Noosa Environment Strategy Implementation Plan 5-Year Monitoring Report

So we had our annual review of our Environment Strategy, which has got 14 actions embedded in it. We've given a potted summary of how we're tracking against each of those actions. Of the 42, we've got one scheduled for future, which is fish biomass sitting within Noosa River, which has been a component of the Noosa River Plan, so as that develops, we'll start to get some metrics around there. Two that need attention relating to agriculture, and they were always intended to be further on in the Environment Strategy as we're starting to develop plans through economic development, strategic planning, and environment that will incorporate some of our metrics in there. Of the remaining 39 actions, we've got four that we've got four that have been completed, 21 are on target, and 15 are progressing. And we've given a progressing rating for actions where they're moving in the right direction but have been delayed for particular reasons and happy to take questions around those. Considering we've also got some four enabling, overarching enabling actions and we've given a part of summaries to how we're progressing on those. Implementation of the environment grants program to support community projects and programs that lead to implementation of the Environment Strategy is on target and we've provided a summary of the reporting year for our environmental grants and climate change and sustainability grants. Enabling action number two: implementation of an environment sustainability roundtable to provide a mechanism for local groups, local community groups, government, stakeholders and experts to have an input into development of Council policy is progressing and I'll provide a note to say that terms of reference and a project plan for that will be presented to Council probably at the next Council meeting, not the one on Thursday but the one coming up. After that. We're just working through terms of reference of that at the moment enabling the third enabling action supporting community environmental sustainable development networks and forums to build partnerships to drive the implementation of the Environment Strategy is considered to be progressing and again that is attached to the environment sustainability round roundtable which is coming up and the final one which is undertake monitoring programs are required for evaluating and reporting on the success of the implant implementation of the Environment Strategy is also progressing and so that's monitoring programs are always a work in progress as things change and more data becomes available to us so we've provided a potted summary on how we're progressing for each of the enabling actions gone into a little bit more detail about all the other actions which are very Council driven and Council resourced we've resourced. Also we've also provided an attachment for a summary of environment grants and climate change and sustainability grants there's two recommendations that we've put forward one is relating to the this report and the contents in there and the second one is a proposing a midterm review of the Environment Strategy given that it's a 10-year strategy and it's still good certain things have changed the in last five years and a strategy that spans 10 years there will always be changes along the way which is incorporating new technology it might be a better way to be able to measure track implement different networks that we might be using and emerging trends which may have emerged over those for the last five years as well so in relation to that we're not proposing a full-on rebuild of it but it's a review of the existing actions whether any of those need amending and whether there's any emerging items that need to be considered by Council.