2023-02-13 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                               13 FEBRUARY 2023


7.    Environment and Strategy Directorate (split directorate):
      -     Functions in this directorate are the remaining functions from the Environment and
            Sustainable Development directorate.
      -     Economic Development will receive additional responsibilities for Destination
            Management and the interface with major events, increasing assistance and service
            levels to the major event sector in the Local Government Area.
      -     Innovation is highlighted as a major function within the Peregian Digital Hub and be
            aligned to deliver internal focused innovation.
      -     Strategic Planning and Climate Change functions are amalgamated to work closely on
            mitigating and adapting to the future impacts of climate change.
      -     With the exception of the climate change function there is no change to the
            environment functions within with Council.
TOTAL FTE 419, inclusive of recommended 3 x additional roles, current resolved FTE structure
416, as at October 2022.

FUNCTIONAL REALIGNMENT – STRUCTURE FOR ADOPTION – CHANGES HIGHLIGHTED




In realigning the structure via the stepped approach 3 key benefits will be realised:
1.    Communication and collaboration will be enhanced
2.    Simplicity, Flexibility and centralisation of executive functions to the CEO
3.    Alignment to the Corporate Plan
A non-hierarchical representation of the structure that will be further developed to transition to an
agile, collaborative, empowered and high performing Council is shown below:




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