In 8 years, BCC has reduced its carbon footprint by just 7%, says Cr Massey. She calls BCC's carbon-neutrality "a facade".

She points out that carbon offsets are often dodgy, and even if you use a trustworthy source, they still allow pollution to increase.

Some other discussions on carbon offsets:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW3gaelBypY
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8zAbFKpW0

Cr Atwood talking about the upcoming opening of the $20 million upgrade to Colmslie Beach Reserve, which includes a new submarine sized for kids to play inside. Today might not be the best time to be publicly talking about that...

Cr Mackay says

Toowong's proximity to prestigious institutions like the University of Queensland, the Regatta, and the R.E., excellent public and active transport options, a wide range of local amenities, restaurants, etc. make it an ideal location for people seeking housing opportunities.

I'm not exactly sure I'd categorise the RE (N.B.: get with the times Cr Mackay, it's one syllable now!) as a "prestigious institution". A very valid statement otherwise.

Cr Johnston on her usual soapbox about stormwater drainage. She points out that just last year Cr Aderman asked for money for a memorial and he got it this year. But residents in her area have been waiting over a decade for stormwater upgrades, and still no funding.

Her amendment is voted down by the LNP and abstained from by Labor and Cr Massey.

This part really shits me.

They didn't finish debate by 5 pm, so they just stop debate here and vote on everything else. They were partway through debating article 5, with no debate whatsoever on articles 6 through 8, as well as a big long list of things read out by the Lord Mayor at the very end, including giving the CEO of Council power to set or waive any charges based on "conditions of delegation".

Cr Cassidy claims that the CBIC is paying more to Council in rent than it's generating as a dividend. CBIC being the BCC-owned organisation designed to invest to bring BCC a profit.

Cr McLachlan seems to be being uncharacteristically fair in his chairing today and yesterday...

Cr Collier points out that pool refurbishment has been cut from $12.5 million to $3.6 million. She says that you would think that, given Council's policy of cutting the price of access to pools in order to encourage far more people to go to the pool, you would invest more in the pools, not less.

thanks for the notes!

New post up, for the second meeting of the day with its new YouTube link:

https://aussie.zone/post/118251

It seems to have frozen for me, in the middle of the Lord Mayor speaking about the Short Term Accommodation Task Force.