MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
The 4505 meeting of the Brisbane City Council,
held at City Hall, Brisbane
on Tuesday 23 August 2016
at 2pm
Prepared by:
Council and Committee Liaison Office
Chief Executive’s Office
Office of the Lord Mayor and Chief Executive Officer
[4505 (Ordinary) meeting – 23 August 2016]
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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE ?? MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY ??
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
AREPORT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE MEETING ON 4 AUGUST 2016
B2015-16 BUDGET – FINAL AUTHORISATIONS REVIEW
CFEASIBILITY STUDY FOR SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND BID FOR THE 2028 OLYMPIC GAMES
PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – BUS OPERATOR TRAINING
INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – GATEWAY UPGRADE NORTH – INTERFACE WITH COUNCIL’S ROAD NETWORK
BPETITION – REQUESTING COUNCIL INSTALL TRAFFIC LIGHTS AT THE INTERSECTION OF LYTTON ROAD AND RIVERSIDE PLACE, MORNINGSIDE
CITY PLANNING COMMITTEE
ADEVELOPMENT APPLICATION UNDER SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ACT 2009 – DEVELOPMENT PERMIT – MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE FOR RETIREMENT FACILITY AND PRELIMINARY APPROVAL TO CARRY OUT BUILDING WORK – 7 BRADDOCK STREET, ROBERTSON – AVEO RETIREMENT HOMES LIMITED
ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – WATER SMART STREET TREES
FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – IFAT – GERMANY 2016
LIFESTYLE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – EAT SAFE BRISBANE
FINANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
ACOMMITTEE PRESENTATION – BRISBANE GLOBAL TENS 2017
BCOMMITTEE REPORT – BANK AND INVESTMENT REPORT – 24 JUNE 2016
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)
Kim MARX (Runcorn)
PeterMATIC (Paddington)
Ian McKENZIE (Coorparoo)
David McLACHLAN (Hamilton)
Ryan MURPHY (Doboy)
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 then proceeded with the business set out in the Agenda.
APOLOGY:
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Apologies were submitted on behalf of Councillors Fiona KING and Kate RICHARDS, and they were granted leave of absence from the meeting on the motion of Councillor Kim MARX, seconded by Councillor AndrewWINES.
MINUTES:
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The Minutes of the 4504 meeting of Council held on 16 August 2016, copies of which had been forwarded to each Councillor, were presented, taken as read and confirmed on the motion of Councillor Kim MARX, seconded by Councillor Andrew WINES.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:
Ms Paige Garland–Donation of artwork made from feathers of birds killed on roads in South East Queensland.
File number:137/220/701/263
Chairman:I would now like to call on Ms Paige Garland who will address the Chamber on a donation of artwork made from feathers of birds killed on roads in South East Queensland. Orderly, please show Ms Garland in.
Thank you, Ms Garland; please proceed, you have five minutes.
Ms Paige Garland:Thank you very much. Thank you very much to Brisbane City Council, particularly Madam Chairman, the LORD MAYOR and Councillors. Thank you very much for this opportunity to talk to you about this very important issue.
My name is Paige Garland, and I’m a strategic planner. I have been distressed by local species, both the loss of the number of species and the diversity of those species. We have a Land for Wildlife property approximately one hour out from our home in Brisbane, and I drive regularly out to it.
Initially when seeing that loss, I took photos and realised that hundreds of photos of dead wildlife would be of little value to our community. So I discussed it with my mother, Robyn Garland, who is a professional artist, about what to do. I noticed that the feathers of the birds that I was seeing on the roads and beside the roads and footpaths and things were very beautiful. It was her suggestion to turn them into artwork.
So I approached the State Government and sought the necessary permit, and decided to make art from the feathers. I also started a Go Fund Me campaign, because it became very clear that there were a large number of animals, birds in particular, species being lost, and so I would need quite a substantial amount of money to fund all the frames. I am very grateful to my husband for the substantial financial backing he has provided to this project.
So, the list of species, some of the species that I have seen, that have been lost on Brisbane roads and in local South East Queensland roads are crested pigeons, rainbow lorikeets, magpies, sulphur-crested cockatoo, galah, pheasant coucals, tawney frogmouth, eastern grass owls, southern barn owls, southern boobook owls, wedge-tailed eagles, blue tongue lizards, frilled neck lizards, a wide variety of snakes, possums, two bandicoots, five echidna in the last 18 months, kangaroos and wallabies—I’ve stopped taking photos of deceased kangaroos and wallabies as there are too many; in one lifetime nobody should take that many photos of deceased kangaroos and wallabies—cats and dogs.
