2017-11-07 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                7 NOVEMBER 2017


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                   RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                        CURRENT PRIORITIES                            THE NEXT QUARTER
Council Community Grants Program,           Addressed overdue acquittals        Finalise funding agreement with             Plan RADF and Community Grant
including RADF                                and payments from last rounds.        State Government for RADF                     Rounds for Feb – Mar 2018
                                            Assessed latest round of              program
                                              Community Project and RADF          Council approval of latest grant
                                              grants.                               round recommendations. Followed
                                            Announcement of $46,000               by signing of funding agreements.
                                              funding contribution from Arts
                                              Qld for 2017-18 RADF program
                                            Working closely with Carbon
                                              Reduction Project Officer to
                                              enhance Zero Emissions
                                              outcomes in the Community
                                              Grants Program
Grants - external                      QAO noted the improvement in             Council Grants Register - Improving         Three grant-funded bridge projects
                                         Council Grants Register                    the quantity & quality of grant-funded        will kick-off
                                       Successfully obtained LGIP funding         project data by working more closely        Building on new relationship with
                                         for the Noosaville Library                 with Finance and capital project              DILGP
                                         refurbishment                              managers.
                                                                                  Community Development team
                                                                                    assisting sporting and community
                                                                                    groups with external grants
Business as Usual activities           Prepared and distributed the 13th        Queens Baton Relay preparations             Continue to work with the State
                                         edition of the quarterly Community         including school principals’                  Government (Department of
                                         Connections e-newsletter to not for        meetings, celebration and                     National Parks, Sport and Racing) to
                                         profits.                                   community stop preparations and               deliver events in Noosa as part of
                                       Negotiated expired Noosa District          feedback/plans submitted to                   the Building Active Communities
                                         Sport Complex Leases                       GOLDOC.                                       program.
                                       Negotiated expired Permit To             Delivery of State Government                Planning around Commonwealth
                                         Occupy for Cooran Cutters Rugby            (Department of National Parks,                Games legacy.
                                         League Club                                Sport and Racing) Building Active           Assess Inaugural Sunshine Coast
                                       Delivery of two State Government           Communities event in Noosa –                  Open House program and consider
                                         (Department of National Parks,             Marketing and Sponsorship 26                  Noosa’s involvement in the 2018
                                         Sport and Racing) events in Noosa          October 2017.                                 event
                                         as part of the Building Active           Assisting sporting clubs with               Review of Noosa District Sport
                                         Communities program: Athlete               applications to the State                     Complex Master Plan
                                         Management and Strategic Planning          Government Female Facilities Grant
                                       Successful Come and Try Sports             Program. Applications now open
                                         Day with approximately 120 children        through to 1 December 2017.


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