2016-11-14 General Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                                  8 NOVEMBER 2016


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                      RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                           CURRENT PRIORITIES                           THE NEXT QUARTER
                                          Continued to build Instagram                  enhance youth participation in             Develop key set of elements for
                                            following.                                    consultations.                               public presentations to inform
                                          Created a cloud-based photo Library         Ensure that regular news feeds occur         segments of the community about
                                            - Flickr                                      on YSN to keep the interested                community engagement projects.
                                                                                          updated on all projects that are not       Develop     guidelines for use of
                                                                                          closed.                                      Council’s newsletters and Lists for
                                                                                        Ensure      transparency   with   all        promoting participation in community
                                                                                          documents associated with the public         engagement projects.
                                                                                          visible on your Say Noosa.

Business as Usual activities              Preparation of media releases and         Maintain frequency and quality of            Focus on ensuring that consultation
                                            effective communication via local           council media releases incl. social            projects are timed to maximise
                                            media outlets and social media.             media for general council business             community engagement, not overlap
                                          Supported Pest Management Plan,             and major strategies.                          and are completed according to
                                            Koala Plan, Transport Plan and            Maintain and increase reach of of              timeline requirements.
                                            Rufous Street projects.                     Council’s Facebook and Instagram.            Ensure that all consultation projects
                                          High levels of ‘liking’ for key social    Ensuring that sliders, facebook posts          use multiple tools and actively reach
                                            media posts communicating key               and Instagram posts maintain                   highly impacted but disinterested
                                            Council messages.                           currency and relevance.                        segments of the community.
                                          Commenced advertising Council jobs                                                       Extend use of Social media.
                                            on Facebook.
                                          Commenced building Instragram                                               
                                            following.
                                          Managed website approvals and
                                            work to support ICT.
                                          Liaise with depts. to improve website
                                            pages and ensure that they conform
                                            to Online writing style guide.

Economic Development
Implementation of the Local Economic    Develop Guidelines for the Economic         Formation of the Digital Reference         Industry       consultation      and
Plan                                      Development Grants Program.                   Group.                                       collaboration initiatives as per LEP
                                        Expand the scope of the Community           Development of the Economic                  Action Plan for the education, health
                                          Grants Program to include the                 Prospectus.                                  & wellbeing action plan.
                                          Economic      Development        Grant      Progress development of model for a        Recruitment of ED Manager.
                                          category, and report to Council.              One Council Approach to Business.          Project       development        and
                                        Economic Data Updated as required           Local food & beverage connections            implementation.
                                          by the Local Economic Plan.                   and promotion.


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