QUESTION 1 … Addressed to the Mayor and all Councillors

Against the background of:

The TASCAT determination directing City of Launceston Council to approve the building of the multidimensional project on the site of the Paterson Street Central Carpark; and
The various legal challenges, in the cause of accountability and transparency; and
In accord with Council’s stated Vision, Purpose and Values;

will Council now present to the city’s residents and ratepayers with a full report of all the legal costs, that they have funded via their rates, that are relevant to all the legal cases Council was a party to in any way relative to this site and this Council’s planning initiative?

QUESTION 2 … Addressed to the Mayor and all Councillors

Against the background of:

Launcestonians, Tasmanians and indeed Australians facing housing stress; and
The paucity of outcomes thus far relative to Council’s establishment of its ‘homelessness action committee’ in April 2022; and
Community perceptions that Council is less than empathetic in regard to so-called ‘homeless people’ experiencing housing stress; and
The city’s housing crisis showing every possibility of expanding in the short to medium term;

will Council now reconsider its past strategies relative to dealing with the city’s housing crisis by initiating a Citizen’s Assembly/Jury with a randomly appointed membership that reports openly to, and engages with, Council, Government, and the wider community?

QUESTION 3 … Addressed to the Mayor and all Councillors

Against the background of:

Launceston’s ‘Waste Management Centre’ being a locality where resources are delivered to be undervalued and typically wasted; and
Launceston’s ratepayers are funding a loss making cost centre that is not meeting appropriate 21^st C performance criteria despite Council’s declaration of a Climate Emergency; and
Launceston remaining committed to an outmoded and expensive ‘land fill strategy’ to dispose of what is deemed to be ‘waste’; and