Minutes of Meeting

Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting

Venue	Conference Room, Station Street, Mullumbimby
Date	Thursday, 14 September 2017
Time	11.30am

BYRON SHIRE COUNCIL

Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes                           

14 September 2017

Minutes of the Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting held on Thursday, 14 September 2017

File No: I2017/1304

PRESENT:   Mayor Richardson, Cr C Coorey, Cr M Lyon and Cr S Ndiaye

Staff:   Phil Holloway (Director Infrastructure Services)

            Peter Rees,

            Michael Matthews

            Lloyd Isaacson

            Susan Sulcs (Minute Taker)

Community:                Duncan Dey, Col Draper, David Fligelman, Madeleine Green

Cr S Ndiaye (Chair) opened the meeting at 11.35 am and acknowledged that the meeting was being held on Bundjalung Country.

Apologies:

There were no apologies.

Declarations of Interest – Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary

Madeleine Green declared a non-pecuniary interest. The nature of the interest being that she resides next to the tip.

Cr Michael Lyons declared a pecuniary interest in Report 4.3. The nature of the interest being ownership of businesses in the area.

Adoption of Minutes from Previous Meetings

Committee Recommendation:

That the minutes of the Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting held on 1 June 2017 be confirmed.

(Dey/Lyon)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried..

Note:  The minutes of the Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting held on 1 June 2017 were noted, and the Committee Recommendations adopted by Council at the Ordinary Meeting held on 22 June 2017.

Business Arising from Previous Minutes

There was no business arising from previous minutes.

Staff Reports - Infrastructure Services

Report No. 4.1             Water and Sewer Strategic Business Plan

File No:                        I2017/679

Committee Recommendation:

1. That Council note:

a) the report on the Water and Sewer Strategic Business Plan;

b) that while the original design for Brunswick Valley Sewerage Treatment Plant included effluent storage to enable reuse, it did not include storage of untreated sewerage.

2. That the business plan be amended so that construction of a storage for untreated sewerage at Brunswick Valley Sewerage Treatment Plant not proceed until inflow/infiltration options have been considered.

3. That Council map its sewer pump station catchments in Mullumbimby and list the number of connections versus dry weather flow and then peak daily wet weather flow, so that worst areas can be identified for inflow/infiltration.

(Dey/Dickens)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Report No. 4.2             Urban Recycled Water Commercial Connections Policy

File No:                        I2017/841

Committee Recommendation:

That Council note the Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee considered the draft Urban Recycled Water Commercial Connections Policy.

(Dey/Lyon)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Report No. 4.3             Water and Sewer Equivalent Tenement Policy Review

File No:                        I2017/1232

Committee Recommendation:

1. That Council note the report on the Water and Sewer Equivalent Tenement Policy Review.

2. That the reduction amount for waterless composting toilets, in the table under section 4.4 of Attachment 1 to the Water and Sewer Equivalent Tenement Policy Review report, be changed from 16% to 25%.

3. That the Draft Water and Sewer Equivalent Policy 2017 be placed on public exhibition.

4. That Council receive a report investigating whether local effects give water and sewer Equivalent Tenement rates different from those listed under sections 6 and 9 in Appendix A of Attachment 1 to the Water and Sewer Equivalent Tenement Policy Review report.

(Dey/Coorey)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Report No. 4.6             Update on the Container Deposit Legislation

File No:                        I2017/1254

Committee Recommendation:

1.       That Council note the report on the update of the Container Deposit Legislation and the legislative limitations for Council to nominate the number and location of collection points.

2.       That council receive a report with options for the allocation of revenue received from the Materials Recycling Facility for eligible containers collected within the kerbside recycling stream, including options for litter reduction or other resource recovery programs.

(Ndiaye/Dey)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Committee Recommendation:

That Council note that report numbers 4.4, 4.5, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, were not discussed and have been referred to a future extraordinary meeting of this Committee on a date to be determined.

 (Ndiaye/Dey)

Note: Committee meeting ran over time and the remainder of the items as listed below were not discussed and have been referred to a future extraordinary meeting of this Committee on a date to be determined:

· Report No 4.4         State Government Water and Sewerage Performance Reports,

· Report No 4.5         Byron Shire Effluent Management Strategy (Draft),

· Report No 4.7         Vallances Road Plan of Management,

· Report No 4.8         Update on the review of Council's Integrated Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy,

· Report No 4.9         Response to Alan Dickens Questions,

· Report No 4.10       Items For the Committee Requested by Duncan Dey.

There being no further business the meeting concluded at 1.55 pm.