Annual Report 2014

This Report and De-amalgamation
The Local Government Act 2009 (LG Act) and the Local Government Regulation 2012
(LG Regulation), requires local governments of Queensland to prepare an annual report for each
financial year, which reports Council specific information in a number of mandatory areas.

As previously identified, this is Noosa Council’s first report since it was re-established on
1 January 2014. Accordingly, the relevant reporting period for this report is from 1 January 2014 to
30 June 2014.



Key Council Achievements
In reporting to the community on Council’s achievements towards achieving its goals in the first
6 months of operations, it makes sense to identify a number of themes, namely:
   Governance;
   Service Delivery;
   Planning;
   Community Engagement;
   Organisation Establishment; and
   Finance.

These themes reflect the duality of purpose that the Council had in that period of both improving
the provision of services to the Noosa community, and establishing a new Council.

Governance
The Council established a decision making framework based on a Committee system.               The
Council established the following Committees with Councillor membership as follows:
   Planning and Organisation Committee:
    Crs. Wilkie (Chairperson), Jurisevic, Playford and Wellington;
   Infrastructure and Services Committee:
    Crs. Bolton (Chairperson), Abbot, Pardon and Playford;
   General Committee:
    All Councillors are members of the General Committee (Chairperson is Cr Wellington).
These Committees made recommendations to Council which met each month to consider those
recommendations. Noosa Council has a deliberate practice of ensuring that its Council meetings
are open to the public and rarely closes its meetings.

Council also implemented a number of governance decisions which, while not particularly exciting,
were necessary to establish a functioning local government and in the community’s best interest.
These included:
   Agreement to establish an Audit Committee (which commenced in the 2014/15 financial year);
   Adoption of a Procurement Policy to guide Council’s purchasing practices; and
   Establishment of a system of delegations to allow for quicker decision making.




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