Minutes of Meeting

Coastal Estuary Catchment

Panel Meeting

Venue	Cavanbah Centre, Byron Bay
Date	Thursday, 28 September 2017
Time	2.00pm

BYRON SHIRE COUNCIL

Coastal Estuary Catchment Panel Meeting Minutes        28 September 2017

Minutes of the Coastal Estuary Catchment Panel Meeting held on Thursday, 28 September 2017

File No: I2017/1350

PRESENT:          Cr J Hackett, Cr M Lyon

Staff:     Phillip Holloway (Director, Infrastructure Services)

              Chloe Dowsett (Coastal Estuaries Officer)

Dean Baulch (Principal Engineer Systems Planning)

Dominika Tomanek (Minute Taker)

Community Representatives:   Mary Gardner, Mathew Lambourne, Tony Flick, Bryan Green, Mark Bayley, Duncan Dey

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

Apologies:

Cr C Coorey

Tim Hochgrebe

Peter Rees

James Flockton

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 Coastal Estuary Catchment Panel Meeting held on 4 May 2017 be confirmed.

Business Arising from Previous Minutes

There was no business arising from previous minutes.

Staff Reports - Infrastructure Services

Report No. 4.1             Discussion Items relating to Coastal Estuary Catchment Panel

File No:                        I2017/1348

Item discussed:  Effluent Flow Paths

Committee Recommendation:

1. That the Coastal Estuary Catchment Panel note the items listed for discussion.

2. That in the relation to the ‘Capacity Assessment of the Belongil Creek Drainage System’, the report be updated within the Executive Summary, Sections 8.3 and 11 to include finding on the performance of the two options against the current flow path for the current flow scenario of 3 ML /day, in addition to 5 and 8 ML/ day.

3. That a sentence be added to the Recommendations of Executive Summary to make it abundantly clear that option 2 is the addition to the second flow path as well as maintaining the current flow path.

(Dey/Lyon)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Report No. 4.1             Discussion Items relating to Coastal Estuary Catchment Panel

File No:                        I2017/1348

Item discussed:  Update on projects in the pipeline in the coastal space by Chloe Dowsett

Committee Recommendation:

That the Coastal Estuary Catchment Panel note the items listed for discussion.

Report No. 4.1             Discussion Items relating to Coastal Estuary Catchment Panel

File No:                        I2017/1348

Item discussed:  The Drainage Union

Committee Recommendation:

1. That the Coastal Estuary Catchment Panel note the items listed for discussion.

2. The Committee noted that Belongil Swamp Drainage Union has been reinstated and the Panel members Tony Flick and Tim Hochgrebe are on the board.

3. It is noted that there is ongoing discussion between the Union and Council staff to assist in progressing the function of the Union.

(Hackett / Lambourne)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Note:

1. The word ‘possible’ should be removed from line 23 in the Agenda, due to the fact that reinstatement of the Belongil Swamp Drainage Union has already happened. Noted by: Tim Hochgrebe on 21 September 2017.

2. Original items 1:The State of Water Re-Use and 2: Recycled Water Pricing to be placed on the next meeting Agenda as not enough time to discuss.

There being no further business the meeting concluded at 4:10 pm.