2022-08-15 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                              15 AUGUST 2022


In summary, three of the projects remain ‘not started’. Items 4.4 and 4.5 in the report are associated
with the decision to delay the development of the new Corporate plan to allow input from the new
CEO. The third is item 5.2 and reflects Council’s decision to hold off on any decisions on the
development of Carpenters Lane land holding.
An increase in “Behind Schedule” from the last quarter is primarily due to staff availability and
isolation requirements of the COVID19 Pandemic affecting resourcing and natural disaster
(flooding)
Note - some of these initiatives are multi-year projects and have been categorised as “on track”
given the initiative will be completed in a future financial year.
The following table provides a brief summary of a number of high interest initiatives. The full list
can be seen in Attachment 1.
    Initiatives                                 Comment
    2.5 Plan and build an iconic all            Playground achieved practical completion 25 March 2022, with
    abilities playground at Cooroy              minor landscaping impacts from February 2022 floods being
                                                managed.
                                                Successful public opening on 13 April 2022 with a formal opening
                                                on 6 May 2022.
    3.4 Support the growth of our               Hub Stage 2: out for tender in June.
    education and research sector               Signing of a collaborative agreement between Noosa Council and
    Support technology initiatives         -    QFES in support of the Firetech Connect pilot program is
    including the Peregian Digital Hub          scheduled for early July.
                                                Successful Venture Down Under (Venture Capitalist) event
                                                attracted Australia’s top 40 VCs to Noosa for 3 days in June.
                                                Until Noosa, the event has never been held outside a state capital
                                                city.
2.    KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
As Council would be aware, KPIs were first developed for our organisation at the beginning of
2014/15. 16 of those KPIs are reported to Council on a quarterly basis. The KPIs are included in
Attachment 2.
A selection of some of the key statistics arising from the KPI assessments are shown below:
Our People
   • The issue of staff turnover has been topical recently. For the information of Council, our
      historical staff turnover has been as per the table below:
          Year                           Staff turnover rate
                                         (percentage)
          2014/15                        11.06%
          2015/16                        13.06%
          2016/17                        8.9%
          2017/18                        8.2%
          2018/19                        10.9%
          2019/20                        9.6%
          2020/21                        6.6%
•        The staff turnover rate in this fourth quarter of 2021/22 has increased from approximately
         4.65% to 6.62%. It is important to note that these percentages only relate to the movement
         in permanent positions and do not include temporary and casual positions.




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