2016-04-26 General Committee Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                            26 APRIL 2016


Initiatives                          Comment
Rufous Street Project                This project is proceeding well. Council has approved the Master
                                     Plan and has also approved the lodgement of the planning
                                     application. The Project Control Group continues to liaise with the
                                     local community to address any concerns. The next step is the
                                     formal lodgement of the town planning application which is expected
                                     to occur before the end of April. Council needs to consider that
                                     application in its capacity as a planning authority.
Noosa Transport Strategy             The development of the strategy is slightly behind in terms of timing
                                     with further community consultation proposed.
Koala Policy                         The policy has been adopted and a draft action plan is currently
                                     being endorsed by Council for community consultation.
Library Strategy                     The service review has now been completed and it has identified
                                     some long term strategies that should be considered by the Council.
                                     A Councillor workshop is scheduled for 29 April 2016.
New Planning Scheme                  Background studies are continuing with the first workshop with
                                     Councillors scheduled for 3 May 2016. Current strategies and
                                     studies underway include flooding, biodiversity and transport.
Refurbishment of Munna Point         This project is proceeding well. It is on track for completion in early
Bridge                               May with “top of deck” work to commence shortly. This work will
                                     impact on local traffic flow but is unavoidable to complete the project.
Dr Pages Road                        Due to recent wet weather, the construction phase is about 3 weeks
                                     behind schedule. At this stage, the project is likely to be completed
                                     around the end of April or early May.
Workplace Health and Safety          Our new WH&S Advisor has commenced and is focused on catch up
                                     in terms of systems and policy. This remains a high priority for the
                                     Leadership Team.
Undertake      regular     service   All but one service review has now been completed. The Leadership
reviews                              Team intends to review how this process works to streamline
                                     reviews. The intention is to focus on how services can be improved
                                     by taking a detailed look at different areas of Council over time.

2.    KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

As Council would be aware, KPIs were first developed for our organisation at the beginning of
2014/15. Approximately 30 management KPIs were developed and these are reviewed on a
monthly basis by the Leadership Team. Approximately 15 of those KPIs are reported to Council
on a quarterly basis. They are also reported to the Audit & Risk Committee in detail at each
Audit & Risk Committee meeting.

As far as the CEO is aware, we are one of the few Councils in Queensland to make this KPI
information available to the public via “non-confidential” reports. The KPIs are included in
Attachment 2.

The key issues arising from an assessment of the KPIs for the third quarter are as follows:

Our People
    In relation to WH&S, our performance is slowly improving. Our new WH&S Advisor
      commenced in February and is based at the Depot with an initial focus on updating action
      plans and policies. The Workplace Health and Safety Committees have also been
      revamped and a single committee established to better focus our WH&S efforts. The first
      meeting of the new Committee is scheduled for 28 March.


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