2021-08-16 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                            16 AUGUST 2021


    Initiatives                             Comment
    Continue to partner with The Nature     Engineering and bathymetric analysis has been completed and the
    Conservancy to implement the Oyster     State assessment and referral agency has identified no significant
    Reef Restoration Project in the Noosa   obstacles to approvals. Staff will report to Council once we receive
    River                                   the TNC annual report and KPIs on this project.
    Deliver economic stimulus projects      Most of these projects have been completed but there are a couple
    funded by the Commonwealth and          that will carry over to the first few months of 2021/22. Arrangements
    State government Covid19 grants         are being put in place with the relevant government agencies to
                                            ensure that time and cost extensions are approved.
    Review of Council’s Corporate Plan      With the planned retirement of the CEO, the development of a new
                                            corporate plan will be undertaken in early 2022 once the new CEO is
                                            on board.


2.       KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

As Council would be aware, KPIs were first developed for our organisation at the beginning of
2014/15. 16 of those KPIs are reported to Council on a quarterly basis. The KPIs are included in
Attachment 2.

As advised previously, the Executive Team has undertaken a review of these KPIs and will transition
those KPIs which are at a Departmental Level into the relevant quarterly department update reports
to Council from the first quarter of the 2021/22 year.

The key issues arising from an assessment of the KPIs are as follows:

Our People
        Given that this is the end of financial year KPI report, there are a couple of “annual type” KPIs
         worth noting. The first of these is staff turnover. Staff turnover in 2020/2021 is the lowest it has
         been in the last 7 years ie 6.6%. For the information of Council, our historical staff turnover
         has been as per the table below:
          Year                       Staff turnover rate
                                     (percentage)
          2014/15                    11.06%
          2015/16                    13.06%
          2016/17                    8.9%
          2017/18                    8.2%
          2018/19                    10.9%
          2019/20                    9.6%
          2020/21                    6.6%

        In relation to Workplace Health and Safety, our Lost Time Injury Duration results have been
         quite variable over the last 12 months. There have been a number of longer term issues which
         have impacted on the statistics.
        Personal leave shows that personal leave had been reducing compared to previous years but
         there has been a significant increase in the number of long-term illnesses. This was
         particularly the case in relation to personal leave greater than 5 days reflecting some long-term
         illnesses of some staff.



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