Agenda and draft minutes

Council Meeting - Wednesday, 4th December, 2024 10.00 am

Venue: Administration Office, 218-232 Molesworth Street, Lismore. View directions

Contact: Robyn Waldron 

Items
No. Item

1.

OPENING OF THE MEETING

2.

Acknowledgement of Country

Council would like to show its respect and acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Land, of Elders past and present on which this meeting takes place.

Minutes:

Council showed its respect and acknowledged the Traditional Custodians of the Land, of all Elders, on which this meeting took place.

3.

APOLOGIES AND LEAVE OF ABSENCE

Minutes:

Noted:  Cr Sharon Cadwallader and Cr Sarah Ndiaye will be joining the meeting late due to a pre-existing engagement.

4.

Confirmation of Minutes of previous meeting

4.1

Ordinary meeting held 30 October 2024 pdf icon PDF 2 MB

Minutes:

RESOLVED [64/24] (Krieg/Gordon) That the Minutes of the ordinary meeting held 30 October 2024 be approved as presented.

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Minutes to Ordinary meeting held 30 October 2024 Resolution Carried
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  • 4.2

    Extraordinary meeting held 27 November 2024 pdf icon PDF 184 KB

    Minutes:

    RESOLVED [65/24] (Krieg/Gordon) That the Minutes of the extraordinary meeting held 27 November 2024 be approved as presented.

     

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  • 5.

    Disclosure of Interest

    Minutes:

    Nil.

    6.

    Chair's Minute

    Minutes:

    Nil.

    7.

    Matters of urgency / Questions with notice

    Minutes:

    Nil.

    8.

    Notices of Motion

    Minutes:

    Nil.

    9.

    Length of Service Recognition Awards for 2024

    Minutes:

    Rous County Council Board acknowledged and presented the length of service recognition awards for 2024 to the following staff members:

     

    5 Years:

    In attendance - Angel (Gus) Marotte

    Alex Hew, Morgan Whitlen and Peter Verrall

    Apologies - Adam Nesbitt and Lance Stodhard.

     

     

    15 Years:

    In attendance - Matthew Luke James, Sam Curran and Philip Courtney

    Apologies - Eddie Hayward

     

     

     

    10 Years:

    In attendance - Joshua Cleary

    Apologies -  Jacob Arthur

     

    20 Years:

    In attendance - Rebecca Spring

    Apologies - Ben Hildebrand

     

    30 Years:

    Michael Ross

     

    35 Years:

    Apologies - Craig Tulk

     

     

     

     

     

    10.

    General Manager reports

    10.1

    Rous' meeting schedule for 2025 pdf icon PDF 69 KB

    Minutes:

    RESOLVED [66/24] (Gordon/Humphrys) That Council confirms the meeting schedule for 2025 as outlined below, with meetings to be held on the third Wednesday of each scheduled month (excluding January), commencing at 10:00am. The dates are as follows:

    ·                  19 February

    ·                  16 April

    ·                  18 June

    ·                  20 August

    ·                  15 October

    ·                  10 December

     

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  • 11.

    Group Manager Organisational Services

    11.1

    Delegation - General Manager pdf icon PDF 76 KB

    Additional documents:

    Minutes:

    RESOLVED [67/24] (Ramsey/Humphrys) That Council revoke the delegation dated 17 August 2022 for the position of General Manager and any delegations revived as a result of that revocation, and approve the delegation as presented in Attachment 2.

     

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  • 12.

    Group Manager Planning and Delivery reports

    12.1

    Update on the Lismore Levee Scheme pdf icon PDF 85 KB

    Minutes:

    RESOLVED [68/24] (Hauge/Humphrys) That Council in addition to previous resolutions on the matter:

    1.                Receive and note this update.

    2.                Receive a further update before the end of July 2025.

     

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    Update on the Lismore Levee Scheme Resolution Carried
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  • 13.

    Group Manager Operations reports

    14.

    Policies

    14.1

    Customer Feedback Complaints and Unreasonable Conduct pdf icon PDF 75 KB

    Additional documents:

    Minutes:

    RESOLVED [69/24] (Gordon/Krieg) That Council:

    1.      Revoke the policy titled ‘Customer feedback, complaints and unreasonable conduct’ dated 14 December 2022 attached to this report, and any policy revived as a result of that revocation;and

    2.      Adopt the revised policy of the same name attached to this report.

     

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  • 15.

    Information reports (cover report) pdf icon PDF 68 KB

    Additional documents:

    Minutes:

    RESOLVED [70/24] (Gordon/Hauge) That the following information reports be received and noted:

    1.                Annual Report/State of Region Report

    2.                Investments – October 2024

    3.                Investments – November 2024 (late report)

    4.                Annual ‘Model Code of Complaint Statistics’

    5.                Reports/Actions pending

     

    Cr Sarah Ndiaye joined the meeting at 10:40am

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  • 17.

    Confidential matters

    Minutes:

    Nil.

     

    Noted - Cr Sharon Cadwallader was unable to join the meeting prior to the completion of business.

    18.

    Close of business