2021-08-16 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                          16 AUGUST 2021


3.    The Noosa Economy
4.    Long-Term planning for Noosa Shire
5.    Excellence as a Council
This review of the last 12 months will be made against these five themes as well as the priorities in
the 2020/21 Operational Plan.

A review of the Corporate Plan was scheduled to commence in 2020/21 but it is proposed to
postpone this until early 2022. The reason for this is that as CEO, I announced my retirement and it
would be appropriate for the incoming CEO to develop the new plan in conjunction with the Council
and then be responsible for implementing it.

2020/21 – A YEAR IN REVIEW

                             Top 10 Highlights of 2020/21
                                            (in no particular order)


            Supporting our community during the
            COVID-19 pandemic through various                          Commencement of the long awaited
            lockdowns and subsequent recovery                          Tewantin by-pass with construction of the
            phases. This included new events like the                  $9M first stage beginning at the Beckmans
            Christmas convoy to bring cheer to our                     Road/Cooroy Noosa Road intersection.
            community.



            Council attracted over $23M in funding
                                                                       Establishment of the Noosa River
            commitments from the State and Federal
                                                                       Stakeholder Advisory Committee to provide
            Governments for our region for a range of
                                                                       Council and Marine Safety Queensland with
            infrastructure and programs that support our
                                                                       advice on priorities for the Noosa River.
            community.




                                                                       Commencement of construction of the
            Adopting the new Noosa Planning Scheme                     Hinterland Adventure Playground - a
            and working through its implementation.                    signature project for Cooroy and the
                                                                       Hinterland area.



            Our Pregian Beach Digitial Hub attracted
            over $2M in government funding to develop                  Completion of major infrastructure projects
            Fire Tech - an innovative program to                       including the Orealla Bridge at Sunrise
            advance the use of cutting edge technology                 Beach and the new roundabout at Hilton
            in preventing, detecting and fighting                      Terrace, Tewantin.
            bushfires.



            Council undertook a restructure of our
                                                                       Introducing a new online portal called "Open
            existing debt of approximately $22M to take
                                                                       Council" to make our Council more
            advantage of lower interest rates providing
                                                                       transparent.
            a saving to our ratepayers.




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