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

    Corporate Plan Theme 2: The Noosa Community
    “Our community is connected, safe and happy and able to meet their potential”
    Key achievements as we work towards our long term goal include:
     Council adopted a three-year implementation                Council undertook a sports field audit to provide
      plan for the Noosa Social Strategy. This includes           additional assistance to sporting clubs who have
      an annual update to Council on progress for                 the responsibility of maintaining their sporting
      implementation of the Noosa Social Strategy.                fields. Council agreed to provide membership to
      Included within the Strategy is the establishment           the Sports Turf Association of Queensland to 12
      of the Noosa Community Round Table which has                sporting clubs to assist in increasing expertise
      been successfully operating to assist with the              within the clubs on field and turf maintenance.
      transition process at Johns Landing.                       Council has commenced a process to review
     Staff have been working to develop a Sport and              options for the future use of the Noosaville
      Active Recreation Plan. This has included initial           foreshore. This included an extensive community
      community engagement and a draft Plan has                   engagement process which will be completed in
      been developed in preparation for a formal round            2017.
      of community consultation.                                 Council has reviewed and updated its
     Council has entered into a three-year agreement             Community Engagement Policy. Significant
      with the Cooroy Futures Group Inc for the                   community engagement projects in 2016/17
      operation of the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts                 included:
      Centre. This agreement was entered into after a             o Cooroy Memorial Hall
      trial management period following an extensive              o Sunshine Beach Skate Park
      community engagement process on the future of               o Digital Hub, Peregian Beach
      the Cooroy Butter Factory.                                  o Noosa Botanic Gardens Masterplan
     Council has undertaken two community Council                o Noosa Planning Scheme
      meetings during 2016/17. In October 2016, we                o Noosa Transport Strategy
      held a Council meeting at Cooroy and in April               o Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan
      2017, we held a Council meeting at Boreen
                                                                  o Corporate Plan
      Point.
                                                                 Council accepted a contract for the restoration
     Council commenced the development of a Noosa
                                                                  and upgrade of the Sunshine Beach Skatepark at
      Arts, Culture and Heritage Plan. A Consultative
                                                                  a cost of $380,000. This is an important facility
      Committee has been established and work is
                                                                  for the younger demographic in our Shire.
      well advanced on the development of that Plan.
                                                                 Council undertook numerous Library and Gallery
     Council     undertook      extensive      community
                                                                  programs to support our community. Our Library
      engagement with the Cooroy community
                                                                  Services have physically issued over 570,000
      regarding the future of the Cooroy Community
                                                                  items to our community during the last year.
      Hall. Council agreed to accept trusteeship of the
      Deed of Grant in Trust and supported the                   After considerable work with the local community
      establishment of the Cooroy Community Hall                  including United Synergies and local Rotary
      Association Inc. A lease has been provided to               Clubs, Tait Duke Cottage was restored and open
      the Association in order that they can manage               for community use in June 2017. This milestone
      the Hall. Council has also agreed to fund 50% of            was significant after many years of work to
      the restoration costs (capped) with the                     identify an appropriate site and working in
      community funding the remaining 50%. This has               partnership with the local community to restore
      been an excellent outcome for the Cooroy                    the building and make it available for ongoing
      community.                                                  community use.
     Council extended the lifeguard services                    To encourage community interaction, Council
      agreement for a five-year term. This agreement              has installed chalkboard walls as part of the
      enables our community and visitors to safely use            International “Before I Die” wall movement. This
      our beaches with a high level of safety based on            has been successful (particularly at Cooroy) with
      our lifeguard services.                                     one of the walls also visiting Noosa Junction and
                                                                  Peregian Beach.
      Council introduced a community support scheme
      for those residents living in the vicinity of Wallace      Council continued to provide its community grant
      Park who were directly affected by large                    program supporting our community groups.
      numbers of flying foxes that came to Wallace                During 2016/17, we provided over $810,000 in
      Park on an intermittent basis. The scheme                   grants to local community groups to support
      included the provision of cleaning materials, car           projects, acquisition of equipment or events.
      covers and other tangible support materials to             Council staff also facilitated a number of evening
      reduce the impact on local residents. Council               information      sessions        for     community


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