I have made previous donations of the kookaburra to Somerset Regional Council, a tawny frogmouth to Toohey Forest Eco Centre, a crested pigeon to Salisbury State School, and a pheasant coucal to Pamphlett-Tennyson Sea Scouts. I have exhibited seven pieces for one week at the Sustainability Centre in Carindale which is run by the Bulimba Creek Catchment Association. I have brought a couple of pieces in to show you today. This is a magpie, and that’s from Brisbane. I’ll be donating it to this Brisbane City Council.
This is a wedge-tailed eagle, or half of it, and I would like to see more of these in Brisbane skies, as we still do have about an hour from Brisbane. This is what is left of a tawny frogmouth, much like the one that I donated to Toohey Forest Eco Centre. I have picked up four tawny frogmouths. I have had the permit since October. This is a sulphur-crested cockatoo—again, this is from a Brisbane road.
Thankfully I have had a lot of media support. I have received coverage from the ABC National News, Spencer Howson on 612 ABC, the Somerset newspaper, and the Southern Star have featured my work and run a series as a consequence about road kill locally. Science says accelerated modern human induced species loss entering the sixth mass extinction was a published article in Science Advances on 19June2015 from scientists from Stanford, Princeton, Berkley, and the National University of Mexico. In it they said, “Estimates reveal an exceptionally rapid loss of biodiversity over the last century indicating that a sixth mass extinction is already under way. Averting a dramatic decay of biodiversity and the subsequent loss of ecosystem services is still possible through intensified conservation efforts, but that window of opportunity is rapidly closing.”
As a result, I am calling on you to demonstrate greater leadership and create a stronger culture of conservation. Use your influence over the media to promote a culture of conservation on internal/external publications. Make wildlife cameras readily available. Donate one wildlife camera to every school and scout hall as you do with free trees.
Make wildlife cameras available for loan through every library. Somerset Regional Council Library, I can loan as part of our Land for Wildlife scheme, a wildlife camera. Install wildlife cameras to monitor the road kill around your forests, like around Toohey Forest. On the roads around Salisbury, you see the road kill because they are near the forest. Improve road signage in and around Brisbane Forest Park. I note recently driving between Mt Nebo and Mt Glorious individuals have put road signs up telling people to be aware of the wallabies.
Work harder to make responsible domestic pet ownership the culture. You need to pay more attention to the restraint of domestic pets on footpaths and within home owners’ boundaries. The number of dead species I see when I’m walking my dog is horrific. It is on your footpaths, and it is because dogs get off leads or out of fences. Put more nest boxes in parks and replace the ones that are damaged. For example, there is the one in Salisbury that is damaged.
Perhaps you could feature a native animal each month; for example, the top 50native species in Brisbane. I would be a very happy mother if every child in Brisbane was able to recite the 50 most popular native species in Brisbane. Why is it that our children care more about the lions and tigers of another country than they are able to care about our own native species? We have to start by educating them.
Get back the species you’ve lost. We care a great deal about having blue water. What about having a wedge-tailed eagle flying high in the skies of Brisbane? Use a scientific approach to look at the reintroduction of species lost in Brisbane skies, and engage with Griffith University, the Department of Main Roads and the Department of Environment on all these initiatives. Please accept this donation of a magpie found on a Brisbane road, and at a personal level, I would be happy if you supported my Go Fund Me campaign because I have a large number more frames to buy, and I am self-funded.
Chairman:Thank you, Ms Garland. Would you please take a seat whilst you’re responded to?
Councillor McLACHLAN, would you care to respond please?
Response by Councillor David MCLACHLAN, Chairman of the Environment, Parks and Sustainability Committee
Councillor McLACHLAN:Thank you, Madam Chairman. Ms Garland, thank you for your presentation. I am responding to you as the Chairman of the Environment, Parks and Sustainability Committee, so thank you for your gift. Thank you for the work that you undertake on this venture, as well as what you do for the wildlife corridor, the wildlife conservation partnership program that we initiated, and your participation in that is greatly appreciated, your Land for Wildlife property.
We are on the same page in this regard. This is an area of work that we have been doing a lot of work in. Just recently in our Committee we went through exactly the same sort of process. We looked at the hot spots, if you like, where we know animals are being killed, so it is an issue that is very germane to us. It is something that we are paying a lot of attention to.
