2015-07-02 Ordinary Meeting Agenda

ORDINARY MEETING AGENDA                                                                   2 JULY 2015


Second Community Jury Topic

The first Community Jury topic was: “What is the best option for minimising organic waste sent to
landfill?”

It is timely to consider a topic for the second Community Jury.

The criteria used to determine what could be referred to a Community Jury included:

     Is it a significant issue for the Noosa community?
     Does it have significant financial implications and is information about the financial
      implications available?
     Is the Council open to consider recommendations by the Community Jury?

The question for Noosa’s second Community Jury is proposed as:

“How can we manage the Noosa River better?             What role should Council play and what
resources should Council apply?”

This is a significant issue for our community and one that can be addressed by a Community
Jury. Council already has a lot of background information and material that would be useful for
the Community Jury to consider on this topic. This covers issues such as the management of
abandoned vessels, effluent discharge from people living on board vessels, visual amenity on the
river (mooring/anchoring), regulating uses on the river etc.

Community Jury Meetings

Jury members will attend up to six meetings. An initial briefing will be held on a Saturday from
9.30am-4.30pm with up to 5 additional jury meetings being held on Wednesday nights from
6.00pm-9.00pm. The timing of meetings will be set when the second jury is established to allow
for potential jury members to be aware of their commitment.

Information for the Community Jury

Should the question be adopted, the Community Jury will deliberate in light of information
provided by Council and from other external sources. The Community Jury can request additional
information from Council as it progresses and can request that Council obtain information from
external sources such as State Government Agencies and experts in the field. The jury will
determine what information it needs and who they wish to present to them on the topic.

It is important that Council is transparent and supplies all information as requested.

All information supplied by Council to the Community Jury will be made available to the public via
Council’s website and its online community engagement tool, Your Say Noosa.

Members of the public can make submissions to the Community Jury.

Level of Authority – Community Jury

Council will consider recommendation/s as presented by the Jury in its report but retains the right
to make the final decision as required by law as it is the governing body pursuant to the Local
Government Act 2009.




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