2019-05-07 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                  7 MAY 2019




                   •Identify and
                    coordinate
                    research, action                 •Develop central
                    etc. already                      repository - eg
                    occuring                          Noosa Research
                   •Scope central                     Liibrary                          •Evolve and
                    repository to                    •Determine and                      grow the virtual
                    capture, store                    promote              Council       model
      Council                           Council
                    and make                          Strategic           decision to   •Explore
     decision to    accessible
                                       decision to
                                                      Agenda for                         potential
      proceed       research etc.       proceed                            proceed
                                                      research and                       Physical
                   •Engage to                         action                             presence for
                    inform                           •Establish virtual                  Institute
                    development of                    web based
                    strategic                         model -
                    agenda for                        Potential virtual
                    future research                   Noosa institute
                    and action




                                                     Figure 2



Previous Council Consideration

Ordinary Meeting Minutes, 19 October 2017, Item 1, Page 13
That Council note the report by the Director Environment and Sustainable Development to the
Ordinary Meeting dated 19 October 2017 and
A.       Agree to the appointment of CSIRO’s Data61 to undertake research into the concept of an
         institute of sustainability in Noosa;
B.       Enter into the arrangement with Data61 in accordance with section 235(a) of the Local
         Government Regulation 2012;
C.       Approve the staged investigation and business case development of establishing a
         Sustainability Institute in Noosa;
D.       Refer funding for Stage 1 of the project to the next budget review; and
E.       Consider funding of Stage 2 and 3 of the project at a future Council meeting, following the
         review of the outcomes of Stage 1.


Finance
Council funded the Stage 1 investigation as part of its 2018-19 budget amount of $36,342. This
stage is now complete. It is not proposed to allocate further funding to this concept at this point
any further budget allocation will be the subject of a future report to Council.




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