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8 March 2015 Banjup Residents Group 1

BANJUP RESIDENTS GROUP

Annual General Meeting

8 March 2015

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Guests today include:

• Mayor Logan Howlett
• Deputy Mayor Carol Reeve-Fowkes
• Cllr Yaz Mubarakai
• Shane Harris, Jandakot Fire Captain
• Snr Con Grant Pilgrim, Murdoch Police

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Apologies

• Members

– Colin Bramwell – Coco Franklin – Elizabeth Walton

• Non-Members

– Joe Francis MLA – Cllr Steve Portelli – Cllr Carol Reeve Fowkes

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Agenda

1 Formalities

15:00

2 Elections

15:08

3 Banjup Fire Anniversary

15:23

4 Local Government Reform

15:40

5 Banjup Fire Aftermath

15:48

6 Fire Regime

16:14

7 Planting Day

16:23

8 Heavy Trucks

16:38

9 Any Other Business

16:53

10 Next General Meeting

16:58

What difference did no signs make?

• Last ones stolen
• Enough flyers?
• Enough emails?
• Are Sunday afternoons OK?
• Any better times?

– Midweek?

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Confirmation of Minutes of 14 September General Meeting

• Minutes posted on BRG web site

– No comments received

• Motion:

– The BRG accepts the Minutes of the General Meeting held on 14 September 2014 as a true and accurate record

• Vote

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Financial Position Neil Raine

• Acting Treasurer

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Financial Position – 6 March 2015

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Acceptance of Financial Position

• Motion:

– The BRG accepts the Financial Position as reported

• Vote

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Elections Jemma Van Dongen

3:08

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We must hold elections for officers for 2015

• All office bearer and committee positions are

now declared vacant

• No office bearer can hold the same position for

more than one year

• We must elect:

– President – Vice President – Treasurer – Secretary – Up to 5 Committee members

Who will nominate for President?

• Colin Bramwell
• Abi Smith

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Who will nominate for Vice President?

• Ian Thurston
• Abi Smith

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Who will nominate for Secretary?

• Abi Smith

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Who will nominate for Treasurer?

• Neil Raine

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Who will be a Committee member?

• Up to 5 members
• David Beckwith
• Helen Pavitt
• Heidi Todorovic
• Jemma Van Dongen
• Erika Antal

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Thank you for volunteering

• With the new Committee’s agreement, may the
• ld Committee members report on 2014 issues?

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Banjup Fire Anniversary Neil Raine

3:23

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The Fire burned 500 hectares – 1/3 of Banjup south of Armadale Road

Gibbs Liddelow Taylor Bartram

The Fire was Cockburn’s biggest civil emergency

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TV news coverage was extensive

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Video shown at the meeting can be viewed at: http://banjup.webs.com/Banjup%20Fires/BRG%202 0140203%201200%20Banjup%20Fire%20news%2 0footage.mp4

The woodland was burned black …

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… but no houses in Banjup were lost

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The fire fighters saved our community

• Smoke too thick for helicopters to see houses
• 60 houses threatened

– All saved by men on the ground with hoses

• Magnificent effort by all fire fighters
• Not least by Jandakot Brigade

One year on, we formally mark our appreciation Come forward

• Shane Harris

– Captain of the Jandakot Brigade

• Jemma Van Dongen

– President of the Banjup Residents Group, 2014

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Banjup residents commemorate the Jandakot Brigade’s efforts last February

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Banjup residents extend their heartfelt appreciation to the members of the Jandakot Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade for their magnificent efforts to save all Banjup houses during the devastating bush fire of 3 February 2014

Jemma Van Dongen Shane Harris President, Banjup Residents Group Captain, Jandakot Brigade

Come to ANZAC Day commemoration on 25 April at Banjup Memorial Park

• Jandakot VBFB hosting ceremony
• Starts at 8:30 am
• Sausage sizzle after
• Cnr Armadale & Warton

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Murdoch Local Policing Team Snr Cons Grant Pilgrim

3:40

What are the local policing issues?

