2020-11-10 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                     10 NOVEMBER 2020


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                     RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                            CURRENT PRIORITIES                            THE NEXT QUARTER
WASTE & ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH
Waste Management Contract                Awarded the contract to develop and          Implement enhanced illegal dumping          Construction of a second
                                           produce Council’s 20-year Waste                surveillance and compliance                   weighbridge and new gatehouse at
                                           Strategy to leading Australian waste           activities utilising a grant from the         Eumundi Road Landfill and
                                           consultancy, MRA                               Queensland Government                         Resource Recovery Centre
                                         Installation of additional gas wells at      Waste officers will continue to work        Research potential service delivery
                                           Eumundi Road Landfill to enhance               closely with Cleanaway to ensure              methods to provide a bulk kerbside
                                           methane collection                             business continuity during the Covid          collection service in the future
                                                                                          pandemic                                    Complete the detailed design phase
                                                                                        Impacts on waste revenue due to               for the construction of the next waste
                                                                                          Covid to be closely monitored and             cell and expansion of the resource
                                                                                          services adapted accordingly                  recovery area at Eumundi Road
                                                                                        Review the current waste collections          Landfill
                                                                                          claim process and work with                 Officially open the new ‘Ed Shed”
                                                                                          Council’s Finance Section and the             waste education facility at Eumundi
                                                                                          contractor to streamline and improve          Road RRC
                                                                                          efficiency
Waste Levy                               Waste Levy fees being paid to State          Payment of waste levy revenue on            To work with the Rates Section on
                                           Government in accordance with                  time in accordance with legislation to        the introduction of the $5 increase to
                                           monthly invoices received                      avoid interest penalty payments               the Waste Levy from January 2021

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)        Waste officers continued to liaise           Waste Managers from the three               A separate report to be provided by
with Unity Water regarding Advanced        with stakeholders from other                   Councils to meet to discuss potential         the Waste and Environmental Health
Waste Treatment                            Councils on options going forward.             opportunities to work collaboratively         Manager to Council on the MoU

Health Inspection Program                Licensed premises inspection                 Conduct annual inspection program           Planning for reinspection of
                                           program delayed by COVID – 19                  of licensed premises where possible           industrial premises at risk of
                                           workloads however EHO’s have now               and monitor the ongoing impact of             waterways pollution
                                           completed 95% of the inspections               COVID-19                                    Continued integration of Covid safe
                                         Fees and charges for public                  Liaise with Queensland Health,                compliance workload into current
                                           swimming pool approvals complete               Public Health Unit on Covid safe              work structures
                                         Completed transition from paper                compliance for the Noosa region             Provide technical and specialist
                                           based inspection program to                  Planning to build capacity for an             advice to the community and internal
                                           electronic inspections via iPads               effective multi-agency health                 business units on Covid safe
                                                                                          response in preparedness for a                practices from a public health
                                                                                          second wave of COVID-19 on the                perspective
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