2018-08-07 Services and Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                       7 AUGUST 2018


3                        COOROY MEMORIAL HALL REFURBISHMENT PROJECT
DOCUMENT INFORM AT ION




Author                           Director Community Services, Alan Rogers
                                 Community Services Department
                                 Project Manager, Adam Britton
                                 Infrastructure Services

Index                            ECM/ 69.02 – Community Services Section

Attachments                      1.   Deed of Agreement between Noosa Shire Council and the Cooroy
                                      Memorial Hall Association Inc relating to the Maintenance and
                                      Upgrade of the Cooroy Memorial Hall
                                 2.   Report on the 2017/18 Maintenance and Upgrade of the Cooroy
                                      Memorial Hall and School of Arts Building by the Cooroy Memorial
                                      Hall Association
                                 3.   Cash and In Kind Income and Outgoings Cooroy Memorial Hall
                                      Association 1 May 2017 to 10 June 2018


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Not Applicable

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by Director Community Services and Project Manager, Infrastructure
Services to the Services & Organisation Committee Meeting dated 7 August 2018 and formally
acknowledge the Cooroy Memorial Hall Association for the excellent result they achieved in
refurbishing the Cooroy Memorial Hall.


REPORT
Background
The Cooroy Memorial Hall (the Hall) was opened in 1926. It was conceived as a new community
hall to serve the District’s growing population and as a permanent memorial to those servicemen
from the town who had lost their lives in World War 1.
For many decades the Hall was a community hub and was used for Anzac services, showing
movies, dances and balls, wedding receptions, church services, speech nights, public meetings
club and other activities.
The Cooroy Memorial Hall has heritage values and is included in the Maple St Character Area of
the Noosa Planning scheme.
A number of structural modifications were made to the Hall in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Hall was re-roofed in 1991 and repainted in 2000. However in the years after 2010 the then
Trustees of the Hall, the Cooroy RSL, found it increasingly difficult allocate adequate funds to
maintain the Hall and in November 2015, the Trustees closed the hall due to safety concerns.

Independent Building Inspections Report
Following an approach by the Trustees for Council to take over the Hall and in order to
understand the seriousness of the safety issues and the condition of the building, Council
commissioned a detailed building report on the Hall in September 2016 from consultants
‘Independent Building Inspections’.

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