2022-02-08 Planning and Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                      8 FEBRUARY 2022


Attachment 1 - Noosa Environment Strategy – Year Two Implementation Progress

    Environment Strategy                   Status    Progress comments
      Enabling Actions
A. Implement an Environment Grants                   Noosa Council provides funding to projects working towards Noosa Environment Strategy targets
   program to support community projects             through three different grant streams, these are:
   and    programs     that  lead     to                  • Community & Environment Alliance Agreement.
   implementation of the Environment                      • Community, Environment Project Grant.
   Strategy.                                              • Multi-Year Environment Collaborative Grant.
                                                     In the 2021/22 the grant program was also expanded to include a new category of the Climate
                                                     Change Response.
                                                      A summary of awarded Noosa Council grants in the 2020/21 FY working towards Noosa
                                                     Environment Strategy targets has been complied and is separately attached to this report.
                                                     Notable projects funded in this reporting period include:
                                                          • Enter the Flyosphere delivered by Noosa Integrated Catchment Association focuses on
                                                              long-term monitoring of Shorebirds at Noosa Spit and community awareness raising
                                                              through the distribution of interpretive material and the installation of a telescope to
                                                              engage residents and visitors. Council investment of $14,977.00
                                                          • Engaging Local Communities in Restoring Bush (Roving Restorers Noosa Chapter)
                                                              which is delivered by Noosa Landcare is a program that facilitates a group volunteers who
                                                              deliver restoration and weed management works on both private and public land. Council
                                                              investment of $23,620.00
                                                          • Keep in in Kin Kin, delivered by Noosa & District Landcare is a large-scale soil
                                                              conservation project in the Kin Kin creek catchment that focuses on engaging private
                                                              landholders to undertake remediation works in priority riparian areas on their properties.
                                                              Council investment $240,000 over three years.
                                                          • Plastic Free Noosa, by Tourism Noosa, is a program aiming to drive wide-scale change
                                                              by empowering the Noosa community in eliminating single-use plastics through direct
                                                              engagement, recognition and facilitating circular economies. Council investment
                                                              $185,400 over three years.
                                                          • Hinterland Rural Extension Program, delivered by Mary River Catchment Coordinating
                                                              Committee, also focuses on private land riparian remediation. Council investment
                                                              $105,000 over three years.




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