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Minutes of 1St Special Meeting of the Sixth Term of Wong Tai Sin District Council, HKSAR Minutes of 1st Special Meeting of the Sixth Term of Wong Tai Sin District Council, HKSAR Date: 29 January 2020 (Wednesday) and 4 February 2020 (Tuesday) Time: 3:20 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Venue: Conference Room, Wong Tai Sin District Council, 6/F, Lung Cheung Office Block, 138 Lung Cheung Road, Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon Chairman: Mr. HUI Kam-shing Vice-chairman: Mr. WONG Yat-yuk Present (According to the record on 4 February): Mr. CHAN Chun-yu WTSDC Member Mr. CHAN Kai-shun, Gary " Mr. CHAN Lee-shing " Mr. CHENG Man-kit, JC " Mr. CHENG Tsz-kin " Ms. CHEUNG Ka-yi, Kathy " Mr. CHEUNG Mau-ching " Mr. CHONG Ting-wai " Ms. KWOK Sau-ying " Miss LAU Ka-man, Carmen " Mr. LEUNG Ming-hong, Steve " Mr. MOCK Ho-chit, Sean " Ms. MOK Ka-han, Rosanda " Ms. MOK Yee-ha " Dr. SHAM Yu-hin, Eddy " Mr. SHUM Wan-wa " Mr. SZE Tak-loy " Ms. TAM Heung-man, Mandy " Mr. TANG Wai-keung " Mr. WAN Chi-chung, Hiroko " Mr. WU Chi-kin " Mr. YAU Hon-pong " Absent with Apologies: Mr. LIU Sing-lee WTSDC Member 6_DC[SM1](2020.1.29&2.4)[3]-e_r 1 In Attendance: Mr. CHAN Zhuo-xi, Daniel Acting District Officer (Wong Tai Sin) WTSDO Ms. LUI Siu-ying, Micy District Social Welfare Officer SWD (Wong Tai Sin/Sai Kung) Mrs. TANG FUNG Shuk-yin Chief Manager/Management HD (Wong Tai Sin, Tsing Yi & Tsuen Wan) Mr. KAN Hon-shing Chief Engineer/East 3 CEDD Mr. TSE Kong-wai, Eric Chief Transport Officer/Kowloon TD Mr. LEUNG Chi-fai, Stephen District Leisure Manager (Wong Tai Sin) LCSD Mr. LEUNG Chi-ming District Environmental Hygiene Superintendent FEHD (Wong Tai Sin) Ms. HON Hin-yan Senior School Development Officer (Wong Tai Sin)2 EDB Mr. Myron NG Assistant General Manager – Community Relations The Link Mr. Nick YIU Senior Manager – Community Relations " Ms. Jessica LEUNG Senior Public Relations Executive (External Affairs) MTRCL Ms. LEUNG Wai-chun, Karmen Senior Liaison Officer (1) WTSDO Ms. WONG Wai-fong, Bonnie Senior Liaison Officer (2) " Ms. TANG Kit-wah, Fanny Senior Executive Officer (District Management) " Mr. LAU Hak-keung, Eric Executive Officer I (District Council) " Secretary: Ms. FU San, Flora Senior Executive Officer (District Council) WTSDO Opening Remarks The Chairman said that the supporting services of the Secretariat was not available due to special circumstances, but this special meeting of the Wong Tai Sin District Council (“WTSDC”) would still go ahead as planned. Owing to special administrative arrangement, the starting time of this meeting would be changed from 2:30 p.m. as originally scheduled to 3:20 p.m. According to the agenda, the first agenda item of this meeting was the report of various government departments on their preventive measures taken in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, their acquisition and dissemination of the information, and their contingency plans in case of community outbreak in Wong Tai Sin District. However, as a result of the political suppression from the Home Affairs Department (“HAD”) and its request for cancellation of the meeting, no government representatives showed up, and no 6_DC[SM1](2020.1.29&2.4)[3]-e_r 2 discussion could be held on this agenda item. Separately, he said that prior to the meeting, two impromptu motions respectively put forward by Ms. MOK Ka-han, Rosanda and Mr. YAU Hon-pong were received. The motions were respectively about the views on the epidemic preventive measures and request to all execution departments for fighting the epidemic at full strength. I. Impromptu Motion: “Impromptu Motion at the Special Meeting of Wong Tai Sin District Council held on 29 January 2020 2. Ms. MOK Ka-han, Rosanda briefed the meeting on the motion (Annex I). 3. The Chairman said that this motion was moved by Ms. MOK Ka-han, Rosanda and was seconded by 18 WTSDC Members. 4. The Chairman confirmed that no amendment to the motion was put forward by Members present at the meeting. 5. The Chairman called upon Members to vote on the motion moved by Ms. MOK Ka-han, Rosanda. 6. The Chairman announced unanimous passage of the motion by Members present at the meeting and asked the Secretariat to convey the motion to the government departments concerned for follow-ups. II. Impromptu Motion: “Request to All Executive Departments for Fighting the Epidemic at Full Strength” 7. The Chairman said that prior to the meeting, a motion of request to all executive departments for fighting the epidemic at full strength moved by Mr. YAU Hon-pong was received. 8. Mr. YAU Hon-pong briefed Members on the motion (Annex II). 9. The Chairman said that this motion was moved by Mr. YAU Hon-pong and was seconded by 18 WTSDC Members. 