2021-09-13 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                13 SEPTEMBER 2021


     Partnerships developed with local community groups and businesses to deliver education
      programs, as well as the Shuck Don’t Chuck program to collect oyster shell.
     An update on the progress of permitting for the project with the relevant State government
      departments.
     A summary of the scientific work underpinning the project and selection of sites.
The report outlines the significant progress that has been made on the project and also some of the
key challenges in the acquisition of data, the complexity of the permitting systems, and the difficulties
of community engagement in a COVID environment.
In May 2021, it was announced that an extra $1.2 million would provided to the Noosa project from
the $20 million TNC Australia-Australian Government Reef Builder Project. This brings the total
allocation to restore shellfish reefs in Noosa to $3.6 million.
Previous Council Consideration
Previous Council reports have set out quite a lot of detail on this project and for ease of reference,
links to those previous reports are provided here:
     General Committee Agenda, 15 July 2019 -
      https://www.noosa.qld.gov.au/downloads/file/641/2019-07-15-general-committee-agenda-pdf
     General Committee Agenda, 14 January 2019 -
      https://www.noosa.qld.gov.au/downloads/file/566/2019-01-14-general-committee-meeting-
      agenda-pdf
Ordinary Meeting Minutes, 17 September 2020, Item 7, Page 16
That Council note the report by the Environmental Services Manager to the General Committee
Meeting dated 14 September 2020 and approve the Noosa River Oyster Project: Annual Report No.
1 (provided as Attachment 1 to the report) as meeting the requirements of the Alliance & Funding
Agreement.
Ordinary Meeting Minutes, 16 July 2020, Item 2, Page 7
That Council note the report by the Environmental Services Manager to the Planning & Environment
Committee meeting dated 7 July 2020 and:
A.    Approve the Project Management Plan (provided as Attachment 1 to the report) as meeting
      the requirements of the Project Implementation Plan outlined in the Alliance & Funding
      Agreement subject to Council appointing an independent scientific expert to provide a review
      of the project’s Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting Plan. The review is to include an
      assessment of the effectiveness of the methodology, project’s goals, measures, outputs and
      outcomes within the context of ecological restoration and the terms of the three-year contract,
      and recommendations (if any) for improvement to be included in the Monitoring and Evaluation
      Plan; and
B.    Note the Terms of Reference of the Noosa River Oyster Restoration Project Technical Advisory
      Group (provided as Attachment 2 to the report); and
C.    Establish a Noosa River Stakeholder Reference Group to provide strategic input, local
      knowledge and expertise into River Management initiatives, initially providing input into this
      Shellfish Restoration project and more broadly into finalisation and implementation of the
      Noosa River Plan, and
D.    Delegate to the CEO to determine the Terms of Reference and undertake a process to
      establish the Noosa River Stakeholder Reference Group together with the appropriate role for
      Councillor representation on that Group.
Ordinary Meeting Minutes, 18 July 2019, Item 8, Page 18
That Council note the report by the Director, Environment & Sustainable Development Department
to the General Committee Meeting dated 15 July 2019 and:


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