CATC 4Th Meeting Minutes (2016-2019)
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Minutes of the 4th Meeting of Community Affairs and Tourism Development Committee (CATC) under Southern District Council (2016-2019) (SDC) Date : 11 July 2016 Time : 2:30 p.m. Venue : SDC Conference Room Present: Mr CHU Ching-hong, JP (Chairman of SDC) Mr CHAN Fu-ming, MH (Vice-Chairman of SDC) Ms LAM Yuk-chun, MH (Chairlady of CATC) Ms CHAN Judy Kapui (Vice-Chairlady of CATC) Mr AU Lap-sing, MH Mr CHAI Man-hon Mrs CHAN LEE Pui-ying Ms CHEUNG Sik-yung, MH Mr CHU Lap-wai Mr LAM Kai-fai, MH Mr LO Kin-hei Dr MAK TSE How-ling, Ada, MH Mr TSUI Yuen-wa Ms YAM Pauline Mr Paul ZIMMERMAN Mr CHUNG Ho-fai Ms LUI Sze-mei, Fanny Absent with Apologies: Mr AU Nok-hin Mr CHAN Chi-ho Mr CEHUNG Hon-fan, Alex Mr SHUM Wai-chuen 1 Secretary: Miss CHEN Pui-ling, Catherine Executive Officer (District Council)1, Southern District Office, Home Affairs Department In Attendance: Mr CHOW Chor-tim, JP District Officer (Southern), Home Affairs Department Miss TSE Nga-lap, Lilian Assistant District Officer (Southern), Home Affairs Department Ms YIP Wai-see, Priscilla Senior Executive Officer (District Council), Southern District Office, Home Affairs Department Ms LEE Hoi-yee, Wendy Acting District Social Welfare Officer 3, (Central Western, Southern and Islands), Social Welfare Department Mr KUNG Ho-yuen Chief Health Inspector 1, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department Ms WONG Ka-wai Senior Health Inspector (Cleansing/Pest Control), Food and Environmental Hygiene Department Mr HO Kin-shing, Billy Western District Neighbourhood Police for agenda Co-ordinator, Hong Kong Police Force item 3 Mr CHEUK Kwan-kin Marine Officer / Pollution Control Unit, Marine Department for agenda Mr CHEUNG Wai-hung Marine Inspector I / Pollution Control items 4 & 5 Unit, Marine Department Mr CHAN Wai-chung, Christopher Acting Senior Environmental Protection Officer (Water Policy and Science)5, Environmental Protection Department for agenda item 4 Mr CHEUNG Wing-keung, Wicky District Leisure Manager (Southern), Leisure and Cultural Services Department 2 Mr CHAN Yiu-wing, Louis Environmental Protection Officer for agenda (Regional South)31, Environmental item 5 Protection Department Opening Remarks: The Chairlady welcomed Members and regular government representatives to the meeting. 2. The Chairlady asked Members to note that Mr AU Nok-hin and Co-opted Members Mr CHEUNG Hon-fan and Mr CHAN Chi-ho were unable to attend the meeting because of other engagements, whereas Mr SHUM Wai-chuen was absent due to sickness. 3. The Chairlady extended welcome to Co-opted Members Ms LUI Sze-mei and Mr CHUNG Ho-fai newly on board. She called on them to bring their potential into full play through active participation in the discussion. Part I – Matters Discussed Agenda Item 1: Confirmation of the Draft Minutes of the 3rd CATC Meeting Held on 16 May 2016 4. As Members had not put forward any amendment proposals, the draft minutes of the 3rd CATC meeting held on 16 May 2016 were confirmed by the Committee. Agenda Item 2: Applications for SDC Fund Recommended by the Working Group on Vetting (CATC Paper No. 37/2016) (Mr CHU Lap-wai and Mrs CHAN LEE Pui-ying joined the meeting at 2:35 p.m. and 2:37 p.m. respectively.) 3 5. The Chairlady asked Members who had not attended the 3rd meeting of the Working Group on Vetting (WGV) to fill out the Declaration of Interests. Details of the Members’ declaration of interests were given at Annex 1. 6. The Secretariat had received 57 applications for SDC funds (at Annexes 1 to 14 to the paper) at a total amount of $2,242,630 under “District fight crime activities”, “Civic education programme”, “Promotion of healthy city and safe community project”, “Elderly Commission - Funding Scheme for Age-friendly Community”, “Cantonese Operatic Song-oriented activities”, “Activities organised by Southern District Joint Schools Conference”, “District community involvement projects”, “Activities to promote community inclusion and care”, “Activities to promote environmental protection and hygiene”, “Promotion of women activities”, “Celebrations for the Reunification of Hong Kong/National Day”, “Fire-prevention programme”, “Arts and cultural promotion activities - Dedicated fund for Southern District Arts and Culture Association” and “Large-scale community involvement projects”. 7. WGV had considered the above applications at its 3rd meeting on 27 June 2016, and its recommendations were provided in the Vetting Recommendation Report of the 3rd WGV meeting. The total amount of recommended allocation was $2,120,057. As the applied amounts of Glass Recycling Programme for the Southern District and Winter Fiesta 2017 each exceeded $200,000 (with the applied amounts being $311,000 and $250,000, respectively), the funding application concerned would be considered at the 5th SDC meeting on 14 July 2016. Finally, the Committee endorsed the allocation for the funding applications as recommended by WGV to the Committee. Agenda Item 6: District-led Actions Scheme of the Southern District (CATC Paper No. 41/2016) (Mr CHU Ching-hong, JP and Ms YAM Pauline joined the meeting at 2:47 p.m., Mr LO Kin-hei joined the meeting at 3:03 p.m.) 8. The Chairlady remarked that Miss Lilian TSE, Assistant District Officer (Southern), needed to leave the meeting earlier for official duties. Hence, she suggested that Agenda Item 6 “District-led Actions Scheme of the Southern District” be brought forward for discussion first. 