{"id":5264,"date":"2020-02-26T06:10:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5264"},"modified":"2020-02-26T06:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:10:51","slug":"council-update-tuesday-25-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/26\/council-update-tuesday-25-february-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Council update Tuesday 25 February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lord Mayoral Minutes<\/strong>
\nStudyNSW website update<\/strong>
\nA Lord Mayoral Minute to\u00a0write, in partnership with the University of Newcastle, to the NSW Government Minister responsible for the StudyNSW website requesting promotion\u00a0of regional cities like Newcastle as study destinations, was supported.
\nNational Communciations Charter: A unified approach to mental health and suicide prevention<\/strong>
\nA Lord Mayoral Minute to sign Everymind’s National Communications Charter and take a leadership role\u00a0on removing the stigma of mental illness and suicide, both for our staff and across the broader community, was supported.
\nStockton Beach erosion natural disaster update<\/strong>
\nA Lord Mayoral Minute\u00a0commending\u00a0the\u00a0Stockton community and committing to a range of actions to help it\u00a0endure strains\u00a0posed by ongoing erosion issues was supported.
\nAudit and Risk Committee 2018\/19 Annual Report\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
\nCouncil voted to receive its Audit and Risk Committee\u2019s Annual Report for the 2018\/2019 financial year.
\nAdoption of outdoor trading policy<\/strong>
\nCouncil resolved to abolish outdoor trading fees across the city to encourage more outdoor dining. Aimed at encouraging more outdoor dining and activating commercial centres, the amendment to the City\u2019s Outdoor Trading Policy will save inner-city businesses $115 a year for every square metre they host patrons in outdoors, and $65\/sqm for businesses elsewhere in Newcastle.
\nNewcastle and Merewether ocean baths expressions of interest update<\/strong>
\nCouncil resolved to prepare concept-design plans for the upgrade of Newcastle and Merewether ocean baths and investigate funding sources following an unsuccessful expression of interest process to find an investment partner.
\nJanet Street, Jesmond \u2013 proposed upgrade to existing pedestrian crossing\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThe City will raise a pedestrian crossing on Janet Street, Jesmond, east of Algie Street, and extend the kerb to increase public safety.
\nDissolution of community facilities s355 committees\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
\nCouncil resolved to formally dissolve the Carrington Community Centre and Henderson Park Hall committees and formally acknowledge the contributions made by their volunteer members after both groups voluntarily stood down recently.
\nLive music strategy update
\n<\/strong>
\nCouncil received an update on the implementation of the Live Music Strategy 2019-2023. Following extensive research and engagement with both music industry stakeholders and wider community, the City has captured data and feedback that can be summarised under five key themes\u00a0for which\u00a0actions can be taken to improve the live music sector: venue management and safety, promotion, development and diversification of the music sector, conflict mitigation between live music venues and surrounding communities and definition, awareness of and expectation management of music precincts.
\nSix-Monthly Performance Report on the 2018-2022 Delivery Program (our budget 2019\/20)<\/strong>
\nCouncil received the Six-Monthly Performance Report on the 2018-2022 Delivery Program.
\nAdoption of the western corridor section 7.11 local contributions plan\u00a0<\/strong>
\nCouncil adopted the Western Corridor Local Infrastructure Contributions Plan 2013
\nTabling of pecuniary interest returns \u2013 1 November 2019 to 31 January 2020\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
\nCouncil noted the tabling of pecuniary interest returns by the CEO.
\nCouncil Chambers – City Hall\u00a0<\/strong>
\nCity Hall\u2019s Council Chambers will be opened to the public for commercial hire under a tiered pricing system that encourages both the private sector and community groups to utilise the historic facility.
\nQuarterly budget review \u2013 December<\/strong>
\nCouncil received the December Quarterly Budget Review Statement in which our works program for the 2019\/20 financial year has been increased to $99.6 million from around $85 million, with our forecasted budget surplus reduced by $3.8 million to $4.1 million.
\nExecutive monthly performance<\/strong>
\nCouncil received the Executive Monthly Performance Report for January 2020
\nNotices of Motion<\/strong>
\nOcean baths redevelopment update<\/strong>
\nA Notice of Motion noting that a Community Reference Group will now be established to inform the upgrade of Newcastle Ocean Baths was supported.
\nElectric waste management vehicles<\/strong>
\nAnother Notice of Motion, to receive a report on conversion of the City’s waste management vehicle fleet to electric vehicles, was supported.
\nNSW bushfire emergency response<\/strong>
\nA third Notice of Motion, to help neighbouring councils affected by recent bush fires with plant equipment and staff hours, was supported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lord Mayoral Minutes StudyNSW website update A Lord Mayoral Minute to\u00a0write, in partnership with the University of Newcastle, to the NSW Government Minister responsible for the StudyNSW website requesting promotion\u00a0of regional cities like Newcastle as study destinations, was supported. National Communciations Charter: A unified approach to mental health and suicide prevention A Lord Mayoral Minute … Continue reading “Council update Tuesday 25 February 2020”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}