2022-10-24 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   24 OCTOBER 2022




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GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                               24 OCTOBER 2022

                Review of Noosa Oyster Ecosystem Restoration Project
                Key Issues Report — Noosa Shire Council                                                                          Confidential and subject to legal privilege
                                                                                                                                                         18 October 2022
                   yan)    LSA id 4  LC abst)                                                                     Recommended action
                         category
                                     NRF Observations:                                                            set out detailed reasons in the internal
                                     Based on the General Committee Meeting Report of 14 January 2019,            assessment of an application (and subsequent
                                     Council considered relevant assessment criteria. For example, Council:       briefing to Council) as to its compliance with the
                                             :          s                 ea            ;       ,       ;         criteria as well as a justification as to why the
                                     e   considered the risks and opportunities for the Project (noting that it   project is being considered in isolation
                                         appears that Council considered this Project in isolation to other                                            :
                                         environmental initiatives and actions that could have been available);      /                    ae
                                     *   considered the Noosa Environment Strategy, specifically the alignment of his assessment and justification should also
                                         the Project with a key focus area of this strategy, being “Waterways,    include a detailed risk and opportunities
                                         Wetlands & Coasts” (with the first priority of this focus being to [email protected] improve the health of waterways, wetlands and catchments);
                                     e   consulted with many internal and external stakeholders, e.g. the Noosa   _—Note: this is not a material concern for the Project
                                         Parks Association, Noosa Biosphere Reserve and both Council’s            as the Council briefing report transparently
                                         Governance office and Environmental and Sustainable Development          identified that this Project had been considered in
                                         office; and                                                              isolation (with an opportunity for additional
                                     e   considered local content, value for money and public interest criteria (this oration  Foated.       by Councillors to
                                         was addressed both in the report itself and the report’s attachments).               :    4    ee      .
                                                                                                                  Separately, Council might consider the need fora
                                                               :                                  .               probity advisor to be appointed, as appropriate,
                                     Notably, the above report did not specifically appear to address insurance   for grant funding programs to monitor the
                                     and work health and safety criteria. However, we note that this criteria was application of the program.
                                     subsequently addressed in the Alliance Funding Agreement that was entered
                                     into by the parties.
                 4.                  Stakeholder consultation undertaken.                                         Council to ensure that its internal assessment
                                                                                                                  process has an action identified, as part of the
                                                   -    .                                                         assessment, to ensure appropriate stakeholder
                                     BRE Shservatlons:                                                            consultation is undertaken. If there are concerns
                                     Council undertook substantive stakeholder consultation before, during and    regarding the extent to which such consultation
                                     after the proposal evaluation process. For example, the findings of such     can be done at the assessment stage (e.g. due to
                                     consultation were documented in the 2015 TNC Report and 2018 USC             confidentiality or the sensitive nature of the
                                     Report. The General Committee Report of 14 January 2019 also noted           project), Council should retain an internal action to
                                     Council had consulted with many external stakeholders as part of the Oyster — continue such consultation at subsequent
                                     Reef Pilot Project.                                                          appropriate gates.

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