2021-03-02 Special Meeting Agenda

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA                                                                     2 MARCH 2021


                                                                                         ATTACHMENT 2

STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK: COUNCIL PROPOSAL TO ALLOW LARGER EVENTS

Dear Clint

I am writing on behalf of the Hastings St Association in relation to the current Noosa Council Event Policy
approach. We appreciate the time and information you have furnished us with and we have taken every effort
to consult widely with industry and our neighbouring Associations, Noosaville and Noosa Junction.

The Hastings Street Association supports Noosa Council retaining its own directive on an Events Policy in
relation to assessing non community events. We can see the merits in aligning to the State Event Guidelines
which provides clear understanding for industry state-wide however it does not appear to take responsibility
for an under performing operator and any ramifications of such would only be dealt with post the event, and
therefore irreparable damage to the industry and Noosa community would be costly.

All event applications should be assessed both for qualitative and quantitative measures and an experienced
independent event organiser should be included in your assessment panel.

Our recommendation is that Major Events need to deliver:

1.    An Independent economic pre-event assessment of their proposed event demonstrating the value to
      the local economy and the viability of the event. We believe this assessment is in the best interest of
      the event organiser given the level of investment required to deliver a major event and secondly it
      respects the investment by Council officers in assessing event applications

2.    An assessment of their Queensland Health COVID safe plans initiatives by a pandemic specialist, such
      as Respond Global, based in Noosa Junction, at the event operators own expense. We believe this
      measure would identify major event operators who were genuine in their COVID safe delivery and we
      would hope this would allow the community to recognise the level of responsibility that we place on the
      event delivery to protect their wellbeing and the reputation of Noosa.

We do not believe that capacity needs to be ringfenced to 500 people but each event application assessed on
measures outlined above and crucial the capabilities deck of the Event Organiser and its Entity.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback on this matter.

Yours sincerely
Hastings Street Association




                              Alesha Gooderham
                              Hastings Street Projects
                              m:0499 984 971
                              w:www.hastingsstreetassociationinc.com.au



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