2020-08-11 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                                       11 AUGUST 2020


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                        RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                         CURRENT PRIORITIES                          THE NEXT QUARTER
                                              in first quarter for 11 weeks due to      Deliver Lyn McCrea Memorial                 delivery of exhibitions
                                              COVID-19)                                   Drawing Prize and DRAW Student            Adjusting usual operations for online
                                            Delivered public programs online            Art Award online                            delivery where appropriate
                                              associated with each exhibition and       Plan for 2022 exhibition programs         Delivery of exhibitions by Rowley
                                              project                                   Adapt After School Art program for          Drysdale, Ian Smith, Beatrice Prost,
                                                                                          live online delivery                        Elysha Rei, Daniel Agdag and
                                                                                                                                      Miriam Innes
                                                                                                                                    Planning for Floating Land 2021
Noosa Cultural Plan 2018      – 2023        Engaged Outside the Square                Continue to analyse options for           Continue to implement 2020/21
Implementation                                Creative Consultants to undertake           future models of how Council                Action Plan
                                              New Gallery Pre-Feasibility Study           delivers     cultural   development       Complete pre-feasibility study for
                                            Planning for new Gallery website as         activities                                  new/upgraded Regional Gallery
                                                                                        Continue work towards Wood-fired
                                              engagement tool for exhibitions,                                                      Commence            an      economic
                                              education and public programs               Ceramics from Cooroy travelling
                                                                                                                                      assessment of the impact of Covid-
                                                                                          exhibition in line with Growing the
                                                                                          Cultural Economy                            19 on local cultural sector
                                                                                        Support the local cultural sector in      Review and re-develop Council
                                                                                          accessing Covid recovery funding            cultural websites enabling additional
                                                                                                                                      digital content and archiving projects
                                                                                                                                    Commence desktop research to
                                                                                                                                      inform and develop draft Public Arts
                                                                                                                                      Policy
HERITAGE - Plan and deliver key           Stage 2 of Local Heritage Register        Complete 2019/20 Heritage Levy            Continue to monitor COVID-19
Heritage Levy Initiatives & a range of      Review and Citation update project          Budget Initiative projects that were        conditions in context of impacts on
Heritage projects and programs              completed                                   delayed due to COVID-19 including:          proposed 2020/21 projects
                                          Historian-in-Residence and Noosa            o     Local Heritage Register Review      Progress work on 2020/21 Heritage
                                            Notables projects able to continue          and Citation updates                        Levy Budget Initiative projects
                                            and make substantial progress, with
                                                                                        o     Historian-in-Residence project      Continue to develop and deliver
                                            modifications for COVID restrictions
                                                                                        o     Noosa      News    and   Noosa        heritage     programming        within
                                                                                        Advocate digitisation                       parameters of ongoing COVID
                                                                                        o     Noosa Notables                        restrictions
                                                                                      Review and update project plans for
                                                                                        2020/21 Heritage Levy Budget
                                                                                        Initiative projects




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