2020-08-11 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                                        11 AUGUST 2020


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                     RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                           CURRENT PRIORITIES                            THE NEXT QUARTER
Waste Levy                               Waste Levy fees being paid to State         Payment of waste levy revenue on            Work with the Rates Section on the
                                           Government in accordance with                 time in accordance with legislation to        introduction of the $5 increase to the
                                           monthly invoices received                     avoid interest penalty payments               Waste Levy from January 2021
Container Refund Scheme (CRS)            Container refund payments continue          Maintain communications with VISY           Review the budget impacts of the
                                           to be received from VISY under the            Recycling regarding the viability of          CRS revenue sharing agreement as
                                           Container Refund Scheme which                 processing recyclable material in the         the volume of recyclable material
                                           has a significant impact on offsetting        current COVID – 19 crisis and                 collected in the kerbside collection
                                           the gate fee for processing recycled          prepare for any significant impacts           service. There is a trend in reduction
                                           material through the VISY recycling           on Councils kerbside recycling                in volume of recyclable sent to VISY
                                           facility at Bli Bli                           collection service                            which reduces the revenue paid to
                                                                                                                                       Council.
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)        Waste officers continued to meet            Council Waste Managers will meet
with Unity Water regarding Advanced        with other stakeholders to progress           to discuss potential opportunities for
Waste Treatment                            the study                                     the three Councils to work
                                                                                         collaboratively
Waste Education                          Completed construction and fit-out of       Commence         school    education        Open the facility to the community
                                           the Waste Education building at               sessions at the facility                      post COVID-19 restrictions
                                           Reviva
Health Inspection Program                Licensed      premises      inspection      Conduct annual inspection program           Planning for the reinspection of
                                           program was impacted by COVID –               of licensed premises where possible           industrial premises likely to pollute
                                           19 The program was on track in                and monitor the ongoing impact of             waterways that were inspected in
                                           January and February except for               COVID-19                                      the 2018/19 financial period
                                           implementing the licensing of public        Liaise with Queensland Health,              Planning      for     the    smooth
                                           swimming pools                                Public Health Unit on Covid safe              implementation of licencing and
                                         EHO’s have worked hard to catch-up            compliance for the Noosa region
                                                                                                                                       inspection program for public
                                           on inspections impacted by COVID-           Planning to build capacity for an             swimming pool local law
                                           19 period and have 95% complete               effective    multi-agency     health
                                           the inspection program                        response in preparedness for a              Continued integration of covid safe
                                         Fees and charges for public                   second wave of COVID-19 on the                compliance workload into current
                                           swimming pool approvals complete              Sunshine Coast                                work structures
                                         Complete transition from paper-                                                           Provide technical and specialist
                                           based     inspection    program     to                                                      advice to the community and internal
                                           electronic inspections via iPads                                                            business units on covid safe
                                                                                                                                       practices from a Public Health
                                                                                                                                       perspective



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