{"id":6715,"date":"2020-05-26T11:58:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T11:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6715"},"modified":"2020-05-26T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T11:58:01","slug":"council-update-ordinary-council-meeting-tuesday-26-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/26\/council-update-ordinary-council-meeting-tuesday-26-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Council update: Ordinary Council Meeting Tuesday 26 May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following is a summary of resolutions from the Ordinary Council meeting of Tuesday 26 May\u00a02020. NB: it is not a full record of resolutions.
\nLord Mayoral Minutes<\/strong>
\nA Lord Mayoral Minute to extend condolences to the wife and family of former Newcastle Deputy Lord Mayor and union leader Denis Nichols upon his passing was supported.
\nAnother Lord Mayoral Minute endorsing the formation of the Climate Emergency Australia Council and continued advocacy and collaboration on climate change was supported.
\nA Lord Mayoral for City of Newcastle\u00a0to make a submission to\u00a0draft determination on prices for Hunter Water Corporation from 1 July 2020 was supported.
\nOrdinary business<\/strong>
\nAdoption of Local Strategic Planning Statement<\/strong>
\nCouncil resolved to adopt the Local Strategic Planning Statement.
\nExhibition of draft heritage strategy<\/strong>
\nCouncil voted to place the draft Heritage Strategy 2020-30 on public exhibition for 28 days.
\nAmendment to Newcastle LEP 2012 \u2013 Create new heritage item for Parkway Avenue, Newcastle<\/strong>
\nCouncil has endorsed a proposal to amend the Newcastle LEP 2012 to create a new heritage item for Parkway Avenue and will\u00a0have the\u00a0 proposal forwarded to the Department of Planning for formal recognition.
\nAdoption of the updated East End Stage One Streetscape Plan<\/strong>
\nCouncil has adopted traffic changes to the Hunter Street Newcastle East End Stage One Streetscape Plan, which now includes works between Perkins Street and Brown Street after\u00a0the block\u00a0wasn’t upgraded during the Light Rail project.
\nCrown Reserves Management \u2013 devolved land<\/strong>
\nCouncil has endorsed an application to Crown Lands to change the status of three Crown Reserves -Federal Park, Wallsend, Waratah Park and West Park Adamstown – to ensure their ongoing use for sport and recreation Plans of Managements.
\nMarch quarterly review budget review statement<\/strong>
\nCouncil received the March Quarterly Budget Review Statement.
\nExecutive monthly performance report<\/strong>
\nCouncil received the Executive Monthly Performance Report.
\nNotices of Motions<\/strong>
\nCity of Newcastle rating policy<\/strong>
\nCouncil supported a Notice of Motion to apply $2.6 million from a standard rate peg in 2020\/21 to hardship measures targeted at individual rate payers experiencing financial hardship, including due to COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/span>
\nSkilled work regional visa (491) and changes impacting City of Newcastle<\/strong>
\nAnother NOM was supported to write to the Premier, Deputy Premier and NSW Ministers requesting Newcastle and Wollongong be considered ‘regional’ for the purposes of the 491 Skilled Work Regional Visa, as per the Commonwealth definition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following is a summary of resolutions from the Ordinary Council meeting of Tuesday 26 May\u00a02020. NB: it is not a full record of resolutions. Lord Mayoral Minutes A Lord Mayoral Minute to extend condolences to the wife and family of former Newcastle Deputy Lord Mayor and union leader Denis Nichols upon his passing was supported. … Continue reading “Council update: Ordinary Council Meeting Tuesday 26 May 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-6715","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\/6715","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=6715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}