2016-07-18 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                        18 JULY 2016


The table below highlights some specific Operational Plan issues.

Initiatives                      Comment
Electric Bus Trial               This project is behind the original timeframe due to the
                                 termination of the contract of the original bus provider and the
                                 re-calling of tenders. A separate report is on this round of
                                 meetings providing the Council with a detailed update on
                                 progress.
Rufous Street Project            This project is proceeding well. Council has approved the Master
                                 Plan and the planning application is currently before this round of
                                 Council meetings for consideration. The next step will be lodging a
                                 funding application via RDA for Commonwealth funding under the
                                 Building Stronger Regions Fund (formerly the National Stronger
                                 Regions Fund). It is unknown whether that funding program will
                                 continue following the recent federal election.
Noosa Transport Strategy         This project is running a little behind schedule with extra community
                                 engagement being undertaken. The key strategies are likely to come
                                 before Council in August and a more detailed action plan will also be
                                 developed which will require further community engagement.
Library Strategy                 The Service Review has now been completed and has been
                                 workshopped by Councillors. New operating hours are being
                                 implemented to reflect the actual needs of customers.
New Planning Scheme              Our first Councillor workshop has been undertaken and a Project
                                 Control Group is being established to manage the process. A
                                 Directions Paper is being prepared for consideration of Council in the
                                 coming months.
Refurbishment of Munna Point This project has been completed within budget and achieved an
Bridge                       excellent result with the project achieving savings of over $4M
                                 compared to initial cost estimates in 2013.
Dr Pages Road                    This project has been completed within budget and has had its
                                 official opening on 13 July although it has been open to public
                                 use for some weeks prior to that time.
Workplace Health and Safety      Our new WH&S Advisor has made considerable progress in
                                 improving our WH&S performance. We have recently undertaken
                                 another informal external review of progress (via Local Government
                                 Workcare) and the feedback was positive.

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 fourth quarter are as follows:




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