Council of the City of Gold Coast Council, 14 Jun 2022

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The time's now nine o'clock so we'll start the call to order city budget. uh Let's have a look here: special council meeting of today's date, 14th of june councillors, uh we'll start with a prayer and I'll pray for both the this meeting and also council meeting you might as well.

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You know get the wisdom for both all right: okay,.

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Oh, it's still nine o'clock 901., it got you there. Bob.

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I will start with prayer heavenly father grant that we who would seek to serve. You may have the wisdom of your spirit, the guide of your hand, especially in this special budget meeting of today's date and full council meeting later today, and the grace that we can serve together for the prosperity of the city of the gold coast through jesus christ. Our lord amen.

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Item one attendance, apologies, nil item, 2 business; adoption of let's just go here; item 2, adoption of corporate plan.

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On the screen there councillors, as you know, we have to adopt a corporate plan before we adopt the budget. So we're calling this now item, one that the council, I move councillor second to council gates, um just letting you know when we go into uh the next 24 items.

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I populated the move in the second from last year um in case just give me a yell. If someone goes, oh, my god, I'm not gonna! Second it this year because something's changed so that way uh it helps a minute. Take it. I don't think, there's any ego in place and I'm going to move in anyway, so and then it'll be second as different names right through council toza. Mr mayor, the.

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Motion, that's before us appears familiar it's similar to the special budget committee from the other day yeah and we're.

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Addressing I just move item one two to become item one because it's the legislative requirement uh that the council corporate plans be adopted. First. Outside of that, is there any other change to the motion?

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No okay, so uh councillor so item. One is that the corporate plan from 2022 2024 uh 27 five year to commence on the first july 22 be adopted in attachment five there's the gold coast, 2032 plan attachment for the the council endorsed the retirement of the existing corporate plan um gold coast 2022 to um on the 30th of june, so one plan gets retired. The next one gets adopted and the continuation of the of the motion is before you. Anyone speaking against put the motion to you or in facial hands against carried right.

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Put that aside, 2.2 presentation by myself.

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I'm delighted to be with you as a team uh as mayor is the 11th budget. I've worked on with all the councillors and officers and it's always been the mantra that we set the bar um that we will deliver the budget at or below cpi uh the the cpi. That's uh in brisbane right now, I'm advised is six percent and- and we've got our budget down to four point three percent that being announced today.

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So it's one point seven percent uh below uh brisbane, and uh that means that uh we are aware of the budget constraints that all mums and dads and family on the gold coast have faced and and I'll preempt it that this rate increase of 4.3, albeit that is the largest percentage increase in the last uh well in the past 10 years. But we said pretty high bar in our last 10 years. But but if you go back to 10 years before that, this is the lowest just about.

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I think all the way to I won't go the exact exact year, but it's relatively low anyhow, but what's your space as southeast queensland uh council delivered the budget? I believe this will be the either the lowest or second lowest um increase in rates in this region, so uh to all the officers and councillors we went through it sometime line by line sometime page by page sometime.

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You know we get going and do the whole book at the time, but either way we together. We have delivered this budget that I think all of us can be absolutely proud of, but what we, what we did?

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We got a short video to show you just letting you know all the talents were free of charge, so we're living within our means rather video. It please.

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Good morning, gold coast, it's budget time, and you know when you look behind me. This is the statement piece we've got, our parks shade, sails wonderful equipment for our children, and that is really what our budget is all about. The 2022-23 city budget has been delivered against a backdrop of tough economic conditions.

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Our city budget, just like household budgets, has been challenged through rising cost of living pressures, construction costs, fuel supplies, labor charges all have risen. At the same time, council is committed to provide the services rate payers expect at the price we can all afford. We have achieved that, while keeping the annual rate increase below cpi this way. We know our value ratepayers and the business community can have continued confidence and certainty in their council.

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Protecting our lifestyle means delivering the services people expect at a price they can afford. We know that gold, coasters love our parks, playgrounds and beaches. They also love the hinterland, so it's vital that we invest in maintaining our city's precious open space, as well as our community centres, libraries pools and cycleways throughout the 2223 city budget. Key investments are being made to ensure our assets remain in great shape and that we are building for today and tomorrow.

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The gold coast is a city where people love to live work and raise a family. We welcome new residents from across australia and overseas. Our city plan must reflect the need for this growth, but also protect the lifestyle of those that live here. We're determined to ensure that our green and open space is preserved and enhanced through land acquisition programs and sensible planning decisions.

