2022-08-18 Ordinary Meeting Agenda

ORDINARY MEETING AGENDA                                                            18 AUGUST 2022


E.    Thank all those who took the time to make application and acknowledge the high quality of
      applications and extensive experience of applicants from our community.


REPORT
1.    Background
At Noosa Council’s Ordinary Meeting of Thursday 21 July 2022, Council noted a report on the
formation of a Destination Management Plan Project Control Group presented by the Manager,
Economic Development to the July General Committee Meeting (dated Monday 18 July 2022).
In response to this report, Council resolved to:
a.    Establish Governance around the project that embeds a “Whole of Council”, “Whole of
      Community” approach to the development of the plan;
b.    Approve the formation of a Destination Management Plan (DMP) Internal and External Project
      Control Group (PCG) that internally meet on a monthly basis and jointly on a bi-monthly basis;
c.    Approve an EOI process commencing 25 July – 8 August to appoint up to 3 additional
      community members with relevant community and industry experience as well as qualifications
      and request a report recommending the appointment of up to 3 community members be
      provided to the next General Committee meeting on 15 August;
d.    Request the joint internal and external PCG at its first meeting develop a participative approach
      to the guidance of the plan process
e.    Approve the Terms of Reference for the DMP PCG provided at Attachment 1 except as
      amended above; and
f.    Appoint Cr Stewart – Mayor as the Chair, and Councillors Lorentson and Stockwell as
      representatives on the DMP PCG and that Councillor membership on the PCG be reviewed
      on a 6 monthly basis
This report advances the above recommendations.

2.    Expression of Interest Process
      Invitation to Express Interest
•     An Expression of Interest Application Form was uploaded to the Economic Development
      Site (please see Appendix 1) following approval from Council’s Governance Manager and input
      from the Director, Environment and Sustainable Development and CEO.
•     Nominations were invited through print media (Noosa Today), the Mayoral Video and through
      Council’s social media channels from Monday 25th July 2022 to midnight on Friday 5 August
      2022.
•     In addition, key economic development stakeholders, and business eco-systems (including
      Tourism Noosa, Chambers of Commerce, and various Business Associations) were invited to
      share to the EOI link with their respective databases and networks.
•     Emails were also sent to Community and NRM groups.
•     By close of the EOI application process, Council had received 704 visits to the site and 136
      responses culminating in:
      o     29 completed responses (eligible for consideration)
      o     107 partial responses     (ineligible for consideration)
•     All eligible nominations were acknowledged by Council.




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