2017-02-07 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                               7 FEBRUARY 2017


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                     RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                          CURRENT PRIORITIES                         THE NEXT QUARTER
                                                                                    Review     of     privately   owned
                                                                                      stormwater detention basins in
                                                                                      conjunction with landowners
Preparation for Planning Act             Service Review of Implications of        Review of fees and charges and             Review of current templates and
                                           new Planning legislation                    delegations for new Planning Act.           events for use with new Planning
                                         Submission      made      to    draft                                                   Legislation
                                           Development Assessment Rules
Business as Usual activities             Appeal dismissed by Planning &             Review of Environment Levy fund        Preparation of internal procedures for
                                           Environment Court for Noosa Civic            and future opportunities                 marine strandings and deaths
                                         Information evening with vegetation        Develop a mapping register of all
                                           management works advising of                 environmental vegetation offsets
                                           planning     scheme      amendment
                                           requirements
                                         Working groups established for pest,
                                           tree and stormwater management
                                           across Council.
                                         Application for Noosa River oyster
                                           restoration project prepared and
                                           lodged
                                         Renewed         general      species
                                           management plan for Capital Works
                                           projects

Strategic Land Use
Environment Strategy                     Workshop with councillors                  Commence discussion paper for          Consultation with community on
                                         Workshop with Natural Resource               Environment       Strategy and           discussion paper and
                                           Management groups                            Biodiversity Plan                      Report to council on discussion paper
                                         Scoping of strategy complete
Biodiversity Plan                        Documents and mapping complete             Biodiversity Assessment Report         Report to Council on Biodiversity Plan
                                                                                        (background paper) completed
                                                                                      Continue to progress Biodiversity
                                                                                        Plan including action plan and cost
                                                                                        estimates
Flood Modelling for the Noosa River      Model outputs complete and reports         Finalising reports                     Report to Council on flood study
Catchment                                  near complete                                                                         results.



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