2014-04-28 General Committee Meeting Agenda Pages 1-64

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                     28 APRIL 2014


REPORTS TO GENERAL COMMITTEE

1.    WASTE STRATEGY OPTIONS DEVELOPMENT – PROJECT PLAN

Author            Manager Waste and Environmental Health, Wayne Schafer
                  Community Services

Index             ECM/Subject/Waste Management

Attachment        1.    Noosa Council Waste Options Development Project Plan

RECOMMENDATION

That Council note the report from the Manager Waste and Environmental Health to the General
Committee Meeting dated 28 April 2014 and

A.    Note the report from Lloyd Consulting titled “Noosa Council Waste Options Development
      Project Plan”; and

B.    Authorise the CEO to release a tender and engage a suitable consultant to investigate and
      report on the themes identified in report by Lloyd Consulting.

REPORT

In January 2014 Council commissioned Lloyd Consulting (The Consultant) to commence work on
a new Waste Strategy for Noosa Council.
Following a Council workshop with the Consultant on 11 March 2014, Council decided to develop
a Waste Strategy for Noosa titled “Towards Zero Waste”, based on the staged approach which is
summarised below:

Part 1 Options Development
     Identification of waste management themes and options for further consideration and
      investigation (the current stage under consideration in this report)
     Detailed assessment of waste management options (to be tendered in the next stage of the
      development of the waste strategy)
     Council and community consultation/consideration of options.

Part 2 Waste Strategy and Action Plan
     Development of an agreed Waste Strategy and an action plan based on selected options
      following community consultation.
Lloyd Consulting has examined Council’s current waste operations and identified 5 themes and a
number of options which are recommended for further investigation, ( as detailed in Attachment 1).
Subject to Council agreeing with the themes identified for further investigation, the next step is to
call a tender for detailed investigation and costing on the identified options.
Following this detailed analysis it is planned that Council will engage with the community in a
discussion on their preferred Waste Strategy outcomes considering the costs involved. Following
this community consultation the Waste Strategy document and action plan will then be
completed.
Ian Christesen from Lloyd Consulting will be attending the Council General Committee meeting
28 April 2014 to present and discuss the themes in more detail.


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