City of Canning Minutes – SMRC RRRC WCF Odour Issue – 22 June 2010
4. DECLARATION OF MEMBERS AND OFFICERS INTERESTS
Declaration of Interest
Cr Elliott SRS-191-10 – Odour Register – Regional Resource Recovery Centre – Canning Vale
Nature of Interest: My daughter lives in the area affected by the odour.
Cr Elliott sought a ruling on his interest in this item of business on the grounds that his daughter lives in the area affected by the odour. Cr Elliott withdrew from the Council Chambers at 6:02pm.
MOVED Cr Barry, Seconded Cr Morgan, that the interest declared by Cr Elliott in SRS-191-10 – Odour Register – Regional Resource Recovery Centre – Canning Vale, is common to a significant number of electors or ratepayers.
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5.4 QUESTIONS TAKEN ON NOTICE FOR MEETING HELD 22 JUNE 2010
The Chief Executive Officer received questions from Mr Colin Cromb of 164 Manning
Road, Wilson by email on Wednesday 16 June 2010 at 23.16pm (Doc ID: 1627424)
Dear Mark
Please include my Question on Notice in the Ordinary Council Meeting on 22 June 2010. The City is withdrawing from the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council on 30 June 2010. Would you please advise me re: the SMRC loan facility from the State Treasury- Question: The City’s proportion of the outstanding balance of the loan as at 30 June 2010. Answer: Executive Finance and Client Services. The following information has been provided from the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council: City of Canning Loan Liability as at 30 June 2010: RRRC Project (inc MRF) Total loan liability as at 30 June 2010 $51,326,597
Canning’s share 27.98% $14,361,181
Office Accommodation
Total loan liability as at 30 June 2010 $1,800,000
Canning’s share 20.14% $362,520
Question: The total of the loan repayments already made by the City.
Answer: Executive Finance and Client Services. As part of the loan repayment for the
RRRC, MRF project is recovered as part of the gate fee charged to Member Councils, the total loan repayment cannot be ascertain from the City records. This part of the question has been referred to the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council for an answer.
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ORDINARY COUNCIL MEETING Mayor
TUESDAY 22 JUNE 2010 Dated
My questions tonight relate to the City of Canning¡¦s Domestic Rubbish.
Question: Has the City of Canning now formally withdrawn from the SMRC, which is Southern Metropolitan Regional Council. If no when?
Mayor. Sorry I missed that can you repeat it please?
Yes, I will repeat it.
Question: Has the City of Canning now formally withdrawn from the SMRC, which is Southern Metropolitan Regional Council. If no ¡V when is it due to do so?
Answer: The Mayor. The Council has given notice that the SMRC 12 months ago and the time of the official withdrawal is going to be on midnight on 30th June 2010.
Question: Does the City of Canning, which is, being the ratepayers of the City, have to repay the $21 million, which was the City’s contribution to the SMRC’s facility, which will no longer be used by the City as a result of pressure from a small amount of rate payers and some Councillors here tonight?
Answer: The Mayor. The Council has to pay, like we all do, pay our bills and the Council is obliged to repay any outstanding debts.
I’ll remind you Mr Mayor with a question, are you aware that the Council will repay the bill? Mayor. That is what I said.
Statement: Let me finish. Are the citizens of Canning, which probably 95% of them had no input or had no problem with the SMRC problem and this Council has put us through now a $21 million dollar debt, which 95% of the City did not deserve.
Mayor. I don’t know where you got these figures from? Statement: Yes you do
Mayor: Did you wrote these questions yourself, did you write them? Can you please table those questions?
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Question: Where will the City now, the City of Canning, now take household rubbish now that the SMRC facility will not be used?
Answer: The Mayor. The Council have already made the decision and through the process of calling tenders, the award of the tender has already been let out. There is no changes what so ever for the residents of the City for the waste to be collected on a regular basis like it happens now. The residents won’t notice one bit of difference what so ever, nothing has changed.
Question: Would you please answer the question, where will the domestic rubbish be taken to?
Answer: The Mayor. It will be taken to the tenderer.
Question: All right, I will rephrase it, where will the tenderer take the City.s rubbish?
Answer: I don’t know where he’ll take it, I’m not even interested as to where he takes it, I’m only interested in the money for the ratepayers of the City.
Statement: So suddenly now you want to save money?
