Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting of the Greater Geelong City Council held at the Council Conference and Reception Centre in City Hall, 57 Little Malop Street, Geelong on 25 September 2018, commencing at 7:00pm.
Daniel Barnes
Brian Yule
Jennifer Bantow
Councillors:
B Harwood (Mayor)
A Aitken
E Kontelj
S Mansfield
J Mason
P Murnane
P Murrihy (*7:53pm)
T Sullivan
M Cutter (Chief Executive Officer)
B Luxford (Director Investment and Attraction)
J van Slageren (Acting Director Planning and Development)
G Wilson-Browne (Director City Services)
R Stevens (Acting Director Community Life)
P Anderson (Director Finance & Strategy)
L Barton (Acting Executive Manager People and Organisation)
R Leonard (Executive Manager Governance and Legal Services)
The Mayor declared the meeting open at 7:00pm.
Council acknowledged Wadawurrung Traditional Owners of this land and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People who are part of the Greater Geelong community today.
Councillor Mason acknowledged the National Police Remembrance Day with a service held on 25 September at St Paul's Anglican Church, Latrobe Terrace, Geelong in recognition of the police who have died in the line of duty.
Councillors:
S Asher (Leave of absence)
K Grzybek (Leave of absence)
R Nelson
Councillor Mason moved, Councillor Sullivan seconded -
That Leave of Absence be granted to Councillor Harwood from 14 to 28 October 2018, inclusive.
Carried.
Councillor Kontelj moved, Councillor Mansfield seconded -
That Leave of Absence be granted to Councillor Asher from 19 September to 6 October 2018, inclusive.
Carried.
Councillor Sullivan moved, Councillor Mason seconded -
That the Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting held on 28 August 2018 be confirmed.
Carried.
Nil.
Daniel Barnes submitted a question prior to the meeting, but as he was not present at the meeting a written response will be forwarded.
Brian Yule asked questions in relation to the RSL Application to have thirty additional poker machine licences:
Will Council vigorously oppose this application and oppose it in person before the VCGLR?
Will Council actively seek changes to relevant Victorian legislation to make it possible for poker machines to be totally withdrawn from circulation?
The Mayor responded that Council has a very strong stand on poker machines in the community.
However, they are legal and there are restrictions on what we can and cannot do.
Further debate will take place later this evening when considering the report.
Jennifer Bantow addressed Council as follows:
Could the Council Minutes please record Submissions Review Panel text giving opposite view to the agenda report?
The Mayor responded the text will be adjusted.
Spirit of Anzac sculpture in Jonstone Park, the RSL call this sculpture ‘The Evacuation’. The sculptor was William Wallace Anderson, a student of Geelong College then the Gordon Technical College, most famous sculpture is Man on a Donkey near the Shrine. He was also the sculptor of the King George V Statue in Johnstone Park. Originally the Spirit of Anzac was designed for the apse at RSS Woollen Mill on the corner of Pakington and Rutland Streets to be viewed at eye level. It is now low down and obscured by recent plantings and a plumbing wire cage.
In collaboration with the RSL, can the Spirit of Anzac please be moved to a better place (perhaps near the Peace Memorial), and lifted up to be at eye level (perhaps on a pedestal) before the Centenary of Anzac celebrations take place on 11 November this year?
‘Peace Memorial’ in Johnstone Park – designed by architect Percy Everett, before he became Chief Architect for Public Works in Victoria. He was born and educated in Geelong West, before becoming the first architecture graduate of the Gordon. He also designed the Band Rotunda in Johnstone Park.
Could Council please undertake that, in collaboration with the RSL, it is inspected, cleaned, repaired, maintained, and that it is secured from those sleeping rough and making a mess of it, before the Centenary of Anzac celebrations take place on 11 November this year?
Councillor Kontelj advised that Andrew Hanns, President of the Geelong RSL, has also recently contacted him via email regarding these issues.
Correspondence has also been forwarded to DWELP.
Ms Bantow also congratulated Council on recommendation 7 of the Consolidation of Council’s Administrative Offices re future use of City Hall.
Nil.
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