Cabinet date: Tuesday, 23 June 2020

COVID-19 Funding for 2020-21

Minute number:  20/221/BUD

Cabinet (Budget Committee of Cabinet) agreed to additional ACT Government appropriation for 2020-21.

• 20/221 Triple Bottom Line Assessment

Economic Recovery Package – Construction and Jobs Growth

Minute number:  20/357/BUD

Cabinet (Budget Committee of Cabinet) agreed to the Economic Recovery Package 1.3 Construction and Jobs Growth to support employment in the construction sector through short-term reductions in Lease Variation fees to encourage local construction activity.

• 20/357 Triple Bottom Line Assessment

National Partnership on HomeBuilder

Minute number:  20/385/BUD

Cabinet (Budget Committee of Cabinet) agreed the Chief Minister sign the National Partnership on HomeBuilder on behalf of the ACT Government, subject to final negotiations with the Commonwealth. This agreement will support Canberra’s residential construction sector through the COVID-19 pandemic and help Canberrans build or renovate their home.

• 20/385 Triple Bottom Line Assessment

Project Agreement for Community Health and Hospitals Australian Capital Territory Initiatives

Minute number:  19/728/BUD

Cabinet (Budget Committee of Cabinet) noted that the Minister for Health has signed the Project Agreement for the Community Health and Hospitals Program Australian Capital Territory Initiatives. Cabinet agreed the implementation of the ACT projects covered by the Project Agreement are entirely met from the funding provided by the Commonwealth and existing health resources and that all Commonwealth funding under the CHHP Agreement will be on-passed to ACT Health Directorate on top of the Health Funding Envelope.

• 19/728 Triple Bottom Line Assessment

Government Submission – House of Representatives Inquiry into Homelessness in Australia

Minute number:  20/355/CAB

Cabinet agreed to the Government Submission to the House of Representatives Inquiry into Homelessness and agreed to the submission being lodged as part of the Inquiry.

• 20/355 Triple Bottom Line Assessment

Surrender of LGCs to meet 100 per cent renewable electricity target

Minute number:  20/331/CAB

Cabinet agreed to surrender a number of large-scale generation certificates required to deliver 100 per cent renewable electricity from 1 July 2019.

• 20/331 Triple Bottom Line Assessment

Appointments

Cabinet endorsed the below appointments.

• ACT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+) Ministerial Advisory Council (Minute number: 20/161/CAB)
• Acting Judge of the ACT Supreme Court (Minute number: 20/353/CAB)
• Light Rail Project Board (Minute number: 20/305/CAB)
• Light Rail Project Board (Minute number: 20/299/CAB)
• Secure Local Jobs Code Advisory Council (Minute number: 20/358/CAB)

Under the requirements of the ACT Government Cabinet Handbook, Triple Bottom Line Assessments are not required for appointments.

Cabinet date: Friday, 26 June 2020