Mayor: Of course, for you the Ratepayer.
Question: What will it cost to deposit the rubbish at another site per tonne?
Answer: The Mayor. I wouldn’t know, I know that the SMRC charge much, much more than other organisations charge per tonne.
Statement: So as a Mayor you made a vote and you didn¡¦t know what price per tonnage it would be to.
Mayor: I just told you, that I know what we pay for SMRC, but we pay far less than any other organisations which is confidential, it is commercially confidential, and that would be reflected on your rates this coming year.
Question: What will be the cost of transporting the waste to another site?
Answer: The Mayor. It doesn¡¦t cost anything; to us it costs less to go to the site where we dispose by the tenderer than what it did before, because before time was to go to Rockingham and now we just go to Welshpool.
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ORDINARY COUNCIL MEETING Mayor
TUESDAY 22 JUNE 2010 Dated
Question: Mr Mayor, what will be the total cost to the City of Canning ratepayers, $21 Million dollars plus the tonnage fees and the totally yearly rate notice at the end of the year, what will be the increase of rate, given that we are now in debt of $21 million dollars, we now have to pay for the new Contractor to relocate the domestic rubbish for the City, what impact will that have
on the ratepayers of the City of Canning in the future, with those now increased costs that this City really doesn’t deserve.
Answer: The Mayor. You have already come to the conclusion
Statement: That¡¦s fine, I still want the question answered, Mr Mayor.
Answer: The Mayor. I am giving you the answer is that the rate payers of the City of Canning is going to benefit to the extent that this City resolved to get out of that mire. That SMRC is a complete failure, as far as this Council is concerned, so the residents are going to
benefit from it financially. Ok, you know what financial means?
Statement: Of course I do.
Mayor: How many more questions do you have there? I have another 3 or 4 people who wish to ask questions.
Question: It relates to part of the agenda, the Submission to the Minister of Environment against and its stated in part that Submission approved the appeal to the Minister for Environment against the amended licence conditions issued to the Regional Resource Centre, submitted by the City, the Chief Executive of the City of Canning, that statement is on the agenda tonight.
Are you aware that in Item B, stated that on behalf of the Rate payers and the residents a copy was forwarded of this submission to the Minister? Well, Mr Mayor I object to the that.
Answer: The Mayor. What is the question?
Question: This is the question. Are you aware that I personally object?
Mayor: You can object, the only time you can object is not in this Forum. In this forum you are given the chance to ask questions, not to debate the issue.
Question: Are you aware
Mayor: I am aware you may not be happy with it ¡V they are the facts.
Question: Thank you Mr Mayor. Are you aware that maybe some ratepayers in the City of Canning that may object to the wording in that particular paragraph, because as a Ratepayer, I do not object to what you wrote in your Submission, as a matter as fact as a ratepayer your using ratepayer and residents of City of Canning in your submission including the citizens that don’t object and I never had the opportunity to read your submission and so I object to that using the word Ratepayer.
Answer: The Mayor. The Councillors around this table including myself, this is a democratic society, the majority rules, you might object, you had every opportunity to research that, to put your input to it and I’m sorry that the time was up but it’s entirely up to you.
Question: So was it advertised then that Ratepayers could read your Submission which apparently is confidential, cause I rang around today to the government departments, so there was no really input from any Ratepayer that could read the submission the City was putting in, for us to object to the SMRC, your right this Council is democratic, but your not being democratic to the Citizens.
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13.2 EXECUTIVE ¡V STRATEGIC AND REGULATORY SERVICES
SRS-191-10 ODOUR REGISTER – REGIONAL RESOURCE RECOVERY CENTRE ¡V
CANNING VALE
(OCM: 22.06.2010; File: ECH/2/18); j:ssrpt194/eg
From: Executive Strategic and Regulatory Services ID: 80
RECOMMENDATIONS
SRS-191-10
That Report SRS-191-10 Odour Register ¡V Regional Resource Recovery Centre, Canning
Vale, be received.
SRS-192-10 COMPLAINTS REGARDING OCCUPANCY OF AGED OR DEPENDENT
HOUSING AT UNIT 6, 451 RIVERTON DRIVE EAST (LOT 6), RIVERTON
(OCM: 22.06.2010; File: 6/451 Riverton Drive East {Lot 6}; j:ssrpt201/eg
From: Strategic and Regulatory Services ID: 87
