The 4445 meeting of the Brisbane City Council, held at City Hall, Brisbane on Tuesday 19 August 2014 at 2pm


QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN



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QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN:


(Questions of which due notice has been given are printed as supplied and are not edited)
Submitted by Councillor Victoria Newton on 14 August 2014

Q1. Could information be provided to advise of the amount of funding for ‘corporate overheads’ for ‘Roads Network Resurfacing ($60.062m)’, which for the first time is now included in Program 2 of the 2014/2015 Budget (Service 2.3.3.1 Maintain and Improve the Network)?


ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS OF WHICH DUE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN:


(Answers to questions of which due notice has been given are printed as supplied and are not edited)
Submitted by Councillor Nicole Johnston (from meeting on 12 August 2014)

Q1. Would the Lord Mayor please advise the dates of all meetings or events he and/or his staff attended with developer Cedar Woods or their representatives over the past 12 months?
A1. Lord Mayor and staff - 28 July 2014 at the Lord Mayor’s Office and met once in Melbourne as part of the Business Roadshow event organised by Brisbane Marketing during the period 27 and 28 February.
Lord Mayor’s staff only – 6 March 2014, 2 July 2014.
Q2. Would Cr Cooper please advise the dates of all meetings and/or events she or her staff attended with developer Cedar Woods or their representatives over the past 12 months?
A2. Councillor Cooper and staff – 28 July 2014 and 28 March 2014.
Councillor Cooper’s staff only – 15 April 2014, 1 July 2014.
Q3. Please provide a list by name and address of infringement notices, show cause notice and enforcement notices and any financial penalties that were issued to owners, builders or developers who partially or fully demolished character houses without approval in 2013-14? Please provide the answer in the following table.


Name

Address of Infringement/offence

Type of Infringement eg fine, show cause, enforcement

Value


A3. The information requested is not immediately available and would take an unacceptable amount of time to collate in a list within a timeframe that accords with the Meetings Local Law 2001. Retrieval and collation of the material will cause an unacceptable increase in the workload or delay in the performance of normal day to day services of Council officers.

Submitted by Councillor Nicole Johnston (from meeting on 12 August 2014)

Q1. What is the budget allocation for the Business in Brisbane newsletter for 2013-14 and under what programme number the funds are provided?
A1. $15,656.20 - Program 8.
Q2. What is the budget allocation for the Business in Brisbane newsletter for 2014-15 and under what programme number the funds are provided?
A2. This amount is listed in the Council budget which is publicly available.
Q3. Please provide the a breakdown of the following costs for edition two the Business in Brisbane July to September newsletter:

- production/graphic design

- printing

- distribution

- public relations
A3. Printing, design and distribution $12,014.20. Public relations $0.
Q4. How many Business in Brisbane newsletters are produced for each edition?
A4. 55,500.
Q5. Please provide a list of businesses and other groups that receive the Business in Brisbane newsletter?  
A5. The time taken to list all businesses in Brisbane that receive the newsletter is considered excessive and would detract from the normal day to day work of Council officers.

Submitted by Councillor Victoria Newton (from meeting on 12 August 2014)

Q1. Can information be provided to advise the amount Queensland Urban Utilities owed in loans to Council as at 30th June 2014?
A1. $1,246,432,884.51.
Q2. Can information be provided to advise the interest rate Council charged Queensland Urban Utilities for loans as at 30th June 2014?
A2. 4.98 per cent.
Q3. In the budget information session, Councillors were advised that the 2014/2015 budget supported 8,122 FTE staff and workers on contract. Councillors were advised that the 2013/2014 budget supported 8,325 FTE staff and workers on contract. Could information be provided with a synopsis of the 203 Council positions that have been reduced in this year’s budget?
A3. The majority of the reduction is in relation to contract labour and as a result of Council entering into a contract with HCL to provide IT services, this resulted in a reduction of FTE’s in the Information Services Branch. This information was disclosed during the Council consideration of the contract and has been subject to media reports.
Also, since the implementation of the bus review Council has not replaced staff who have left Brisbane Transport through natural attrition.
Q4. Can information be provided to advise how much revenue Brisbane City Council will receive from telecommunications leases on Council managed land in the 2014/15 financial year?
A4. $3,500,000.
Q5. Can information be provided to advise the amount of money allocated in the 2014/2015 budget to cleaning:

