2019-11-12 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                                 12 NOVEMBER 2019


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                          RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                       CURRENT PRIORITIES                           THE NEXT QUARTER
                                               Council and Unions worked jointly                                                   Testing may occur at any time and
                                                to promote the Drug and Alcohol                                                        staff are expected to be fully
                                                Policy and make our workplaces                                                         compliant with the requirements of
                                                safer.                                                                                 the policy and procedure.
Business as Usual activities                  32 positions were advertised this       Development of the performance             Implement recommendations and
Support the organisation with payroll,          quarter compared to 21 in the             planning process for civil operations        actions from the Service Review.
work health and safety, recruitment, on-        previous quarter. 10 appointments         staff.                                     Implement performance planning
boarding and workplace relations.               were from internal applicants. 18       Finalized P&C service profiles.              process for civil operations staff.
                                                appointments were from external         Implement the Workforce Planning
                                                applicants with the remaining             program     across     all    Council
                                                positions still going through the         Branches.
                                                recruitment process.
                                                                                        Planning for the staff recognition
                                                                                          event.
Community Engagement
Communications and Community                  Presentation on communications          Look to finalise current document          Finalise CE Action Plan and
Engagement Strategy Review incl.                and engagement provided to                into   an     Action    Plan    for          implement activities within Program.
Review of branch services.                      Management Team.                          implementation.
                                              Draft strategy completed and            Consider a future discussion on
                                                reviewed by Peer Group.                   developing a high level Community
                                              Strategy reviewed by Executive            Engagement Strategy with councillor
                                                Team and input sought from                and community input.
                                                councillors on content.
Website Project                               Web design finalised.                   Finalise content migration and             Arrange training for web authors for
                                              Content migration to new platform         schedule training for staff.                 mid November 2019.
                                                due to commence in late October         Review web authors and prepare             Maintain a google document of any
                                                2019.                                     training for select staff.                   web changes to current pages, to
                                                                                                                                       assist with content migration.
                                                                                                                                     Go Live date to be set for late
                                                                                                                                       November.
Go Noosa Campaign                             Council    endorsed    Go   Noosa       Liaise with Transport Strategy             Finalise and implementation of
                                                campaign for December-January             officers  to    finalise  marketing          marketing campaign
                                              Collaborative    development   of         campaign for Go Noosa
                                                Communications and Promotion            Discussions with media stakeholders
                                                Plan for Go Noosa.                        to prepare costings, as part of
                                                                                          marketing strategy development.



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