2017-11-07 S&O Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 10 - Annual Report 2016-17

    Corporate Plan Theme 4: Long term planning for Noosa Shire
    “Noosa Shire is well managed and sustainable”
    Key achievements as we work towards our long term goal include:
     Council undertook significant work on the               Council adopted its new Corporate Plan which
      development of the new Planning Scheme during            will guide key corporate decision making for the
      2016/17. Council adopted the New Noosa Plan              next 20 years. The Corporate Plan was
      Discussion Paper for the purposes of public              developed following a series of Councillor
      consultation and undertook an extensive                  workshops analysing future trends and
      community engagement process to seek                     developed a new vision – “Noosa Shire - different
      feedback. Council also finalised a range of              by nature”.
      studies to support the development of the new           Council adopted a Transport Policy and
      Planning Scheme including:                               Transport    Strategy      following   extensive
     Resources and Minerals Planning Study                    community consultation. This was one of the
     Study into Agriculture and Agricultural Land in          signature long-term pieces of planning for our
      Noosa Shire                                              community undertaken in 2016/17. There were
                                                               two rounds of community consultation including
     On-Site Effluent Disposal Noosa Shire Study              targeted consultation with key stakeholders. One
     Housing Needs Assessment                                 of the challenges for 2017/18 is the
     Council was able to provide significant input into       implementation of that Strategy. Also during
      the ongoing development of the draft South-East          2016/17, Council successfully delivered its
      Queensland Regional Plan which will achieve a            Christmas and Easter free holiday bus program.
      good outcome for the Noosa community.                   Council adopted an Asset Management Plan
     Council undertook a significant review of our            Roadmap in 2016/17. The roadmap sets out the
      infrastructure plans to enable us to meet new            priorities for developing more robust long-term
      legislative requirements for the imposition of           asset management plans and ensuring that asset
      contributions from developers towards the cost of        management becomes more central to our
      infrastructure.                                          decision making processes. Converting this
                                                               roadmap into action is also one of the challenges
     Council has adopted the Noosa Local Disaster             for 2017/18.
      Management Plan which guides our responses
      to natural disasters. Council has also undertaken
      considerable work in developing our response to
      natural disasters including undertaking disaster
      management exercises to train our staff. This
      was put to the test with the arrival of the
      remnants of Cyclone Debbie in February 2017.
      Our management of that response was good and
      our Local Disaster Management Plan was able to
      deal with that scenario. Council was also
      successful in obtaining State funding to install
      new flood alert stations at a cost of $206,000.




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