6_DC[SM1](2020.1.29&2.4)[3]-e_r 3 10. Mr. MOCK Ho-chit, Sean supported the motion, opining that the absence of the government departments from and the unavailability of the Secretariat support for this special meeting had reflected that the executive departments were under the influence of the policy bureau. He had never seen any service delivery of frontline civil servants having been affected by political factor and believed that the absence of the government representatives and the Secretariat staff from this special meeting was the result of the policy bureau’s decision. Separately, he was concerned about the impacts of the implementation of the Government’s work-from-home arrangement for civil servants on the operation of the public rental housing (“PRH”) estate management offices, in particular, the impact of the closure of those offices on the cleanliness of and refuse disposal in the public estates. He had originally planned to enquire the representatives of the Housing Department (“HD”) at this meeting whether the Department would arrange duty staff to monitor the cleaning work of the housing estates during the government’s work-from-home period but its representative refrained from attending the meeting due to political reason. Therefore, he strongly supported the motion, opining that the executive departments should not have acted out of political considerations like the policy bureau did. Instead, they should give priority to the people’s livelihood issues and the fight against the epidemic, listen to Members’ views and provide more direct information to Members for dissemination to the residents in the district. He said that as these days many residents in the district had expressed to him their concerns on the epidemic, he hoped that the Chairman could relay the messages to various government departments although no enquiries could be made to the government departments at this meeting. Also, he hoped various government representatives could attend the next meeting to listen to the worries of the residents in the district, provide them with practical and feasible anti-epidemic measures, and join hands with Members in the fight against the epidemic. 11. Mr. CHAN Chun-yu supported the motion. He requested the frontline government departments not to rely on the policy bureau for arrangement and opined that the government’s shirking of its anti-epidemic responsibility to the frontline departments and even to some outsourced management companies was undesirable. He noted that the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (“LCSD”) had closed some recreational facilities and the Social Welfare Departments (“SWD”) had requested the social welfare organisations to consider putting a halt to some non-emergency services. However, the Government was not seen having put in place any ancillary measures for the above arrangements. The school suspension arrangement was an example. Neither did the government provide childcare services for the working families nor the Education Bureau (“EDB”) attended this meeting to answer the enquiries. He opined 6_DC[SM1](2020.1.29&2.4)[3]-e_r 4 that the Government had outsourced the anti-epidemic responsibility. It mouthed fighting with the community against the epidemic but there were neither corresponding measures nor anti-epidemic supplies. He said the Government should offer more support to the frontline departments and outsourced management companies for effective fight against the epidemic. Regarding the production of face masks by the Correctional Services Department (“CSD”), he enquired about the whereabouts of the face masks and whether the production volume would be increased. Separately, he asked whether the government had kept offering support to members of the public who still had to go out for work when the non-emergency services were suspended. Lastly, he requested CSD and the relevant departments to give a brief account of their anti- epidemic measures and distribution arrangement of anti-epidemic supplies, and hoped that the frontline departments could maintain flexibility when implementing the anti- epidemic measures. 12. Mr. WAN Chi-chung, Hiroko regretted that the representative of HD was absent from this special meeting. He said that many residents had enquired whether the soon-to-be-completed Wui Chi House of Tung Wui Estate would be used as a quarantine centre, and some even expressed that they were prepared to follow the example of Fanling residents who besieged Fai Ming Estate. Therefore, he hoped that HD could have an early clarification to dispel their worries. Separately, he said that the Hong Kong Government should follow the example of Taichung City and distribute 70 face masks to each family to address the public’s pressing need. Finally, he wished that the Government could put aside political differences and make concreted efforts in fighting the epidemic. 13. Mr. TANG Wai-keung opined that the phenomenon of panic buying for anti-epidemic supplies such as face masks and alcohol-based handrub after all was the result of people’s mistrust in the Government. Separately, he did not understand why the North District Council could hold the meeting as usual while WTSDC could not.
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