2019-08-06 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                 6 AUGUST 2019


BRANCH ACTIVITIES              RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                          CURRENT PRIORITIES                            THE NEXT QUARTER
MOU with Unity Water              MOU partners engaged Rambool to            Review the draft report by Rambool          Agree on the next stage of the
                                    undertake feasibility study and draft        and decide with MOU partners what             Rambool consultancy to focus on
                                    report has been received by partners         waste processing technology to                best fit waste minimisation
                                    for consideration.                           focus on in the next stage of the step        technology for the MOU region.
                                                                                 in the study.                               Agreement also made with
                                                                                                                               WBBROC councils to participate in
                                                                                                                               their waste feasibility study which
                                                                                                                               commences in 2019/20.
Health Inspection Program         Licensed premises inspection               Action taken to suspend the licence         Preparing for the licensing of public
                                    program on track - 1 food premise            of 1 food premise until improvement           pools and reinspection of industrial
                                    licence suspended until compliant.           notice requirements fulfilled.                premises likely to pollute waterways.

Vector Control                    Regular aerial treatment of salt           Winter weather has caused a                 Preparing treatment program for the
                                    marsh breeding areas with 1 missed           significant reduction in mosquito             next summer mosquito breeding
                                    treatment due to dangerous winds.            breeding despite persistent winter            season.
                                  Reduction in Ross River Fever                rainfall.
                                    cases by 50% compared to annual
                                    average over past 3 years.
                                  Barrier spray and fogging used to
                                    effectively combat significant
                                    mosquito breeding from rainfall in
                                    urban areas.
Business as Usual activities      Waste Audit of units and resorts           Checking of cemetery records and            Report on the annual kerbside
                                    waste bins and reported to council.          transfer from hard copy to digital            collection service.
                                  Use of Heritage Levy funding to              format and checking of data.                Implement garden waste service
                                    assist development of cemeteries’            Integrity.                                    policy and behavioural change
                                    database for online access to burials                                                      program.
                                    information in the shire.                                                                Provide web site with details of
                                                                                                                               burial records for public information.




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