2016-08-09 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                            9 AUGUST 2016


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                              RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                          CURRENT PRIORITIES                           THE NEXT QUARTER
                                                    worked to develop HR policies and            LG Awards.                                   currently in place mean that
                                                    resolve minor workplace issues.                                                           unknown timeframes and award
                                                  A 2% administrative pay increase to                                                       changes are still a concern.
                                                    staff.
Business as Usual activities                      Managers and Directors have                Partnering with Managers to develop     Continued advice and support to internal
                                                    received advice and coaching on              effective teams and a happy safe        customers.
                                                    many staff matters including WHS,            working environment.
                                                    training needs, performance
                                                    improvement, position redesigns and
                                                    service review considerations.

Community Engagement
Second Community Jury                             Provide communications support in          Providing communications support in        Communications support for waste
                                                    the implementation phases of the             relation to community jury actions.          roll-out of green bins to new
                                                    outcomes of both juries, particularly                                                     properties in urban areas and overall
                                                    waste.                                                                                    Towards Zero Waste campaign
                                                                                                                                            Communications support for any
                                                                                                                                              actions regarding future of Noosa
                                                                                                                                              River management
Review & update all CE & media policies,          Commenced review of CE                     Finalise review and work with              Assist upcoming CE project teams
Framework, Toolkit, guidelines and templates        Framework and policies and                   current project teams with use of CE         with use of CE planning templates
                                                    procedures.                                  project plan template and other tools        and guidelines.
                                                                                                 and guidelines.
Website content, navigation, look & feel,         Worked with Procurement to build           Continue to oversee new content            Work with ICT to identify
updating and improvement                            new section of the website for               approvals and liaising with LGAQ on          opportunities for improvements to
                                                    Procurement including Vendorpanel            behalf of Council’s web authors &            the website and participate in the
                                                    Marketplace.                                 creating new content.                        development of a Digital Culture as
                                                  Created new landing tiles and              Continue to work with departments            part of the Digital Culture team.
                                                    reordered for improved navigation            to resolve content issues; create          Continue to work with departments
                                                    Aged & Disability Services/Noosa             new content improve navigability             to resolve content issues; create
                                                    Community Support, Business and              and look and feel and make the               new content improve navigability
                                                    Economy, and Planning.                       website as customer-friendly as              and look and feel and make the
                                                  Created new web pages for Flying             possible.                                    website as customer-friendly as
                                                    Foxes and Koalas.                                                                         possible.
                                                  Oversaw content approvals and
                                                    managed website issues/changes
                                                    with LGAQ.



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