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good evening everyone I am councelor

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Denise Massoud Mayor of Whitehorse City

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council and I welcome all who have

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joined this council meeting both in

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person and

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online tonight is a special meeting

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therefore we can only consider the

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business that the meeting is called

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for as the local government elections

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are being held on Saturday the 26th of

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October we are currently in the election

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period known as

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caretaker during the election period

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there are restrictions in place that

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prevents Council from making certain

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decisions tonight's item of business is

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not a prohibited or significant item it

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is a statutory

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requirement there are also restrictions

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on councilors when speaking to the

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item for councilors that may wish to

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speak to the item I ask that you ensure

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that the requirements of council's

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election period policy are adhered

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to in accordance with council's

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governance rules the following items of

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business normally conducted at an

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ordinary council meeting will not be

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permitted for a special council meeting

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held during an election

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period this includes public question

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time

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petitions public

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submissions recision or alteration 

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motions no notices of motion or reports

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by delegates and reports on conferences

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and seminar

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attendance Council live streams Council

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meetings and a copy of the live stream

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will be available for viewing on

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council's website within 48

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hours I now formally open this special

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council meeting and will recite the

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opening and acknowledgement of

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country please stand if you are able to

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we give thanks Oh God for the men and

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women of the past whose generous

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devotion to the common good has been the

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making of our city grant that our own

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generation may build worthily on the

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foundations they have

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laid direct our minds that all we plan

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and determine is for the well-being of

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our city Amen

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Whitehorse City Council acknowledges the

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Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation

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as the traditional owners of the land we

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are meeting on and we pay our respects

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to their Elders past present and

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emerging and Aboriginal and Torres

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Strait Islanders from communities who

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may be present today please be seated

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I would now like to introduce our

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counselors commencing with councelors on

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my left Deputy Mayor counselor Andrew

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Davenport good evening and welcome

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councelor Amanda McNeill good evening

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good evening everybody and a warm

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welcome to those in the gallery and

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those listening at home councelor Trudy

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Skilbeck thank you mayor good evening

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everyone councelor Ben Stennett good

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evening everyone councelor Blair Barker

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good evening mayor and a particularly

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warm welcome and good evening to Gary

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from the Yukon that stbled across one

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of our meetings thinking he was at the

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City of Whitehorse in there and tells

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me that he watches our meetings because

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he likes the way we talk so welcome

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Gary councilor Raylene Carr

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how can I follow that but good

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evening welcome and welcome everybody

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thank you Councilor Prue Cutts good evening

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everyone and welcome

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councilor Mark Lane good evening all

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good to see you here and hello to those

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at home and councilor Tina Liu good

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evening everyone and welcome and

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councelor  Andrew Munroe

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good evening Gary I hope

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you're watching on this meeting  it's

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a very short one  and I do want to

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extend a very warm welcome to the

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members of the gallery this evening who

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have travelled much longer than this

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meeting will last and the meeting

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will be quicker than their trip

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home so we do want to acknowledge the

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regulars that have attended and keep

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it up and hopefully you'll get to see

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some of us back here in months to

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come we are also joined by the CEO and

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Senior officers I will commence with

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Chief Executive Officer Mr Simon

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McMillan evening everyone and welcome

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Jeff Green Director City

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Development Steven White Director

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Infrastructure Stuart Cann Director 

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Corporate Services

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Siobhan Sullivan executive

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manager

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transformation and Vivian Felano Manager

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Governance Integrity and also to the

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members of the governance and it

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teams we will note any apologies and

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seek a motion to accept any leave of

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absence requests are there any apologies

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for this

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evening no can I please have a counselor

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to move and second

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move okay thank you second we know there

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are no apologies we probably didn't even

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need to move and seconded did we

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okay are there any other disclosures

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of interest for items on the agenda this

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evening there being none we now move to

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the

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agenda and item 10.1 in Council 

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reports is principal approval for 2023

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2024 annual financial statements and

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performance statement I seek a mover

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happy to move mayor thank you councilor

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Skilbeck and a second happy to second

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Mayor thank you councelor Barker councelor

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Skilbeck thank you mayor councilors

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before us tonight are the audited

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accounts for the 23/24 Financial year and

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the audited performance statements for

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the same period both are in the form and

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detail that's required and both come

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approved in principle by the 16th of

