2019-07-09 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA      9 JULY 2019




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PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                      9 JULY 2019

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          | Water By Design and Healthy Waterplay will be removed from the core program and re-established
          as subscription projects following the advice of the Senior Executive Advisory Committee (SEAC).
          Organisations that have indicated their interest in these projects will be approached separately.
          Deliverables of the Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program
          e   Monitoring of monthly water quality (physical, nutrients and phytoplankton parameters) in the
              Noosa Estuary (11 sites).
          e   Monitoring of freshwater biological health (fish communities, macroinvertebrate communities,
              phys-chemical, key aquatic processes) at 13 sites in the Noosa catchment including Cooloola, Kin
              Kin Creek, Sandy Creek, Ringtail Creek.
          e   HLW will maintain integrated catchment and receiving water quality models for the Noosa
              catchment for use by Council, and its service providers. This provides Council with the tools to
              enable forecasts of water quality under different catchment management scenarios.
          e   Monitoring of the estuarine fish communities in estuaries and how they are affected by land use
              changes and habitat availability.
          e   Development and maintenance of a web portal and other online tools for easy access to all
              datasets including the annual modelled outputs from the freshwater catchments and estuaries of
              all catchments.
          e   Access to annual trend analysis of catchment and bay health that incorporates all monitoring data
              relevant to Noosa Catchment.
          e   Access to social data collected from residents in the Noosa catchment area (approximately 110
              people annually). Information includes the frequency and type of waterway-based recreation, the
              barriers that prevent waterways recreation, respondent's perception of the condition of their
              waterways, their satisfaction with the condition, useability and accessibility of their waterways, their
              thoughts on the key issues facing waterways and their willingness to improve condition of
              waterways.
          e = Identification  of   the   highest   risk  water    way    reaches,   and    land    uses _ in
              all catchment areas for sediment erosion (channel, hillslope and gully).
          e   Access to three Scientific Expert Panels (environmental modelling, social science, environmental
              monitoring) meeting up to 4 times per year made up of leading local and national scientists
              available to advise council's projects.
          e   Four meetings of the Monitoring and Evaluation Steering Committee (MESC) per year to provide
              input into the direction of EHMP and to access project information from other member organisations
          e   Annual Report Card release which include detailed briefings to Council officers, Council executives,
              elected representatives and local community groups.
          e   Support for media releases focussing on Council projects but leveraging off the Report Card
              release.

          Deliverables of the Water by Design Program
          e   Base program - Water by Design Steering Committee Meetings (4/year) — At least 2 representatives
              from your organisation to provide input and advice on the Water by Design Regional strategy.
              Development and sharing of minutes, outcomes and follow up on actions
          e   Base Program - Maintenance of the central resource hub for urban water management in SEQ via
              the Water by Design website - including hosting Guidelines and Resources, promoting member
              News and Events (capacity building), updating and maintaining ESC section (including access and
              support for the iAuditor App) and promotion of member projects through a case study page
          e   Base Program - Scoping and expert/peer review of Guidelines (1/year) — Update at least one
              Guideline annually as advised by the Water by Design SC
           e   Subscription Program? - Deliver 4 x workshops annually across SEQ to build capacity, provide
               expertise and support to members to inform a delivery model for the implementation of a Co-
               Design and Placemaking into the Living Waterways framework.

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