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Council Record

Ordinary council meeting, 24 February 2025

Ordinary council meeting

24 February 2025

23 agenda items · 25 motions · 23 with recorded votes · 2 declared conflicts of interest · 2 recorded chamber movements · 2 closed-session items

Minutes Agenda

Page numbers beside each item are pages of this document, and each opens it there.

Present
Cr Michael Gobel · Cr Michelle Cowan · Cr Cassie Aldridge · Cr Libby Hall · Cr Josh Knight · Cr Olga Quilty · Cr Hannah Seymour
Officers in attendance
Ms D Vlekkert, Acting Chief Executive Officer · Ms S Hogg, Acting Director Community and Corporate · Mr L Schultz, Director Infrastructure and Growth
Venue
the Council Chamber at 104 Hovell St, Wodonga as minuted
Opened
6pm, closed 9.05pm

Agenda

1 Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country No items recorded
2 Apologies, leave of absence, and attendance by electronic means No items recorded
3 Good Governance Pledge No items recorded
4 Declaration of conflict of interest No items recorded
5 Confirmation of minutes from previous meeting 1 item · 2 motions · 2 recorded votes
6 Question time No items recorded

The minutes record that no question was submitted to this meeting.

7 Petitions 1 item · 1 motion · 1 recorded vote
8 Delegates reports No items recorded
9 Reports for determination 12 items · 19 motions · 17 recorded votes
10 Reports for noting No items recorded
11 Reports for information 5 items
12 Notices of motion No items recorded
13 General business No items recorded
14 Urgent business No items recorded
15 Confidential business 3 items · 1 motion · 1 recorded vote

The topic and the ground council cited, as published in the open minutes. Wodonga Wire does not hold the content of a confidential item and does not seek it.

16 Confidential urgent business No items recorded
17 Close of meeting 1 item · 2 motions · 2 recorded votes

Conflicts of interest declared

  • Cr Michelle Cowan declared a material conflict of interest in item 9.3.

    Council recorded the nature of the interest as: the report deals with Cr Cowan's request to attend the Victorian Convention of Councillors.

  • Cr Michelle Cowan declared a conflict of interest in item 9.3.

    The minutes record the declaration but not its nature.

Chamber movements recorded

Who the minutes record leaving the chamber and returning, in the order stated. Declaring an interest and leaving the room are separate facts, and this site does not state why anyone left.

  • Cr Michelle Cowan left the meeting at 7.17pm, recorded at item 9.3.

    Conflict of interest disclosure Prior to the commencement of item 9.3 Cr Cowan disclosed a conflict of interest in that item, the details of which are recorded in these minutes at item 4. Cr Cowan left the meeting at 7.17pm

    Minutes, page 11.

  • Cr Michelle Cowan returned to the meeting at 7.21pm, recorded at item 9.3.

    Cr Cowan returned to the meeting room at 7.21pm after the resolution for item 9.3 was carried

    Minutes, page 11.

Minutes from this period publish the vote count and name how each councillor voted.

Meeting closed 9.05pm. Minutes

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Wodonga Council
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Minutes as published, 22 pages
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