2018-11-06 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                                     6 NOVEMBER 2018


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                       RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                           CURRENT PRIORITIES                           THE NEXT QUARTER
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                                           Council staff engagement with gallery
                                             continues to improve through Council
                                             morning teas.
Heritage
Deliver key Heritage Levy initiatives      Heritage Librarian role reviewed and        Establish Heritage Unit and consult        Complete      ground-truthing    of
                                             new     Heritage   Coordinator    role        with stakeholders.                           cemetery    data      and   produce
                                             created.                                    Continue      ground-truthing      of        complete set of data.
                                           Commenced reviewing cemetery data             cemetery data.                             Work with IT on development of
                                             accuracy using mobile technology.           Retain oral historian and refine list        database platform.
                                           Preliminary list of oral history              of interviewees.                           Commence oral history recording.
                                             interviewees developed.                     Call for nominations for Heritage          Appoint new Heritage Reference
                                                                                           Reference Group vacancies.                   Group members.
Coordinate planning and delivery of      Event Project Officer retained.               Finalize event day logistics –             Deliver Looking Forward to Peace
Looking    Forward     to     Peace      Major       entertainment   acts   and          running     sheet,      suppliers,           event – 11 Nov.
Remembrance Day event                      community artist booked.                        community participants.                    Acquit grant.
                                         All event logistics assessed including
                                           event infrastructure requirements,
                                           event permits.
                                         Community liaison for participation by
                                           community groups in event and public
                                           in flotilla re-enactment.
Plan and deliver a range of Heritage     Program of family history workshops           Deliver of Under the Lino book             Planning for heritage programming
projects and activities                    delivered for Family History month in           launch on October 25.                        for Jan-Jun 2019.
                                           partnership    with     Cooroy-Noosa          Set up of heritage digitisation            Development of public workshops
                                           Genealogical Society.                           equipment in Cooroy and Noosa                for heritage digitisation.
                                                                                           Makerspaces.




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