2017-05-09 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                9 MAY 2017


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                         RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                          CURRENT PRIORITIES                          THE NEXT QUARTER
Undertake After Hour Inspection of           No further inspections have been           Further inspections are targeted          Carry out further after hours food
Food stalls at markets                         undertaken this quarter                                                                  inspections

Conduct Recreational Water                   Monitoring has continued over the          Recreational water sampling has           Ensure monitoring program is in
monitoring program - Public Health Act         summer period and has now                    ceased for the winter period                place over the next summer months
                                               ceased.                                                                                Conduct ongoing monitoring through
                                             No recreational water problems                                                           to end of season
                                               identified this season
Business as Usual activities.                Have met with Communities staff to         Commence discussions around the           Scope the proposed Public Health
                                               discuss scoping content given work           facilitation and development of a           Management Plan report on the
                                               carried out on the social strategy           Public Health Management Plan as
                                               and sport & rec. plan                        foreshadowed in the Social Strategy.
                                                                                          Development of the 2017/18
                                                                                            operational budget

Pest Management
Conduct Aerial treatment program for         Since February we have had 4               No new treatments planned.                Carry out aerial treatments as
Vectors (of Disease)                           treatments                                 Continue to monitor until mid-May.          required
                                             Approximately 1000 hectares
                                               treated.

Aerial treatment contract for mosquito.      New contract for the next 3 seasons        Developing RFQ for the provision of       Seek quotes and allocate contract to
                                               now required                                 Helicopter aerial treatment services        appropriate business.
                                                                                            for 3 years.

Weekly Light Traps – With FTA Cards          Weekly light trapping for mosquitoes       No Detections for this period.            Trapping will be reduced to
                                               was conducted this quarter. These                                                        fortnightly over the next quarter as
                                               traps have FTA cards in them that                                                        the weather cools
                                               we send to Qld Health for testing for
                                               Ross River Fever and Barmah
                                               Forest Fever.

Monthly OVI Trapping set.                    Traps Set in Tewantin in Feb,              Testing eggs for Aedes aegypti            Trapping will continue in May, June
                                               Cooroy in March & Pomona in April.           vectors of Zika and Dengue.                 and July. Areas include Cooran, Kin
                                             Ovi traps collect mozzie eggs which         Tewantin was clear and Cooroy was          Kin and Boreen Point.
                                               we send to Qld Health for testing.           clear, currently traps in Pomona.
                                               We testing for Aedes aegypti
                                               (Vectors of Dengue and Zika)


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