MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
The 4486 meeting of the Brisbane City Council,
held at City Hall, Brisbane
on Tuesday 1 December 2015
at 2pm
Prepared by:
Council and Committee Liaison Office
Chief Executive’s Office
Office of the Lord Mayor and the Chief Executive Officer
[4486 (Ordinary) Meeting – 1 December 2015]
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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
THE 4486 MEETING OF THE BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL,HELD AT CITY HALL, BRISBANE,
ON TUESDAY 8 DECEMBER 2015
AT 2PM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS i
PRESENT: 1
OPENING OF MEETING: 1
MINUTES: 1
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: 1
QUESTION TIME: 4
CONSIDERATION OF COMMITTEE REPORTS: 16
ESTABLISHMENT AND COORDINATION COMMITTEE 16
A RENEWAL OF LEASE FOR THE BRISBANE POWERHOUSE TO BRISBANE POWERHOUSE PTY LTD 36
B NEWSTEAD NORTH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 37
C 2015-16 BUDGET – SECOND REVIEW 38
D PURCHASE OF WITTON BARRACKS, INDOOROOPILLY 39
E BULIMBA BARRACKS MASTER PLAN 41
F ANNUAL OPERATIONAL PLAN PROGRESS AND QUARTERLY FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED SEPTEMBER 2015 42
INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE 42
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – SIMPLIFIED PARKING SIGNAGE TRIAL 52
B PETITIONS – REQUEST FOR SCATTER CROSSING AT THE INTERSECTION OF OXLEY AND SHERWOOD ROADS, SHERWOOD 53
C PETITION – INSTALLATION OF A STOP SIGN AT THE END OF BRODIESTREET, HOLLAND PARK WEST 55
PUBLIC AND ACTIVE TRANSPORT COMMITTEE 56
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – ENOGGERA CREEK BIKEWAY 57
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE 57
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – BUILDINGS THAT BREATHE DESIGN GUIDE 65
B PETITION – OBJECTING TO A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION AT 59CRIBB AVENUE, MITCHELTON (APPLICATION REFERENCE A004048528) 66
C PETITION – OBJECTING TO A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION AT 2029WYNNUM ROAD AND 7A ALTER STREET, WYNNUM WEST (APPLICATION REFERENCE A004004085) 67
D PETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL APPEAL THE PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT COURT’S APPROVAL OF A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION FOR A WAREHOUSE AT 153 TAYLOR STREET, BULIMBA (APPLICATION REFERENCE A003896485) 68
E PETITION – OBJECTING TO A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION AT 93BOUNDARY STREET, WEST END (APPLICATION REFERENCE A004115562) 70
ENVIRONMENT, PARKS AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE 71
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – 24-POUND CARRON CANNON 74
B COMMITTEE REPORT - BUSHLAND PRESERVATION LEVY REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED SEPTEMBER2015 75
C PETITION – REQUEST FOR COUNCIL TO CONDUCT A FLOOD STUDY FOR CANNERY CREEK 76
D PETITION – REQUESTING THAT COUNCIL DESIGNATE A SPECIFIC AREA OF BANKS STREET RESERVE AS A DOG OFF-LEASH AREA 77
E PETITION – REQUEST FOR THE INFORMALLY NAMED ROOSEVELTDRIVE PARK TO BE FORMALLY NAMED IAN LYNAS MEMORIAL PARK 78
FIELD SERVICES COMMITTEE 79
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – DAME PHYLLIS FROST - LITTER PREVENTION, WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY AWARD 79
BRISBANE LIFESTYLE COMMITTEE 81
A COMMITTEE PRESENTATION – HOLLAND PARK LIBRARY REFURBISHMENT 83
FINANCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE 85
B COMMITTEE REPORT – BANK AND INVESTMENT REPORT – 30OCTOBER 2015 88
CONSIDERATION OF NOTIFIED MOTION – MARKED PARKING BAYS AT GRACEVILLE RAILWAY STATION: 89
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS: 90
GENERAL BUSINESS: 91
QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 95
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN: 96
[4486 (Ordinary) Meeting – 1 December 2015]
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PRESENT:
The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR (Councillor Graham QUIRK) – LNP
The Chairman of Council, Councillor Angela OWEN-TAYLOR (Parkinson Ward) – LNP
LNP Councillors (and Wards) / ALP Councillors (and Wards)Krista ADAMS (Wishart)
Matthew BOURKE (Jamboree)
