Division 11 Scorecard: Cr Ellie Smith's First Year, Checked Against the Minutes

By the Dayboro Community team, Thursday 13 August 2026

I read all 23 sets of Moreton Bay council meeting minutes and put them next to Cr Ellie Smith's own August report card. Here is what checks out and what slipped. Every claim says where it comes from.

Division 11 · City of Moreton Bay Division 11 Scorecard Cr Ellie Smith published her own report card in August 2026. I checked it line by line against 23 sets of official General Meeting minutes. Every claim below says where it comes from, so you can check it yourself. Won the byelection 27 Sep 2025 with 65.67% Sworn in Oct 2025, term ends at the 25 Mar 2028 election About 10 months served of roughly 30 Data current 13 Aug 2026 Meetings attended 17 of 17 Full record Every council meeting with published minutes since she was sworn in, budget special included. Minutes for the 18th (29 Jul 2026) are not published yet. Youth advisory committee 0 of 1 seated Not started Zero mentions in 23 sets of minutes. The council committee page lists no such committee. Her timeline: EOIs late 2026, seated 2027. Report card cadence 11 months, not 6 Slipped She promised a report every 6 months. The first landed at 11 months. The next is flagged for early 2027. Priorities green on outcome 2 of 8 Lagging Her own report card rates all 8 priorities green on advocacy but only 2 green on delivered outcome. My check agrees with that split. The bottom line My independent read She turns up, and the minutes prove it. Present at all 17 council meetings with published minutes since she was sworn in. She gave her first speech at the 29 Oct 2025 meeting and the Acknowledgement of Country at the 12 Jun 2026 budget special. That part of the promise, being present and visible, is delivered and checkable. The two most checkable commitments are behind. The youth advisory committee, the one campaign promise that was cleanly testable, has not appeared as a formal item in any of 23 meetings, and by her own timeline will not exist until 2027, the back half of a term that ends in March 2028. The promised 6 monthly report card slipped on its first cycle: 11 months instead of 6. The vote transparency promise is only partly checkable, and that is worth to understand. Queensland council minutes record unanimous ...