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Cr Johnston brings a motion to abolish the Better Suburbs Initiative Board, a secretive board that enables developers to lobby directly to Council. The board is unelected, appointed by the Lord Mayor and made up of ex-LNP members and property developers, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. The reports and projects they endorse are not taken to Council, the meetings of this board are not available to the public. It happens completely separate to the usual public consultation processes. There is no transparency or accountability in how it functions.
Cr Massey speaks in strong support of it. Labor speaks in support of it. (“It” being “the motion to abolish this board”.)
The LNP prefers to go and blame Labor for some long-past administration’s actions, and to make lies about Cr Johnston and Cr Massey’s stance, and to use the Chair to force Cr Johnston into retracting statements. They will be voting down this motion shortly.
Far out, that’s dodgy. Thanks as always for posting these notes.
Cr Johnston seems to slip up. “The 800…oops, the hundreds of thousands of dollars”. Not clear if this was a slip of memory, or if she accidentally revealed a figure that is Commercial In Confidence (and which Councillors are allowed to know, but not mention in public).
She says the hundreds of thousands of dollars would be better spent on public housing, rather than paying the Lord Mayor’s mates.
What part would even be commercial in confidence? What a rort
To be clear, I don’t know that that’s what it was. The term commercial in confidence was never mentioned. It could have just been a slip of the tongue, or Cr Johnston briefly mixing up different things.
I imagine you’re bang on about that figure being the remuneration
Loving these write-ups!
You manage to capture the content and the vibe.
Thanks!
Fwiw on the content I leave out a lot. I only talk about the bits that are actually interesting to me, either because I care a lot about the subject matter, or I think it’s particularly unusual, or because something procedurally interesting happened (like the bullying behaviour). But a lot more gets left uncommented-on.
No worries. I don’t think anyone here is expecting a word for word transcript.
Your editorialising is part of the appeal.
I don’t really want to hear about Mr Smith and his complaints about his wheely bin.