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The 2022-23 budget sets aside funds to continue this important work, and I look forward to ensuring that the green behind the gold is protected and enhanced into the future. Safety is a key priority of this council, and our 2022-23 city budget has ensured greater investment in safety programs as well as infrastructure, more cctv cameras, improved street and park lighting, and it delivers home safety programs to assist our senior residents.

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The city budget has been shaped to continue our strong partnership with the queensland police service, as well as neighborhood watch groups right across the gold coast. Together, we want to ensure our city remains a great place to live, invest and raise your family traffic congestion and parking remain key focus areas of our council. In the past three financial years we have invested record funds on transport initiatives, ensuring our lifestyle and how everyone moves around the city requires some tough decisions.

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The 2022-23 city budget will invest in key road upgrades across the coast, as well as financial support for public transport and continued investment in our active school travel programme. We all know that making healthy travel decisions is good for you and also good for the environment. The city is growing fast and to keep pace. We are investing record funds in our wastewater and recycling services.

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We all need to do more to meet our recycling targets. The 2022-23 city budget is investing in recycling, education, new and upgraded waste treatment facilities and better recycling services.

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A clean and green future is something we all want, and this budget sets the right target, so we can achieve sustainable outcomes, festivals and events are back and that's great news for the economy and our 71 000 small businesses, the 22 23 city budget, is investing in more programs to attract new businesses to our city and to support our small business economy.

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Council has worked hard to keep necessary fees and charges associated with running small businesses to a bare minimum and, at the same time, we're seeking global investment in areas such as the film industry, the marine sector and our health and knowledge precinct. Diversifying our economy gives certainty to families and that's what we want to do. The past 10 city budgets have ensured any rate increases remain at or below cpi.

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This has given businesses and residents the certainty they need when it comes to planning for the future.

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Our debt management strategies remain fiscally responsible, and this council has a strong track record for managing its debt, while delivering services people expect in 2022-23, our procurement programs will ensure more than 400 million at the city's budget is spent on local businesses. This commitment supports local families and local jobs.

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Now that you have heard from all the other chairs and our deputy mayor, you can see one common thread. We absolutely work this budget at value for money, I'm proud to lead a team of counselors working to protect our lifestyle and deliver the services we all expect at the price we can afford. I think council administrations, all the officers, directors, frontline services, people who've put a lot of input throughout. It didn't just happen overnight. So thank you.

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So much for that and I'd like to thank our ceo, tim baker- and you know all council staff working on this mexico coast. The best place to live, work, invest and.

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Raise the family.

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So councillors, I think that encaptures, um what's in the budget, there's only a couple uh additional highlights. I want to put to you as a holding slide there. We are first and foremost the mine is the safe safety and sustainability uh for our city and uh every uh that's. That's our top priority. So when it comes to uh just about every issue we go through if it's safety issue, it gets ticked and we put it forward so from there.

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The other highlight I want to put to you just a comparison on the uh inflation on the price increases of.

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um Can you move on to the next slide.

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No I'll just talk on it, then. Okay, if it's light, comes up well and good. If it doesn't uh it doesn't matter so what happens here is that, as you know, our rate increase is 4.3 percent and- um and, as I mentioned brisbane, is that six percent uh cpi, the inflation rate, um but it's good to uh just reflect on what are we competing with um with us running operationally um the diesel and fuel um for automotive?

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It's increasing like for 35 percent building construction, price, 10 and there's a supply chains issue as well uh grocery about 5.3 percent, and then it comes to our rate. So when you take it in that context, we absolutely have put the lid on our gold coast rate increase the next one. I wanted to uh show you, as I came in the office in 2012.

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There's a 10-year projection of five and a half percent rate increase you know per year and that's the red line, and that goes to show that um uh what is really our the bar was set there for us to work with and over the years.

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That's there, the rate increase that actually occurred, and- and it goes to show that the price difference uh in the in the current 2022-23, if we were on the trajectory, each household would be up for around 400 per rates. So, as a team, we have set the trend and uh and we'll keep that trend going at least uh hopefully for years to come.

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The other. The other point I want to highlight is the our debt balance. What you see on the red side is the the debt as of first july 2012 and as of right now, 30 june 2022.

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We have paid down 600 to 673 million dollars. So at the same time, we all know that we achieve delivery of the commonwealth games, um the gold coast aquatic center and gold coast sports and leisure center was built. 90 million dollars on the pimpama sports gold coast, light rail stage two and three and one that's right and uh and now um hotter culture precinct stage one and two uh we're embarking on the green heart. We've done some uh master plan.

