Operational Plan 2023-24

Through the check each year process in November December we look at how we undertake the process so we will obviously sit down with the Council and look at the process next year at this point in time I'm not looking to change or revoke that engagement process I think the important part is to make sure that through our community engagement we focus on those key strategic engagement processes and we have done that very well through the Corporate Plan the Liveability Survey the Waste Strategy which is underway at the moment they're the key pieces to obviously ensure that we get appropriate community feedback at this point through the budget I think that feedback is important you'll find that as you look back over previous years with the engagement often it's a key topic or a key operational issue that gets a focus through the feedback I think what you'll find this year or one interpretation that's unsure what's driven the changes in terms of feedback is there haven't been as many topical operational issues or topical changes to our rating structure apart from the pressures evaluation this you.

Okay, thank you. And the final bit of that was for that purpose, rateable land to which the special charges apply and the overall plans for the services, facilities or activities to which the special charges apply be the rateable land and overall plans specified in the Revenue Statement. So put it to a vote. Favour? Unanimous thank you. Motion 5 that pursuant to section 94 the Local Government Regulation 2012 Council resolves to adopt the overall plans, annual implementation plans and benefited area maps specified in the Revenue Statement contained in the Noosa Council /24 budget document provided as attachment 1 to the Special Meeting report dated 30 June 2023 for the special charges it resolves to levy under resolution 4. I'll move that. Thank you Councillor Lorentson. All in favour? Unanimous, thank you. Motion 6. Six, that pursuant to section 94 of the Local Government Act 2009 and section 99 of the Local Government Regulation 2012, Council resolves to levy the utility charges for the 23-24 financial year as set out in the Revenue Statement contained in the Noosa Council 23-24 budget document provided as attachment 1 to the Special Meeting report dated 30 June 2023. Councillor Stockwell. Thank you. That was Councillor Jurisevic. Would you like to speak to a judge? Okay. All in favour? Unanimous. Thank you. Motion 7. That pursuant to section 94 of the Local Government Act 2009 and section 103 of the Local Government Regulation 2012, Council resolves to levy the separate for 23/24 financial year as set out in the Revenue Statement contained in the Noosa Council 23/24 budget document provided as attachment 1 of the Special Meeting report dated 30 June 2023. Separate rates and charges set out in the Revenue Statement are: environment. Levy, Sustainable Transport Levy, Heritage Levy, Bushfire Resilience and Response Levy. I'll move that. You second it, Councillor Finzel? Alright. I move that. Councillor Finzel seconded it. All in favour? Unanimous. Thank you. Motion 8. The pursuant to section 109 of the Local Government Regulation 2012 and section 114 of the Fire and Emergency Services Act 1990, Council resolves that rates and utility charges and the Queensland government's emergency management levy for the year ending 30 June 2024 will be levied six months. Monthly and as set out in the Revenue Statement contained in the Noosa Council 23-24 budget document provided as attachment 1 to the Special Meeting report dated 30 June 23. Councillor Jurisevic, thank you. Seconded by Councillor Lorentson, thank you. All in favour? Unanimous, thank you. 23.25. Motion 9. The pursuant to section 122 of the Local Government Regulation 2012, Council resolves to grant concessions to ratepayers as set out in the Revenue Statement contained in the Noosa Council 23/24 budget document and Council's general rate donations policy. Councillor Wilkie. Seconded by Councillor Finzel. All in- No, thank you. All in favour? Unanimous. Motion 10. The pursuant to section 118 of the Local Government Regulation 2012, Council resolves that all rates and charges must be paid within 30 days after the date of issue of the rates notice. Councillor Lorentson or Councillor or Finzel Councillor Finzel or all in favour? Unanimous. Motion 11. The pursuant to section 133, the Local Government Regulation 2012, Council resolves that all overdue rates and charges bear interest as set out in the Revenue Statement contained in the Noosa Council 23-24 budget document provided as attachment one meeting report dated 30 June 2023. Councillor Jurisevic, Councillor Wegener second. All in favour? Unanimous. Motion 12. The pursuant to section 257 of the Local Government Act 2009 Council delegates to the Chief Executive Officer its powers under section 81 of the Local Government Regulation 2012 to identify the differential rating category into which each parcel of rateable land in the Council's local government area is included by using relevant information from the Council's land record and any other information which identifies the use of rateable land. Councillor Lorentson, Councillor Finzel, all in favour? Unanimous. Motion 13. That it be recorded that in each case where a preceding motion refers to a matter set out in the Revenue Statement contained in the Noosa Council 23/24 budget document provided as attachment 1 to the Special Meeting report dated 30 June 2023, that matter is incorporated by reference into and forms part of the terms and content of the motion and will be so incorporated and form part of the terms and content of Council's resolution to adopt the motion. I'd like to move it to Councillor Jurisevic, seconded by Councillor WEGNER, all in favour? Unanimous, thank you, Olinda. Motion 14, that Council note the revised 23/24 Service Level catalogues provided in attachment two to the Special Meeting report dated 30 June 2023. I'll move this. Councillor Finzel, second. All in favour? Unanimous. Last one. Motion 15, that Council approve the proposed in the organisational establishment from 418.11 to 432.38 full-time equivalent FTE as outlined in the attached report. Councillor Lorentson, all right, I'll second that. All in favour? That is unanimous. Thank you. Well done, everyone. Okay, one more. Now for the last item on the agenda, which is item 2.6 and is the operational plan. And I believe we have our executive officer, internal audit and corporate performance, Debra Iezzi, to present. Deb, thank you very much.

