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31 July 2016 Banjup Residents Group 1

BANJUP RESIDENTS GROUP

General Meeting

31 July 2016

31 July 2016 Banjup Residents Group 2

Guests today include:

Apologies

• Members

– Wendy Jenkin – Rita Zuks

• Non-Members

– Joe Francis MLA – Mayor Logan Howlett – Deputy Mayor Carol Reeve-Fowkes – Cllr Steve Portelli – Cllr Chamonix Terblanche

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Agenda

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Confirmation of Minutes of 13 March General Meeting

• Minutes posted on BRG web site

– No comments received

• Motion:

– The BRG accepts the Minutes of the General Meeting held on 13 March 2016 as a true and accurate record

• Vote

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Financial Position Coco Franklin

• Treasurer

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Financial Position – 31 July 2016

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Acceptance of Financial Position

• Motion:

– The BRG accepts the Financial Position as reported

• Vote

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Civility and Communications Protocols David Beckwith

3:05

Committee proposes formalising our Group’s good behaviours

• Many organisations have:

– Code of Conduct – Meeting Rules – Correspondence Rules

• Committee proposes Civility and

Communications Protocols

– Non-binding – Just common sense and good manners

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At BRG meetings this is what we do anyway

• Listen to others
• Think the best of
• thers
• Be inclusive
• Build co-operation
• Do not speak ill
• Give and accept

compliments

• Apologise earnestly
• Accept and give

constructive criticism

• Gently remind others

to be considerate

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All BRG communications must be approved beforehand by the Committee

• All communications must be civil

– Emails – Letters – Flyers – Telephone – Face-to-face

• Private email addresses always ‘Bcc’
• Responses must be timely

– If you don’t reply, then your agreement is assumed

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Protocols published on BRG web site

• See

http://banjup.webs.com/officebearersrules.htm

• Committee working to them
• Let us know your thoughts
• Will ask for your approval at next general

meeting

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Value for Money from City of Cockburn Ian Thurston

3:12

Cockburn uses surveys to assess its performance

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Telephone surveys of 400 residents

2 from Banjup !!

The City is the Industry Leader in 9 areas !!

Most Cockburn residents seem satisfied with value for money

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How do they know they are getting value for money?

• Sure, bins emptied and roads maintained
• Could it be done for half the cost?
• We just don’t know
• Nothing to compare it with

– No Coles vs Aldi, Swan Taxis vs Uber

• Perception survey misleading

– Used by Cockburn to justify themselves – BRG labelled troublemakers

• So, what is our perception?

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What does Cockburn do for us?

• Empty our bins
• Clear our verges
• Provide security patrols
• Power ~ 40 street lights
• Built Beenyup footpath to nowhere
• Provide library at Cockburn Central
• Provide Seniors Centre – half an hour away
• Collect $1800 from each property

31 July 2016 Banjup Residents Group 18

What has Cockburn not done for us?

• Made arbitrary, unworkable changes to fire

regime

• Ignored excessive fuel loads before Banjup fire
• Gave no help after Banjup fire
• Under-funded feral animal control
• Ignored Jandakot Road heavy traffic
• Not solved Knock Place exit
• Stuffed our rates – twice!

31 July 2016 Banjup Residents Group 19

Is Cockburn making best use of our $1800?

• Emptying bins - $458
• Patrolling streets - $67
• What do they do with the remaining $1275?
• 1/3 on constructing stuff - $425
• 2/3 on maintenance and services - $850

– Half of that is payroll - $425

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Cockburn employs 490 people

• Total payroll is $49 million

–Each employee costs $100,000

• Is Cockburn making best use of its

staff?

31 July 2016 Banjup Residents Group 21

Cockburn’s unit costs seem higher than other councils

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Metropolitan hospital with 1,500 employees has just 7 HR staff – 1 for every 214 !!

Cockburn proposed increasing rates by 3% each year

• Your Committee submitted –

– Times are tough – Inflation 1% – Don’t just pass on increased costs to captive ratepayers – Find savings within your organisation – Take 2% out of your operating costs each year

• Not ambitious !!

– Save ratepayers $30 million over 5 years – Reduce rate rises to just 1% each year

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Cockburn Directors stonewalled us

• They said “benchmarks show we are among the

most efficient”

• We said “no you are not – look at those

comparisons”

• They said “but we are different”
• We said “you can’t have it both ways”

– You can’t claim to lead the benchmarks, then dismiss them when they don’t suit

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Cockburn Councillors resisted their Directors

• Rejected 3% rise
• Voted for 2.5% rise

– $300,000 reduction – but same services

• Directors acquiesced
• Administration will make cuts

– Stationery – Contingencies – 1 graduate trainee not taken on

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No internal efficiencies !!

