CCC Meeting 2025-06-16

Clarence City Council Chambers, Bligh Street, 6pm

  1. Acknowledgement of Country
  2. Apologies
  3. Declarations of Interests
  4. Omnibus Items
    1. Confirmation of Minutes
    2. Mayor's Communication
    3. Council Workshops
    4. Tabling of Petitions
    5. Reports from Outside Bodies
      • Reports from Single and Joint Authorities
      • Reports from Council and Special Committees and Other Representative Bodies
    6. Weekly Briefing Reports
  5. Public Question Time
    1. On Notice
      • Chris Boron
        1. Dangerous Driver Behaviour – Wentworth Sports Park Road Network/Carpark I continue to observe reckless speeding driving at Wentworth Park.
          The anonymous Council employee, author of the CEO’s response continues to play with the truth and jeopardise public safety by claiming...“All drivers are expected to drive to the conditions appropriate for any busy network/carpark”.
          There are no footpaths as claimed and pedestrians, children/adults share the roads with speeding motorists. Clarence is not a Utopia for all motorists.
          A 10 kilometre sign and/or SLOW DOWN sign/s at the Sports Ground entrance are road safety necessities.
          Which Councillors present, agree with the open speed limit at Wentworth Park?
      • Bradley Walker
        1. Clarence Plains Master Plan Could council please provide the community with some information regarding why the Clarence Plains Master Plan consulted in 2021/22 hasn't been formalised and if possible, specifically activation around Rokeby Beach and the Clarence Plains Rivulet and walking tracks. It appears council have missed good opportunities in these areas because of its delay, including now a huge grey building on the foreshore which was a concern raised by many in the consultation process.
        2. Serrated Tussock and Boneseed Could council please provide community the reason behind Clarence being the only one, or one of few councils that doesn't have Serrated Tussock and Boneseed as a Zone A weed in Tasmania and if the council have any plan to progress towards getting these weeds into the Zone A categorization like most other councils in Tasmania?
    2. Previously Taken On Notice (nil)
    3. Without Notice
  6. Deputations are not listed in the Agenda, largely because they arise as a result of items on it
  7. Planning Authority Matters
    1. 12 Jennings Street, Bellerive – Demolition of Existing Dwelling and Three New Multiple Dwellings (Staged): Recommended for Approval
    2. 19 Alexandra Esplanade, Bellerive (including adjacent road reservation) – Demolition and Eight Multiple Dwellings: Recommended for Approval
    3. 1/27 Montagu Bay Road, Montagu Bay – Change of Use to short stay Visitor Accommodation: Recommended for Approval
    4. 3D Wisteria Avenue, Cremorne (with right-of-way access over 3B and 3C) – Two Lot Subdivision and Land Filling: Recommended for Refusal (Coastal Inundation Hazard Code; Low Density Residential Zone; Wisteria Development Plan)
  8. Reports of Officers
    1. Governance
      1. Long Term Financial Management Plan and Associated Financial Policies and Strategies
        • Namely: Debt Management Policy 2025, Infringement Debt Management Policy 2025, updated Recovery of Outstanding Rates and Charges Policy 2025, updated Financial Hardship Policy 2025, and updated Fees and Charges (non rates) Policy 2025.
      2. Annual Plan 2025/2026
      3. Amendment to the Customer Service Charter
        • Amendments are to the complaints section of the Charter.
      4. Rates and Charges Financial Year 2025/2026
        • The recommended motion is nine pages long. It has subsections. I have attempted to find the parts relevant to us.
        • For the purposes of the following, "¢/$" should be expanded to "cents in the dollar on the capital value of the land"
        • General Rate: 0.16493318¢/$ and a fixed charge of $410.00
        • Stormwater Service Rate: The greater of $97.00 and 0.01833000¢/$
        • Waste Service Rates:
          • 80L mobile refuse garbage bin, 140L mobile recycling garbage bin, and 240L mobile green waste garbage bin: $223.77
          • Waste levy offset for 80L refuse bin: $15.07
        • Fire Service Rate: The greater of $50.00 and 0.04327000¢/$
        • Maximum Percentage Increase: (as holders of a Health Care Card) 10%, but no less than $5.00 of remission.
        • Remissions: (as holders of a Health Care Card) 1.80% of all rates except the fire service rate
  9. Motions on Notice (nil)
  10. Councillors' Question Time
    1. Answers to Previous Questions Without Notice
      • "Council officers are reviewing the terms of the [Bellerive Oval] lease to ascertain what obligations there are to include reference to “Bellerive”. Further advice will be provided by briefing memo."
      • "The Copping Refuse Disposal Site has only been used once in the past twelve months to accept fish mortality, following an unprecedented event in the lower D’Entrecasteaux Channel that exhausted all other preferrable disposal options in early 2025. The beneficial reuse options for managing fish mortality includes rendering, commercial composting, land spreading and shallow burial. Since this event, the site has not received any additional fish mortality."
      • In response to request from various schools to reduce school zone to 30 km/h: "The Department of State Growth’s current speed limit management documents that school zones should be 40 km/h in urban / established areas. The Transport Commissioner advised at a recent meeting there were no immediate plans to change school zones from 40 km/h.
    2. Questions Without Notice
  11. Closed Meeting (Applications for leave, contractual matter)