2017-02-07 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                        7 FEBRUARY 2017


The table below highlights some specific Operational Plan issues that may be of interest to Council.

 Initiatives                             Comment
 Electric Bus Trial                      The lease agreement was signed with the supplier with appropriate
                                         “hold points”. A separate report is being provided to Council on the
                                         current status.
 Rufous Street Project                   Council received a $1M grant from the State Government towards the
                                         Digital Hub. The tender for civil works has also been let.
 Noosa Transport Strategy                A Transport Policy has been adopted by Council and the draft
                                         Transport Strategy has been substantially prepared.
 Development of the new planning         Community consultation has been completed and a report on the
 scheme                                  outcomes of that consultation is on this round of Council meetings.
 Waste tender and Contract               Council adopted the waste tender in the last quarter. This is a
                                         contract worth approximately $45M over the next 7 years. Formal
                                         contracts are now being finalised.
 Implementation       of   the   Local   Council’s new Economic Development Manager commenced and is
 Economic Plan                           busy establishing networks with the local business community.
 Development    of         the    new    The Corporate Plan was finalised in draft form in the second quarter
 Corporate Plan                          of 2016/17. It has subsequently been adopted by the Council
                                         following consultation.
 Implementation of the Social            There is a lot of activity currently underway associated with the
 Strategy                                implementation of the Social Strategy.        This includes the
                                         commencement of the Noosa Shire Youth Network, consultation
                                         underway on the Sport and Active Recreation Plan, development of
                                         the Arts and Culture Plan and a recognition function for our
                                         community volunteers being held.

2.    KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

As Council would be aware, KPIs were first developed for our organisation at the beginning of
2014/15. Approximately 30 management KPIs were developed and these are reviewed on a
monthly basis by the Leadership Team. Approximately 15 of those KPIs are reported to Council
on a quarterly basis. They are also reported to the Audit & Risk Committee in detail at each Audit
& Risk Committee meeting.

As far as the CEO is aware, we are one of the few Councils in Queensland to make this KPI
information available to the public via “non-confidential” reports. The KPIs are included in
Attachment 2.

The key issues arising from an assessment of the KPIs for the second quarter are as follows:

Our People
    We are now getting on top of our WH&S issues. Our required policies, procedures etc are
      now up to date.
    This time last year, our claim and incident statistics were significantly worse than our local
      government peers. We are now significantly better than our industry peers with our actual
      performance and the number of days lost from WH&S incidents now negligible. As CEO, I
      would like to recognise our Executive Manager, HR Manager, Workplace Health and Safety
      staff as well as our Managers who have taken up the challenge of improving our WH&S
      compliance and performance.



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