Minutes of Meeting
Coastal Estuary Catchment Panel Meeting
Venue |
Cavanbah Centre, Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay |
Date |
Thursday, 16 March 2017 |
Time |
2.00pm |
Coastal Estuary Catchment Panel Meeting Minutes 16 March 2017
Minutes of the Coastal Estuary Catchment Panel Meeting held on Thursday, 16 March 2017
File No: I2017/338
PRESENT: Cr C Coorey, Cr J Hackett, Cr M Lyon, Cr Richardson
Staff: Phillip Holloway (Director, Infrastructure Services)
Peter Rees (Manager, Utilities)
James Flockton (Flood and Drainage Engineer)
Chloe Dowsett (Coastal Estuaries Officer)
Helen
Waldron (Minute Taker)
Community Representatives: Col Draper, Tim Hochgrebe, Tony Flick, John Flick, Mary Gardner
Observer: Duncan Dey
Cr Richardson (Chair) opened the meeting at 2.10 pm and acknowledged that the meeting was being held on Bundjalung Country.
There were no apologies.
Declarations of Interest – Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary
There were no declarations of interest.
Adoption of Minutes from Previous Meetings
This is the first meeting of the Panel.
Business Arising from Previous Minutes
This is the first meeting of the Panel.
Staff Reports - Infrastructure Services
Action
· a request be sent to the Department Primary Industry to expedite the running of the elections for the Drainage Union (DU)
· that if action hasn’t occurred in relation to the DU elections prior to the cut off for the next Council Meeting, a report be brought to Council at the April Ordinary Meeting to enable a resolution to be passed
· that the $50,000 funds needed to be provided by Council towards the Belongil Opening Strategy be provided by the sewer fund and that a line item be identified in the 2017/2018 budget
·
consultants to attend next Panel meeting to explain modelling
There being no further business the meeting concluded at 4.05 pm.