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September audit and risk committee of

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council which councelor Barker and I can

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attest was a committee meeting that went

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through the accounts and other reporting

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with the finest of fine tooth combs the

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external auditors counselors have

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indicated fair and compliant accounts

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and performance statements with no

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issues and no unadjusted or material

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differences found this means very clean

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it's rare for an entity of this size to

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be found so clean with no ongoing

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matters to be resolved which also means

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we're into the current financial year

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with a very clean slate this is all an

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immense credit to officers to whom we 

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pay tribute

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tonight Whitehorse achieved an

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operating surplus of nearly 24 a half

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million which is significantly above

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expectations both when the budget was

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set and when the last formal forecast

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was done in January there were some

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unusual items late in the financial year

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these were not surprises but they were

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unusual the difference between a modest

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surplus and over 24 million was largely

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two things firstly income from

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compensation being paid to Whitehorse

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due to the Suburban Rail Loop

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Authority's acquisition of Sinot Street

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Reserve relating to the construction of

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the Burwood SRL station and secondly

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developer gifted assets from the Burwood

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brickworks development which includes

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road and drainage

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assets these are not quite the gift that

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they sound  what the developer was

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required to do was to build these assets

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and of course Council now needs to

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permanently maintain them I'm mindful

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councilors that these developer gifted

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assets are a good example of aspects of

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our operating result that are not not

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actually money in hand I think it's

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important to stress this because Whitehorse

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did not achieve cash income of 24

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million greater than expenses the Brickworks

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 component of the result is

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nonmonetary or book value if you like of

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the assets which goes through the profit

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and loss statement for Council just upon

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transfer of the assets there are also

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expenses that are not actual cash cost

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we could talk for a long time about

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depreciation but we

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won't I'm trying simply  counselors to

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bring a little coherence to financial

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statements that can look like white

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horse has more money than it needs this

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is not the

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case while our eyes have to be on

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historic audit-based reporting the real

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story is in our 10-year financial plan

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Whitehorse is in an adequate position

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but not a comfortable one the escalation

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of the costs provides  Council

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Services continues to completely

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outstrip the small escalation in income

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that rate capping provides the maths

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isn't pretty for local government on a

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long-term view and it's a long-term view

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that we most need to

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take coming to not to tonight's business

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specifically that is to approve what's

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before us in principle and after this

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chamber decision the accounts and

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performance statement go back to the

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Victorian Auditor General's office for

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certification we have had verbal

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approvement from Vargo once we have full

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approval the statements can be included

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in the 2324 year annual report to

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approve that annual report we come back

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here again on the 21st of October for a

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further special council meeting it is

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all procedural counselors but let's not

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miss the significance of the story

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behind the process and behind the

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nbers I commend the motions before us

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to the chamber thank you mayor thank you

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Councilor Skilbeck councelor Barker thank

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you mayor  and that's a really hard

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act to follow and I thank councelor

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Skilbeck for introductions she's covered

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off all the points that I the key points

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that I wanted to discuss  we should be

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incredibly proud of this Council and the

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council's preceding it and our the the

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staff that have built it because over

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the years this has been a very well-run

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organization now whilst we've had our

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differences over matters it is a it is

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strong organization and I'd like to take

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you to a couple of highlights in the

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report that I found

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interesting and and again this

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reflects  very high levels of work by

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Mr K and  Miss Clark and Mr McMillan I

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want to take you to one of the areas

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where our Revenue was up this year

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significantly that was in the interest

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earned on a lot of those monies held on

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sort of

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I don't know what you call it held on

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trust or restricted funds like when the

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state government took over the

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electricity distribution that money kept

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in a special account for specific

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purposes but that these monies have been

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 earning very good interest rates as

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the interest rates obviously hurt people

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at

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home  and I'd also like to take you to

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some of the highlights of the

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performance statement and there's some

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interesting things in there and I would

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encourage those people that are

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interested in the

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 Financial reports to have a look at

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it because where you see things

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deviations there are always notes to

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explain it and I want to take you to a

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couple that I thought were really

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instructive

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 the diversion from the diversion from

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 landfill was

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actually up but then there's the

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description of why this is the case well

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the reason this is the case is because

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of the container deposit system so

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people aren't putting their empty VB

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cans in their recycling bin rather

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they're taking them to the deposit