Cockburn had to refund rates last year

• Rolled rubbish into rates
• Claimed that rates rise was only 3.5%
• BRG showed it was twice that
• Cockburn gave most ratepayers a refund

– “Concession”

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Concession will apply again this year

• Shown as separate line on rates bill

– Only on properties with GRV over $20,690

• 99% of Banjup
• Ensures each of 40,000 Cockburn’s properties

get only 2.5% rise

• Pensioner rebate lesser of 50% or $750

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Everything keeps going up except our wages

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Source: Cockburn Rating Statements and Long Term Financial Plan extrapolations

Should we expect more from our local governments?

• WA state government looking at ‘rate capping’

– Victoria capped increases to 2.5% this year

• Past few years rates increased 6% annually
• Councils argue capping reduces money for

essential maintenance

– Unmended potholes – Peeling paint – Unheated public pools

• Blame it all on nasty state government
• Internal inefficiencies remain

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Forced cost savings always hit front line services

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We need to reduce the health budget Right! We’ll fire some nurses!

Melville and Fremantle ratepayers are petitioning Parliament for inquiry

• Better accountability of local government
• Make “value for money” vital part of reporting
• Report against tangible performance measures

– NOT woolly “perceptions”

• League tables to highlight inefficient practices

– Not just ‘cartel’ of councils comparisons – Compare against private sector

• HR staff per 100 employees
• Procurement staff per $100 million purchases

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Should Banjup and Jandakot residents join

• thers to press for better value for money?
• Motion:

– BRG members instruct their Committee to join

• ther representative groups in campaigning

for changes in local government that will deliver continuously improving value for money and accountability for ratepayers

• Vote

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Increased Water Withdrawals Dan Franklin

3:42

Hydrological extent of Water Mound different from legislated extent

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• 760 sq km – 40 metres deep

– ‘Superficial aquifer’

• 43 gigalitres taken annually

– 6% rural residents – 84% commercial use – 10% Water Corp

• Superficial aquifer rises

– Water table goes up

• Wetlands fill
• Superficial aquifer falls

– Water table falls

• Our trees suffer
• Wetlands empty

Water Corp began increasing abstractions in February

• Water Corporation allocation increased 50%

– 2.9 GL to 4.4 GL

• However…

– 2008 8 GL – 2010 5 GL – 2011 2.9 GL

• Water Corp uses water to ‘Shandy’ Jandakot water with

desalination water

• And the future?

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Groundwater is increasing part of Perth water supply

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• Rainfall decreasing, 1.4mm/yr over last 70 years
• Dams contributing almost nothing
• Perth will have 3.5 million people
• More desal plants, more groundwater but treated waste recharge

Jandakot aquifer has begun winter recharging

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So, what do we conclude?

• EPA set minimum criteria

– 3 out of 23 non-compliant

• Lots of monitoring data, seemingly transparent…but

– Abstraction data once a year – Sustainability not demonstrated – Historic / long term trend?

• Gnangarra v2?
• Are we the ‘guardians’ ?

– Keep investigating – Ask the chef to turn down the heat?

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Bin Flagging Trial Dan Franklin

3:57

Cockburn is trialling a ‘bin flagging’ system for evacuations

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Cockburn now issuing bin bags to Banjup and Jandakot

• Get yours from Cockburn Council
• “Home Evacuation Flagging”
• 9411 3444
• customer@cockburn.wa.gov.au

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Cockburn will hold Bush Fire workshop Saturday 8 October - Banjup

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Save the Date !! BRG will advise more in September

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Increased Traffic on Banjup Roads Ian Thurston

4:00

Many heavy trucks now use Liddelow Road as a ‘rat run’

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Not just sand trucks – all sorts of heavies

Now Liddelow being used as ‘Freeway By-pass’

• Freeway southbound widening by December
• Northbound widening not budgeted
• Liddelow now has through traffic of all types

– 6 am to 10 am – 3 pm to 6 pm – 5,000 vehicles per day

• But Liddelow is a ‘Local Distributor’

– “movement of traffic within local area” – <1,000 vehicles per day

31 July 2016 Banjup Residents Group 45

Traffic calming on Liddelow is long term project

• 55 houses abut Liddelow Road

– 20% all houses south of Armadale Road

• 100 other houses use Liddelow for access
• By June 2017, roundabout at Gibbs
• Eventually:

– Roundabouts at Harper, Coffey – Slow points at north and south ends

• In meantime, traffic gets heavier

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In meantime, should we restrict access to Liddelow Road?

• Long tail backs of traffic turning right
• Trial Liddelow and Armadale intersection

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– No right turn out – No right turn in – Safer – Discourage through traffic

What are the advantages and disadvantages?

• Reduced traffic
• Reduced noise
• Safer intersection
• Less tailback at

Armadale Rd

• Safer Banjup
• Inconvenience for 200

households

– More use of Tapper

• Those using Beenyup

already do

– Morning tailback at Tapper lights

• Emergency services

access

– Go round median

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What shall we resolve?

