2015-02-03 Infrastructure & Services Committee Agenda

INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                         3 FEBRUARY 2015


SECTION         RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                             CURRENT PRIORITIES                          LOOKING AHEAD
Libraries       • Successful summer school holiday              •   Development and drafting of the         •   Completion of Libraries Strategy.
                  program for children, young adults and            Libraries 5 year strategic plan.        •   Tender process for management of
                  families Total attendance: 706.               •   Annual off-site literary event –            Library Espresso at Cooroy Library.
                • Successful grant application, Noosa’s             author and Master Chef participant,     •   Further investigations on funding
                  War Front, for Queensland Anzac                   Amina Elshafei confirmed for 8              sources for target marketing and
                  Centenary. Total $14,481.                         March 2015 for International                possible delivery of Library
                • Successful grant application for Dollars          Women’s Day.                                independent eNews.
                  Making Sense which will assist adults to      •   Coordination and delivery of            •   Development of financial literacy
                  manage day-to-day finances and make               Noosa’s War Front grant project.            programs in consultation with
                  informed financial decisions. The             •   Secure an external financial literacy       successful literacy consultant and
                  program, was made possible through a              consultant for the recent successful        professional evaluator.
                  $46,000 Financial Literacy Australia              Dollars Making Sense grant.             •   Finalise new cleaning tender for next
                  grant.                                        •   Preparation for Fusion Festival             financial year.
                • Trialled new targeted eNews for the               (May) in partnership with Cooroy        •   Commence Best Start Literacy
                  school holiday program which had a                Lower Mill Board.                           program, funded through State
                  successful click rate of 4.3% compared to     •   Griffiths Negative Collection -             Library of Qld.
                  the Community eNews click rate of                 Volunteers trained and working on       •   Boilerhouse priority structural works
                  2.67%.                                            collection to assess, index and scan        to be undertaken.
                • Implemented staffing changes following            negatives. Over 1,500 images            •
                  population of structure.                          indexed and 155 images scanned.
                • Commissioned online payment option                Launch will be held on Feb 25th.
                  which increases Libraries capacity to offer   •   Development of new social media
                  fee based events.                                 channel – Instagram.
                • On target to meet 5% savings target from      •
                  Libraries Service Review.

                • Mill Place Boiler house structural
                  assessment complete.
                • Wallace Park Precinct 21st Birthday
                  celebrations well attended with very good
                  publicity.




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