2016-07-18 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                 18 JULY 2016


   useful during natural disasters. The Noosa Library Service and The J also have developed
   strong social media presences which assist in the promotion of their services. We are also
   just starting to develop our Noosa Council Instagram presence and the Noosa Library is well
   advanced with their Instagram processes aimed at engaging with a younger demographic.
 Council has been very active in liaising with various community organisations across the
   Shire. Regular meetings are held by Councillors and senior staff with a variety of community
   based organisations including CCIQ (Noosa and Cooroy), Noosa Junction Association,
   Tourism Noosa, Noosa Waters Residents Association, Hastings Street Association, Noosa
   Residents and Ratepayers Association etc.
 Consultation with the community on a range of issues took place throughout the year. While
   too numerous to list all of these, some examples include:
   o Noosa Transport Strategy
   o Sunshine Beach Skatepark
   o Pest Management Plan
   o Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan
   o Rufous Street project including a design charette.
   The Your Say Noosa portal on our website is fully operational and is becoming well used.
   Noosa Council has been identified as the most extensive user of the Portal in Queensland.
 A significant number of staff have attended IAP2 training (with more training planned) to
   increase skills in community engagement and deliver more effective project outcomes.

Corporate Plan Priority 4 – Focus on community assets
The Council’s focus will be on maintaining and renewing existing assets rather than building new
assets. In the short term, there will be a strong focus on undertaking condition assessment and
developing long term asset management plans.

Key achievements include:
 A successful rollout of the 2015/16 Capital Program which included a total program of
   $35.64M once carryovers from the previous year and emergent projects during the year were
   taken into account. In 2014/15, the Capital Program completion rate was 68%. Although all
   of the end of year accounting processes had not been completed by the time of writing this
   report, the CEO is expecting a completion rate somewhere between 85 - 90% (recognising
   that some of the capital program was based on a contingency for emergent works which were
   not required). The actual final percentage will be reported formally to Council once known
   but this is the best estimate at this time. The team in Infrastructure Planning & Design
   Services have done an amazing job in delivering such a large program.
 By year end, there were no major projects that had not been finalised.
 Some of the significant capital projects achieved in 2015/16 included:
   o Dr Pages Road construction;
   o Rifle Street Pomona flood mitigation project (jointly funded with the State and
     Commonwealth);
   o Bus stop design and stage 2 rollout;
   o Munna Point erosion control project;
   o Acquisition of 100Ha of environmentally significant land;
   o Major road reseals including David Low Way, Cooroy Noosa Road and Goodchap Street;
     and
   o Munna Point Bridge refurbishment.



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