Operational Plan 2026-2027

Our classes I just wish to revise um Dr Stephanie belongs taken ill so I'll be presenting the report on her basis but uh knowing that she is the author of the report with the um support of our transport officer Daniel berg so um I can't pretend to be as an expert as Stephanie. An expert as Stephanie so but I do my best um so um the Noosa Transport Strategy originally established in 2017-2027 is approaching the strategic horizon the strategy established a long-term transport vision of an efficient free-flowing and independent transport system that enhances resident visitor experiences and supports sustainable transport environment outcomes since adoption of we've delivered a remarkable suite of transport initiatives across public transport active transport parking management traffic data and traffic safety and visitor demand management many of these initiatives such as the free bus loops and satellite parking and our business as usual which weren't envisaged back in 2017 so what's presented in this report is basically an action plan for the basically an action plan for the remaining two years of the Transport Strategy and remaining two years of the Transport Strategy and intended to maintain delivery momentum intended to maintain delivery momentum respond to current community priorities respond to current community priorities and progress selective initiatives for and progress selective initiatives for investigations the plan needs to be investigations the plan needs to be viewed in conjunction with our work across other initiatives such as Go Noosa: Walking and Cycling Strategy as well as all the operational work that's undertaken by the team which is outlined in the report. I just note that the plan does not constitute approve of any capital works and obviously any capital delivery be subject to Council separate budget the report includes a transport traffic program at a glance, including 15 strategy initiatives delivered and embedded, 400 customer requests assessed annually, three major strategic studies completed or progressing, two advisory committees instated, and four key safety programs underway. So I'm looking for a Councillor to endorse the report and the movement and connection action plan for the remaining two years. Thank you Councillors.

Brian Stockwell299:09

Second? I think you've explained. Happy to just put the motion? Yep. All in favour? Yes. That's unanimous. Okay. So we move on to item 8, which we could invite the executive officer, Jonci, to discuss the operational plan 2627.

Good afternoon, Councillors. Afternoon. So this report presents the draft Noosa Council operational plan 2627 for council's consideration. Council is required to adopt an operational plan each financial year that aligns with the annual budget and supports the delivery of the Corporate Plan. The draft plan outlines 76 initiatives across five corporate plans themes and to progress the strategic priorities within that Corporate Plan. The initiatives have been developed with consideration of organisational priorities and available resources to ensure an achievable program of work. So yesterday um yesterday there's one change to the opera the draft plan as circulate yesterday there has been a change to attachment one of the report which is the draft operational plan. The change has been implemented following the adoption of the 26 annual budget on 23rd of June. Specifically on page 13 of the amended draft operational plan under initiative 1.3.1 relating to the eastern beaches foreshore reserves management plan the following actions have been added the first undertake pandanus inspections and management to conserve the foreshore tree population second undertake environmental beach access renewal and upgrades to protect dunes and vegetation third implement ecologic restoration activities to protect dunes and bushland and lastly support Bushcare and community volunteer programs to rehabilitate reserves and the report is unchanged this is basically just a change to the attachment it is therefore recommended that Council a note the report and b adopt the operational plan 2026-2027 s provide an attachment one to the Minutes

Frank Wilkie301:33

Just another clarifying question yes please we do this every year after adopting the budget because the operational plan reflects the decisions made in the budget and all the initiatives that have been funded as per the budget

That is for the Chair that is correct there must be basically aligned an annual budget and the operational plan it does not specifically say which one comes first oftentimes they come also at the same time but this is for example an where it pays off that it comes after the annual budget because this action could still be added yeah every item in there

Frank Wilkie302:25

Yes as we said this is standard procedure. After we adopt a budget we adopt the operational plan which outlines all the funded and resourced initiatives that the Council intends to deliver or initiate in the next financial year and they are tracked by the CEO and reported quarterly to the Council as to their progress.

For the Chair there so the operation plan is fully funded but there is no figure available to determine the value of these initiatives that is unfortunately not available something that was requested or that was it was put together but obviously the um the teams have a look at their available resources and budgets and see what they can achieve, what is funded and put these things forward to for inclusion in the operational plan. Okay go ahead. I can add to that as well that

It's reasonably easy to um quantify the projects the capital works projects because they're discrete projects and they have a figure of cost to them it's the programs that often are bits of different people's time there's other allocations of funding so it's very difficult to try to draw that in um into a final figure we can say they are fully funded because they're part of our overall programs the other piece that um that this program or this project does is it's an annual operational plan but it's part of a five-year corporate so there's a number of projects in here that are for 12 months but they're actually a two or three year or five year plan or an ongoing program and plan so it's very difficult again but so we're trying to what we're trying to do with this report now is to be better at reporting those multi-year programs and projects as well as the ones that will definitely be delivered within the 12-month period