• Hoons
• Arsonists
• Speeding traffic

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Local Government Reform Implications for Banjup Ian Thurston

3:40

Kwinana, East Fremantle, South Perth voted against amalgamation

• 51% to 55% of electors turned out

– So vote was binding

• Majority of votes against amalgamation
• If “YES” voters had not voted

– turnouts would have been less than 50%

• State Government made a hash of it

– Now “run up the white flag”

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Most Cockburn voters did not care

• 62,000 voters

– 36% turnout – Vote not binding

• 18,654 against

– 83% of votes cast – 30% of registered voters

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Cockburn will remain unchanged

• Governor’s orders to be rescinded
• No boundary changes
• No rationalisations
• No October election for all councillors

– Just normal half Cockburn council election

• No debate about differences in fire control

regimes

– Cockburn – Kwinana

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Banjup Fire Aftermath Ian Thurston

3:48

Some woodland has recovered well

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No animals No habitat Returning animals Recovering habitat 500 ha

Other woodland has a long way to go

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De Young Reserve

Uncontrolled veldt grass soon builds up fuel load

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Fires more intense than 3,000 kW/metre cannot be controlled (DPaW)

Fire Intensity = Rate of Spread x Fuel Load 2 Wattleup fire spread at 500 metres / hour (30 kph wind) 3000 kW/m = 500 m/h x Fuel Load 2 Uncontrollable Fuel Load = 12 tonnes/hectare Banjup fire spread at 1000 metres/hour (40 kph wind)

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Fuel load is very high in Banjup reserves

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Reserve Tonnes / hectare Rose Shanks 15.9 Emma Treeby 29.5 Bosworth 18.2 Mather 28 Kraemer 21 Dennis de Young 29.3 Triandra 25.6

Source: City of Cockburn BRMP

24 tonnes per hectare burned in Beeliar on Thursday, 5 March

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High fuel loads attract “urban terrorists”

• Nutters have set fires around us this year
• Banjup 2014 fire was arson

– My neighbour died from exertion day after fire

• More will die

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• Byford
• Wellard
• Casurina
• Spectacles
• Wattelup
• Beeliar

What fuel reduction did Cockburn do in 2014?

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Keelty’s Review made 6 recommendations to local government in 2011 – Cockburn’s progress?

• Measure and map fuel loads
• Assess fuel loads on private properties
• Encourage fuel load management by residents
• Administer prescribed burning programs
• Use prescribed burns as exercises for Volunteer

Brigades

• Conduct prescribed burning with DFES

Cockburn has drafted a “Bush Fire Risk Management Plan”

• 10 page “Residents Guide”
• 178 page detailed Plan
• BRG made submission to Cockburn

– Extreme risks submerged in detail – No plan of action – No measurable outcomes – Misrepresentation and complacency – Neither Guide nor Plan meaningful to ratepayers

• Plan to be considered by Council soon

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Risks to Banjup homes buried deep in Cockburn’s Plan

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300 householders in south Banjup are at EXTREME risk of fire Likelihood Almost certain Threat Very high Vulnerability Moderate* Consequence Catastrophic Risk Rating Extreme 1A

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Page 56, line 14 of 100 shows “Rural Living 2”

Susceptibility to the impacts of bushfire Potential bush fire intensity

* Really?

40 assets* in Cockburn are at EXTREME risk of fire

• No plans to reduce risks
• No visibility of risks to average ratepayer
• No motivation to make us safer
• No budget allocated

– $500,000 shortfall

• Natural Area Management Strategy 2012
• BRG requested $500,000 fire budget for 2015/16

– What is Cockburn proposing, councillors?

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* Reserves, depots, fire stations, etc.

BRG recommends plans to reduce EXTREME risks be explicit and approved by Council

• Make Risk Management first agenda item

at Council meetings

– Recommended by Governance Institute of Australia, Public Sector Commission of WA

• Councillors probe and monitor plans to

reduce Extreme and Very High risks

• Progress reported in “Cockburn

Soundings”

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What shall we resolve?

• Motion:

– The BRG requests the City of Cockburn councillors Mayor present here to move a motion at their March meeting to have Risk Management an explicit item on their regular Council meeting agenda

• Vote

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Fire Control Ian Thurston

4:23

Fire permit policy all over the place

• Cockburn agreed 2 people for “Average” bonfire
• Now Cockburn says:

– “No evidence” for agreement – 3 people permit issued over phone – If Ranger visits, he can vary to 2 people – Complex flowchart published

• Has anyone had a permit issued over the

phone?

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Cockburn’s fire control regime is different from all other councils

• Why 3 people at average bonfire?

– Who has ignored those permit conditions?

• When did a bonfire last escape?
• Why permits needed June July August?
• Any permits refused because of smoke

concerns?

• Why firebreaks clear for 7 months?

– Fire season only 4 months

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Cockburn will review fire control regime in May

• Residents must be involved in making fire policy

– Need representation on Reference Group

• Children on Children’s Group
• Disabled on Disability Group
• Aboriginals on Aboriginal Group
• Residents on Fire Group
• What fire regime is best for us?
• No permits June July August
• 2 people at a bonfire less than 6 cu metres
• Fire Break Period November to April

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What shall we resolve?

