Minutes Ordinary Meeting 20 March 2025

ORDINARY MEETING MINUTES                                                        20 MARCH 2025



1.          DECLARATION OF OPENING

            The meeting was declared open at 10.01am.

2.          ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

            Noosa Council respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and
            waters of the Noosa area, the Kabi Kabi people, and pays respect to their Elders,
            past, present and emerging.

3.          ATTENDANCE & APOLOGIES

            COUNCILLORS
            Cr Frank Wilkie (Chair)
            Cr Karen Finzel
            Cr Jessica Phillips
            Cr Amelia Lorentson
            Cr Brian Stockwell
            Cr Tom Wegener (via Microsoft Teams)
            Cr Nicola Wilson

            EXECUTIVE
            Chief Executive Officer Larry Sengstock
            Director Community Services Kerri Contini
            Acting Director Corporate Services Margaret Gatt
            Director Development & Regulation Richard MacGillivray
            Director Strategy and Environment Kim Rawlings
            Director Infrastructure Services Shaun Walsh

            APOLOGIES
            Nil.


4.          CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES


     4.1.      ORDINARY MEETING MINUTES DATED 20 FEBRUARY 2025

               Council Resolution
               Moved:            Cr Frank Wilkie
               Seconded:         Cr Karen Finzel
               That the Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting held on 20 February be received and
               confirmed, with
               A. The addition of the following words, highlighted below, to the Response to
               Public Question Time 8.4 Q1 to Craig Vella as follows:
                  "Thank you for your question regarding the Go Noosa program and the
                  potential use of the Sustainable Transport Levy for boat ramp and parking
                  improvements. Firstly, to clarify, while the Sustainable Transport Levy is
                  budgeted to raise approximately $933,000 in the 2023/24 financial year, these
                  funds are allocated to various sustainable transport initiatives as outlined in
                  report. The Free Bus Service, while significant, does not account for the entire
                  levy amount. Following Council’s recent decision to cease the Free Weekend
                  Bus Services, options for the reallocation of these funds will be considered in
                  due course. However, under the existing levy framework, all funded initiatives