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Already, the my miami aquatic center pitsy park skate park, either caperi bridge uh safety, camera network up from 110 to 726, permanent and mobile cameras today, and my favorite free senior and veterans travel on uh on off peak hour, and that's is really one of the keystone part that I absolutely believe that the council has nailed it on the head so that uh for the people who are most in need, we are there to support.

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I didn't put on my list, but remember that two years of covet we had to really trim our budget and deliver that as well at the same time paying down this debt. So so as we move forward, they are major sports and infrastructure that we'll be doing so. There are major sporting aquatic center, 47 million dollars, libraries, nearly 30 million dollars, public environment, health, 15 and, uh and the list goes on road network, 136 million transport and proven another 100 and and traffic management and signal we've increased it to 34.

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and the next slide. We have park and natural area, 150 million dollars and uh beach and waterways 30 million and um and of course we got to do tourism, marketing, uh 39 million and culture, pre-heritage, 36 economic development, 15 and marketing promotion for providing safe and reliable drinking water, 288 million, safe and reliable sewerage service, 147 waste collection, disposal, 85 million and recycling service is 16.6 million.

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In essence, this is back to basic budget. We absolutely went safety, sustainable front line deliveries. I know it's an old adage, roads rates and rubbish. We absolutely do that, but we're down at the gold coast way. We also broaden our economy and help those who are in need so um councillors. uh I put my presentation or budget speech to you as we move on to 2.3 for adoption.

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There's 20 24 24 motions that we're going to go through under legislation mentioned earlier. I took the opportunity to to populate who second these last year, but if there's no objection I'll use the same people, so we can keep moving on and um just give me a yes if it's not right and also give me a yell if you want to pause uh to speak against any of those items so that and uh pause to. If there's a conflict, I think a lot of these are uh general uh budget items.

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So there shouldn't be any conflict, but the opportunity there to stick up your hand and pause okay. So it might be a quick pace, but uh either way we can handle it uh yeah yeah item one differential generates uh categorization of lan. uh I move recommendation one as per what's on the screen secondary council, peter young. All in fact show hands against carry unanimous different differential general rights moved by myself. Counselor call well seconder, and um I move the recommendation too. As per what's on the screen, all in face show hands against motion, carry unanimous.

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We go to page 120.

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I move recommendation. Three open space include, including koala habitat maintenance and enhancement, separate charge and secondary council owen jones. Put the motion to you all in fair show: hands for the koalas against carry unanimous item. Four.

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We go to page 120, again: recreation uh space, several charges, separate charges, moving recommendation for, as per on the screen secondary council lacastra put the motion to you. All info show: hands against carrie, unanimous item five city transport improvement, super charge secondary council o'neal, yep, she's, happy with that on the screen. Can you put that on the screen?

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All in fact show hands against motion carried item six councillor, peter young. This is the volunteer five years ago, I'll.

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Make a declaration, uh as I'm the chairman of the guanabara rural fire brigade, I'll exit. The meeting for this.

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Well, council, I moved this one secondary councillor gates. The motion is on the screen, all in facial hands against carrie unanimous. Could you recall, council, petty young police.

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Mr sinclair, can you recall, council petty young place.

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We go to seven. um This is a move to recommendation: seven uh davenport street southport local center improvement program, special rates on the screen secondary council patterson, put the motion to you all in fair show, hands against motion carried that. That means we're out nearly halfway a third of the way. That's what that beats for us um item. Eight page 123 move the recommendation, chevron, island, local center improvement program, special raid. Second by council taylor, put the motion to you all in fair, show: hands against carrie, unanimous.

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Item nine griffis street coolant got a local center improvement program. Special rate um move the recommendation. That's on the screen secondary council. O'neal, put the motion to you all info show hands against motion. Carry. We can now go to page 127 water, water utility charge recommendation as per on the screen uh secondary council. O'neill.

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Put the motion to you all in favor show hands against carry unanimous search utility charges. um I move recommendation 11, that's on the screen, secondary cancer. O'neill put the motions here. All info show hands against motion carried item: 12, page 158 sewerage, trade, waste utility charges, recommendation 12, as per on the screen. Second, to casa, o'neal put the motion to you all in fair show: hands against motion carried item; 13 waste management, utility charges. I move recommendation 13 as per what's on the screen and secondary council o'neill.

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Put the motion to you all in fair show: hands against motion carry unanimous, uh recycle utility charge. This is a newbie all right um move. The recommendation on the screen secondary councillor. O'neill, put the motion to you all in fair show: hands against carry unanimous item 15. I remove recommendation 15 rates and charges levy and payment. Second councillor gates put the motion to you. All info show hands against motion carried unanimous item 16 on page 167.

