Minutes of Extraordinary Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting

BYRON SHIRE COUNCIL

Extraordinary Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes 20 May 2021

Minutes of the Extraordinary Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting held on Thursday, 20 May 2021

File No: I2021/841

PRESENT: Cr C Coorey, Cr M Lyon, Cr S Ndiaye

Staff: Phil Holloway (Director Infrastructure Services)

Cameron Clark (Manager Utilities)

Dean Baulch (Principal Engineer System Planning)

Dominika Tomanek (Minute Taker)

Visitor: Robyn Campbell, Hydrosphere Consulting

Community: Col Draper, Madeleine Green, Duncan Dey and Ben Fawcett

Cr Lyon (Chair) opened the meeting at 9:06 am and acknowledged that the meeting was being held on Bundjalung Country.

Apologies:

Mary Gardner

David Fligelman

Declarations of Interest – Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary

Madelaine Green declared a pecuniary/non-pecuniary interest . The nature of the interest being that she resides 1 km away from Resource Recovery Centre.

Adoption of Minutes from Previous Meetings

Report No. 3.1 Adoption of Minutes of Previous Meetings

File No: I2021/793

Committee Recommendation:

That the minutes of the Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting held on 29 April 2021 be confirmed.

(Lyon/Dey)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Business Arising from Previous Minutes

The committee discussed briefly the possible meeting dates for the Ocean Shores STP workshop (Recommendations 4.4.2 of 29 April 2021 WWSAC meeting). The closest suggested date for the workshop is Thursday 17 June 2021 with the deadline of providing questions to Manager Utilities being 4 June 2021. This to be confirmed by staff back to the Committee members.

Procedural Motion

Committee Recommendation:

That Council acknowledge that part 4.4.2 of committee recommendation of 29 of April did not occur.

(Dey/Fawcett)

The recommendation was put to the vote and declared carried.

Staff Reports - Infrastructure Services

Report No. 4.1 Mullumbimby Future Water Strategy

File No: I2021/781

Committee Recommendation:

That Council:

1. Recognises that for the Mullumbimby township there are 2 water supply issues being considered at the moment, one being a potential drought next summer and the other being the long term future water supply strategy.

2. Undertakes works to complete the connection of the emergency supply to the rest of Mullumbimby.

3. In relation to a long term strategy, firms up the management options including recognising the environmental impacts of each option, inclusive of impacts of Rous's own options (for options that use Rous water).

4. Aims to produce a draft long term strategy to go to a Strategic Planning Workshop with a view to putting the strategy on public exhibition.

(Dey/Fawcett)

There being no further business the meeting concluded at 11:17 am.

Venue	Conference Room, Station Street, Mullumbimby
Date	Thursday, 20 May 2021
Time	9:00am