2020-11-10 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                            10 NOVEMBER 2020


BRANCH ACTIVITIES              RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                          CURRENT PRIORITIES                            THE NEXT QUARTER
Vector Control (Mosquitoes)       Commenced aerial control of                Continue regular aerial mosquito            Monitor salt marsh breeding areas
                                    mosquito borne diseases in salt              control in salt marsh areas at each           following rainfall & spring tidal
                                    marsh areas during the heavy wet             peak tide or coinciding with heavy            activity
                                    weather after Christmas                      rainfall events                             Conduct regular aerial treatment
                                  Dry conditions have reduced the            Limited fogging to be implemented             program for the salt marsh breeding
                                    need for regular aerial treatment of         where weather conditions prevent              areas and fogging of adult
                                    salt marsh areas that normally start         aerial control by helicopter resulting        mosquitoes with potential to transmit
                                    in September                                 in massive breeding of mosquitoes             mosquito borne illness
                                                                                 and complaints from residents               Work with our communication staff
                                                                               Ensure the program focuses on                 to improve information to public on
                                                                                 disease transmitting mosquitoes and           the treatment program. Recent
                                                                                 not nuisance pest species that do             advertising of proposed treatment
                                                                                 not transmit disease                          resulted in negative public response
                                                                                                                               to our program, despite similar
                                                                                                                               advertising being conducted prior to
                                                                                                                               each treatment for many years
Business as Usual activities      Continued to oversight COVID–19            Endeavour to implement inspections          Refine the online burial database
                                    requirements for the public and staff        of commercial swimming pools for              released to the public in January
                                    to prevent the spread of the                 annual licensing recognising the              2020that allows the public to search
                                    pandemic                                     current environment of COVID-19               for burial records online
                                  Deferred behavioural change                  and the impact it has caused to the         Development of 2020/21 Budget for
                                    program for better segregation of            accommodation industry                        both Waste and Environmental
                                    waste and recyclable material due                                                          Health including fees and charges
                                    impacted by COVID –19




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