2025-2026 Community GRANTS Program - THREE-YEAR Signature Community Event GRANTs

Nicola Wilson43:40

Thank you. In accordance with Chapter 5B of the Local Government Act 2009, I inform the meeting that I have prescribed conflict of interest for item 8.7, 2025-26 community grants program, three-year signature community event grants. On this matter, in relation to the funding recommendation to the Cooroy Chamber of Commerce as my partner. Roy Vanderberg, is on the executive committee. As a result of my conflict of interest, I will now leave the meeting room while the matter is considered and voted on.

Brian Stockwell42:30

Anyone else wish to talk? No? I'll put the resolution in favour. It's unanimous if anybody has a second. Thank you, ladies. See if I can get a strip like that for the rest of the week. Thank you. Okay, we now move on to 8.7, which is 25-26 community grants program, 3-year signature community event grants. Do we have any declarations in regard to this one? Yes, we do. We'll go to Councillor Wilson first.

Frank Wilkie44:16

Thank you very much. In accordance with Chapter 5B of the Local Government Act of 2009, an informal meeting after a declarable conflict of interest for our 8.7 community events program and 3 year signature community events grants. On this in relation to the funding recommendation to initialise, according to Queensland government's guide to conflict of interest, dated April 25, being solely a patron of normalisation does not in itself constitute a declarable conflict of interest. However, I would like to declare as a proportionate measure that I have linked to one of the initialised patrons, David Williamson, and contributed that Mr Williamson to my and current election campaign to a value of more than $2,000, which is considered a prescribed conflict if Mr Williamson, or if he was an executive committee member of, were to be the recipient of grant funding. As a result of this electoral donation and prescribed conflict of interest, for full disclosure and to avoid any perceptions of bias regarding my consideration of israel's grant submission, I will choose to leave the meeting room in accordance with my legislative obligations.

Thank you. So the first report today we've got is the summary report of all our community grants. So community grants that we're considering this round are our community project grants, which includes events, includes equipment, includes infrastructures. Structures and programs and projects. The other part we bring to the table is our three-year grants, which is our alliance and signature community events. We are recommending a total of two hundred and fifty one thousand five hundred and thirty three dollars and fifty three cents our community project grants and for our three year grants we are recommending a hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and eleven cents. That then gives us a remaining budget of just over a hundred and eleven thousand dollars to be put forward to our quick response, our individual sports grants and any emergent grant respondents that were received throughout the year as well. So this is our first year that we're running the new policy and our new policy only covers that one year of community grants. So it's only open for one year. We're then looking to open up our quick in September. So we're looking for applications. But just in case some very emergent grants come through and they slip the gap in terms of that one year, we've also got a little bit of remaining budget to cover that.

Grants program, including things like sports, field maintenance, et cetera, approximately $1 million a year, probably across a year. It covers a lot. So today we've got the one-year grants and then community alliance and signature grants, but there's halls and communities. There's sports fields and sports grounds. There's quite a few.