Some of those areas you mentioned, and I’ll be happy to take off line some of the other areas that you mentioned as well that we may not have mapped. But we are looking at a number in relation to those hot spots on that map—the MtGravatt Capalaba Road, the Tilley Road and adjoining areas, the Wacol Station Road and adjoining areas, the McDowell area generally, Burbank and Rochedale, and the Belmont Hills bushland and White’s Hill Reserve connection. So we are working hard to ensure we get those connectivities, those wildlife connections, going to provide for wildlife movement.
We know that wildlife movement is a fact of life along our roads. We know that the roads cut across their movement corridors. That is why we have to design in elements where we can to help those animals get from area to area. We are looking at and provide already land bridge overpasses. They are at Hamilton Road and Compton Road—I am sure you are probably familiar with those—and at Gap Road in separate locations. We’ve got ladders, tunnels and glider poles at Blunder Road, Compton Road, Hamilton Road, Trinity Way, Paradise Road, Scrub Road and Telegraph Road.
We know, too, though, as you have mentioned, it is about driver behaviour, and it is something that we all have to work on, both in relation to general safety on our roads, but also in relation to the impact that they can have on wildlife. So my branch, which is the Natural Environment Water and Sustainability Branch, is working with their colleagues—these are Council officers from the Transport Planning and Strategy branch—so we’re looking at additional wildlife movements, solutions in the Mt Gravatt Capalaba Road section in Chandler, the Wacol Station Road in Jamboree, and the Upton Road, Croft Road, Fort Road in Chandler as well.
So what we will be seeing coming through from that sort of cooperation, that sort of initiative, are things like LED speed activated signage and road pavement signage warning drivers about what they might encounter along that roadway, looking at infrastructure where bridges can be built a bit higher than might otherwise be designed so there’s an opportunity for wildlife to pass underneath. You mentioned working with the State Government. We too work with the State Government on their infrastructure projects to make sure that we do have solutions for wildlife corridors.
In particular—and I am sure you are probably aware of this—our bushland acquisition program means we have significant areas of natural bushland where animals can reside hopefully without needing to cross roads. So Karawatha Forest in particular, 900 hectares and growing, which is the home to 100 or more species of different birds, and hopefully they can all reside within that environment without having to cross on to roadways. But we know with birds in particular we can provide the corridors for mammals to travel through, but birds can land on a road. We know they are particularly vulnerable to feral animals—foxes, cats, wild dogs.
We have initiated a program in particular—or this is a new program that we have initiated—to report a fox, so we know that a lot of the birds that you might see killed by the roadway might actually have been killed by a feral animal rather than being run over. They might just have found their way onto the roadway. We are very conscious of undertaking that sort of education program as well.
I think, as I say, we are on the same page. We are always reminding our residents, if they see an injured or wild animal, to call the RSPCA and to report them. Obviously one of the issues that we do get as a consequence of those reports is a greater contribution to those hot spot maps so we know where we might need to provide that additional infrastructure.
Thank you very much for coming in. There is an opportunity—and I am happy to take this off line—perhaps as an invitation for you to consider to do a display down at the Karawatha Forest, and the Discovery Centre there. We do have an artist-in-residence program, and that is running through with a current artist in residence down there. But I can talk to you at another time to see if you would like to take up an opportunity to put on a display either for a short term or a longer term to help draw attention to the issues you have raised here today. So thank you very much for coming in.
Chairman:Thank you, Ms Garland, and thank you for the donation. We will ensure that it gets appropriately placed.
QUESTION TIME:
Chairman:Are there any questions of the LORD MAYOR or a Chairman of any of the Standing Committees?
Councillor McKENZIE.
Question 1
Councillor McKENZIE:Madam Chairman, my question is to the LORD MAYOR. Throughout the recent election, Building our Local Economy and Creating New Jobs was a cornerstone policy. Could you please update the Chamber on the progress of filming projects in Brisbane to complement this policy?
LORD MAYOR:Thank you very much, Madam Chairman, and I thank Councillor McKENZIE for the question. That question comes at a time when there is a little bit of Thormania happening around our city. There has been no shortage of interest in Thor being in town, and much of that interest is directed, I have to say, towards Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston. But that said, can I just say that we are not any longer a one-trick pony when it comes to film in this city.