2023-02-07 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   7 FEBRUARY 2023




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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                            7 FEBRUARY 2023

                                                       11. Financial Responsibility - it has a significant comparative
                                                           level of financial responsibility compared to other category
                                                          6 councils. Details are contained within Council’s written
                                                          submission.
                                                       12. Spillway Improvements - Two of Council’s three dams have
                                                           been identified as requiring a large investment over the
                                                          coming years at projected cost of over $200M to improve
                                                          spillways.

                                                        Council advocated that these      comparisons warrant the
                                                        Commission’s favourable consideration as factors relevant to
                                                        reclassification of the currently allocated Category 5 level of
                                                        remuneration.   Considerable   information   and _ provided
                                                        comparative data is available in Council’s written submission.

                       Request                         Toowoomba Regional Council be reclassified from category 5 to
                                                        a category 6 council.

                       Determination                   The Commission will commence its review of categories and
                                                        the category system in 2023 and take into consideration the
                                                        matters raised. All Councils are invited to participate in the
                                                        2023 review. No change to the current category pending the
                                                        Commission’s 2023 review.

                 12    Date received                    Written Submission on 31 October 2022

                       Received from                    Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council:
                                                       Acting Chief Executive Officer Kate Gallaway

                       Summary of submission           The current remuneration structure does not recognise the
                                                        additional  responsibilities of  divisional  councillors  of
                                                        amalgamated indigenous councils.

                                                        Council observed that in 2008, five (5) surrounding Indigenous
                                                        Community Councils, Seisia Island Council, New Mapoon
                                                       Aboriginal Shire Council, Bamaga Island Council, Umagico
                                                       Aboriginal Shire Council and Injinoo Aboriginal Shire council,
                                                       were amalgamated to form Northern Peninsula Area Regional
                                                        Council (NPARC), with NPARC being only one of two councils in
                                                        the region to be amalgamated and hold Deed of Grant in Trust
                                                        (DOGIT) land.

                                                        Council submitted that prior to amalgamation, each of the five
                                                        (5) community councils had a council structure where they had
                                                        their own chair, deputy and 3 councillors (with the exception of
                                                        Seisia Island Council, which had a chair and 2 councillors), to
                                                        make trust and council decisions.

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