2021-05-11 Services & Organisation Committee Meeting Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                                          11 MAY 2021


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                      RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                          CURRENT PRIORITIES                           THE NEXT QUARTER
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)         Formal MoU process concluded and            Waste Managers from the three               Monitor progress as Moreton Bay RC
with Unitywater, Sunshine Coast            Unitywater have withdrawn.                   Councils will continue to meet to            continue to explore advanced waste
Regional Council and Moreton Bay                                                        discuss potential opportunities to           treatment options.
Regional Council, regarding Advanced                                                    work collaboratively on regional
Waste Treatment                                                                         advanced waste treatment.
Health Inspection Program                 Licensed      premises      inspection      Conduct annual inspection program           Planning for reinspection of industrial
                                           program delayed by COVID – 19                of licensed premises where possible          premises at risk of waterways
                                           workloads however EHO’s have now             and monitor the ongoing impact of            pollution from July 2021.
                                           completed 95% of the inspections             COVID-19                                    Continued integration of Covid safe
                                           leading into end of financial year          Liaise with Queensland Health,               compliance workload into current
                                          Fees and charges for public                  Public Health Unit on Covid safe             work structures
                                           swimming pool approvals complete             compliance for the Noosa region             Promote compliance with mandatory
                                           with implementation scheduled for           Planning to build capacity for an            COVID-19 check-in app.
                                           2021/22 financial year                       effective    multi-agency       health      Provide technical and specialist
                                          Completed transition from paper              response in preparedness for a               advice to the community and internal
                                           based     inspection    program     to       second wave of COVID-19 on the               business units on Covid safe
                                           electronic inspections via iPads             Sunshine Coast.                              practices from a public health
                                          340 Health requests                         Implementation of streamlined food           perspective.
                                           134 Food inspections                         business licence application process        Implementation of iCouncil software
                                           80 Covid Inspections                         in partnership with ICT by utlising          to allow Officers to undertake
                                                                                        technology one to its full potential.        inspections via their iPads in the field
                                                                                                                                     and for the inspection report to link
                                                                                                                                     directly into technlogy one saving
                                                                                                                                     time for administration and EHO’s.
Vector Control (Mosquitoes)               Commenced aerial control of                 Continue regular aerial mosquito            Monitor salt marsh breeding areas
                                           mosquito borne diseases in salt              control in salt marsh areas at each          following rainfall and spring tidal
                                           marsh areas during the heavy wet             peak tide or coinciding with heavy           activity
                                           weather after Christmas and New              rainfall events                             Conduct regular aerial treatment
                                           Year                                        Limited fogging to be implemented            program for the salt marsh breeding
                                          Commenced ovi trapping program to            where weather conditions prevent             areas and fogging of adult
                                           detect presence of Aedes Aegypti             aerial control by helicopter resulting       mosquitoes with potential to transmit
                                           (blood   borne   disease   vector            in massive breeding of mosquitoes            mosquito borne illness
                                           mosquito).                                   and complaints from residents               Work with our communication staff to
                                                                                       Ensure the program focuses on                improve information to public on the
                                                                                        disease transmitting mosquitoes and          treatment program and domestic
                                                                                        not nuisance pest species that do not        mosquito      breeding      prevention
                                                                                        transmit disease.                            strategies.
                                                                                       Continue to utilise light trapping to
                                                                                        monitor adult mosquitos.

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