2020-08-11 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                              11 AUGUST 2020


BRANCH ACTIVITIES              RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                         CURRENT PRIORITIES                            THE NEXT QUARTER
Vector Control (Mosquitoes)       Commenced aerial control of               Continue regular aerial mosquito            Monitor salt marsh breeding areas
                                    mosquito borne diseases in salt             control in salt marsh areas at each           following rainfall and spring tidal
                                    marsh areas during the heavy wet            peak tide or coinciding with heavy            activity
                                    weather after Christmas                     rainfall events                             Conduct regular aerial treatment
                                  Dry conditions have reduced the           Limited fogging to be implemented             program for the salt marsh breeding
                                    need for regular aerial treatment of        where weather conditions prevent              areas and fogging of adult
                                    salt marsh areas that normally start        aerial control by helicopter resulting        mosquitoes with potential to transmit
                                    in September                                in massive breeding of mosquitoes             mosquito borne illness
                                                                                and complaints from residents               Work with our communication staff
                                                                              Ensure the program focuses on                 to improve information to public on
                                                                                disease transmitting mosquitoes and           the treatment program. Recent
                                                                                not nuisance pest species that do             advertising of proposed treatment
                                                                                not transmit disease                          resulted in a negative public
                                                                                                                              response to our program, despite
                                                                                                                              similar advertising being conducted
                                                                                                                              prior to each treatment for many
                                                                                                                              years.
Business as Usual activities      Supported businesses, community           Forced deferral of the Council              Refine the online burial database
                                    organisations and the Council in            approved       behavioural change             that allows the public to search for
                                    responding    to  the   Covid-19            program for better segregation of             burial records online
                                    pandemic                                    waste and recyclable material,
                                                                                impacted by COVID –19 and is
                                                                                unlikely to progress this financial
                                                                                year




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