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I move recommendation, uh 16 recommendations, 16 discount on rate and charges and on the screen secondary council. Mcdonnell uh put the motion to you. All info show hands against motion carrier, unanimous 17. interest on overdue rates and charges move the recommendation 17 as per what's on the screen secondary council callwell, put the motion to you. All info show hands against carry unanimous rates, not page 168 rates concession. I move recommendation 18 rates concessions general is what's on the screen. Secondary patterson. Put the motion to you all in favor show hands against motion carry.

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I moved the recommendation 19 as what's on the screen, that is, the rate concession for pensioners rate rebate home owners in bracket. I moved to the motion secondary council on jones, put motion to you or show hands against motion carried. We now go to item 20 on page 169, still rates concession for pensioners rate rebate, non-home owners um recommendation. As on the screen move the motion. Second to council. Patterson, put the motion to you all in fair show: hands against carry unanimous rates; concession rebates donations.

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I move that recommendation. What's on the screen? Second, uh counselor toza put the motion to you just a minute: yup.

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Sorry to interrupt the flow, uh no make a declaration, I'm the chairman of the rain neighborhood center, which is likely a recipient of this benefit. I'll leave the room. Okay,.

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All right councillors, the motions are foot put the motion to you. Oh in fact show hands against motion carried. Could you ask councillor peter young to return.

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Okay, um page 170 again uh a move recommendation, 22 rates, concession deferral of rates payment. Second council of paterson, put the motion to you all in fair show: hands against motion carried 23. I move recommendation 23 rate voluntary conservation agreement secondary council mcdonnell. Put the motion to you all in fair show: hands against motion carry unanimous.

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I move recommendation 24 rate concession, payment of rates by installment secondary councillor owen jones. Put the motion to you all in fair show: hands against motion carried. Please go to page 222.

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Just to the viewers out there, you can see that we move at a quick pace, but this is from four months of debate. Discussion, rediscussion, redraw, renegotiation, hard work, sweating lunch come back in sweat, some more, and this is the ongoing work from us, our uh all of our directors, all support staff, ceo and uh and all of us here, and that's why? uh It's also smooth because we find the correct ground, not the middle ground, the correct one for the city of the gold coast.

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Council, I move the recommendation pursuant to section 205 local government regulation 2012 the statement of financial operation, financial position of the council in respect of the previous financial year, the statement of estimate financial position to be received and his content noted and two pursuant to section, 104, etc, etc. That gives you the statement of finance position, statement of cash flow statement of income expenditure, statement of changes in equity, statement of income and expenditure by significant business activity. The relevant measures are financial sustainability.

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The relevant statement attachment 8 the relevant policy adopted by council resolution 24th, may the the total value of charges expression as a percentage in the rates and utility charges levied to the financial year compared with the rates and utility charge levy in the previous budget, attachment 10 as tabled and adopted.

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And of course we go to item three. The council notes the attached document annual plan and adopts the following items contained within and then we go to next page uh gold coast, waste management, services, item e, the code of competitive conduct, item f, the code of competitive contact not not be applied to that is aquatic center community centers off street car parking cemeteries, large-scale music events, fitness centers optic, fiber network; four, that council adopt the following: total asset management plan and four year financial four year, capital works, registered fees and charges and.

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And item five council reserve cost recovery fees and um and council delegates, the chief executive officer um on various items and that item six. The council endorsed the continuation of uncompleted capital works, carried forward from 2021 22 and that such works be facilitated within the initial 2022-23 budget estimate pending the financial station of accounts yeah secondary council gates councillor before I put it to you, I've done my presentation.

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I'll first go to anyone. We should speak against the budget and then I want to speak further for it. Council, peter young.

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Thank you, mr mayor. Just briefly, you want to endorse and echo your comments and welcome the ceo, mr baker, for his first budget and thank uh the chief operating officer, joe mccabe, for his steady hand over many years. The pleasing thing to me about this budget, especially, is the increased sum of money available to divisional councillors that enables us to deliver local projects, um which are very important and, as you've said, this is all about value for money and trying to ensure we get real runs on the board in local communities. Thanks.

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Mr thank you. Anyone speak against the budget. Anyone else wants to speak for the budget. Then I'll close the debate councillors. It's been hard work, but a pleasure. So I commend this budget to you all in favour. Show hands against motion, carry unanimous all right. um Mr ceo, as there's no other item the meetings closed by 9 34.. The other thing is: um we've uh organized some photos because, as you know, yeah we'll do it in here we'll do it sim terms and and.