To view the archived video livestream of the meeting you can access it here.
To read a copy of the minutes from this meeting, click here.
(Attachments to the minutes can be downloaded from Council’s website here).
A brief summary of items that may be of interest to the community follows below.
• Public questions submitted and answered. To view these, please click here
• Our new councillors gave their first reports since election. As some were verbal only we encourage you to view the livestream for the full detail.
• Elections were held for the positions of Mayor and Deputy Mayor, with Cr Brett Tessari re-elected to the role of Mayor and Cr Michael Whelan elected to the role of Deputy Mayor.
• Cr Rochelle Halstead moved an urgent motion to improve protection of the indigenous environment around the Grantville Sand Quarry site, specifically the protection of a number of ancient grass trees put at risk removed during the mining process, which was well supported by the other councillors and carried unanimously.
Council provided this image of the current state of the sand trees being stored on site
