2020-07-10 Special Meeting Agenda

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA                                                                        10 JULY 2020


        o       Community Development Branch, Community Services Department
                The redesign of two positions - Community Development Officer - Arts and Culture and
                Community Development Officer (resulting in an increase of .2 EFT) and the redesign
                of the Grants Officer position (resulting in a decrease of .4 EFT) as a result of the
                financial management of grants being transferred to the Financial Services Branch,
                Corporate Services Department.
                The overall impact of these changes is a reduction in the EFT of the Community
                Development Branch from 5.4 to 5.2 and an increase in the EFT of the Financial
                Services Branch, from 9 to 9.4.
        o       Noosa Community Support (NCS), Community Services Department
                As a result of State funding changes, NCS effectively lost 400K of annual funding from
                July 2019 onwards. To counter the effects of this lost funding NCS had to reduce
                annual expenditure by the same amount in order to operate at a zero-cost level. NCS
                has been able to reduce its expenditure levels through a variety of measures including
                streamlining its structure. This has occurred through a combination of voluntary hour
                reductions and strategically choosing not to replace positions following voluntary
                resignations. It is now clear that NCS can operate within the reduced funding landscape
                with a reduced EFT level and as such these changes can now be formalised via
                changes to the establishment.
                The collective effect of these changes is a reduction in the EFT of NCS from 24.9 to
                20.27 (a decrease of 4.63 EFT).
       It should be noted that for long term comparative purposes, temporary fixed term project
        positions are excluded from the EFT however as these positions are essential to the delivery
        of major projects and do have budgetary implications, a schedule of these positions is
        attached for Council’s information. Salary provision has been made in the proposed 2020/21
        budget to fund these positions
       There are no redundancies proposed in this budget.


The organisational structure changes in this budget are as follows:


Proposed variances to permanent positions EFT
    Position                         EFT     Notes
    Community Services Department
    Waste and Environmental Health   0.5     New Initiative - Increase from .5 EFT to 1 EFT for the
    Branch                                   Environment Officer to undertake environmental surveillance
                                             associated with EPA licence requirements and new landfill
                                             planning, including expansion of a new cell. The current
                                             Environment Officer is part time (.5).
    Community          Development   -0.2    The redesign of two positions of Community Development
    Branch                                   Officer and one position of Grants Officer which resulted in a
                                             .2 EFT decrease in the establishment of the Community
                                             Development Branch and an increase of .4 EFT in the
                                             Financial Services Branch, Corporate Services Department.
    Noosa Community Support          -4.63   Decrease from 24.9 EFT to 20.27 EFT following a reduction in
                                             State government funding which required the review of the
                                             service, its structure and resourcing.
    Executive Services Department
    Community Engagement Branch      0.2     New Initiative - Increase from .4 EFT to .6 EFT for the part time
                                             Communications Officer (Brand) to effectively manage
                                             Council’s website and its contents.

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