Amanda COOPER (Bracken Ridge)
Margaret de WIT (Pullenvale)
Vicki HOWARD (Central) (Deputy Chairman of Council)
Steven HUANG (Macgregor)
Fiona KING (Marchant)
Kim MARX (Karawatha)
PeterMATIC (Toowong)
Ian McKENZIE (Holland Park)
David McLACHLAN (Hamilton)
Ryan MURPHY (Doboy)
Adrian SCHRINNER (Chandler) (Deputy Mayor)
Julian SIMMONDS (Walter Taylor)
Steven TOOMEY (The Gap)
Andrew WINES (Enoggera)
NormWYNDHAM (McDowall) / Milton DICK (Richlands) (The Leader of the Opposition)
Helen ABRAHAMS (The Gabba) (Deputy Leader of the Opposition)
PeterCUMMING (Wynnum Manly)
Jared CASSIDY (Deagon)
KimFLESSER (Northgate)
SteveGRIFFITHS (Moorooka)
ShayneSUTTON (Morningside)
Independent Councillor (and Ward)
Nicole JOHNSTON (Tennyson)
OPENING OF MEETING:
The Chairman, Councillor Angela OWEN-TAYLOR, opened the meeting with prayer, and then proceeded with the business set out in the Agenda.
MINUTES:
276/2015-16
The Minutes of the 4485 meeting of Council held on 24 November 2015, 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 Kim MARX.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION:
Ms Bronwen Healy - The Hope Foundation’s LoveWell Café at Mt Gravatt
File number: 137/220/701/255
Chairman: I would like to now call on Ms Bronwen Healy who will address the Chamber on the Hope Foundation’s Love Well Café at Mount Gravatt. Orderly, please show MsHealy in.
Welcome, Ms Healy, you have five minutes; please proceed.
Ms Bronwen Healy: Madam Chairman, LORD MAYOR and Councillors, thank you so much for having me here today. My name is Bronwen Healy. I have the honour and privilege of sharing my story in lots of different places, and I always start the same way by saying, Hi, I’m Bronwen Healy; I’m 40 years old. I know I look way younger than that, and you get extra brownie points for telling me how much younger than that you think I look before I leave.
The first time I said that, I was in a fancy boys school here in Brisbane, and this sweet young man in the back row put his hand up, and he said, ‘Excuse me, Miss, you look 21. 'I said, ‘Well, that’s a lie, but thank you.’ Unfortunately, when I was 21, I was a messed-up drug addicted prostitute, and he kind of turned pale, which hopefully none of you will here today, and I said, ’But my past is not my future. What I’ve done is not who I am’. His colour came back in his face, and I thought that was a good thing, and then what came out of my mouth next was, ‘I always want to use my past to help change other people’s futures’.
So I stand before you today as the Founder and CEO of a Brisbane based national charity called the Hope Foundation. We come alongside the women that I used to be—women who want life-change from addictions and/or the sex industry, women who are choosing to say yes to their past not being their future, women who are choosing to say yes to letting go of their past and drugs and the sex industry and domestic violence situations in relationships, women who want better for the generations that are to come.
So, the Hope Foundation is nearly nine years old, and we have been coming alongside those women all of those years. We have a drop-in space over at MountGravatt that is open to the women four days a week, and those women get to come and they get to have a free lunch; we do Bible studies; we do prayer meetings. These women get to come and do workshops; they can do arts and craft and sewing and cooking, basically learning life skills.
Five years ago I had a dream and a vision that we would be able to have a social enterprise café for these women to be retrained and re-skilled, and gainfully employed, working in the community, women who from our community get to serve the community. So I started to speak to friends like Councillor AdrianSCHRINNER and Phillip Di Bella from Di Bella Coffee, and this dream has slowly over time become a reality.
That place is to be called the Love Well project, a place where these women can be retrained, re-skilled, released to society, a benefit—we say a social enterprise—coffee, food and kindness, where these women who have learned value for themselves get to place value on other people, through the power of good food and great coffee. The menu is amazing. I’ve seen it and I’ve tasted some of it. Di Bella have trained and supported many of our women through barista training.
