2023-01-16 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   16 JANUARY 2023




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GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                             16 JANUARY 2023

                                          Building climate ready councils
                                          Focus Areas
                                          1. Identify shared opportunities to develop the capacity and skills of
                                             our people to understand and respond to climate change in their
                                             work, through regional training and development opportunities.
                                          2. Investigate requirements to support council staff's wellbeing
                                             and build our workforce’s climate resilience. We will explore the
                                             impacts of a changing climate on our staff and take proactive
                                             steps to improve our workforce planning to protect their physical
                                             and mental health.
                                          3. Strengthen regional collaborations for climate and disaster
                                             projects and partnerships, acknowledging that climate hazards do
                                             not respect Council boundaries.
                                          4. Actively pursue grant opportunities to unpack cascading and
                                             compounding impacts to Council services from failure of
                                             electricity, water, waste, telecommunications and transport
                                             (‘critical infrastructure’),
                                             identified as a key climate risk from the first phase of our
                                             collaboration.

                  ay &                    Empowering climate ready communities
                                          Focus Areas
                   Bs         st          1. Partner with First Nations Peoples, recognising the unique
                                             knowledge of the Kabi Kabi and Jinibara people and their
                                             enduring stewardship of country to ensure their needs are
                                             recognised and their distinctive contributions are valued in our
                                             regional response to climate change.
                                          2. Continue to engage with the community and further develop our
                                             communication and engagement tools to increase community
                                             involvement in regional climate change decision-making.
                                          3. Encourage and facilitate new regional partnerships to foster
                                             experimentation and innovation, and to find opportunities
                                             to strengthen us as a region of choice. Ve will facilitate
                                             the sharing of information, resources, tools and
                                             approaches through trusted local community
                                             and professional networks.

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