Morning, Councillor. The Local Government Regulation requires that Council prepare and adopt an operational plan consistent with its annual budget, and the operational plan has been prepared on that basis. We also have a new Corporate Plan that was developed earlier this year, so the operational plan also reflects the priorities and the deliverables for the first year of the corporate. Also been structured to align with the Corporate Plan. The other source of initiatives is from the actual budget process, where proposed initiatives are put forward and considered by the executive team, but also Council, and then either put forward for inclusion in the budget or not. You also have initiatives that have come from keys our key strategies and plans, such as our environment strategies, which are endorsed strategies and plans of the Council. So that is the basis of the operational plan, and that's what's being put forward today for adoption.

Brian Stockwell70:05

I have a question, but I think we'll go to the CEO. As part of the corporate planning process, we made a commitment and we did some investigation about how we can improve the effectiveness our of performance evaluation systems, our key performance indicators, how we track those so that as a Councillor we get a feeling not of just what we've done, but what the outcome, what is the impact on it. Can you let me know whether we will be in a position to either. Software or other processes, start that process to look at the performance of this operational plan and when it's likely to occur.

Sure. Thank you for the question and through you, Madam Mayor. Absolutely, we are. Obviously, it's been a very busy period with the budgets and the Corporate Plan and the operational plan being developed over a very short period or a tight period. So the next phase for us is now to, with the operational plan, is to unravel that even further in terms of KPIs for our staff. And that's something that we're very conscious of and something that we're really keen to put in place. And I think, to be honest, so are our staff. Everybody wants to know what their expectation is and what they need to achieve. So I don't think that an unreasonable thing, but I think it's something that need formalise a little bit more than we have in the past, and I think that's what you're getting at, Councillor, and we do want to formalise that, and we also are in the process of, as part of our development of the Corporate Plan, was to look at technology that is going to help us with that. Sort of found its way along, but it's something that we now know we've got this out of the way, but this done. We need to now focus on that technology and implement implementing it, picking the right one and implementing it. We're in the phase of chosen the right one with TechnologyOne. We now need to just put it into play. So that's our next focus. And I think it's a reasonable request. I think that something that we all like to know. We all like to know where we are, be able to measure ourselves against it. So at the end of the year or end of the period or various periods during the year, we don't want any surprises either as individuals or as humans. So to have that in play is a good thing. And that's something that we're more than keen to implement.

