2019-12-10 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                           10 DECEMBER 2019


    Pre fire Season briefing and tour
    Mary Regional Resilience Strategy Pilot
    Disaster Management Engagement Group – SE Queensland disaster management officers
    Inspector General Emergency Management (IGEM) Disaster Management Network –
      regular teleconferences and attendance at the annual forum
    Pre-Fire Season Preparative Workshop – North Coast Region
    Sunshine Coast and Noosa Area Fire Management
    Exercise Hydrogen – Counter Terrorist local event
    Local Public Order management events
    Intelligence and Planning Cell training
    Governor Generals Visit and Community Event
    TMR North Coast District annual pre-season Disruptive Event
    A/State Recovery Coordinator visit and discussion around mitigation funding opportunities.
9.    SES
The Queensland State Emergency Service (SES) is a “not-for-profit” community volunteer
emergency service organisation. The Noosa District SES has 55 local volunteers responding to
disasters and emergencies across the Shire with four SES sheds located at Tewantin, Pomona,
Boreen Point and Cooroy.
In the past twelve (12) months The Noosa SES responded to 129 job, details as follows;
      Traffic Control        7 jobs – assist QPS
      Storm Damage           82 jobs – includes roof and sandbag jobs
      Tree jobs              33 jobs
      Land search            5 jobs – assist QPS
      Patient retrieval      1 job – assist QAS
In addition to the jobs above, they also helped the community with a range of community events
such as:
    Australia Day Celebrations
    ANZAC Day
    Fusion Festival
    Festival of Water
    RYDA Program
    King of the Mountain
    Vietnam Vets Day; Spring Mountain Festival
    Noosa Show
    Booin Gari Festival
    October Pink Fun Run
    Remembrance Day
    Christmas in Cooroy and in Tewantin to name a few
Council received $15,000 which assisted in the purchase of a Landcruiser Utility. Furthermore, in
the 2019/2020 financial year $31,292 was received for the restoration of the Noosa SES Group
main building in Tewantin, and $30,000 to assist with the purchase of a Toyota Coaster bus for
the Noosa SES Group.

10.   Queensland Reconstruction Authority Funding Payments
There were no funding programs applicable to Council in this category in the 2018/2019 financial
year.




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