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

Chief Executive Officer’s Message



                                    Chief Executive Officer’s Message
                     An annual report is an                However, we also recognise that we cannot rest
                     important way for our                 on our laurels. Our community expects great
                     Council        to     stay            things from its Council and rightly so. Our
                     accountable to the Noosa              community doesn’t want just a good Council, it
                     community        for   our            wants a Council that it can be proud of.
                     performance. In reflecting
                     on the 2016/17 year, I am             I would like to thank Mayor Tony Wellington and
                     once again very proud of              our Councillors for their wise leadership
                     how our Council has been              throughout 2016/17. Working well together as a
able to achieve great results for our community            team has provided a unified voice and unified
despite being only 3 ½ years old.                          direction which is important for successful
                                                           Councils. I would also like to publically thank all
One of the key highlights for 2016/17, was the             of our Council staff. Once again, you have
adoption of Council’s new Corporate Plan. (For             excelled. Every day, we have staff:
local governments, a Corporate Plan is the                    putting out swimming pool lane ropes at
equivalent of a business plan in the private                   5.30am for the 245,000 patrons who use the
sector). Our Council has focused on a 20 year                  Noosa Aquatic Centre annually;
planning horizon in our Corporate Plan. This
                                                              helping people at the library by issuing over
demonstrates      one    of    the     important
                                                               570,000 books in the 2016/17 year
characteristics of Noosa Shire Council –
understanding that long-term planning is                      fixing roads, maintaining parks and having
important for a community rather than just short-              the street sweeper clean over 11,000 km of
term decision-making.                                          roads;
                                                              managing waste removal including picking
Our Corporate Plan is crafted around a new                     up more than 3,000,000 bins during the
vision – “Noosa Shire – different by nature”.                  year;
Although a short vision statement, there is a lot
                                                              helping residents with their queries by
of depth and meaning in the vision which will set
                                                               answering over 65,000 front line calls;
the tone for our future planning and thinking.
Our Corporate Plan also sets out our longer                    and the list goes on……..
term aspirations for the Noosa Shire through a             Our community is lucky to have such dedicated
series of 20 year goals across five themes.                staff who love to work in Noosa. As I often say to
These themes are:                                          our staff, working for our Council is one of the
Theme 1: The Noosa Environment                             few jobs I know where you can drive home at
Theme 2: The Noosa Community                               the end of the work day and see where you
                                                           made a difference to the place you live. This
Theme 3: The Noosa Economy
                                                           sense of connection between our work role and
Theme 4: Long term planning for Noosa Shire                where we live reminds me of a wonderful quote I
Theme 5: Excellence as a Council                           read recently about the nature of a community.

This is the first Annual Report where we will
report to our community on our progress
towards achieving outcomes in each of these
                                                           Brett de Chastel
five themes. By any measure, our Council had a
                                                           Chief Executive Officer
great year.

You will see set out in this report a list of
achievements for 2016/17 under each theme.
We are proud of our achievements to date.

                                          “A true community is not just about being
                                       geographically close to someone or part of the
                                         same social web network. It's about feeling
                                       connected and responsible for what happens.”
                                                       -
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