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Hot potato vote 7-5 Council allows food van to operate in middle of Yeppoon • By Rhett Watson LIVINGSTONE Shire Council allowed a mobile food outlet, selling baked potatoes, to open in Hill Street, Yeppoon, this week. Going against council's chief environmental health officer Rick Thessman's report. councillors carried a motion to allow the outlet to open sevendays-a-week from 6pm to lOpm on weekdays and 6pm to 4am on weekends. In a division called by Cr Murray: Crs Kim Shields, Lloyd Webber, Duncan McDonald, Fay Owens. Kevin Hinz, Glenda Matherand John Smith voted to allow the outlet to operate ... under certain conditions. Chairman Cr Barbara Wildin, Crs Roy Wall, Hubert Murray, Keith Hinchliffe and Mike Prior voted against the motion ... saying World War III would erupt if the outlet was allowed to open. Cr John Dowie did not attend the meeting. Mr Thessman said allowing the outlet, a franchise called Wayne's Trains, to open would set a precedent "which council would find difficult to counter in the future". He gave two recommendations: one, that the application not be approved and the other, that it be approved on a three month trial with 10 conditions. Cr Kim Shields started the ball rolling by moving the second recommendation. He set the conditions as: • The mobile food outlet is to comply with the Food Hygiene Regulations 1989. • Provide hot and cold water. • Hours of operation 6pm to lOpm weekdays and 6pm to 4am weekends. • There is to be no food preparation undertaken outside of the mobile outlet. • All food matter, including potatoes, shall be stored inside the mobile outlet, or other place approved by chief environmental health officer. • The mobile outlet shall provide suitable disposal of waste water. • The outlet is to be supplied with a permanent water connection. Cr Shields' proposed motion removed the following conditions set down by Mr Thessman: • He changed the trial period from three months to six months. • Make provision for on-site toilet facilities connected to the sewerage system. • The mobile outlet shall be connected to the
sewerage system for the disposal of waste water. • Opening times from 8.30pm to 4am. • The area to be utilised, including provision for parking to be sealed to provide a dust free surface to the satisfaction of the chief environmental health officer. Cr Shields said the on-site toilet facilities clause had to be removed because the business "would not be viable if we put it on them". Seconder for the motion, Cr Webber, said they could use the public toilets in the area. "There are going to be two working in the van, so one can serve while the other goes to the public toilets." he said. "They could also make arrangements to use other business' toilets or maybe arrangements with a nearby house." Cr Wildin said they would be starting World War HI by passing the application. She said there would be an incredible outcry from existing businesses because of the conditions council had put on them. "A lot of businesses in Yeppoon probably could have done better if we had not enforced our regulations, but they have already done the work." she said. Cr Murray said the applicant would have an unfair advantage over local businesses. "People who own shops in the area have to pay for thei r shop fronts and have to supply toilets. They are also helping the community." he said. "Not having to provide a toilet is preferential treatment." He said the six month trial period was also too long and three months would be tine. Cr Shields said council could look at the outlet after the period and decide to make them put in toilets then. He also said if there were any breaches of the conditions then approval could be withdraWn immediately. "My recommendation is based on a desire to support private enterprise and to give them some breathing space in the initial time to decide whether a business is viable," he said. "We are just providing a new business with an incentive," he said. Cr Wildin asked if he was prepared to do that with everyone. Cr Webber said: "I belieYe we should give every
• ABOVE: Allan Twidale, Tropical Pine Fest charity princess Rachel Twidale an Nata ie Pengilly had a great time at Rachel's Hawaiian Night at the Pacific Hotel on Saturday night. All money raised on the night went to Yeppoon Kindergarten.
$368,000 for health centre INVESTIGATIONS have begun in Yeppoon to establish a new $368.000 community health centre to be ready early next year. Preliminary planning to find out whether a new building or existi ng building can be used are already underway. The centre's funding was announced by State Cabinet this week. It is part of the State Government's first year schedule in a 10-year Hospital Re- building Programme. The new centre will replace the existing community health centre at the Como Units on the beachfront in Anzac Parade. No plans have been announced for any funding to the Yeppoon Base Hospital. Central Queensland Regional Health community information officer Jacqui Ewart said no
decision had been made whether to build new premises or renovate an existing facility. She said the new community health centre was in response to an increasing swing by people to preventative treatment rather than hospitals. "People are coming to community health centres to try and prevent problems getting to the hospital stage," she said. Ewart said there were no current plans for any funding to the hospital although the department kept a constant watch on community demands. The new centre will offer an expanded range of health services including community health promotion, child care, alcohol and drug services, women's health, counselling, support groups, referrals and social work.
FREEDOM COSTS $30 AT COUNCIL FREEDOM of Information has hit Livingstone Shire and people wanting information to do with council can start asking from this week. The Act may be called freedom of information but if you want general information you have to pay $30. and 50 cents per page for photocopying. If the information is relative to personal affairs there is no charge. Discussing the Act this week, councillors discovered their personal diaries per-
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mining to council and correspondence to or by elected members can be required forexamination if requested. Jokingly, some counc illors said they would now have to burn their diaries but Cr Roy Wall said they were behind him ... "I've been doing it for years". Council officers Key Lloyd, Bob Murray and Kevin O'Brien attended a two-day workshop organ-. ised by the Local Government Association on the
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Freedorrof Information Act. In a report, Mr Lloyd said, tape recordings of meetings should be erased once minutes were confirmed at the subsequent meeting. Apparently council keeps the tapes up to six months then copies over them. One councillor said they wouldn't be needed because council always had the minutes. Another said if council kept the tapes. people
could ask for one through the FOI Act. Council "would be stuck copying tapes as well". Council will review the matter at a later stage. Members moved that the shire clerk or the. person acting in that position at the time be the decision-maker. An applicant has the right of appeal, both internally and externally, if not satisfied with the determination of an application.
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