2021-04-23 Special Meeting Agenda

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA                                                                             23 APRIL 2021


 Submission Summary                       Current     No         Increase   Decrease    %          %          % Budget
                                          Budget      change     Budget     Budget      Budget     Budget     Unchanged
                                          ($ mill)                                      Increase   Decrease

 Art gallery and Cooroy butter                 $1.0        51           1         15         1%         22%           76%
 factory
 Holiday parks                                 $1.4        56           2           9        3%         13%           84%
 Environmental management and sustainability initiatives
 Natural areas including bushland              $2.4        16          44           7       66%         10%           24%
 reserves and trails maintenance,
 fire management, environmental
 operations and sustainability
 initiatives
 Environment levy funded initiatives           $1.7        51          12           4       18%          6%           76%
 (land purchases. private land
 conservation, river management)
 Waste collection, disposal,                 $10.6         55           8           4       12%          6%           82%
 recycling and waste education
 Tourism and Economic Development
 Tourism                                       $2.6        65           2           *        3%          0%           97%
 Economic Development                          $0.9        33          11         23        16%         34%           49%
 Sustainable transport initiatives             $0.9        27          29         11        43%         16%           40%
 Heritage services                             $0.3        43          15           9       22%         13%           64%
 Planning, building, health and                $7.3        53           3         11         4%         16%           79%
 other inspection services
 Customer service, governance                $18.3         50           5         12         7%         18%           75%
 and administration

* Funding levels to Tourism Noosa were unable to be reduced due to current contractual arrangements.

In terms of how the submitters wished to balance the operating budget expenditure changes through
revenue adjustments the following was observed (on average).
 General rates were increased by $550,000 (1.12% increase);
 Fees and sales were only slightly increased by $22,000 (0.12% increase);
 The environment levy was increase by $219,000 or $7.30 per property (12.8% increase);
 The heritage levy was increased by $7,000 or $0.23 per property (4.6% increase);
 The sustainable transport levy was increased by $42,000 or $1.40 per property (6% increase)

Further specific details extracted from the Balance Your Noosa Council Operating Budget
participation tool submissions has been provided in Attachment 1 for information.

2     Your Say Noosa Submitted Ideas
In addition to using the Balance Your Noosa Council Operating Budget participation tool, Council
also encouraged residents and ratepayers to take the opportunity to send in specific suggestions
and / or submissions via the Your Say Noosa webpage that could be considered by Council. 11
contributions occurred on the page with ideas varying between requests for information through to
ideas to provide additional services and also reduce services. The full list of ideas are provided as
Attachment 2 to this report.




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