2018-07-06 Special Meeting Agenda

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA                                                              6 JULY 2018


7                        ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
DOCUMENT INFORM AT ION




Author                          Chief Executive Officer, Brett de Chastel
                                CEO’s Office

Index                           ECM/ Subject/ Organisational Structures

Attachments                     1.   Organisational Structure



EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Not applicable.

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Chief Executive Officer to the Special Meeting dated 6 July
2018 and adopt the Noosa Council Organisational Structure as set out in Attachment 1 to the
report.


REPORT
Although not a statutory requirement, it is good management practice for Council to re-adopt its
organisational structure each year at the time it adopts its Operational Plan and Budget. This
ensures that Council has an up to date structure which reflects the resources allocated (budget)
and provides a “package approach” i.e. what we want to achieve (Operational Plan and Capital
Program) and what resources we will apply to achieve that (i.e. the financial resources identified
through the budget and the staff resources identified through the organisational structure). This
year we are also adding another dimension to that overall package approach – details of our
service levels.

The attached organisational structure identifies Equivalent Full Time staff (EFT) for each
Department and Branch. Once adopted by Council it cannot be changed without a Council
resolution. The detailed structures within branches can be amended by the CEO provided the
total EFT is not changed. This gives management flexibility to fine tune the detailed structure.

In 2016/17 we undertook a detailed review of our organisational structure. There have been no
major changes since that time.

The key points to note with our proposed structure are:
 Total EFT last year was 365.87 and the total EFT this year is proposed as 368.14. It should
   be noted that for long term comparative purposes, we exclude the fixed term project positions
   (details below).
 The draft organisational structure reflects proposed positions identified through the new
   initiative process and included in the draft budget.
 There are no redundancies proposed in this budget.

The structure changes in this budget are as follows:




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