- Buses


- CityCats

- Ferries


A5. $1.1m is the approximate annual cost of products, services and labour for bus cleaning.
Cleaning for ferries and CityCats is included within the contract to operate ferry services. A specific budget for cleaning therefore cannot be provided.
Q6. Can information be provided to advise how often seats on buses, CityCats and ferries are steamed?
A6. In relation to buses, approximately once every 6 months. However, buses which are soiled or are noted by staff as requiring attention are attended to regardless of when their next upholstery clean is due.
In relation to CityCat and ferry seats, these are inspected as part of the daily cleaning activities performed by the ferry operator. Where seat/s are identified as being soiled, the vessel is taken out of service as soon as possible and the full seat/s is replaced from a pool of spare seats to minimise downtime. The removed seat/s are steam cleaned and/or re-upholstered and kept as spares ready for future seat replacements.
Q7. Can information be provided to advise the FTE of bus drivers within Brisbane Transport in the following years

- 2010/2011

- 2011/2012

- 2012/2013

- 2013/2014

- 2014/2015


A7. An answer to this question was provided last year via an answer to a question on notice. The historical data has not changed. The number of full-time equivalents for 2014-15 is 2,492.
Q8. Can information be provided to advise the twenty bus routes operated by Brisbane Transport with the highest average weekly patronage?
A8. Note: Patronage data below is based on Quarters 3 and 4 of 2013-14 period (January to June 2014). Number one is the highest.
1. 66 Inner Busway Route (UQ Lakes – RBWH)

2. 199 West End – New Farm BUZ

3. 130 Parkinson BUZ

4. 150 Browns Plains BUZ (via Garden City)

5. Blue CityGlider

6. 412 St Lucia BUZ

7. 196 Fairfield Gardens – New Farm BUZ

8. 140 Browns Plains BUZ

9. 100 Forest Lake BUZ (via Ipswich Rd)

10. 444 Moggill BUZ

11. 330 Bracken Ridge BUZ

12. 111 Eight Mile Plains BUZ

13. 333 Chermside BUZ

14. 120 Tarragindi BUZ

15. 345 Aspley BUZ

16. 340 Carseldine BUZ

17. 200 Carindale Heights BUZ

18. 222 Carindale BUZ

19. 180 Mansfield BUZ

20. 375 Bardon – Stafford City via City.
Q9. Can information be provided to advise the twenty bus routes Operated by Brisbane Transport with the lowest average weekly patronage?
A9. Note: Patronage data below is based on Quarters 3 & 4 of 2013/14 period (January to June 2014). Number one is the lowest.
Funding for Nightlink routes is provided as part of the State Government’s Safe Night Out Strategy.
It should also be noted that although the Sandgate Town Services are subject to low patronage they were considered as part of last year’s bus review and Council recommended to Translink that the routes be retained.
Changes were made to Routes 308 and 329 as part of last year’s bus review.
1. 314 Sandgate Loop

2. N310 Sandgate NightLink

3. 193 New Farm Community Route

4. N385 The Gap NightLink

5. N199 West End – New Farm NightLink

6. 308 Chermside – Toombul (Sunday Only)

7. N184 Cavendish Road NightLink

8. 313 Sandgate Loop

9. N390 Ferny Grove NightLink

10. N339 Bracken Ridge NightLink

11. N226 Wynnum NightLink

12. N111 Eight Mile Plains NightLink

13. N100 Forest Lake NightLink

14. N464 Forest Lake NightLink

15. N200 Carindale Heights NightLink

16. N130 Parkinson NightLink

17. P459 Centenary City Precincts

18. 329 Bracken Ridge to Carseldine Local Feeder

19. 312 Sandgate Loop

20. P458 Centenary City Precincts.
Q10. Can information be provided to advise the average weekly patronage for each individual bus route operated by Brisbane Transport during June 2014?  Can the data please be provided by individual bus route.
A10. The information requested is not immediately available and would take an unacceptable amount of time to collate in a list within a timeframe that accords with the Meetings Local Law 2001. Retrieval and collation of the material will cause an unacceptable increase in the workload or delay in the performance of normal day to day services of Council officers.
Q11. Can information be provided to advise of the annual patronage figures for each bus route operated by Brisbane Transport for the following financial years:


ROUTE NUMBER

2011/10

2012/11

2012/13

2013/14

















A11. The information requested is not immediately available and would take an unacceptable amount of time to collate in a list within a timeframe that accords with the Meetings Local Law 2001. Retrieval and collation of the material will cause an unacceptable increase in the workload or delay in the performance of normal day to day services of Council officers.

RISING OF COUNCIL: 5.41pm.

PRESENTED: and CONFIRMED

CHAIRMAN
Council officers in attendance:
James Withers (Senior Council and Committee Officer)

Jo Camamile (Council and Committee Officer)



Billy Peers (Personal Support Officer to the Lord Mayor and Council Orderly)



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