2015-07-21 Infrastructure and Services Committee Agenda

INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                21 JULY 2015


SECTION          RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                             CURRENT PRIORITIES                            LOOKING AHEAD
Libraries         Cooroy Library Café tender closed.            Finalise the Service Review of opening      Development of Library Strategic Plan.
                    Applicant selected (United Synergies).          hours, the Mobile Library stops and         Planning for Library Literary events for
                  Initial condition assessment of                 staffing.                                     2016
                    Noosaville and Cooroy Library                 Transfer of café operations to United
                    completed. Report in development.               Synergies.
                  General repair and maintenance works          Complete Mill Place Boiler House report
                    completed at all branches (Cooroy               to seek approval to complete
                    Library – internal walkways sanded and          recommended works.
                    polished and lounge seating re-covered;       Transfer Mill Place Boiler House works
                    Noosaville Library – blinds in meeting          responsibility to Planning &
                    room replaced, meeting room wall                Infrastructure.
                    repainted; Mobile Library – bench             Development of 2015/16 Branch Plans.
                    sanded and polished).                         Finalise members for the Library
                  Awarded an SLQ Technology                       Strategic Plan Reference group.
                    Trendsetters Grant for Robots for             Develop cleaning contract specifications
                    Everyone –a coding and robotics                 and tender documents.
                    program, centred around a fully               Continued investigation and purchase of
                    programmable NAO humanoid robot.                resources needed for the outreach
                    Total = $18,824                                 programs within Best Start (funded
                  Awarded a State Library Q Anzac 100             through State Library of Queensland)
                    Historypin grant to present WWI stories       Continued investigation and review of
                    of the Noosa community. Total =                 the library website.
                    $10,000
                  Our first fee based Book Club Winter
                    Soiree event with author Sarah
                    Armstrong was a great success with 50
                    people attending at $8 p/p
                  First stand-alone pilot e-news distributed
                    with positive outcomes – headline event
                    booked out within 24 hours.
                  1800 people visited the library and
                    Butter Factory during the Cooroy
                    Fusion Festival.
                  Successful winter school holiday
                     program for children, young adults and
                     families. Total attendance: approx. 350.



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