4 9 The Chairlady invited Miss Lilian TSE, Assistant District Officer (Southern), to brief the meeting on the subject agenda. 10. Miss Lilian TSE said that two of the items to be implemented under the District-led Actions Scheme (DAS), i.e. stepping up efforts to address the environmental hygiene issues of Aberdeen town centre and Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter, fell within the purview of CATC; therefore, the work progress would be reported to this Committee in future. Firstly, on stepping up efforts to address the environmental hygiene issue of Aberdeen town centre, additional resources had been provided by the Home Affairs Department to the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) for hiring two additional outsourced cleansing workers from August 2016 onwards. Focus cleansing service would be rendered at Aberdeen Old Main Street, Yue Fai Road, Shek Pai Wan Estate Lift and its adjacent area during the time from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. every day. Meanwhile, FEHD would also deploy officers to strengthen its enforcement, with a view to improving the condition of hygiene blackspots. In addition, the Southern District Office (SDO) would work with FEHD to enhance publicity and education, for example, putting up posters and banners at various hygiene blackspots, as well as issuing publicity leaflets and letters to selected shops and buildings. Site inspection would also be arranged with regard to the actual circumstances in order to enable Members to learn about the progress and effectiveness of this project item; secondly, according to the findings of initial study, the marine refuse at Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter was an issue of greater complexity, and required coordination among various department and organisations. SDO had liaised with the Marine Department (MD), Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, Drainage Services Department and Environmental Protection Department (EPD) to find a solution to tackle the pollution problem at its source. Report would be made to the Committee about the progress in due course. 11. Mr Paul ZIMMERMAN, Ms CHEUNG Sik-yung, MH, Mr LAM Kai-fai, MH, Mr CHU Lap-wai, Mr CHAN Fu-ming, MH, Mr CHAI Man-hon and Mr AU Lap-sing, MH raised the following comments and enquiries on the subject: (a) A Member showed a video clip to illustrate that styrofoam boxes had been scattered around and dumped into the sea in the vicinity of Aberdeen Wholesale Fish Market. He hoped that SDO could assist in handling the matter and make a request to the Fish Market Organisation (FMO) for improving the hygienic condition of the fish market; 5 (b) A Member proposed that additional services should be carried out by FEHD to empty rubbish bins in the fish market. Recently, a large volume of refuse had been amassed in the sea around Jumbo Kingdom. It was never in such a bad condition, and hoped that the department concerned could strengthen its action. A Member wished to know about the division of work between different departments for consideration in making the relevant proposals; (c) A Member opined that the problem should be addressed with a multi-faceted approach and practicable measures should be drawn up across the departments involved, such as changing the refuse collection time and setting a progress target in order to allow Members to keep in view of the matter; a Member further hoped that SDO could liaise with the stakeholders like the fish market, trade association and contractor as soon as possible and study how to curb the sources of marine refuse as well as improving the technology of refuse collection; (d) Several Members supported the arrangement of increasing the number of cleansing workers under the DAS; a Member also asked FEHD to provide figures on its enforcement action showing a comparison of the changes before and after the implementation of measures; (e) A Member said that there was always dumping of waste by a rag-picker near the petrol-filling station at Tung Sing Road, which had adversely affected the environment; (f) A Member said that the Government should proactively follow up the hygiene blackspots found in its “Keep Clean 2015@Hong Kong: Our Home” campaign in order to pass on the spirit of keeping Hong Kong clean. Moreover, the questions raised in this meeting should also be followed up by the Southern District Management Committee (SDMC).