2019-05-07 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                                                        7 MAY 2019


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                             RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                            CURRENT PRIORITIES                             THE NEXT QUARTER
Plan and deliver a range of engaging             Delivered high-profile literary event –      Deliver April School Holiday program         Deliver     Advance        Queensland
public library programs which support              Leigh Sales, over 400 people                   & finalise June/July school holiday            Engaging Science Flying Inventors
reading, learning and literacy (including          attended                                       program.                                       program
digital literacy)                                Awarded $9,100 for successful                Develop      Advance      Queensland         Plan Advance Queensland Engaging
                                                   Advance Queensland Engaging                    Engaging Science Flying Inventors              Science 3D Inventor program to be
                                                   Science grant application                      program                                        held in October/November 2019
                                                 Delivered successful Tech Savvy              Finalise professional development            Deliver     emerging      technologies
                                                   Seniors program between Jan-                   program for emerging technologies              program for council staff
                                                   March 2019 with 289 attendees.                 for council staff                            Deliver Immerse High 2019 program
                                                 Delivered Dec/Jan school holiday             Final preparations for Cooroy Fusion         Deliver library programs as part of
                                                   program, holding 14 events with 489            Festival 2019, Saturday 11th May               the Cooroy Fusion Festival 2019
                                                   attendees. Registered 183 children           Partner with CreateNoosa to deliver
                                                   for the Summer Reading Club                    3rd annual Immerse High 2019
                                                 Application submitted for F5F                  program in Noosa & Cooroy
                                                   Project Grant 2018-1019 to create              Makerspaces -              Virtual &
                                                   children’s Indigenous first words              Augmented         Reality  storytelling
                                                   picture book                                   competition for high school students

Deliver capital   works   and    facilities      Completed rectification roof works           Installation of roof over Cooroy             Continue to work with Civil Works on
projects                                           on Noosaville Library in preparation           Library air con plant                          Wallace Park Precinct pavement
                                                   for solar panel installation                 Complete rectification works of                upgrade to complete priority sections
                                                                                                  external storage area – Noosaville
                                                                                                  Library
                                                                                                Finalise solar panel design for
                                                                                                  Noosaville Library
GALLERIES                                        Successful delivery of January –             Implementation of The force that             Continued planning for Floating
Plan and deliver a schedule of engaging            March exhibitions:                             through the green fuse drives the              Land Festival.
exhibitions and programs which diversify         Tree Place, a curated exhibition               flower as an affiliate exhibition of         Planning for Lyn McCrea Memorial
and grow audiences; and support local              featuring 27 artists                           ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019.                       Drawing Prize.
arts practices                                   Taste of Art, a Friends Noosa                Delivery of I Hope you get this by           Delivery of inaugural Masterclass
                                                   Regional       Gallery      members’           Raquel Ormella, a touring show from            series.
                                                   exhibition featuring 96 local artists          Shepparton Art Museum.                       Planning for 2020 – 2022 exhibition
                                                 Promiscuous Provenance, touring              Delivery     of    Ted    Baraclough           programs.
                                                   exhibition from Shoalhaven Regional            exhibition.
                                                   Gallery.                                     Delivery of Use, a touring show from
                                                 Atlas of the Human Heart by Simone             Museums           and       Galleries
                                                   Eisler.                                        Queensland.
                                                 Selected Works by Julia deVille.             Delivery of Wear to from Here by
                                                                                                  Gerhard Herbst.

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