2022-06-28 Special Meeting Agenda

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA                                                                                    28 JUNE 2022


    Submission Summary                      Base          No        Increase   Decrease   % Budget   % Budget   % Budget
                                            Budget        change    Budget     Budget     Increase   Decrease   Unchanged
                                            ($m)
    Noosa aquatic centre, The J                    $7.4        31          3          5        8%        13%         79%
    community centre, leisure centre,
    Noosa community support
    Art gallery and Cooroy butter factory          $1.0        31          2          6        5%        15%         79%
    Holiday parks                                  $1.6        39          0          0        0%         0%        100%
    Environmental management and sustainability initiatives
    Natural areas including bushland               $3.1        26         11          2       28%         5%         67%
    reserves and trails maintenance, fire
    management, environmental
    operations and sustainability
    Environment levy funded initiatives            $1.9        22         15          2       38%         5%         56%
    (land purchases. private land
    conservation, river management)
    Waste collection, disposal,                $16.4           28          9          2       23%         5%         72%
    recycling and waste education
    Tourism and Economic Development
    Tourism                                        $2.6        37          2          *        5%         0%         95%
    Economic Development                           $1.8        23          6         10       15%        26%         59%
    Sustainable transport initiatives              $1.6        27          6          6       15%        15%         69%
    Heritage services                              $0.4        28          2          9        5%        23%         72%
    Planning, building, health and             $10.3           27          2         10        5%        26%         69%
    other inspection services
    Customer service, governance               $18.8           24          2         13        5%        33%         62%
    and administration
* Funding levels to Tourism Noosa were unable to be reduced due to current contractual arrangements.

In terms of how the submitters wished to balance the operating budget expenditure changes through
revenue adjustments the following was observed (on average):

•         General rates were increased by $74k (0.09% increase);
•         Fees and sales remained unchanged;
•         The environment levy was increase by $123k (6.2% increase);
•         The heritage levy was decreased by $31k (8.6% decrease);
•         The sustainable transport levy was increased by $19k (1.2% increase)
•         The bushfire resilience levy was increased by $27k (4.8% increase)

Further specific details extracted from the Balance Your Noosa Council Operating Budget
participation tool submissions has been provided in Attachment 1 for information.

2         Your Say Noosa Submitted Ideas
In addition to using the Balance Your Noosa Council Operating Budget participation tool, Council
also encouraged residents and ratepayers to take the opportunity to send in specific suggestions
and / or submissions via the Your Say Noosa webpage that could be considered by Council. 78
contributions occurred on the page with ideas varying between requests for information through to
ideas to provide additional services and also reduce services. This feedback has been included in
the overall consultation summaries provided in Attachment 3 to this report.

3         Direct Feedback to Council’s Budget Email Address
Residents and ratepayers were also encouraged to email any specific budget priorities directly to
Council’s budget email address [email protected] 6 of 79