to the budget schedule 1.4.3.1 Parks Maintenance and Enhancement, and I table a copy of those budget schedules, and I have a copy for the LORDMAYOR.
LORD MAYOR, over the past five years, these budget schedules show that you have invested $62 million in 680 projects citywide—this is excluding trustfunds—yet only two projects, totalling $100,000, have been budgeted for Tennyson Ward, that’s two projects in Tennyson Ward out of 680 projects across the city.
LORD MAYOR, why are you refusing to invest in parks projects, including vital public toilets and lighting and other important safety upgrades, in parks in Tennyson Ward?
LORD MAYOR:Well, Madam Chairman, once again Councillor JOHNSTON—I thank her for the question—but once again drops a document on me with no notice, multiple pages, and I’m expected to respond in relation to it.
Madam Chairman, it was more of a statement that Councillor JOHNSTON was making today, I think, more than a question. Madam Chairman, I would just say to you, Councillor JOHNSTON, that you know, some years ago there was no trust fund that existed allowing Councillors the opportunity to make investments in their wards in this city.
Madam Chairman, you might recall that when this was introduced, it was introduced as a footpath fund—
Councillor JOHNSTON:Point of order, Madam Chairman.
LORD MAYOR:—and then, Madam Chairman, it was me as LORD MAYOR—
Chairman:Point or order against you, LORD MAYOR.