2017-08-08 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

BRANCH ACTIVITIES                         RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                          CURRENT PRIORITIES                           THE NEXT QUARTER
Aerial treatment contract for mosquito.      New contract for the next 3 seasons        Developing RFQ for the provision of        Seek quotes and allocate contract to
                                               now required.                                helicopter aerial treatment services         appropriate business.
                                                                                            for 3 years.
Weekly Light Traps – With FTA Cards          Weekly light trapping for mosquitoes       No light trapping or detections            Recommence trapping         in   the
                                               was conducted during the summer              proposed until summer.                       summer breeding season.
                                               months. These traps have FTA
                                               cards in them that we send to Qld
                                               Health for testing for Ross River
                                               Fever and Barmah Forest Fever.
Monthly OVI Trapping set.                    Traps Set in Tewantin in February,         Testing eggs for Aedes aegypti             Trapping    will   recommence      in
                                               Cooroy in March & Pomona in April.           vectors of Zika and Dengue.                  summer.
                                             Ovi traps collect mozzie eggs which        Tewantin, Cooroy and Pomona were
                                               we send to Qld Health for testing.           all clear.
                                               We testing for Aedes aegypti
                                               (Vectors of Dengue and Zika)
Conduct Quarterly Pest Plant Surveys         Property inspections undertaken in         Contractor undertaking scheduled           Complete property inspections as
and Roadside Spraying                          the Kin Kin, Pinbarren, Cooran and           control of priority pest plants on           per approved pest survey program.
                                               Como area as part of approved pest           Council     road    reserve   areas,       Complete pest plant control in State
                                               survey program.                              Eumundi Rd Landfill site.                    controlled road reserve areas for the
                                             Officer engaged through Hayes              Properties inspections for pest              2017/18FY      as     per   contract
                                               Recruitment on a temporary basis to          plants in the areas of Pomona, Lake          arrangement.
                                               assist with pest plant control               MacDonald, Ringtail Ck, Cootharaba         Complete procurement process for
                                               program in the long term absence of          and Boreen Point as part of                  engagement of a pest plant control
                                               pest control officer Richard Mylan.          approved pest survey program.                contractor.
                                             Contractor completed first round of        Commencement of procurement
                                               weed control works in State                  process for the renewal of the pest
                                               controlled road reserve areas as part        plant control contract for the 17/18
                                               of ongoing contract arrangement.             and 18/19 financial years.
                                             Completion of Cat’s Claw Creeper
                                               weed survey and mapping along Kin
                                               Kin Creek. Contractor undertaken
                                               first round of Cat’s Claw Creeper
                                               control in strategic areas identified
                                               by the survey.
Deliver Pest Animal Control Program          Complete property inspections as           Undertake a survey of the feral deer       Undertake coordinated wild dog
                                               per approved pest survey program.            population in the Lake MacDonald             control 1080 baiting in April/May.
                                                                                            and Tinbeerwah area. Continue the          Complete feral deer survey in the
                                                                                            development of a strategy for control        Lake MacDonald/ Tinbeerwah area.
                                                                                            in key areas working with private            Commence actions for strategic
                                                                                            landholders.                                 control of feral deer in key areas.



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