2026-2027 Community Project Grants Program - Facility Development

Nicola Wilson179:57

I do. In accordance with Chapter 5B of the Local Government Act 2009, I inform the meeting that I have a prescribed conflict of interest in relation to item 7.4, 2026-27 community grants program, community project grants, facility development, as Noosa Arts Theatre have been recommended as a recipient of a facility development grant. I am the senior vice president of Noosa Arts Theatre as a result of my conflict of interest, I will now leave the meeting room.

Brian Stockwell180:28

Thank you. And I will follow up under the same section as local government. I inform the meeting that I have prescribed conflict of interest in relation to item 7.4, the 26-27 community grants program, community project grants, facility development on this agenda, as I am the current president of Noosa Lions Football Club, who I recommend for funding as of. Today. A result my conflicts, I will now leave the meeting room while the matter is considered and voted on.

Brian Stockwell179:47

Okay we we're now up to item uh putting item 4, which is the community product grants program facility development, and Councillor Wilson, you wish to declare a conflict of interest?

Okay, so discussions or questions? Yeah, so this relates to our facility development category. So the outcome being sought is council's agreement to approve the recommended facility development grant applications to the nine community organisations one to the value of in attachment 1. $147,296 and 32 cents subject to funding confirmed in the adopted 26-27 community grants program budget. I just want to worth noting for this particular facility development that all applicants must put in a minimum of 50% towards the grant so that could either be in kind their own cash at bank or an external grant opportunity so it's worthy that for the nine applications that we're proceeding. Thank you. Any questions?

Thank you very much Councillors. So first report today. The purpose of today's report is to provide a summary of the 26-27 community grants and three year signature community event grants. And to seek council's endorsement of the proposed funding allocation across the four categories. And those categories being projects, equipment, facility development and events. The grant program as you are aware is a really key driver to our situation. Strategic goals for Council and supporting our community organisations and our most valuable volunteers in the community as well. The demand continues to exceed. So the demand that we get for our grants continues to exceed what we have in our budget and we've had over 626. Six hundred and twenty six thousand dollars worth of requests coming through from 42 community organisations for our community project grants. This really highlights what the reason why we need to do a very robust and transparent assessment process as well grants. For this particular round we're recommending 22 projects for funding to the value of $258,466.82 with a total project value of $862,000. So what I'd like to let you know is every dollar that we provide to our community project grants and subject to endorsement we're actually getting $3.33 in return so it's a great investment. So again for our three out-of-round signature grants recommended funding for $27,000 we're leveraging a total project value of over $95,000. So if we put that into a dollar investment it is every dollar we put in we're getting $3.55 in return. So again a great investment. So the outcome being sought in this particular report is council's agreement to endorse the recommended distribution of grant funding and the allocation of remaining funds to community respond to needs through the quick response grants throughout the year subject to sufficient funds being allocated in council's adopted budget in 26-27 community grants program. Thank you very much.