2015-04-28 Infrastructure & Services Committee Agenda

INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                               28 APRIL 2015


SECTION          RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                                CURRENT PRIORITIES                              LOOKING AHEAD

                     On track to meet 5 % savings target            Development of stand-alone e-news for           New cleaning tender for next financial/
                      from Libraries Service Review                     Libraries as a pilot project for target          year.
                    Financial Literacy Consultant and                 marketing                                      Evaluation of the tenders for the Cooroy
                      Professional Evaluator secured for the         Development of a fee-based event for              Library coffee service, with a view to the
                      Dollars Making Sense grant                       current and potential Book Club                   new operator commencing in July.
                    New social media platform, Instagram, is         members called the Book Club Winter             Development of Noosa program for
                      proving to be a successful engagement            Soiree with author Sarah Armstrong                Best Start, funded through State Library
                      and promotional platform with over 280         Application for the next SLQ Technology           of Qld
                      followers since February                         Trendsetters Grants. This program will          Planning of Winter School Holiday
                    Tender process for management of                 be called Robot’s for Everyone – an               program
                      Library Espresso at Cooroy Library               introductory     coding   and     robotics
                      underway.                                        program, providing access to, and
                    Griffiths Negative Collection Launch             training in programming this emerging
                      showcasing the 1500 images indexed               technology
                      and 155 images scanned was held on             Investigating current mechanical issues
                      25th Feb with over 40 people in                  with Mobile Library generator causing
                      attendance                                       hydraulic failure
                    Successful annual off-site literary event,     Investigating issues with downpipes
                      with 60 people attending the author and          overflowing at Noosaville Library
                      Master Chef participant, Amina Elshafei        General     repair    and    maintenance
                      event, held on 8 March 2015 for                  activities at Cooroy and Noosaville
                      International Women’s Day                        Libraries
                    Phil Jarratt’s new book Launch “A Cup          Library website review underway.
                      of Tea with God” engaged with over 70
                      community members to celebrate
                      Noosa’s surf heritage.
                    Replacement        tactile markers and
                      bollards installed at all pedestrian entry
                      points at Cooroy Library
                    First week of the school holidays there
                      were over 7000 visitors to the libraries in
                      6 days




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