2021-04-23 Special Meeting Agenda

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA                                                                                  23 APRIL 2021


Attachment 3 – Budget Email Submissions Received

 Submission Topic       Detail
 Zero Emissions         Submission to Noosa Council Budget Consultation
 Initiatives (22
 emails received        Boosting Noosa Shire’s Economy through Renewable Energy Initiatives and Reducing Transport
 generally containing   Emissions
 the content in the
 detail column)         The initiatives below will also assist Noosa Council in its implementation of the Climate Power
                        Partnerships Economic Recovery Plan to which Council is a signatory; its own Climate Change
                        Adaptation Plan and to growing Environmental (Cleantech) Industries as a priority industry sector
                        in the Noosa Local Economic Plan.

                        They will also assist in keeping the $77m that leaves our shire each year in electricity costs. Using
                        the innovations below will help to keep this money in our Shire to be used to stimulate our local
                        economy.

                        Council can support its goal of zero net community emissions by 2026 by:

                        A. Providing funds for a Green Economic Development Officer from the Tourism and Economic
                           Development Levy. This officer will:

                        1. Work with businesses to assist them to easily take up renewable energy and/or energy
                           efficiency to reduce their power bills and reduce their emissions by connecting them to easily
                           understood information and information and technology providers and
                        2. Help them to get the best value from their investment in renewable energy innovations by
                           working with stakeholders like Energex on issues currently impeding some of the business
                           benefit of using renewable energies like grid instability, demand charges and soon to be
                           possible charges for exporting power to the grid
                        3. Work with businesses on solutions like peer-to-peer trading, virtual power plants VPP’s and
                           community batteries.
                        4. Encourage renewable energy technology and service providers to locate to Noosa Shire
                           boosting jobs and innovation capacity using the regional competitive advantage to further
                           diversify and build further resilience into the local economy.

                        B. Making Council’s Project Officer Transport Infrastructure Services a full-time role. This will
                           enable this officer to:
                           - deliver the annual Noosa EV Expo as part of an Integrated Transport Strategy along with
                              it’s Walking and Cycling Strategy. The EV Expo is recognized as a key event for Noosa
                              Council and for community engagement to raise the community awareness of the
                              importance of electric vehicles (cars, buses, scooters and bikes) and change behaviour to
                              help reduce the 30% of emissions that Noosa generates from transport.
                           - strengthen the existing Council’s strategies to get people out of emissions polluting
                              vehicles and into low emissions transport options with resulting social (health),
                              environmental and economic.

                        I thank you for your time in considering this submission and trust that Council is committed to
                        reducing emissions across the Shire.

 Infrastructure and     Email 1 - The budget for the next ten years seems to be missing a high speed connection to the
 Green Transport        Bruce Highway. Noosa and Tewantin has schools on all exit roads. This means people
                        comminiting to and from Noosa and Tewantin are caught in at least one schools traffic on all exits.
                        Tewantin is basically a crawl all mornings already and the Emundi road has a growing problem
                        with the school off Grey Road. Currently as the load on the Noosa Cooroy Road increases the
                        number of incidents increase and thus the speed limit decreases, this road is no longer a high
                        speed connection from Tewantin to the Bruce. Like Maroochydore, and Caloundra, Noosa and
                        Tewantin need a high speed connection to the Bruce Highway

                        Email 2 - The original noosa council used to look after water they resurfaced the roads in sunrise
                        beach and then later put sewerage lines through the new bitumen. Then unity water took over fees
                        went up and the water manholes started popping and road surface collapsing. I complained several
                        times to council over the years since because it is dangerous and carries buses and school
                        children. The buses hitting raised manholes shook our house. In 2019 I was told that Woolomia
                        way /boxsell rise was in 2021 budget. Instead we lost all our street trees and then nothing. This
                        road is one of the worst surfaces I travel over and the eastern beach suburbs are forgotten by
                        Council in preference for tourist areas and commercial zones. We need basic services and repairs
                        done. Peregian seems to have gardeners and street sweepers working daily, unnecessary works


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