2019-12-10 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                         10 DECEMBER 2019


Date                        Status      Event
5 - 11 November 2019        Stand Up    Lake Cooroibah/Teewah Fire
                                         The residents of Teewah village were
                                           evacuated for a number of hours during the
                                           evening of 5 November.
                                         Increased fire weather conditions saw the fire
                                           restart on 9 November and the residents of
                                           Cooroibah and Noosa North Shore were
                                           evacuated for 2 nights.
                                         The residents of the old Tewantin area were
                                           evacuated for 1 night.
                                         5 evacuation centres were opened (Noosa
                                           Leisure Centre, The J, Christian Outreach
                                           Centre, Cooroy Library and Noosaville
                                           Library).
                                         Noosa LDCC moved to Stand Down 25
                                           November.
13 - 14 November 2019       Stand Up    Noosa North Shore (in vicinity of First Cutting)
                                        Fire
                                         The residents of Noosa North Shore were
                                           again evacuated for 1 night.
                                         The Noosa Leisure Centre was opened as an
                                           evacuation centre.
                                         Noosa LDCC moved to Stand Down 25
                                           November.

5.   LDMG Sub Groups
Details of the Noosa Local Recovery Groups will be included in a separate report by the Local
Recovery Coordinator.
Disaster management staff met with members of the Noosa North Shore, Kin Kin and Pomona
Community Disaster Management Sub-Groups during the year. A meeting with the Cooran sub-
group will be scheduled when their reformation activities are complete. In preparation for the
coming season, further meetings with the Sub-groups will be scheduled.

6.   Emergency Operations Team
As well as being responsible for coordinating disaster operations of all emergency services
during an event, Council is required under the Disaster Management Act 2003 to maintain a
response capability to:
“provide equipment and a suitable number of trained persons, using the resources available to
the local government, to effectively deal with, or help another entity deal with, an emergency
situation or a disaster in the local government area”.
In order to meet this responsibility, the Emergency Operations Team (EOT) meets regularly to
develop and coordinate Council’s emergency response capability. The group is chaired by
Council’s Civil Operations Manager and meets bi-monthly.
The EOT have undertaken a number of reviews across Council’s disaster response capability
over the past year.
    The Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA) provided training to Civil Operations staff
     on information including photographic evidence required to substantiate claims for damage
     to Council assets as a result of disaster event.
    Video of Council’s gravel roads has been undertaken using a GPS enabled camera which
     has addressed QRA requirements to demonstrate the pre event condition for gravel roads.

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