Two years ago I stood atop Mount Gravatt lookout and I looked across at the facility that you all know of, and I thought to myself, that would make a fantastic Love Well project. I made contact with Councillor Krista Adams and said, ‘If and when anyone ever chooses to leave, pick me’. So we started the process of working through a business plan, going to tender, and on 26August2015 I was in Perth and had a phone call that said we were the winning tender.
So, in the last five months, we have been in the process of working through what that is going to look like. The women have been doing their training. The women are excited. We have had some media around it. People are excited. People in the community are excited, and for us, it is going to be awareness raising, it is going to fundraising, and for me, I say, this place is going to be life transforming, not only for the women that we get to serve but for every person that will ever come there for food and coffee. It will be life transforming, cityreaching, which is obviously where you guys fit in, and world-changing, because the Hope Foundation is an international charity and we happen to be based in Brisbane.
I want every person that ever comes there to know that they’re loved and they’re valued and they’re created with a purpose. The women that we work with have asked me, when they knew that I was coming today, to say thank you: thank you, Krista; thank you, Adrian, for loving us, so far, but for all of you now to know that you get to be as excited as we are, and as excited as the women in our community are, to bring change, to bring life, and to bring light through the power of coffee, food and kindness. So, that is pretty much—is that my time?
Chairman: You’ve still got another 30 seconds.
Ms Bronwen Healy: Oh, yes! So one of the ways that we’ve raised money is we did a crowd funding project which was 40Ks in 40 days, which sounded crazy at the time, and we did it. Then another friend of mine put 20K on top of that. For us, what we’ve seen on top of that, is over $45,000 worth of gifts and talents and equipment be donated. So we are as excited as you are excited, and we are trying to be as patient as you are being patient with regards to the opening of that place. But please know that we intend on working with the city to see this city changed for better and for good.
Chairman: Thank you, Ms Healy; would you like to take a seat. Councillor ADAMS, would you like to respond, please?
Response by Councillor Krista ADAMS, Chairman of the Brisbane Lifestyle Committee
Councillor ADAMS: Thank you, Madam Chair. It is my great pleasure to respond to Bronwen, and can I say, Bronwen, I am surprised you got it done in five minutes, because I’ve never heard you speak for as short as five minutes, because of your passion, I have to say. Having known you now for nearly eight years, that passion is something that you definitely pass on to those you work with and the women you are helping at Hope Foundation. You do an absolutely amazing job.
I do remember you coming and seeing me a couple of years ago and saying, any opportunity that comes up at the café up there would be great, because of course your permanent digs is just at the bottom of the mountain, so you are very, very close by as well. That opportunity did come up through the tender process, and can I say congratulations to you because the tender process is very competitive. As you said, my comments to you were to get a business plan together, and make sure you get organised, so if the opportunity comes up, you are competitive. It was a case of being two or three in the initial tender and coming down to two for that tender process.
Your organisation obviously has got a big heart with the profits going back to the foundation to support the further charity work you are doing. But I can assure you, from the phone calls I get to my ward office about when the cafe is going to open, the locals love it. They love the actual views that it has up there as well. Mt Gravatt outlook is one of the gems of our city, and I’ll just say quietly to Councillor MATIC beside me, better views at Mt Gravatt than MtCoot-tha, just quietly. On a clear day, right through to the Moreton Bay islands, D’Aguilar Ranges and the Glasshouse Mountains, but it is a bit of a hidden gem as well. The locals are really looking forward to having that local café open again, as well as the restaurant, because you have the kiosk at the back and you also have the restaurant. So it is going to be a fantastic opportunity for the locals to have a meeting place again up on the mountain as well.
I am very glad that we were able to support, for the previous operators as well, the amenities, with the toilet block up there, with the unisex toilets up there, so it is a really nice place to visit for a picnic, and you are just going to add to that with having lovely Di Bella coffee if you are sitting out and just enjoying nature as well.
The café, also, as you said, has a full commercial kitchen, with indoor seating for up to 100 customers which is great. Booking ahead I think is going to be necessary once it gets going. I have seen the menu myself, just quietly, and it does look absolutely spectacular. Great to hear some of the women are already skilled up in their barista courses as well, so ready and raring to go. It is going to be a fantastic self-sustaining but also social enterprise business that is going to only add to the beautiful outlook at Mt Gravatt, and I look forward to working with you very closely for years to come. Thanks, Bronwen.
QUESTION TIME:
Chairman: Are there any questions of the LORD MAYOR or a Chairman of any of the Standing Committees?
Councillor MURPHY.
Question 1