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systems and that's a good thing and I

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think we you also seeing there somewhere

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that we raised I think it was half a

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million dollars from those people that

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still do throw their VB cans in the

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recycle bin so we are actually

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monetizing that container deposit scheme

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even if people are paying an extra 10

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cents per can the average rate bill is

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$1,610 per property which again confirms

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we are a relatively low rating  organ

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 Council yet I also recognize that

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there is a significant nber of

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apartments in our great City that

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obviously have significantly lower

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values than some of the most grand homes

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that we have  in our great City I also

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like to  mention another part of the

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financial report that as a business

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owner is something that I look at every

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month and it's our your dsos or do sales

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outstanding in in Private Industry here

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it's how d

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and whilst they were slightly up because

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more people are parking after Co more

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people are getting parking tickets 

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our deaders are actually  well

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controlled compared to others and I'm

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not going to mention one other

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municipality in Melbourne it's not

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similar to ours they've got something

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like $24 Million worth of rates that

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haven't been paid needless to say ours

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is in the in the order of 10  the

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state government's made some further

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protections for people that are

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struggling to pay and we always want to

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work with people that are struggling to

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pay but it also shows you the level of

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diligent financial management that has

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been done by a public servants day in

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and day out and that's what makes this

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an organization we can be proud of I was

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particularly thrilled to hear  RSD

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audit the external Auditors at the last

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audit and risk committee speak about how

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clean our books were and that's a

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testament to the professionalism of the

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finance staff because we obviously don't

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do the accounting here

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 and I think a lot of that is payoff

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from the significant Investments we put

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into the the  the financial systems

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that are now working better so that the

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staff can better access those accounts

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for the Auditors so that's a an absolute

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credit to  our people and I also want

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to note can we are getting to time I

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just don't have a buzz sorry tonight

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I've forgotten about time I was just

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happily r rambling mam man  so it's a

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good set of books we should be proud of

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it we should be proud of the public

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servants that made it all happen well

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done Mr McMillan well done to your

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staff thank you are there any further

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speakers yes

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mayor over here

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Council thank you look I just wanted to

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 acknowledge  the audit and risk

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committee  offices and particularly

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our counselor counterparts  councelor

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Skilbeck and councilor Barka for their

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work  it's part of the committee as

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well for those of us who have been part

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of an audit and risk committee

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understand  it's a lot of work and the

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level  and the depth and breadth of

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docentation that you have to review 

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and absorb is substantial so certainly

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appreciate your efforts there I think

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that  the community itself provides

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assistance to us as well as counselors

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in keeping Council in check and also

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ensuring that it meets its statutory

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reporting requirements including

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presenting a true fair and accurate

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representation of council's financial

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performance and

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position it's great to see that Council

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continues to be of sound financial

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standing  despite some of the

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challenges around

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inflation  and rate capping as well

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but I have to say that it provides

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another level of assurance when we have

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the external auditor also giving us a

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tick as well and I'm always encouraged

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to see that items that are raised are

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addressed wherever possible in a very

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timely fashion so certainly happy to

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endorse the report and well done again

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to all those

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involved thank you Council Lou are there

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any further speakers thank you mayor

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councelor Monroe  thank you mayor I

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just want to mention about the  the

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Surplus that  the moving councilors

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did allude to so  I think it's

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important to note because we do get a

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bit of feedback from the community about

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the Surplus that Council makes  and it

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we're certainly in a very different

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environment than we were  prior to co

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and prior to rate capping in terms of

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the surpluses that we were able to bank

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so we could fund our Capital Works

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program so  we need to understand that

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the compensation for the  for the

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reserve part of the srl  will need to

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find  subsequent land  for that

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compensation and the transfer of the

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non-cash assets from the brick works at

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$7.2 million is not a benefit to council

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it becomes an ongoing liability  for

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us to to maintain that  what I do want

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to commend the council and the

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discipline of the councilors during the

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term  during the budgetary process in

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the offices we have got a surplus of

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around 88557 ,000 if you take out those

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other items which takes us up from just

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over $5 million to just under  $6

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million so it is a commendable effort

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but certainly that Surplus in terms of

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our capacity to fund future Capital

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works is really tight  as you would

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appreciate and as councilors know that

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every time we come to redevelop a

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sporting Pavilion after 40 or 50 years