Brian Stockwell72:36

I have left the majority of my comments for the operational plan because this is an area that either Councillors or the community have had a chance to look at publicly again. And we actually haven't at this point published some of the figures around the operational initiatives that have been put forward this year as new. There is some mentioned in the budget report of our new staff members. I think looking at how we do it to get the maximum impact of what we invest in is really important and the operational plan for me is where that rubber hits the road. We're in a position where we've just got a large new suite of managers all about to start and others have been really important that you know they all come up with their first hundred day plan that one of those things is you establish how you're going to measure the impact by this time next year and that's where a good performance management system come into place but that's not where my comments align my majority of my comments are about someone said that the current mantra is about just getting on and doing it and so I thought I'd pull out a few things that for me are important to get on and do and I'm going to start with an issue that's been over 200 years in the making I'm going to finish with one that's very fresh in the last week so obviously the one that's 200 years in the making is Councillor Finzel did acknowledge Traditional Custodians and when we pay respects to elders past present and emerging we follow through by doing things that reduces the inequity that has resulted from the injustice in that occurred in historically we know that this landscape was you know inhabited by the Kabi Kabi people and was taken from them and now many of them moved off the land so last few years we've been focusing our effort to address inequity by being a part of the process of native title that's nearly coming to the end so in this budget in the operational initiative we're moving to the next step of starting looking at how is it best for this Council to start honouring that commitment through. Reconciliation record to the Reconciliation Action Plan now there's a lot of debate at the moment through the Federal government referendum process but basically what we'll be doing is how do we make it fair how do we actually encourage both ownership but also involvement of both Kabi Kabi and other Indigenous people within our community in the future prosperity sustainability of the Shire and one of the things that we do really well is care for country and so in this operation budget we'll be adopting a Noosa River Plan so one of the initiatives perhaps in the reconciliation plan will be to negotiate how we may work with them so they get land and sea ranger funds say from the Federal government to help us implement that plan they can be very practical so that's the one for 200 years in the making. Talking about caring for country um the next one I'm going to mention I've been advocating for every budget since 2018 and if anyone um would be a fly in all these budget sessions it generally takes you about three or four years of the Council to get something up but we have three and eighty thousand dollars for the implementation of the enforcement encroachment policy and that includes a sizeable allocation uh to rehabilitation of our bushland reserves as part of it as well as staff members to do that encroachment to do that uh implementation so for me 2018 done um another um one we get sometimes we'll look at and the criticism we're just building Pelican Street with new staff and it's really great I think this is the first time since 2016 where I can stand up and say um we've got two new outside workforce members in the budget and they're not blue collar colour, they're the parks crew so we've got um a new staff member a new ganger for the now award-winning uh Cooroy hinterland the playground and we have a new ganger to add to the staff at the Botanic Gardens and what's more we have sixty five thousand dollars to do a master plan to say how the uh the potential gardens on the beautiful shores of Lake Macdonald will be developed in the future and I'm sure that will include a whole lot of rare and endangered native plant propagation um we move on from the botanical parts which were a really clear priority for people when we did the Liveability Survey when we did the Corporate Plan a surprise package when people were about what they wanted housing came up as a second highest priority so this is one that since 2019 I've been advocating for and we actually have um 500 or 600 hundred or six hundred five hundred thousand a in social housing partnership but that's not coming it's not how identified to come out of grant-paid funds that's identified as gaining state government funding to work with them on probably two really important BOSIC. Sites to develop both community housing and public housing on the State government land so to me that's excellent but Council is really a cradle to the grave organisation and because one of those sites is that was bought for future for people to lie on down in for an extended period of time we're also investing in a cemetery spain because we have to look at the future because no matter what you do there's one thing inevitable about life it comes to an end so.

Brian Stockwell78:38

Sorry does his speech come to life one that actually this is one of those ones that gets up every budget hopefully it'll actually be implemented this year and that's the strategic land review that's about looking at councils assets and saying what land have we got and what is the best use for are the commercial opportunities are the sale opportunities are the community uses and so that's in there and one of those areas that are going to be looked at is the land we bought on Johns Landing which is currently part of the wonderful Floating Land exhibition. And so we're looking at the options out there okay. We're looking at how to do things more efficiently and so when we look at getting down and doing it we don't necessarily have to use people at the time we can use technology so there is 281 K in camera car project and that's with local laws and so there's no points for guessing how that's going to pay for itself my only warning is make sure you park for the right amount of time and in the right spot but we also and this one is probably going to be a surprise to people we've got 94k to actually go to this really leading-edge system it's called electric electronic time and payroll system it's really amazing that an organisation our size hasn't got one you know people are still filling in excel timesheets so but as part of this budget what we also haven't spruced is to get a lot of these operation budget funded the First Point that the new mean Acting Director Corporate Services did was get everyone to find their savings and there was $250,000 where the savings identified now we all know every time we ask the community the number one priority of what they want to see Council do is protect the environment and this is my last one and we know that in the news there has been a battle that has been ostensibly lost in the last week but that's not saying that we've lost the war in our Corporate Plan we had a new outcome that we put up and that was to be nature positive that means that from of the Corporate Plan to the end we'll have more nature than we did when we started and the best demonstrate that is in the operational initiatives we are investing environment living we continue to purchase land that has high environmental value so we haven't said where but we have put a contract on 69 hectares of land recently that will be finalised in the next financial year that 69 hectares has 60 second hectares that's vegetated a lot of that is regional ecosystem render regional ecosystem 12, 11, 15 that's blue gum bloodwood our grass tree. But one of the species that occurs in that ecosystem is alacruta turelosa or forest she-oak one of the glossy black cockatoo feed trees so 67 hectares adding to the protected area state so I think it's important to understand that we're not a budget's not just about building roads collecting rates and reducing rubbish it's also about creating a place where people like to live and protecting the environment where they like to enjoy their relaxation.

Thank you Councillor Stockwell. Would. Anyone else like to talk to the operational plan? Councillor Lorentson? Arnston?