2020-05-12 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                              12 MAY 2020


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                        RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                          CURRENT PRIORITIES                          THE NEXT QUARTER
                                                                                                                                     Commence work towards Wood-
                                                                                                                                       fired Ceramics from Cooroy
                                                                                                                                       travelling exhibition in line with
                                                                                                                                       Growing the Cultural Economy
HERITAGE - Plan and deliver key             Online cemeteries database                 Continue work on Stage 2 of Local         Complete 2019/20 Heritage Levy
Heritage Levy Initiatives & a range of        launched and live                            Heritage Register Review and                Budget Initiative projects to the
Heritage projects and programs              Stage 1 of Local Heritage Register           Citation updates                            extent possible in COVID-19
                                              Review and Citation updates                Oversee Historian-in-Residence              environment including
                                              undertaken                                   program (on modified basis due to         Increase digital content
                                            Place of Crowes and Tewantin’s               COVID-19)                                   creation/online presence during
                                              Oyster Feasts short films distributed      Assess and adjust other 2019/20             COVID-19
                                              to schools and made available                Heritage Levy budget initiative           Continue to monitor COVID-19
                                              online                                       projects to suit COVID-19 conditions        conditions in context of impacts on
                                            Australian Heritage Festival events        Adapt other business as usual               proposed 2020/21 projects
                                              planned (and cancelled due to                activities to suit COVID-19
                                              COVID-19)                                    conditions, including considering
                                            Historians-in-Residence Expression           options for delivering more online
                                              of Interest process complete and two         content in lieu of face-to-face
                                              historians appointed                         programming
Deliver capital works and facilities        Completion of Noosaville Library           Generator Connection Point to be          Progress Mobile Library
projects                                      Solar Panel project.                         installed at Cooroy Library (to             Replacement options (as above).
                                            Continued rectification of Noosaville        support Evacuation Centre                 Deliver staff training on library
                                              Library refurbishment defects                operations)                                 branches operating as Evacuation
                                              achieved. Now only one outstanding         Install solar panels on the Butter          Centres and Noosaville Library
                                              item to be rectified.                        Factory Arts Centre and undertake           hosting the post-disaster recovery
                                            Noosaville Library’s Meeting Room            identified roof repairs.
                                                                                                                                       hub.
                                              Pod installed.                                                                         Rectification of identified defects on
                                                                                         Draft Capital Works Brief for new
                                            New Adult Fiction collection layout                                                      Cooroy Library roof.
                                              implemented in Noosaville Library, in        Fire System at Cooroy in response
                                              response to community feedback.              to ongoing issues with current
                                                                                           system and significant reactive
                                                                                           maintenance costs
Business as Usual activities                Total January – March 2020:                Stocktake library collection              Preparation for scaled re-
                                              o Visitors: Library: 82,048;               CollectionHQ training in collection         instatement of Libraries & Galleries
                                                  Gallery: 8,185                           management software                         facilities and activities post COVID-
                                              o Program Attendance: Library:             Collaborate with People & Culture to        19.
                                                  2,942; Gallery: 701                      develop corporate training program

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