Noosa Shire Council 2025 - 2026 Annual Report

Following consultation with Patrick and the planning team, Council has. No disclosures last financial year to report on that are required under the. Provision for the reporting period. Importantly, we've also gone again above and beyond the minimum statutory reporting requirements this year to further strengthen transparency and accountability. In particular, the performance. Section has been expanded to include additional performance measures against Council's Corporate Plan and it is a work in progress. It's the first year that we're inserting that element into it and this is an area we intend to continue developing as part of our ongoing organisational improvement and as teams continue to align their reporting with the corporate planning. Consultation in preparing the annual report has been broad and extensive across the organisation with the draft also formally presented to the Audit and Risk Committee just recently on the 23rd of October. Review and feedback and it was supported in its draft form. So in terms of its structure the annual report contains six key sections commencing with acknowledgement and leadership messages from the Mayor and CEO. Then flows into our Shire section which provides an overview of the Shire for our community members including key facts. And our local identities shaped by the strong interconnection we have between a natural environment community well-being and local economy we then proceeding your Council which provides information about our elected members Council services customer service performance community engagement activities we do throughout the year organisational structure corporate planning framework and our workforce we then go into the performance section which is quite a large part of our annual report. It provides a review of the year, how we've proceeded. We demonstrate progress against the corporate planning themes excellence. It also includes performance measures, infrastructure project. Highlights, and key performance indicators. Finally, we, are looking at disclosures. So mainly the governance disclosures, which brings together Council. Statutory and governance disclosures, including our governance framework, ethics risk management, audit activities, Councillor and executive remuneration, Council meetings.