BY Kerri-Anne Mesner
CONFUSION by residents over what the name of the General Purpose Advisory Committee (GPAC) meant has led Brimbank City Council to rename the committee – one of many changes made on Tuesday night.
Brimbank councillors met at the council’s chambers on Tuesday night for a special council meeting to make changes to the appointment of councillors to committees, appoint councillors to new committees and to rename GPAC to the Brimbank Advisory Committee (BAC).
Cr Natalie Suleyman said residents had been getting confused over what the GPAC was about and by renaming it the BAC, its role should be clearer.
The committee hears from objectors and applicants in relation to planning permits or amendments, petitioners and people who have made a written submission for items to be put out for community consultation.
Another change made at the meeting included appointing two councillors to the newly formed Service Delivery and Performance Review Committee – Cr Kathryn Eriksson and Cr Ken Capar.
Cr Marilyn Zukalski has picked up six committees, Cr Capar six, Cr Eriksson two, Cr Anthony Abate two and Cr Suleyman five.
However, Cr Margaret Giudice lost seven, Cr Troy Atanasovski three, Cr Jenny Barboza four and Cr Miles Dymott two.
Cr Giudice and Cr Dymott questioned some of the changes where there would no longer be council representatives on certain committees – particularly LeadWest and Healthy Active Brimbank Project Group.
LeadWest, an organisation expected to plan and create a sustainable future for the wellbeing of communities in the West, was created after the Western Melbourne Regional Economic Development Organisation went bust in February 2005 after nearly 10 years.
Cr Giudice was selected to represent Brimbank City Council as a member of the not-for-profit company LeadWest, which is governed by a board of directors.
Members are made up from councils of Melbourne’s West and organisations whose operations are based in the region.
