2020-02-11 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                           11 FEBRUARY 2020


TABLE 1 - 2019-20 GRANTS – MULTI-YEAR ENVIORNMENT COLLABORATIVE GRANTS

Applicant                     Project Title and Overview (taken from the application)              Special conditions                   Recommended funding

Reef Check Australia          Promoting marine stewardship in the Noosa Region through                                                  Not recommended        for
                              on-ground activities, educations and increased community                                                  funding at this time
                              capacity - Reef Check Australia aims to actively engage
                              community members in appreciating, understanding and
                              protecting their local marine environment through reef health
                              monitoring, citizen science initiatives and hands-on education;
                              promoting and celebrating a healthy marine ecosystem;
                              contributing to a sustainable environment.

Noosa & District Landcare     Keeping It In Kin Kin Project (KIKK) - On ground                                                          2019-20 - $79,156
Group                         implementation of the Keeping It In Kin Kin project aims to reduce
                                                                                                                                        2020-21 - $80,739
                              erosion hot-spots, remediate riparian areas and improve soil
                              health.                                                                                                   2021-22 - $82,354

Mary    River   Catchment     Protecting    Noosa's     Biodiversity    through    community       Liaise with Council staff over the   2019-20 - $7,200
Coordinating Committee        programs                                                             monitoring program to ensure date
                                                                                                                                        2020-21 - $7,200
                                                                                                   can support implementation actions
                              1. Deliver the Find a Frog in February citizen science program in
                                                                                                   of the Noosa Environment Strategy.   2021-22 - $7,200
                              February 2020 across the Noosa Shire.
                              2. Conduct surveys along the two long-term frog monitoring
                              transects - 6 Mile Creek and Cooroora Creek.

Tourism Noosa                 Plastic Free Noosa - Plastic Free Noosa protects the                                                      2019-20 - $61,800
                              environment by empowering the Noosa community in eliminating
                                                                                                                                        2020-21 - $61,800
                              single-use plastics through direct engagement, recognition and
                              facilitating circular economies to create lasting change.                                                 2021-22 - $61,800

Noosa         Environmental   Noosa Young Environmental Custodians Biodiversity                                                         Not recommended        for
Education Hub                 Restoration Project - Connecting Noosa schools in partnership                                             funding at this time
                              with Environmental Groups to projects within the Noosa
                              Biosphere through rich, curriculum linked, grassroots
                              opportunities. The programs deliver year by year involvement of
                              schools in biodiversity protection projects through hands on, in
                              field delivery.



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