Minutes of Meeting

Byron Shire Floodplain Risk Management Committee Meeting

Venue	Conference Room, Station Street, Mullumbimby
Date	Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Time	2.00pm

BYRON SHIRE COUNCIL

Byron Shire Floodplain Risk Management Committee Meeting Minutes

19 February 2019

Minutes of the Byron Shire Floodplain Risk Management Committee Meeting held on Tuesday, 19 February 2019

File No: I2019/223

PRESENT:   Cr A Hunter and Cr M Lyon

Staff:   James Flockton (Flood and Drainage Engineer)

            Dominika Tomanek (Minute Taker)

Invited Members:   Peter Mair (SES), and Martin Rose (Environment and Heritage), Chad Ellis (SES), Wayne Pettit (SES)

Community:           Robyn Bolden, Rebecca Brewin, Susan Skyvington, Steve Keefe, Duncan Dey and Matthew Lambourne

Visitors                   Katrina Smith and Daniel Morgan (MWA Water)

Cr Lyon (Chair) opened the meeting at 2:05pm and acknowledged that the meeting was being held on Bundjalung Country.

Apologies:

Cr J Hackett

Phillip Holloway (Director Infrastructure Services)

Tony Nash (Manager Works)

Andrew Page (Cape Byron Marine Park)

Toong Chin (Environment and Heritage)

Declarations of Interest – Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary

There were no declarations of interest.

Adoption of Minutes from Previous Meetings

Committee Recommendation:

That the minutes of the Byron Shire Floodplain Risk Management Committee Meeting held on 29 November 2018 be confirmed.

The minutes of the ordinary meeting held on 29 November 2018 were noted and the Committee Recommendations provided to Council for adoption at the Ordinary Meeting held on 28 February 2019

(Lambourne/Dey)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Business Arising from Previous Minutes

There was no business arising from previous minutes

Staff Reports - Infrastructure Services

Report No. 4.1             North Byron Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan - Update

File No:                        I2019/174

Committee Recommendation:

1. That Council approve the calibration results provided in attachment 1 (E2019/10202).

2. That Council ask WMA Water to articulate as best they can within their final report, the anomalies between modelled, recorded, and surveyed flood levels at Federation Bridge for 2012 and 2017

3. That Council deem the North Byron Flood Model as fit for the purpose of preparing the Draft Floodplain Risk Management Study.

4. That Council recognise the likely need for more than 2 further committee meetings as scheduled for 2019.

5. That Council recognise that a grant of $250,000 was announced on the weekend for a Flood Warning Network and that the project should be completed this year.

(Dey/Hunter)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

There being no further business the meeting concluded at 3:36pm.