Brisbane City Council will hold its first extraordinary closed-doors meeting in more than a decade next week to be briefed on confidential details of the 2032 Olympics Games pitch and formally vote to put itself forward as the host city.
The meeting, to be held on Tuesday, March 23, will be the first of its kind since councillors voted on Clem7 tunnel proposals in 2007, lord mayor Adrian Schrinner told reporters on Monday.
The success of the 2018 Commonwealth Games looks as if it will lead to making Brisbane an Olympic city in 2032.Credit:Mark Schiefelbein/AP
Cr Schrinner said a majority of the council would need to vote in favour of putting the city forward as host in the formal submission, to be handed to the International Olympic Committee next month.
He expected bipartisan support as both major parties were “clearly on board at all three levels of government”.
“This is a formal step, but this is also an opportunity for everyone to show their formal support for Brisbane being the host city for the 2032 Olympic Games,” he said. “This is something that the IOC will need from us next month. And this is something that we would like to seek the support of all councillors for.”
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IOC vice-president John Coates and Paralympics Australia president Jock O’Callaghan, along with state and federal government representatives, are among those slated to brief the chamber on a “whole range of confidential details” about early planning for the Games.
This would include a “sport-by-sport” breakdown of venues to be used, back-up locations and any new infrastructure plans.
Councillors will then have an opportunity to ask questions and hold a debate, before voting to sign the host contract — an action also required by the state government — before the formal bid documentation is passed to the IOC next month.
