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 28 May 2019, commencing at 7:00pm.
Phil Baulch
Vicky Grosser
Councillors:
B Harwood (Mayor)
A Aitken
S Asher
E Kontelj
S Mansfield
J Mason
P Murnane
P Murrihy
R Nelson
T Sullivan
M Cutter ( Chief Executive Officer)
B Luxford (Director Economy, Investment and Attraction)
Gareth Smith (Director Planning, Design and Development)
G Wilson-Browne (Director City Services)
M Dugina (Director Customer and Corporate Services)
R Stevens (Acting Director Governance, Strategy and Performance)
K Phyland (Executive Manager People and Culture)
The Mayor declared the meeting open at 7:03pm.
The Mayor welcomed the Junior Mayor and Junior Councillors from the 2019 Youth Council to the meeting. Also in attendance was the 1st Highton and Grovedale Scout Group.
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 Grzybek.
Councillor Asher moved, Councillor Mason seconded –
That Leave of Absence be granted to Councillor Kontelj:
From 6 June 2019 to 9 June 2019 inclusive; and
From 16 June 2019 to 27 June 2019, inclusive.
Carried.
Councillor Kontelj moved, Councillor Mansfield seconded -
That leave of absence be granted to Councillor Aitken from 31 May 2019 to 9 June, inclusive.
Carried.
Councillor Aitken moved, Councillor Mansfield seconded –
That leave of absence be granted to Councillor Grzybek from 21 June 2019 to 8 July 2019, inclusive.
Carried.
Councillor Murrihy moved, Councillor Asher seconded -
That leave of absence be granted to Councillor Mansfield from 22 July 2019 to 2 August 2019, inclusive.
Carried.
Councillor Mason moved, Councillor Sullivan seconded -
That the Minutes of the Special Meeting held on 30 April 2019 be confirmed.
Carried.
Nil.
The Mayor invited the Junior Mayor Josie Horne to address Council.
The Junior Mayor acknowledged the Wadawurrung Traditional Owners of this land.
I am proud to be the Junior Mayor and to present our future plans to Council on behalf of the Youth Council Advisory Committee. We have made tremendous progress with an Annual Plan, protocols and a youth charter. Our four key priority areas are:
Mental Health and Wellbeing
The Environment
Community Safety and Homelessness and
2019 Geelong Annual Youth Summit.
As a diverse group we are working well together to incorporate respect, empathy and inclusiveness into our projects and this is reflected in our goals.
Our inaugural 2019 Geelong Annual Youth Summit will be held on Saturday 26 October 2019. This event will represent the interests and beliefs that relate to issues that are important to young people in our communities.
We have developed a survey to gain awareness of the four issues and the responses will assist us with our future planning.
I will be presenting to Council on a quarterly basis. On Tuesday 23 July I will advise Council on the outcome of the Youth Survey, our progress to date and on the Community Safety & Homelessness key area.
Questions were submitted to Council prior to the meeting from Damien Cox and Linda Gleave. As they were not present at the meeting a written response will be forwarded to them.
Phil Baulch asked
Since 2010-2011, Australia’s net petroleum stock holdings have fallen from its International Energy Agency (IEA) obligations of 90 days’ worth, in the event of market failure, to just 50 days. The Government’s Australian Petroleum Statistics published in November said this would amount to 21 days of petrol for automobiles, 18 days of diesel and 20 days of aviation fuel. Retired air vice-marshal John Blackburn, who has been lobbying the Government to improve fuel security since 2014, said if the public panicked or an active military needed to draw from domestic stocks, reserves would be burned much faster. He said he believed the country would be brought to its knees within a week of a major fuel disruption because Australia’s food, pharmaceutical supplies, water and energy – including the distribution of fuel itself – were all reliant on petrol. What oil we do have cannot meet our demand. Australia’s oil production is now 59% less than it was at its peak in 2000. What plans do the CoGG have to manage the consequences of a disruption to our liquid fuel supply? Which parts of the CoGG operations do not fit the definition of an ‘authorised user under the recent amendments to the Liquid Fuel Emergency Act?
The Mayor responded that the control agency for such an emergency is the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.
Our multi-agency Municipal Emergency Management Planning Committee has not considered this particular risk as yet and as such no planning has been undertaken to this point.
If you are referring to ‘essential users’ the Minister can in writing define an essential user of a particular refined liquid petroleum product if the activities of that user involve defence, provision or export of fuel, or have been the subject of a determination by the Minister.
Currently, the other activities determined by the Minister involve the following:
An ambulance, service;
A corrective service;
A fire or rescue service;
A police service;
a public transport service
a State Emergency Service or an equivalent organisation;
a taxi service.
The City’s role in supporting coordination and resourcing of emergency response and recovery activities would seem to qualify under this determination.
Vicky Grosser from Geelong One Fire Reconciliation Group attended the meeting in support of item 4. Official Renaming of Stewarts Reserve, Armstrong Creek to ‘Dooliebeal’. Vicky acknowledged that this is a positive name change to reflect our local heritage. Reconciliation Week is also an appropriate time for this to occur.
Nil.
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