2016-11-14 General Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                                         8 NOVEMBER 2016


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                           RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                            CURRENT PRIORITIES                           THE NEXT QUARTER

Business as Usual Activities                   On track in delivering capital works         Legislative time frames for all          Maintain 2 day & 20 day approval
                                                 projects                                       applications                               legislative timeframes.
                                               Existing preventative maintenance            Continuation      of     preventative    Maintain        existing    preventative
                                                 programmes meeting expectations                maintenance programs                       maintenance programmes for all
                                               Hastings Street fairy and Christmas          Preparing contract documentation for       Council owned buildings.
                                                 lighting contract is on track to be            Councils security services               Prepare time schedule report for
                                                 delivered by November                        Lions park tender process delivery         Heritage Department.
                                                                                                (capital works)                          Continue to monitor electronic
                                                                                              Electronic scanning of 32,000              scanning of existing building files.
                                                                                                building files                           Prepare transition of existing building
                                                                                              Identification of outstanding show         files that fall outside of Noosa region
                                                                                                causes from existing building files.       to be transferred to relevant Councils.

Civil Operations
Management of Bushland          Reserves       Review volunteer WH&S Training &             Advertising for quotes for Bushland        Successful completion of current
including coordination of       volunteer        equipment                                      Reserve Management Plans &                   Green Army Team & new team
Bushcare Groups.                               Specifications for management plans            Ecological Restorations Plans                commences
                                                 for bushland reserves at Lake                First Aid & CPR Refreshers for             Consultants engaged & commence
                                                 Cooroibah & Lake Cootharaba                    Bushcare Leaders & 2ICs                      development         of      Bushland
                                                 finalised.                                   Standardising volunteer Safety               Management Plans
                                               Specifications      for    Ecological          procedures to align with Council           Finalising action plans for Bushcare
                                                 Restorations Plans for 15 high priority                                                     Groups
                                                 reserves
                                               Reviewed the fuel load assessments
                                                 & identified priority reserves for
                                                 planned burns.

Provision of disaster response capability      Liaison with SES regarding storage of                                                     Test response capability in       the
                                                 sandbags                                                                                    annual disaster exercise
                                               Automated rainfall alerts established
                                                 in accordance with the Daintree
                                                 Disaster Plan

Manage     the  delivery of     asset           Review of Service Levels has                Finalise Service Levels & report to        Improvement of Branch processes
maintenance    services     including            commenced.        Defect evaluation            Council                                      using Council’s Works system
monitoring and review of Levels of               system developed based on hazard             Improvements to defect logging &
Service                                          ratings & hierarchy.                           asset inspections

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