Biodiversity Advisory
Committee Meeting Minutes
11 February
2019
Minutes of the Biodiversity
Advisory Committee Meeting held on Monday, 11 February 2019
File No: I2019/187
PRESENT: Cr
C Coorey, Cr S Ndiaye
Staff: Sharyn
French (Manager Environmental and Economic Planning)
Chloe
Dowsett (Coastal and Biodiversity Coordinator)
Peter
Boyd (Project Officer – Environmental Projects)
Karen
Love (Research Officer - Integrated Pest Management)
Michael
Matthews (Manager Open Spaces & Resource Recovery)
Community: Peter
Westheimer
Luke McConell
Greg Shannahan
(BVL)
Margaret
Greenway
Invited
Guests: Nigel Cotsell (Ecosure – Consultant for Biodiversity
Conservation Strategy Consultation)
Cr Coorey
(Chair) opened the meeting at 3.25pm and acknowledged that the
meeting was being held on Bundjalung Country.
Apologies:
Cr J Martin, Shannon Burt (Director
Sustainable Environment and Economy)
Declarations of Interest – Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary
There were no declarations of
interest.
Adoption
of Minutes from Previous Meetings
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Committee Recomendation:
That the Biodiversity Advisory Committee note that:
a) the
previous meeting scheduled to be held on 10 December 2018 did not proceed as
quorum was not reached.
b) the
minutes of the meeting held on 15 October 2018 were adopted by Council, at
the Ordinary Meeting held on 13 December 2018.
(McConell/Coorey)
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Business Arising from Previous Minutes
There was no business arising
from previous minutes.
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Procedural
Motion
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Committee
Recommendation:
That Council change the order of business to deal with
Reports 4.3, 4.4, 4.6 next on the Agenda.
(Coorey/Ndiaye)
The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.
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Staff Reports - Sustainable
Environment and Economy
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Report No. 4.3 Biodiversity
Conservation Strategy Consultation
File No: I2019/6
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Committee Recommendation:
That the
Biodiversity Advisory Committee:
1. Note
that community engagement forms a key part of developing the revised
Biodiversity Conservation Strategy.
2. Inform
the Consultant of the key biodiversity values, issues and threats important
to the Committee.
3. Receives
a draft Biodiversity Conservation Strategy prior to the public exhibition for
review and feedback.
(Ndiaye/Coorey)
The recommendation was put to
the vote and declared carried.
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Report No. 4.4 Integrated
Pest Management Strategy - mapping and revised timeframes for project
delivery
File No: I2019/7
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Committee Recommendation:
That the Biodiversity
Committee:
1. Note
the report and update on delivery of the project key milestones.
2. Recommend
to Council to endorse in principle the IPM Strategy Communications Plan
(Attachment 2 – E2018/115375).
3. Review
the Draft IPM exclusion and minimisation mapping (Attachment 1 E2019/1847),
Draft Pesticide Use Decision Tree (Attachment 3 – E2019/2054) and
provide feedback by 12 March 2019.
(Westheimer/Greenway)
The recommendation was put to
the vote and declared carried.
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Report No. 4.6 Submissions
Report on the draft Pest Animal Management Plan
File No: I2019/58
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Committee Recommendation:
That the Biodiversity Advisory Committee:
1. Note
the submissions received during the public exhibition period (9 August to 21
September 2018), issues raised and staff comments.
2. Recommend
to Council to adopt the Pest Animal Management Plan (Attachment 2-
E2018/108387) as amended following public exhibition and outlined in Table 1
of this report.
(Coorey/Greenway)
The recommendation was put to
the vote and declared carried.
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Report No. 4.1 Brunswick
Valley Landcare - Landcare Support Officer Report
File No: I2019/4
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Committee Recommendation:
That the Biodiversity Advisory Committee note
the report.
(Ndiaye/Coorey)
The recommendation was put to
the vote and declared carried.
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Report No. 4.2 Flying
Fox Project Reference Group
File No: I2019/5
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Committee Recommendation:
That the Biodiversity Advisory Committee:
1. Note
the outcomes of the two meetings held on 2 October 2018 and 27 November 2018.
2. Recommend
to Council that the amended Constitution of the Flying Fox Project Reference
Group (Attachment 1 - E2018/109946) be adopted.
3. Recommend
to Council that the Councillor representative not be replaced on the Flying
Fox Project Reference Group as it reports to the Biodiversity Advisory
Committee on which there are 3 nominated Councillors.
(Westheimer/McConell)
The recommendation was put to
the vote and declared carried.
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Report No. 4.5 2019
Meeting dates
File No: I2019/42
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Committee Recommendation:
That the Biodiversity Advisory Committee:
1. Note
the 2019 meeting dates, and include two additional field trips in between the
scheduled dates.
2. Amend
the June meeting date to be Monday 17 June in lieu of Monday 10 June 2019.
3. Extraordinary
meetings will be called when required.
4. Future
agenda items and field trips to include: fire and biodiversity, wildlife
corridors, flying foxes.
(Coorey/Ndiaye)
The recommendation was put to
the vote and declared carried.
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There being no further business the meeting concluded at 4.59pm.