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• Motion:

– BRG members instruct their Committee to seek trialling of prohibiting right turn entry and exit at the intersection of Liddelow and Armadale Roads

• Vote

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Aircraft Noise Malcolm Wilcox

4:12

No regulation of Noise Nuisance at Jandakot

• NO standards or limits for planes or helicopters
• NO limits on the maximum noise level above houses
• NO monitoring of noise levels outside airport boundary
• Fly Neighbourly policy is voluntary
• compliance is not monitored

In effect there is no regulation or monitoring of noise or nuisance

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Airport are past masters at using legislation to defend their position

• Community complained for years about noise nuisance
• CACG only “consultative”

– No powers or authority – Local communities can be and are ignored

• Noise complaints lodged with Air Services Australia,

– ASA merely record and report – No power or authority to take action

• Tower controls aircraft only for safety reasons

– Noise nuisance not considered

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Current legislation is lop sided

• Favours aircraft operators
• Fails local communities

Residents need legislative changes for protection against noise nuisance

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Jandakot Airport is behind the times

• Cockburn Cement

– regulation, control and significant reduction in emissions as surrounding areas built up

• Claremont Showgrounds

– Speedway closed and moved to Kwinana – Big Day Out moved

• Busselton Airport

– WA EPA imposing restrictions on aircraft noise, flight areas and frequency of flights

• But for Jandakot Airport “we were here before the houses”

– More flights and more noisier private helicopters – No controls or regulation - Voluntary guidelines only

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Last meeting we urged governments to seek legislative changes

• Motion:

– The BRG requests the City of Cockburn and the WA State Government to carry through a campaign for the Commonwealth to change legislation so as to constrain aircraft to defined tracks that limit noise nuisance for 10 km around Australian airports

• Vote

Local and state governments are supportive

• Joe Francis MLA office were “fobbed off” with standard

Air Services responses

• Joe willing to put forward letter to new Commonwealth

Infrastructure Minister – but we need to make the case for him

• Cockburn Planning Director will liaise with BRG to

develop lobbying strategy City and State have limited influence over Commonwealth Legislation

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Commonwealth MPs are supportive

Covers multiple electoral areas locally and nationally – has to be a bi- partisan approach

• Senator Chris Back, Glenn Sterle, Rachel Siewert

– Member of Senate aviation inquiry 2009 – Suggests petition to Senate Estimates Committee

• Josh Wilson MHR for Fremantle

– Agreed to work with MHRs for Tangney and Burt to seek improvements

We need to put forward solid concerns / questions to raise in Senate Estimates

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Further digging needed

• Check 2009 Senate recommendations:

– Appropriate for Jandakot operations? – Implemented at Jandakot? – Follow up via CACG

• Obtain noise data from temporary monitors

– Analyse the frequency of high noise events – Compare to allowed industrial and traffic noise levels – Check against Busselton guidelines, – and any other EPA guidelines

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BRG proposes Commonwealth legislate to:

• Specify noise acceptable over residential areas
• Measure noise of each aircraft type
• Design flight tracks to keep within noise limits
• Based on aircraft noise level, limit operations by:

– Flight track – Frequency of flights – Time of day

• Monitor and enforce compliance

– Transponders in every aircraft – Permanent noise monitors – Realistic penalties for non-compliance

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We need more hands to press our case

• Volunteers needed from Jandakot and Banjup
• Who can spare a few hours a month?

– Research – Liaison with neighbours

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Planning Matters David Beckwith

4:37

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Treeby David Beckwith

GNC content with Treeby as name for Calleya

• BUT GNC wanted to include NE Banjup in

Treeby

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BRG lobbied for NE Banjup to be in Jandakot

• Cockburn Council recommended this to GNC
• Joe Francis wrote to Lands Minister in support
• GNC say they don’t consider zoning in setting

boundaries

• BRG asked in June for news of decision

– No answer

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Zoning north of Jandakot Road David Beckwith

Perth@3.5million submissions still being considered

• BRG asked in June for progress
• No answer
• Sorry

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341 Beenyup Road David Beckwith

4:45

Construction of Banjup Pagoda continues

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Property is now 3 lots

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Lot 1 Lot 2 Lot 3

Lot 1 - 10 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, 5 day rooms, 3 lifts

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55 metres 45 metres

Development of Lot 2 has been approved

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Just a usual 4 bedroom, 5 bathroom home

55 metres 45 metres

Both dwellings will be private residences – but let’s wait and see

• Owner advises that:

– He likes park benches and litter bins – Any visitors will park on the 2 driveways – No more visitor noise than other houses – Normal residential outdoor lighting

• “Dwelling” is a building for:

“permanent habitation by a single family or no more than 6 persons not of single family”

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Community Building Liane Lied-Cordruwisch

4:51

Should the BRG promote community building initiatives?

• BRG has advocated for better deals for Banjup

and Jandakot

• Should we also be building relationships in our

community?

– Men’s Shed – Gardening – Bushland management – Crafts – etc

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And finally … David Beckwith

4:55

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Is there any other business?

• 1. -
• 2. -

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When shall we meet again?

• Sunday 6 November 2016 ?

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Thank you for your time and your contributions

• Stay and talk
• Have a cool drink