2020-08-11 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                11 AUGUST 2020



10         YEAR IN REVIEW – 2019-20
Document information

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

Index                  ECM/ Subject/ Corporate Planning

Attachments            Nil

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report details key issues that Council has dealt with during the 2019/20 financial year in the
context of our five Corporate Plan themes. Once again, it has been an incredibly busy and
productive twelve months in working towards our Corporate Plan goals. The scale, scope and
diversity of subject matter addressed by Council during the last 12 months speaks for itself. In
addition to the demands of “business-as-usual” Council has successfully dealt with the
challenges of ongoing disaster response and recovery for bushfires and the Coronavirus COVID-
19 pandemic.

Council could not have achieved so much without the effort of our staff who have gone “above
and beyond” to deliver services to our community and I would like to take the opportunity to
recognise the great work by our Mayors (both past and present), Councillors and our incredible
staff during 2019/20.

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Chief Executive Officer to the Services & Organisation
Committee Meeting dated 11 August 2020 providing a review of Council’s progress in the
2019/20 financial year towards achieving the five key focus areas set out in Council’s Corporate
Plan and thank Council staff for their efforts in the last twelve months to progress so many
significant projects and providing outstanding service to our community.

REPORT
Pursuant to the Local Government Act, the CEO is required to provide Council with an annual
report identifying the progress made towards the achievement of Council’s long term objectives
as set out in the Corporate Plan. Even if this was not a statutory requirement, it would still be a
useful process to review progress in a financial year. This report covers the 2019/20 financial
year.

This report is designed to look at longer term progress at a Corporate Plan level. It provides an
opportunity to pause from the day to day minutia and to consider what we have achieved in the
last 12 months as we work towards our vision.

Our current Corporate Plan was adopted in early 2017 following a significant process to develop
our long term vision, 20 year goals and 5-year key focus areas. An update was undertaken in
2018. We have operated under that version of the Corporate Plan for the 2019/20 financial year.
The Corporate Plan sets out five key themes, namely:
1.    The Noosa Environment
2.    The Noosa Community
3.    The Noosa Economy
4.    Long-Term planning for Noosa Shire
5.    Excellence as a Council


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