2020-08-11 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                            11 AUGUST 2020


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                         RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                         CURRENT PRIORITIES                           THE NEXT QUARTER
Environmental Services
Implementation of the ZEN Organisation       Online solar information session          Review of ZEN capital projects for         Report to Council on Climate
Strategy                                       facilitated by AEF with 75                  20/21.                                       Change Plan project scope.
                                               registrations.                            Initiation of Climate Change Plan          Complete Council’s 2019-20 carbon
                                             Successful waste strategy scoping           integrating broader Climate Change           footprint inventory.
                                               workshop facilitated by MRA                 Adaptation Plan and ZEN                    Development Scope for Offset
                                               consultants.                                Organisation Strategy.                       strategy.
                                             Completion of Council carbon              Community emission profile review          Scoping of the Waste Strategy.
                                               footprint review.                           and update.
                                             Councillor induction on ZEN
                                               Strategy completed.
Private Land Conservation Partnerships       18 new LFW signups, 6 LFW                 Continue delivering the LFW                Continue delivering the LFW
- Land for Wildlife (LFW) and Voluntary        property revisits, 8 visits to VCA          program, sign up new properties,             program, sign up new properties,
Conservation Agreements (VCA)                  properties,                                 revisits on demand, roll out LFW             revisits on demand, and roll out LFW
                                             Land for wildlife incentives - final        incentive program to members for             incentive program to members for
                                               figures for the 2019/ 20 financial          new financial year.                          new financial year.
                                               year - 9275 tubestock planted on 8
                                               hectares, 26 hectares of land             Contacting owners of deregistered          Contacting owners of deregistered
                                               managed for environmental weeds             properties to reactivate properties          properties to reactivate properties
                                               and Landowner co-contribution               that form strategic linkages in the          that form strategic linkages in the
                                               (labour @$43/hr and materials) =            landscape.                                   landscape.
                                               $67,760.
                                             One new VCA established.
                                                                                         Compile final list of split zoned          Update website with better info on
                                             Uploaded species information into
                                                                                           properties for incorporation into the        LFW, and info on VCA program.
                                               the Wildnet database (Approximately
                                                                                           next planning scheme amendment.
                                               8,000 records to date).
                                             Direct seeding trials on Cooroibah
                                               Nature Refuge as part of post-fire        Update website with better info on
                                               recovery.                                   LFW, and info on VCA program.




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