2015-01-12 General Committee Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 17 Noosa Council Report 2014

Chief Executive Officer’s Message
Normally in an annual report, the CEO sets out the Council’s achievements over the previous
12 months towards achieving the goals that the Council has set in its 5 year Corporate Plan. In the
context of establishing a new Council that simply does not apply, particularly given our Council did
not adopt its first Corporate Plan until 26 June 2014. However, there is still a lot that our Council
has achieved in its first 6 months of operations that can be reported on to the community.

Although Council officially began on 1 January 2014, the foundations for the new Council were set
well before that time. The Transfer Manager (Mr Peter Franks) and his small team of staff worked
tirelessly in the lead up to the commencement date to ensure that Council could begin operations
on 1 January 2014. I would like to recognise the great job that Peter and the Transfer Team did to
put in place the building blocks so Council could commence providing services to the Noosa
community from day one.

We made great progress in setting up a new organisation, establishing a sound financial footing,
and significantly improving service delivery to our community. Further details on the achievements
from the first six months are set out in this annual report. This report also sets out a lot of
information that is required to be reported as part of the Council’s statutory obligations.

As a Council, we have started well but there is still a lot to do. Our community has high
expectations of its Council and rightly so. The challenge for the future is to build on our first six
months and aim to be the best we can be for our community. This will require our Council
organisation to continually improve its performance across all of our services and activities. We
should never accept the status quo and will need to keep challenging ourselves as to how we can
deliver better services more efficiently to the Noosa community.

Ultimately, our goal is to be a Council that our community can be proud of. The Council has
established a strong base in its first six months to work towards that goal.




Brett de Chastel
Chief Executive Officer




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