2016-11-14 General Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                                       8 NOVEMBER 2016


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                           RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                          CURRENT PRIORITIES                           THE NEXT QUARTER

                                              10 Motion Tablets deployed to field         Seeking additional tablets for field
                                                crews.                                        crews
                                             Street Sweeping Level of Service
                                                reviewed in conjunction with the new
                                                contract
Identify Branch level actions within          LED street lighting proposals               Exploring emission reduction &             Participation in ZEN Action Team
Council's Carbon Reduction and Energy            submitted to ZEN Project Control             recycling opportunities through the          relating to the development of 5 year
Efficiency Plan including waste reduction        Group                                        road      resurfacing     programme          plan of works
                                                                                              including presentation to Councillors
Conduct a Branch Workforce Planning            Draft Workforce Plan prepared              Finalise Workforce Plan seek               Implement actions arising from the
Pilot project                                                                                 endorsement from Leadership Team             Workforce Plan

Management of Ringtail Quarry including        Successful    blasting    operations       Crushing blasted rock                      Renew Ringtail Quarry Site Based
associated   Stockpile  &     materials          conducted in July resulting in 15,000                                                     Management Plan.
Recycling Operations                             Blasted Cubic Metres of rock                                                            Risk training for relevant staff
                                               Auction of surplus materials netting                                                    Conduct an external business review
                                                 approx. $40,000 from sales                                                                of Ringtail Quarry operations
                                               Dedicated     Quarry      Supervisor
                                                 appointed on a temporary basis
                                                 pending business review.

Business as Usual activities                   New contracts in place for Mowing,         Refresh supply contracts for Quarry        Finalise discussions with SEQ Water
                                                 Road Resurfacing and Street                  Materials & Pre-mix Concrete                 regarding the tenure for the Noosa
                                                 Sweeping                                   Recruitment of Parks Technical               Botanic Gardens
                                               Maintenance of fire trails completed         Officer
                                                 in preparation for fire season             Tree management workshop with
                                                                                              Councillors
                                                                                            Tenders for Landscaping Contract



Infrastructure Planning & Design
Development of the Noosa Transport             Councillor workshop to identify and        Report to Council to adopt Transport       Councillor workshop to development
Strategy in conjunction with Strategic           confirm Transport Plan mission,              Policy.                                      of locality transport plans and
Planning                                         principles and outcomes                                                                   community engagement plan.




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