Ordinary council meeting, 23 June 2025 — Council Record

Ordinary council meeting

23 June 2025

5 agenda items · 10 motions · 9 with recorded votes · 4 declared conflicts of interest · 4 recorded chamber movements

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: Mr M Hyde, Chief Executive Officer · Ms D Vlekkert, Director Community and Corporate · Mr L Schultz, Director Infrastructure and Growth
Venue: the Council Chamber at 104 Hovell St, Wodonga as minuted
Opened: 5pm, closed 6.45pm

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 No items recorded

6 Question time No items recorded

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

7 Petitions No items recorded

8 Delegates reports No items recorded

9 Reports for determination 4 items · 8 motions · 7 recorded votes

9.1 Council Plan 2025-2029 and Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2025-2029 p. 5

Recorded vote · Carried, 5–2 · Moved by Cr Josh Knight
9.2 Budget 2025–26, including a declaration of differential rates, levies, fees, and charges, Financial Plan 2025–2035 and Revenue and Rating Plan 2025– 2029 p. 6

Recorded vote · Carried, 5–2 · Moved by Cr Michelle Cowan
9.3 VGCCC Application - Huon Hill Club Ltd (trading as Club Wodonga) for approval of premises for gaming at 48 Reid Street Wodonga pp. 7–9

5 motions considered · 4 recorded votes

Outcome not recorded · Carried, 7–0 · Carried, 7–0 · Lost, 3–3 · Carried, 3–3

Interest declared by Cr Michael Gobel

Cr Michael Gobel left the meeting at 5.30pm · Cr Michael Gobel returned to the meeting at 6.16pm
9.4 Application for Community Sponsorship and Donation Program - The Man Walk p. 10

Recorded vote · Carried, 4–3 · Moved by Cr Josh Knight

Interest declared by Matt Hyde, Chief Executive Officer

Mr Hyde, Chief Executive Officer left the meeting at 6.17pm · Mr Hyde, Chief Executive Officer returned to the meeting at 6.31pm

10 Reports for noting No items recorded

11 Reports for information No items recorded

12 Notices of motion No items recorded

13 General business No items recorded

14 Urgent business 1 item · 2 motions · 2 recorded votes

What council decided

2 motions considered · 2 recorded votes

Carried, 7–0 · Carried, 7–0

15 Confidential business No items recorded

16 Confidential urgent business No items recorded

17 Close of meeting No items recorded

Conflicts of interest declared

Cr Michael Gobel declared a general conflict of interest in item 9.3.

Council recorded the nature of the interest as: Cr Gobel is a friend of one of the persons helping prepare the application.
Matt Hyde, Chief Executive Officer declared a general conflict of interest in item 9.4.

The minutes print this declaration as “CEO, Matt Hyde”; the name and role are named in the declaration and in this meeting's attendance.

Council recorded the nature of the interest as: Mr Hyde is an occasional participant in the Man Walk program.
Cr Michael Gobel declared a conflict of interest in item 9.3.

The minutes record the declaration but not its nature.
Matt Hyde, Chief Executive Officer declared a conflict of interest in item 9.4.

The minutes print this declaration as “CEO, Matt Hyde”; the name and role are named in the declaration and in this meeting's attendance.

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 Michael Gobel left the meeting at 5.30pm, recorded at item 9.3.

Conflict of interest disclosure and acting Chairperson Prior to the commencement of item 9.3 Cr Gobel disclosed a conflict of interest in that item, the details of which are recorded in these minutes at item 4. Cr Gobel left the meeting at 5.30pm

Minutes, page 7.
Cr Michael Gobel returned to the meeting at 6.16pm, recorded at item 9.3.

Cr Gobel returned to the meeting room at 6.16pm after the resolution for item 9.3 was carried

Minutes, page 7.
Mr Hyde, Chief Executive Officer left the meeting at 6.17pm, recorded at item 9.4.

Conflict of interest disclosure Prior to the commencement of item 9.4 the CEO, Matt Hyde disclosed a conflict of interest in that item, the details of which are recorded in these minutes at item 4. Mr Hyde left the meeting at 6.17pm

Minutes, page 10.
Mr Hyde, Chief Executive Officer returned to the meeting at 6.31pm, recorded at item 9.4.

Mr Hyde returned to the meeting room at 6.31pm after the resolution for item 9.4 was carried

Minutes, page 10.

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

Meeting closed 6.45pm. Minutes

About this record

Publisher: Wodonga Council
Provenance: Capture and evidence record
Read from: Minutes as published, 13 pages
Record: Automatically parsed from the published minutes

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