2024 Lgaq Conference - Noosa Council Motions Carried

Brian Stockwell82:41

I moved it but I don't need to close I'll put the motion all those in favour that's unanimous. We move on then to the next item which is LGAQ conference 2024 Noosa Council's motions carried. I take it that's for me?

Yes, that's for me. So this is just a report but a report for noting so just to bring everybody up to speed on and for our community to understand that the work that we do with the LGAQ we at the Ordinary Meeting the 18th on of July we approve seven motions to be put to the LGAQ which are motions that then go to the, for those watching, that go to the 77 councils of Queensland to get voted on essentially and to get approved then for LGAQ to take as a path forward to take them to the relevant authorities to progress. We put seven motions together, the Council has put seven motions in the end six of those one dropped off because it was combined with others and so we put took six final motions and then at the last minute last hour Councillor Lorentson put forward a seventh motion which under my delegated authority I approved and then it went through to the LGAQ conference and I'm pleased to say that all seven of our motions got approved so I think that's we should be very proud of and championing and it just shows that what we're putting forward is relevant to councils across Queensland and got accepted and promoted that way so they will now go forward under LGAQ's power so I just think those motions I won't go through them they're in the report but I just think it's something that we needed to bring back to say that yeah it's a job well done I think and we should be proud of it. Happy move it Mr Chair.

Frank Wilkie84:56

Look this just plays into other discussions we've had around the table today about this being a very ambitious and hardworking Council with Councillors that want to get stuff done and make a significant change for the better for their communities and in this case for the broader Queensland community there were seven motions I think that's a record for this Council and if I don't recall any other Council in Queensland having so many motions any LGAQ conference that I can recall so it does it has set a new benchmark and I commend all Councillors for those that put in the motions I commend all Councillors for supporting every motion and which we happily took to the conference and they were all passed which was very gratifying.

Amelia Lorentson85:50

As large the only thing I want to add is that when we go to the conference and I encourage all the Councillors to attend it's an excellent learning experiences sharing ideas lessons learned but it's not just advocacy for matters that are important to Noosa Council we also help to advocate issues that are significant to these small regional places and they need our voting power to help them get their matters represented to the relevant state and Federal and budget considerations questions always get thrown at me with LGAQ conferences like you know is it impactful does it matter do your motions ever get you know raised and followed up and the answer is yes I think I've contributed almost all my five years and most of my motions that I've put forward are in relationship wastewater recycling wastewater diversion targets addressing emerging contaminants like PFAS etc yes the answer is absolutely yes on a state and Federal level. I work and communicate with Josephine Rafferty who looks at the water alliance and represents state the water a lot. On the water alliance yes that's how they get budgets and that's how we get budgets for initiatives that are important to us. Also in 2021 and I was at the LGAQ conference at the time it was the LGAQ that raised the alarm about the housing crisis and it was the LGAQ advocacy on that actually sparked the housing summit that was led at the time by the then premier Anastasia so yes our advocacy does work and the best platform or the best way to leverage what we want is through the LGAQ you've got 77 councils all speaking with one voice through LGAQ and I totally recommend it and it's one of our roles to advocate on behalf of our community on matters that sit outside Council's remit. Thank you. Anyone else?