2014-03-25 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda Pages 168-231

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                25 MARCH 2014


13.   NEW COUNCIL CORPORATE PLAN

Author           Chief Executive Officer, Brett de Chastel
                 Executive Office

Index            ECM/ Subject/ Corporate Planning

Attachments      Nil.



EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Council needs to prepare a new Corporate Plan before it adopts the 2014/15 Operational Plan
and Budget. A simplified form of a Corporate Plan is proposed as we “start up” our new Council.

RECOMMENDATION

That Council note the report by the Chief Executive Officer to the Planning and Organisation
Committee dated 25 March 2014 and commence the process of establishing a new Corporate
Plan for the Noosa Shire Council based on the process and approach outlined in the Chief
Executive Officer’s report.



REPORT

The purpose of this report is to outline a process and approach for the preparation of a new
Corporate Plan for our Council.

1.    Legislative Requirements

Up until 2011, Councils were required to have both a Community Plan and a Corporate Plan.
Effectively, a Community Plan was designed to be a vision/series of strategies focused on the
community rather than the Council as an organisation. The Council would then have a Corporate
Plan which outlined how it would assist the community in achieving the vision/strategy. Following
the change of State Government, the requirement for a Community Plan was removed.

This means that the corporate hierarchy for local government’s corporate planning framework is
now as set out below:




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