2026 Budget Service Level Catalogues

 SERVICE AREA – ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & DESTINATION
 MANAGEMENT

 Summary

Objective: Connecting the community’s strong environmental values, with future focused technologies to help build
Noosa’s economic resilience and future prosperity.


Activities: Activities include ecosystem development, destination management (including major events) industry and
sector capacity building, investment attraction, enabling infrastructure and research and data analysis, as outlined in
Noosa Council’s Smart Biosphere Economic Development Strategy 2021-2030, with a focus on facilitating Noosa’s
Green Economy, including climate tech, regenerative agriculture, and the creative sector, (e.g., screen production.)

 Delivery Framework             Details

 Corporate Plan Theme           Section 3 – Prosperity
                                Section 4 – Future
 Branch Responsibility          Economic Development and Destination Management

 Legislative Responsibility     None
 Service Delivery Model         The service is delivered internally with support from external consultants and
                                suppliers as required.


 Service Inputs                      Details
 (Resources to Deliver Service)
 Physical Assets/
 Infrastructure                      None
 Software & Systems                  Council Standard
 Budget Cost Centres                 Local Economic Plan (1610)
                                     Economic Development (1612)
                                     Noosa Junction Levy (1614)
 FTE                                 4.61
 Other Key Metrics
                                      Smart Biosphere Economic Development Plan
                                      Key Stakeholders Supported including increases to:
                                          - ECDEV Grant Applications
                                          - Business Boost Applications
                                      Increase to E-newsletter Subscribers
                                      # Business Events Supported
                                      # Attendees at Business Events


 Service Outputs - Performance Measures
 Type                       Measure                          Target            Methodology / Calculation
 Efficiency                 Cost of providing the            TBD
                            economic development
                            service per business with
                            an ABN in the Shire
 Effectiveness              % of planned business            TBD               No of business development activities
                            development activities                             delivered divided by planned
                            that are delivered                                 business development activities

                                % of economic grants         TBD
                                subscribed to
                                Community and                Community         Community satisfaction tracking
                                Stakeholder Satisfaction     satisfaction      survey
                                Survey                       mean
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