2026-2027 Fees And Charges

Frank Wilkie114:09

Councillor Finzel, seconded by Councillor Wegener. All in favour? That is carried unanimously. And can we have Councillors Wilson and Stockwell back in the meeting room, please? Thank you. I don't know what that was, but it was 11.2.5, 20, 26, 27, community project grants program equipment. 11.2.6, community progress grant program events. 11.2.7, community grants program three year signature community event grants. 11.2.8, legacy plot reservation management policy. 11.2.9, support for all access and inclusion program. 11.2.10, was referred to the Ordinary Meeting for 3 a further report and we will deal with at item 12. The agenda, which was Fees and Charges. 11.2.11, Noosa Botanic Gardens master plan. 11.2.12, further report, Tourism Noosa funding and performance deed. 11.2 plan.13, Noosa biosecurity plan. 11.2.14 was referred to today's Ordinary Meeting for two further reports, which we will deal with at item 12.1 and 12.2 on this agenda, which is environment and climate change response. And environment project grants, round 21, climate change response grants, round 6, 11.2.15, planning applications decided by delegated authority, April 2026, and 11.2.16, planning applications decided by land rationalisation, Lanyana Way lot on authority.1.7 is the General Committee recommendations on. Block. We have a move and a second for the General Committee that Councillor Wilson is off the mark. We have a second. Thank you, Councillor Finzel. All in favour? That's unanimous. We now move to the Ordinary Meeting report. We have a further report, the environment project grants round 21, which is referred to the General Committee from the 9th of June. And we have Ben Derrick here. Thank you, Ben. Could you give us a summary of the report, please?

Frank Wilkie225:07

Welcome back everybody we resume at 1:46 we're up to item 12.3 which is a further report the Fees and Charges which was referred from the General Committee date on the 9th of June and we have found the financial services manager Zach Morton-Adair and acting corporate services Director Margaret Gatt here for this report. Zach or Margaret please give us summary of the report please.

Thank you for the Chair. So the report in front of you today outlines our 26-27 cost recovery fees and commercial charges as provided as attachment one. This version Margaret. Has this fusion, as Margaret has referred to, incorporates a number of changes relating to the declaration of new state government right for information charges, cosmetic charges, changes to the layout and function including descriptors relating to health descriptors and also the creation and update of the Fees and Charges related to the waste and symmetry areas. Fees and Charges contribute approximately 90% of councils overall revenue budget. Most of the Fees and Charges 26-27 attachment increased by less than 10%. This aligns with CCUI, CPUI, Council cost index, CPUI consumer price index, or cost recovery measures. A number of random change due to legislative or market constraints, or targeted increases in the CCUI, where cost recovery gaps exist. High increases are generally limited to regulatory and compliance services, commercial use of public assets, and use of paid services. Fees align with underlying legislative requirements, and we are determined to support-pays user models. The review of fees and services ensures they are cost-reflective with major changes workshopped through budget processes and commercial activities fully costed. Early adoption of the Fees and Charges schedule improves transparency and gives an advance notice to the community. I would like to draw a particular attention to two fees noted in the schedule. On page three of the schedule refers to the stock transport fee and on page four refers to the de-sex of excluding of up to six months old paid after due date. I just wanted to note a typographical error with a legislative reference. It currently references Local Government Act 2009 section 972. That is correct. The subsection D is a typographical error and it should make reference to subsection A instead of the same section. This will be corrected as part of the final report that is published post formal adoption of Council. Thank you.

Through the Chair of Council, we're in the Fees and Charges report, not in the monthly finance report. Where we're I asking think your question a relates please. To. If you could please, apologies.

Brian Stockwell230:48

This is just standard practice in terms of adopting these as early as possible so those people who are reliant on setting their own Fees and Charges have it before the actual results come in as far as the budget.

Jessica Phillips231:07

Just a quick question and it's probably another one on notice but what I'd love to see is it might be hard but if I was a small business wanting to start up in the Noosa Shire like this pages yeah how would I quickly work out what costs Council would be like through these Fees and Charges what sort of from what I'd be looking at I don't know it's just something that I'm interested in finding out if there's a way to do that.

Amelia Lorentson232:03

Okay, sorry, back to the bits and charges. In terms of analysis, I'm just sort of interested, when I run through the Fees and Charges report, I sort of pull out just certain ones and the question I'm asking is which proposed fee increases will have the greatest impact on low-residence pensioners and those on fixed income, so understanding that there is a cost-of-living crisis. And have we ever done an analysis in terms of impact on those most vulnerable?

Through the Chair, Councillor Lorentson, if I could ask for a little bit more of a clarification on that question. So that question is quite is across broad. All the Fees and Charges, if we could focus on potentially say some fees in regulatory services or fees in the community services, the relevant Director might be able to answer that question to a certain point, but no, as of today, we haven't done an analysis with that specific lens.