2015-07-21 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                              21 JULY 2015


CORPORATE SERVICES DEPARTMENT

SECTION            RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                            CURRENT PRIORITIES                              LOOKING AHEAD
Finance             Completion of the Interim Audit visit by     End of year adjustments as preparation        Enhancement of system reporting
                      QAO and by Crowe Horwarth, internal            for annual financial statements               Update of accounting manual and
                      audit review of payroll                      Carryover of uncompleted capital                review of policies
                    Completion of the March Quarter                projects and unspent grant projects           Review of budget management and
                      Budget Review                                  into 2015/16 budget                             accountability systems
                    Budget development – completion and          Finalisation of the revaluation of            Development of Branch Plan
                      adoption of the 2015/16 budget.                Council buildings and stormwater &            Implementation      of    changes     to
                                                                     drainage asset classes                          accounting       standards     requiring
                                                                                                                     elimination of residual values for asset
                                                                                                                     classes


Revenue Services      409 supplementary notices issued on          Issue of July levy                            Continued       consultation     with
                        16 April for total adjustments of            Preparation of pensioner claim for July         TechnologyOne on the development of
                        $78,756.98                                     levy                                            the next version of the property and
                      Revenue      Statement    and      new       Continued overdue rates recovery                rating software
                        differential general rate structure            action                                        Development of Branch Plan
                        prepared and adopted                         Ongoing processing of Noosa Waters            Issue of Reminder Notices early in
                      Six-monthly    pensioner   verification        Lock and Weir refunds to past owners            September.
                        undertaken on 5,087 pensioners per
                        State Government guidelines


ICT                   Completion ICT Business Continuity           Development        of     roadmap    for      Planning migration from current GIS
                        Plan and cyber incident response               TechnologyOne implementation and                systems to new TechnologyOne GIS
                        document                                       new version of Cloud                          Development of electronic content
                      Appointment of experienced Business          Adoption of draft records keeping               management       system     retention
                        Analyst in ICT                                 policy and staff training                       schedules to meet state archives
                      Continuing rollout of TechnologyOne          Security policies for external audit            requirements
                        MyHr to eliminate paper forms                Art Gallery website                           Development of Branch Plan
                      New disaster incident version of             Capital project for replacement of 32
                        Council website                                public access PCs




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