• Motion:

– The BRG directs its Committee to press for these fire control arrangements:

• No permits June July August
• 2 people at a bonfire less than 6 cu metres
• Representation on Reference Group
• Vote

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Planting Day

• Revegetating Banjup

Erika Antal

4:23

The Process

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• We received 2000 seeds collected locally in Banjup Reserves

from the Department of Parks and Wildlife.

• The seeds have been selected to support local wildlife and

the endangered Carnaby Cockatoo

• Cockburn Council allocated money for us through the

Biodiversity Grant to grow the seeds at the Apace Nursery.

• Volunteers will be organised to plant them to private

properties in Banjup in the wet season.

• The revegetation is completely free of charge and all

management and paperwork is taken care of.

Seedlings

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• The seeds are in the tubes and growing well

at the nursery. November 2014 March 2015

Plants

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• CandlestickFire wood and Holly-leaved

Banksias

• Jarrah, Dwarf Sheoak and Blackbutt trees
• Cycads
• Prickly Moses, Orange Wattle, Sans

Wattle-Myrtle, Orange-Flowered Eremaea, Sperwood shrubs

• Running Postman groundcovers

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All you need to do

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• Register your interest:

Erika Antal BSc in Environmental Science SMS: 0412 949 060 email : erikaantal11@gmail.com

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Heavy Trucks on Banjup Roads Ian Thurston

4:38

Cockburn officers think heavy truck use of Banjup roads is “acceptable”

• Liddelow and Beenyup Roads are “rat runs”

– Sand trucks – Container trucks – Bin trucks – Low loaders – Cranes – Concrete mixers

• Trucks going in both directions

– Drivers ignoring Cockburn’s representations

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Liddelow classified as “Regional Distributor”

• Regional Distributor definition:

– links significant destinations – designed for efficient movement of people and goods within and beyond regional areas – managed by local government

• What is “significant” about Banjup and Wandi?

– What goods? – What people?

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Liddelow and Beenyup just “Rat Runs”

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Primary Distributor Regional Distributor Rat Run

Liddelow and Beenyup should be “Local Distributors”

• Link Primary, District, or Regional Distributors at

the boundary to side roads

– Armadale and Rowley

• Discourage through traffic

– carry traffic belonging to, or serving the area

• Accommodate buses but discourage trucks

8 March 2015 Banjup Residents Group 67 Drawn from Main Roads WA Road Hierarchy Criteria – April 2011

Local distributor can have ‘traffic calming’ measures

• Slow Points
• Chicanes
• Reduced speeds

–Trucks and Cars

• Safer for residents

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Quite clear Liddelow not a Regional Distributor

• Don’t need another traffic study to tell us

the obvious

• Traffic planners want to hold on to what

they have got

• They don’t live here
• Did we elect them?

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What shall we resolve?

• Motion:

– The BRG requests the City of Cockburn councillors Mayor present here to move a motion at their March meeting to reclassify Liddelow and Beenyup Roads as “Local Distributors”

• Vote

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And finally … Jemma Van Dongen

4:53

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Is there any other business?

• 1. 341 Beenyup Road
• 2. Jet aircraft noise
• 3. -
• 4. -

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341 Beenyup Road Ian

5:00

What is happening at 341 Beenyup Road?

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What has been approved?

• WAPC approved division of 7 ha block to 3 titles (say 2,

2, 3 ha) – Aug 2014

• Owner applied for clearance of 3 building envelopes –

Jan 2015

– Approval not yet given

• Approval given for bitumen fire break – Feb 2015
• No other approvals given
• Owner made application for landscaping, water feature,

and pavilions – 20 Feb 2015

– Not yet assessed

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What has owner done, though?

• Built expensive wall around block
• Stored 22 sea containers on site – now removed
• Cleared almost all block – mid Feb 2015
• Erected “Chinese Pavilions” – mid Feb 2015
• Stockpiled 4,500 tonnes sand

– Is it clean?

• Sand for 50x50 metre pads for 2 houses

– Biggest house in Banjup is 30x30

• Had delivered 1,900 bamboo plants – 3 Mar 2015

– To plant around perimeter

• Erected power poles and cables

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How has Cockburn responded?

• ‘Directions Notice’ to cease work immediately

– Ignored

• Daily site inspections

– But work continues after hours and at night

• Referred clearing to Dept Environment

Regulation

• Requested revegetation of native species
• No approval to plant the bamboo - yet

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Night time departures from Perth Airport Ian

5:00

‘Trial’ of night time departing flight paths

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285 nights yearly 7000 ft over Canning Vale Offset by fewer inbound flights

• ver Banjup

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When shall we meet again?

• Sunday 7 June 2015 ?

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Thank you for your time and your contributions

• Stay and talk
• Have a cool drink