2015-01-12 General Committee Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                   12 January 2015


ELIGIBLE PROJECTS, EVENTS OR PROGRAMS
To be eligible to apply for funding, community grant applications must adhere to the terms and
conditions set out in this Policy as well as the supporting Grant Guidelines for the specific funding
program.

GRANT PROCESS

Community Grants will encompass the following four funding programs. Advertising for the four
funding programs will acknowledge a relevant funding cap per application.

Note 1. That Council may assist with operating costs of school-based swimming pools on State
        Government or Council land that are open to the general public outside of school hours,
        however this funding is not dealt with under Community Grants Policy. Information on
        swimming pool funding is available in the separate Guidelines for Community Pools
        document.

Note 2. That Festive Season grants will be dealt with under a separate strategy.

1.    Three-Year Maintenance Agreements

This style of funding is intended to provide longer-term consistent support for a select group of
eligible not-for-profit incorporated community organisations that maintain Council and community
infrastructure. There are two categories:

a) Maintenance and management of community halls or centres. Eligible community
organisations may receive part funding for on-going operational and/or maintenance purposes of
Council infrastructure only where that infrastructure is publicly accessible.

b) Sports field maintenance. Eligible sporting organisations may receive part funding for on-going
maintenance of sporting fields. The organisations must have primary responsibility for fields that
are open to the public when not being used by those organisations.

Three-Year Maintenance Agreements operate by invitation-only rather than through a
competitive process. Recipients are required to provide biannual progress reports, annual
acquittal documents and audited financial statements. Individual Three-Year Maintenance
Agreements will be reviewed after two years.

Council will establish a formula and a funding cap setting the maximum allowable for individual
Three-Year Maintenance Agreements. This amount may vary from year to year. Details of this
funding limit will be detailed in the Grant Guidelines for Three-Year Maintenance Agreements.

Recipients of Three-Year Maintenance Agreements are ineligible for Annual Operating Costs
grants.

2.    Annual Operating Costs

This funding arrangement will provide a part contribution towards select recurring operational
expenses of eligible not-for-profit community organisations whose services benefit the community
in the Noosa Council area.

Annual Operating Costs Grants will be decided in a competitive assessment process on an
annual basis.




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