2016-02-02 Infrastructure & Services Committee Agenda

INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                       2 FEBRUARY 2016


SECTION            RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                             CURRENT PRIORITIES                              LOOKING AHEAD
Butter Factory      Transfer of Butter Factory to Cooroy            Address capital works issues regarding        Review trial of community management
                      Future Group (formerly Cooroy Lower               roof leaks                                      model in late 2016
                      Mill Board) completed. With the Future          Monitor and review progress of Butter
                      Group taking over management                      Factory under community management
                      responsibility from January 4 2016
Regional Gallery    Delivery of exhibitions:                      Preparation of 2016/17 draft budget           Review options for future delivery of
                       Pas de Deux, an exhibition by Fiona          Delivery of Taste of Art, the Friends of        Floating Land
                       Dempster and Susan Bowers, exploring           Noosa Regional Gallery’s annual group         Investigate options for storage
                       collaboration in the form of more than 70      show                                          Development of audience engagement
                       books;                                       Preparation for Noosa Art Award                 plan
                       Ken Munsie’s interactive Open and              program
                       Closed exhibition featured timber,           Planning and preparation for Jubilee
                       rusted metal, glass and other found            Festival of Surfing partnership exhibition
                       objects;
                       Anne Harris told the story of the
                       everyday in her exhibition Notions of an
                       Ordinary Yarn.
                    Completion of review program as part of
                       National Standards for Australian
                       Museums and Galleries
                    Delivery of Summer School Holiday
                       program
Libraries           Commenced dollars making sense                Complete phase two of Library Services        Commence Libraries Strategic Plan
                      financial literacy program                      review with external consultant                 process once phase two of Service
                    Extension of Robot’s for Everyone             Preparation of 2016/17 draft budget             Review is complete
                      program due to popularity                     Finalise tender process for library           Develop Heritage Levy Policy
                    Delivery of Noosa’s War Front exhibition        cleaning contracts
                      grant-funded project                          Undertake Barcoding project
                    Awarded $16,980 grant to run Tech             Condition assessment and priority
                      Savvy Seniors program                           repairs for Mobile Library due back on
                    Awarded $4,500 grant to highlight local         the road February 1.
                      authors during Qld Week                       Delivery of First Five Forever program
                    Delivery of Summer School Holiday             Review and re-publish Noosa Heritage
                      program        with     attendances     of      Trail brochures
                      approximately 300 children
                    400 children enrolled in the summer
                      reading club

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