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 probably more than half of it is new

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it's it's  gender equity in the

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toilets it's stainess steel kitchens

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things that didn't exist when we built

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just Bessa brick  Pavilions in the

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past Community expectation is much

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greater and we don't have access to to

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growth taxes and we're dependent on

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government grants to actually grow 

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from our current position and I also

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just want to conclude it is a remarkable

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result the last four budget  rate cap

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years that we've had we've gone to the

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rate cap but all of those have been

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below inflation so in the last four

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years we're 9% percentage points below

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inflation so our revenue is shrinking

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and we can't continue  on that score

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and be able to  make a surplus and if

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we're not making surpluses we're likely

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to take the council into debt we don't

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want to see that but I do commend  the

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administration on the great work that

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they've done and the discipline of

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councilors over the last Financial

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year thank you councilor Monro any

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further speakers yes ma'am Council Lane

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thank thank you mayor I really just

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wanted to reiterate a couple of the

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comments and  because it's been

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covered so well but I think councilor

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Skilbeck smed it up very well and that

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is that we're in an adequate position

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it's not necessarily a great position or

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abundance of cash but it's adequate and

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will certainly put us in a good stead

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for the coming 10 years I'd like to also

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re reiterate the thank you to the team

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for their continued work in

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administering the finances and thank m

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McMillan and the and the crew for making

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sure that the day-to-day Financial stuff

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is spot on so thank you to all involved

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so it was a good result which will help

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us over the ensuing 10 years as

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mentioned and particularly our ongoing

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commitment to community infrastructure

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spend and renewal and it it's probably

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important that we should note that all

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surpluses may are spent back in the

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community it's not as if we use it for

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for whatever else  we do invest back

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in the community with every cent we we

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can so 245 million is actually a really

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good result but keep it in perspective

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that it's an important result for the

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10year

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journey thank you Council

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Alan councilor

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mcneel sorry yes I'd like to just make a

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couple of  comments  particularly in

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terms about of U things like  payment

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of rates it's really good to see 

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Council providing  rate payers with

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more

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opportunities  to more different

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opportunities to pay their rates so that

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people who work you know need to pay

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their rates off more frequently can

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choose to do so instead of falling into

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areas I think that is a very very sound

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approach  councelor mcneel can I just

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ask that you keep to the items that are

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discussed in the report y thank you my

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that's just an aside that I wanted to to

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make but  I certainly  support the

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these reports I think  it is very

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important pardon me I've  that and in

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particularly in terms of the challenges

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that we have have ahead with  the 

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po population of boxill  anticipated

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to more than double in the next 30 years

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or thereabout so in terms of providing

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future infrastructure we are certainly

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to be challenged so in terms of I'm just

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saying in I'm just saying  given our

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future I think we are in a good good

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position at at at present and I think 

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the these  performance is  worth

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support is  strongly supported so

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given our future I think this is very

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good outcome and congratulations to all

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the officers and the audit and risk

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committee on the work that they they've

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done in this area well done thank you

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are there any further

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speakers there being none I will 

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thank actually councelor Skilbeck and

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councelor Barker for their 

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presentation on the item and acknowledge

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the great work of the officers  and

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also having been on the audit and risk

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committee for quite a nber of years

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the amount of effort that goes in  and

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is done by that committee and the

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council Representatives so thank you to

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all and I now put the motion up to the

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vote all those in

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favor carried

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unanimously so as stated at the

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beginning this is a special meeting and

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there was only one item on the agenda

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before closing the special council

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meeting I would like to advise of the

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following meetings of

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council firstly a special council

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meeting to be held on Monday the 21st of

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October

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2024 at the time of 6: p.m for

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consideration of the 2023 2024 annual

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report so a little earlier than normal

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it is at 6:

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p.m. secondly the first council meeting

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after the general election will be the

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meeting to elect the mayor and the

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deputy mayor on Monday the 18th of

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November

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2024 and finally the first ordinary

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council meeting will be held on Monday

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the 2nd of December 2024 that will be at

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the normal time of 7

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p.m. I now close this meeting at 6:50

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p.m. roughly sorry

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655 oh I'm looking at the clock up there

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yeah 6:55 on the phone the clock's be

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different  and I hope you all enjoy

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the rest of your evening and good night

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and thank you for taking the time to

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travel here and join us