Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting of the Greater Geelong City Council held at the Council Conference and Reception Centre - City Hall on 26 February 2013, commencing at 7:00pm.
Colin Wallace
Mary Wallace
Cr K Fagg (Chair)
Crs:
T Ansett
L Ellis
J Farrell
K Fisher
B Harwood
M Heagney
J Irvine
E Kontelj
R Macdonald
R Nelson
A Richards
S Griffin (Chief Executive Officer
J Wall (General Manager Corporate Services
P Bettess (General Manager Economic Development, Planning and Tourism)
G Van Driel (General Manager City Services)
J McMahon (General Manager Community Services)
D Frost (General Manager Projects, Recreation and Central Geelong)
J Brown (Manager Administration and Governance)
R Bourke (Governance Co ordinator)
D Chiller (Coordinator Communication and Marketing)
The Mayor declared the meeting open at 7:00pm.
The Mayor acknowledged that we are here today on the land of the Wathaurong People and we pay our respects to Aboriginal elders past and present.
S Kontelj
Cr Irvine moved, Cr Heagney seconded that request by Cr S Kontelj for Leave of Absence from 22 February to 5 March 2013, is granted.
Carried.
Cr Heagney moved, Cr Nelson seconded -
That the Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting held on 12 February 2013 be confirmed and signed.
Carried.
Cr Fagg (Mayor) declared an Indirect Interest by a Conflicting Duty in Agenda Item 1 – Amendment C268 – Proposed Masters Store and Business Park, Bacchus Marsh Road, Corio – Consideration of Submissions in that his company of which he is a Director has made a submission to Council.
Question Time is an opportunity for questions to be addressed to Council and while the minutes record the general content, they do not purport to be a transcript of what was said by individuals. Likewise Councillor or Officer verbal responses are in summary form only. Views expressed may not be the views of Council.
Council's practice is to provide a separate document on its website setting out questions and responses including any more detailed written responses which may be provided subsequent to the meeting.
Colin Wallace asked:
In his written responses to my questions concerning the Ropeworks Planning Permit at recent Council Meetings, Peter Bettess has referred to the permit holder/owner as Fabcot Pty Ltd and would the Mayor and Councillors note that Fabcot Pty Ltd is Woolworths’ own in-house Retail Property Development division?
The Mayor noted the comment.
In relation to the $100,000 mentioned in Condition 7f of the Ropeworks Planning Permit, would the Mayor and Councillors note that Condition 7f states that Council will provide to the permit holder/owner, on a half-yearly basis, summaries of investigations/works undertaken and associated costs and that there are no qualifications to this clear and definite statement, which means in turn that Council was to have provided half-yearly summaries to Woolworths regardless of whether or not Woolworths wanted them, regardless of whether or not Woolworths required them, regardless of whether or not Woolworths was satisfied with how the money was being spent or satisfied with not receiving the summaries, and regardless of whether or not Council was supposedly accounting for the expenditure in some other way?
The Mayor noted the comment.
Since it has been established that Council has not provided any half-yearly summaries to the permit holder/owner from mid-2009 when the first one would have been due, was there a prior understanding between Council and Woolworths that Council would not provide Woolworths with the half-yearly summaries?
Peter Bettess responded, “not to my knowledge”.
Mary Wallace asked according to Condition 7f of the Ropeworks Planning Permit, Council should have provided half-yearly summaries to the owner/permit holder, however Council did not provide half-yearly summaries to the owner/permit holder, but, if Council had provided these half-yearly summaries, would a submitter to the Ropeworks Panel be entitled to have access to them?
Peter Bettess responded, “yes”.
Nil.
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