2014-08-19 Infrastructure and Services Committee Agenda

INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                              19 AUGUST 2014


SECTION         RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                                 CURRENT PRIORITIES                            LOOKING AHEAD
Environmental   •   Completed 2014/15 budget and revision of        • Develop a Pest Management Plan in
Health              licence fees                                      consultation with Infrastructure Services
                •   Assessed plan approvals for establishing        • Attend public consultation meetings in
                    new food premises                                 the development of the Pest
                •   Assessed licence applications for operators       Management Plan
                    of regulated businesses in food, ERA            • Implement Pest management surveys
                    (Environmentally Relevant Activity) and           covering the whole region in 3 monthly
                    tattooist/body piercers                           segments
                •   Obtained QUT (Queensland University of          • Complete the cemetery database
                    Technology) data analysis report to assist in   • Develop a regular food safety newsletter
                    determining our new recreational water            to food industry
                    monitoring role.                                • Undertake food safety compliance
                •   Determined development applications for           projects on quality of sushi food and
                    Environmental Relevant Activities                 private water supply systems
                •   Commenced succession planning for retiring      • Provide environmental health
                    EHO (Environmental Health Officer) by             information on website
                    advertising a new EHO’s position                • Undertake local law review including
                •   Competed the Annual Inspection program for        hygiene of rental accommodation, non-
                    licensed premises (Food, ERA’s etc)               smoking in public places, etc.
                •   Attended to a significant number of public      • Determine a new recreational water
                    health and environmental complaints               monitoring program
                •   Conducted Food Hygiene training courses to      • Collate recent development approvals of
                    operators and employees of food premises          ERA “deemed approvals” and undertake
                •   Successfully completed annual mosquito            compliance program
                    control season with aerial treatment of salt
                    marsh breeding areas
                •   Significant work on the updating of the
                    cemetery plans and database of burials due
                    to records not completed for a period of
                    years
                •   Council approval of the 3 monthly pest
                    management surveys of the region and
                    public advertising of the survey area for the
                    next 3 months




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