2018-11-06 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                           6 NOVEMBER 2018


3.    Changes to the Noosa LDMG
Mayor Tony Wellington remains the Chair of the LDMG and Cr Joe Jurisevic remains Deputy
Chair of the LDMG and Chair of the Local Recovery Group.

The Director Infrastructure Services assumed the role of Local Disaster Coordinator in July 2018
replacing the Director Community Services who is retiring from Council.

There has not been any change to the LDMG member agencies since 2017.

4.    LDMG Meetings and Activations

As required under the Disaster Management Act the Noosa Local Disaster Management Group
meets regularly four times a year to network and discuss the four key elements of disaster
management – planning, preparation, response and recovery.

2018 meeting dates                             Proposed dates for 2019
   15 February 2018                             14 February 2019
   14 June 2018                                 13 June 2019
   20 September 2018                            19 September 2019
   15 November 2018                             14 November 2019

There were no activations of the LDMG in the period October 2017 to September 2018.

5.    LDMG Sub Groups

The Noosa Local Recovery Group (LRG) met twice during the year with meetings held on 28
March 2018 and 16 November 2018. The Local Recovery Group is chaired by Cr Jurisevic and
has four functional sub-groups – Economic, Environment, Human-Social and Infrastructure, all
headed by Council officers with representatives of various state government agencies.

The Community Welfare Sub-Committee was disbanded during the year as the members are
also part of the Human-Social Recovery Sub Group and it was felt that the meetings were a
duplication.

The three existing Community Disaster Management Sub-Groups in Kin Kin, Cooran and
Pomona did not meet during the year. A fourth sub-group was formed on the Noosa North Shore
in response to residents’ concerns following structural fires in September 2017. A meet and
greet with all four community sub-groups is being arranged with key leaders within the groups as
part of preparation for the coming season.

6.    Emergency Operations Team

As well as being responsible for coordinating disaster operations of all emergency services
during an event, Council is required under the Disaster Management Act 2003 to maintain a
response capability to:

“provide equipment and a suitable number of trained persons, using the resources available to
the local government, to effectively deal with, or help another entity deal with, an emergency
situation or a disaster in the local government area”.

In order to meet this responsibility, the Emergency Operations Team (EOT) meets regularly to
develop and coordinate Council’s emergency response capability. The group is chaired by Allan
Hull, Council’s Civil Operations Manager and meets bi-monthly.
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