2019-05-07 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                                         7 MAY 2019


CORPORATE SERVICES DEPARTMENT

BRANCH ACTIVITIES                 RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                          CURRENT PRIORITIES                             THE NEXT QUARTER
Directors Office

Revenue Diversification Project      Strategy drafted and project plan          Establishment of working team to             Finalisation of draft strategy and
                                       finalised  and   discussed   with            review strategy and project plan               project plan.
                                       Executive Team.                            Action plan development including            Identification of pilot projects.
                                                                                    resource allocation.
Grant Funding Opportunities          Grant applications submitted for           Continue to monitor external funding         Continue to monitor external funding
                                       State Government 2019-2021 Local             streams      for    future     grant           streams      for    future     grant
                                       Government Grants and Subsidies              opportunities.                                 opportunities.
                                       funding        round      (Hinterland
                                       Playground      and   North     Shore
                                       Campground Upgrade).
                                     Grant application submitted and
                                       successful for next round of the
                                       Federal Government Bridge Renewal
                                       Program (2 timber bridges – Kin Kin
                                       and Cooran).
                                     Final grant claims submitted for Mary
                                       River Road and Old Noosa Road
                                       bridge replacements.
Financial Services

Budget                               Budget review 3 (BR3) for final            Finalisation of draft 2019/20 budget         Adoption of 2019/20 budget by the
                                       2018/19 budget adjustments adopted           and supporting financial policies.             end of June.
                                       by Council.                                Ongoing monthly budget reporting
                                     2019/20 budget development in                and support.
                                       progress.
Assets                               Capitalisation of constructed and          Assess        desktop        indexation      Continued asset capitalisation to
                                       developer contributed assets to              revaluation outcomes for all asset             address backlog in Work in Progress
                                       complete the year-end process.               classes.                                       (WIP).
                                     Finalisation of the stormwater assets      Organisational       guideline     and
                                       reconciliation between Technology            procedures      revised    for    asset
                                       One asset register and GIS.                  capitalisation and data responsibility.
                                     Development of data improvement
                                       roadmap for validating asset data for
                                       all asset classes.

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