2019-10-08 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   8 OCTOBER 2019




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PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                    8 OCTOBER 2019

             The below table details the Community Contributions made during the last 12 years:

                ~ COMMUNITY SUPPORT CASH AND IN-KIND
                                  DONATIONS
                         2008 — 2019 FINANCIAL YEARS
                        YEAR                      $ AMOUNT
              2008                                            100,000
           [2009                                              307,294
             2000                                           83,903 |
             monn                                            842,051 |
            (2012,                                            269,788
             2013                                             305,662
            (204                                              349,346
             205                                              413,358
            12016                                             420,570
            P2ou8                                             42,611
             2019                       po 461,035 |
             TOTAL 12 YEARS                                 4,186,890
             As can be seen the growth in Community Benefit donations continues to grow every year —
             the latest increase from 2017/18 to 2018/19 being 4.2%.
             In the correspondence received from Kerri Coyle dated 26 October, 2018 she states;
                    ”*Council acknowledges that the Club is an important part of the Tewantin Noosa
                    Community and that it makes a contribution in Cash and Kind to the community.
                    While a portion of this funding may be sourced from Gaming Revenue, it is well
                    recognised and established that Electronic Gaming Machines have significant social
                    and economic impacts on communities and for this reason this should be carefully
                    managed and regulated.”
             In regard to Ms Coyle’s comment relating to Gaming Revenue being a portion of the source
             of community funding, we wish to emphasise that it is actually a large portion of community
             funding that is sourced from Gaming Revenue. As such for the Club to be able to continue to
             maintain its ability to provide these benefits, it needs to be able to grow its gaming offering as
             the community develops and grows.
             Again, we reference Ms Coyle’s comment above, and we agree with her statement that the
             impacts of EGMs on the community need to be carefully managed and regulated and this is
             exactly what is done at TNRSL under the very intense scrutiny of the OLGR.
             The commentary from Ms Coyle regarding social and economic impacts implies that the
             careful management and regulation will be achieved by controlling the number of EGMs
             available (which Council is attempting to do through the current DA condition), however, this
             is only a part of the consideration. The club’s day to day management-coupled with its ——
             responsible provision of gaming and liquor services and compliance with regulatory
             obligations is what ensures that the harm is minimised and controlled. (It could be suggested
             that the irresponsible management of twenty EGMs would potentially have a more negative
             impact on a community, than the responsible management of 220 EGMs!)

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