2020-11-10 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                               10 NOVEMBER 2020


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                 RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                           CURRENT PRIORITIES                            THE NEXT QUARTER
Community Bushland Care Program      Developed and delivered a COVID             Organising Bushcare leader’s forum          Continue to provide project support to
                                       Safe Plan and induction to allow the          for November.                                 the Eastern Beaches MEC grant.
                                       volunteers to safely return to working      We have received an application for         Investigate options to integrate
                                       bees early July.                              a new group at Cooran in Yellowbelly          technology for administration to
                                     Completed      species     lists  and         Bushland Reserve (a high priority             increase efficiency.
                                       monitoring plans with volunteers to           reserve) and are working on
                                       assist with their Multi Year                  promotion for expressions of interest.
                                       Environment Collaborative grant
                                       project sites at Castaways and
                                       Marcus Creek.
                                     New project at Burgess Creek started
                                       post-COVID with strong volunteer
                                       support and partnerships with
                                       DNRME and Unitywater.
                                     July to September group data;
                                       o 16 active groups
                                       o 82 work-in bees
                                       o 933 volunteers hours
                                       o 655 plants in the ground
                                       o 9 new volunteers recruited
Yurol Ringtail Project               HQ    Plantations     have    mostly        Continue to support community               Work with research partners to
                                       completed harvesting of pine in Yurol         information, customer queries and             implement a baseline koala survey
                                       SF.                                           engagement with HQP and DAF to                for the Yurol-Ringtail project.
                                     DAF     have     begun     hardwood           ensure stakeholder and community            Work with DES/QPWS on Ecological
                                       harvesting in Yurol SF.                       awareness of harvesting underway.             Restoration Plan for plantation areas
                                     Councillor site visit undertaken in
                                       September.
Pest Management                      Completed 1st quarter of Biosecurity        Feral pig control trapping in Como,         Complete 2nd quarter of Biosecurity
                                       Surveillance Program including the            Cootharaba and Kin Kin areas.                 Surveillance program.
                                       inspection of properties in the             Fireweed control on properties in the       Undertake the control of priority weed
                                       Cooroy,        Cooroy       Mountain,         Cooroy and Lake MacDonald areas.              species on the State road reserve
                                       Tinbeerwah and Cooroibah areas                                                              network and Feral Deer control as
                                                                                   Inspection of properties in the Cooroy
                                       (119 properties were inspected).                                                            part of annual contract with the
                                                                                     Mountain area for the identification
                                     2nd round of twice yearly Coordinated         and mapping of Cat’s Claw Creeper             Department of Transport and Main
                                       Wild Dog control baiting program              weed infestations.                            Roads.
                                       completed on properties in the Como,

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