Record of Public Forum

26 August 2020

Record of Public Forum

26 August 2020

Public Forum

4.1       Public Forum Submissions Recieved.......................................................................... 3   

Held on Wednesday 26 August 2020 at 12:00 noon

Via Zoom

Present: Cr Sharon Tapscott, Mayor Cr Russell Fitzpatrick, Deputy Mayor Cr Tony Allen Cr Robyn Bain Cr Jo Dodds Cr Cathy Griff Cr Kristy McBain Cr Mitchell Nadin Cr Liz Seckold

In Attendance: General Manager, Ms Leanne Barnes Director, Assets and Operations, Mr Anthony McMahon Director, Community, Environment and Planning, Dr Alice Howe Director, Business and Governance, Mrs Iliada Bolton Acting Manager, Communication and Events, Ms Sharon Wellard Project lead, Recovery, Rebuilding and Resilience – Mr Chris Horsburgh Minute Secretary, Mrs Bec Jones

Statement of Commencement of Live Streaming

The Deputy Mayor made an announcement about live streaming requirements noting that:

Public Forums are recorded and live streamed to the Internet for public viewing.

The recording will be archived and made available on Council’s website www.begavalley.nsw.gov.au.

Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians of Bega Valley Shire

The Deputy Mayor commenced by acknowledging, on behalf of Bega Valley Shire Council, the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters of the Shire, the people of Yuin nation, to show respect to elders past and present.

Apologies

Apologies were received from Cr McBain, Cr Allen and Cr Tapscott.

4.1.  Public Forum Submissions Recieved

Deputations for the Public Forum of 26 August 2020 were received and circulated to Councillors.

Deputy Mayor, Russell Fitzpatrick

Public Forum Addresses

The following requests were heard regarding:

Item 11.3 Acquisition of land for Kiah hall rebuild

FOR
	Name	Representing	Method	Comment
1	Clare McMahon	The Kiah Hall Committee and Friends of the Kiah Hall (Authority received)	Audio Visual via Zoom	The purchase of this block of land will enable the rebuild of the Kiah Hall is vitality important to the Kiah Community. The block is an acre in size and along side the original of the Kiah Hall.  It will enable us to build on a flat piece of ground giving access to all sides of a new building.  It is a much better site for disable access. WE have a tennis court and the Kiah Fire Brigade also along side this site.  It has power and town water and a view over the river. The Community has always enjoyed the use of the church ground for community functions and parking and to lose it now would be a further blow to losing both the church and the Hall. People are always saying it should have been gifted to the community but the Pambula Parish was is not selling it because of the fires they came to the community back in October to advise their financial situation was bleak and they were advised to sell assets by the Canberra Archdiocese to sell assets.   If part of the insurance money could be used to purchase the land  the Kiah community can then really start fund raising.

Item 11.6 Bega Sporting Complex Project

AGAINST
	Name	Representing	Method	Comment
1	Garry Arkin	Bega Roosters Senior League	Audio Visual via Zoom	·          Address Councillors on the benefits of adopting motion 3 ·          Lack of Costings of items 2 and 3
2	Peter Turner	Self	Audio Visual via Zoom	I will be speaking against the staff recommendation. After over 5 years of discussions between council and user groups it has become quite clear that the site is not large enough to accommodate all the user groups. It would be disgrace to spend 8.5 million and have the rugby league facilities hardly improved with the kiosk facilities well below what they were over 5 years ago when the ceiling was burnt on the old one. I will be asking that if council still prefer option 1 or 2 which is against the wishes of current users that they do the costings and modelling on both before a final decision is made.

Item 13.1 Long Term Financial Plan 2021-2030

AGAINST
	Name	Representing	Method	Comment
1	Lucas Scarpin	Self	Audio Visual via Zoom	I wish to discuss the impact of the financial projections included in the LTFP.

The Public Forum session closed at 12:13pm  

The recording of the Public Forum is available on Council’s website:

http://webcast.begavalley.nsw.gov.au/archive.php

Attachments

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