Councillor Motions For Submission To Alga National General Assembly 2024

Frank Wilkie65:54

We're on. Okay. Welcome back everybody. We declare the meeting open again. We're now up to item 6.3, Councillor Motions for submission to ALGA national. General assembly. And we have a recommendation before us. Two motions, one from Councillor Finzel and one from Councillor Lorentson.

To give a quick introduction to it, Laurie Lawrence. Wrong score. I wish I had the same record as Laurie. He's one of my champions actually. Is he really? Yeah. You go. No way. Why? Anyway. That's it. We digress. He's one of my heroes. This is just a quick introduction. The Australian Local Government Association, ALGA, has a National General Assembly every year in July. We presented it last year. We do it quite regularly. The reason we're bringing this to the table now is because we don't have meetings in March and the deadline is in March for motions to go through to the general assembly in July, second to the fourth of July. So, we've brought this to the table now. The process that it goes through is that we agree the motions here at the table, or the motions that are approved, then the ALGA to get approved to go to the general assembly. So, there's no direct path, it still has to be approved by ALGA, and then it goes presented at the general assembly, and then if it gets approved there or gets supported there it becomes something that the ALGA will push through. So there's a whole process, so this is the first step in that process is what I wanted to make the point of. This year at ALGA, NGA, the national assembly is building community trust so we have two motions that the Councillors Finzel and Lorentson are bringing to the table. I'm going to get them to summarise or provide a summary but I'll just initially in the report there's a quick topics of those motions. Council of Finzel calls on the Australian government in establishing proactive steps to identify the core elements required to create a strategic collaborative and network. Consistent national approach and potentially policy changes in providing equal rights for elected representatives in relation to psychosocial safety legislation and workplace health and safety and for Councillor on the Australian government to strengthen environmental initiatives and invest in waste water recycling and adopt a collaborative approach for trust and sustainability so we've got recommendations to take those two but before going to that point I thought it best if in the initial summary is we forget the two Councillors to summarise their proposals or their motions if that's okay with you. Of course.

Karen Finzel82:00

I really have not thought about it but I do think it's a really fantastic opportunity for Councillors or local government level to be able to advocate and raise the issues that Councillor Lorentson and myself have brought to the table. There's a lot more of course out there but I think it's really timely and as Councillor Tom the table like given post-COVID, post the disasters, I do believe our role as local Council elected representatives is in a transition. It's definitely changing. I think even when we talk about our work being out of the office here, we all see each other, how much time we spend on emails in the office, phoning people, you know, it's become a major, not a major, but also a really significant part of our position. So I think it's really timely that we bring these motions to the general assembly, given its national significance and to support sustainable leadership and look after our environment and our people.