CEO Activities Report November 2015
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CEO Activities Report – November 2015 Edition For Public Distribution Published – 2 November 2015 CEO Activities Report November 2015 For Public Distribution CEO Activities Report – November 2015 Edition For Public Distribution Published – 2 November 2015 INDEX Page COMMUNITY AND CORPORATE SUPPORT Early Years ................................................................................................................................... 1 Aged Care ..................................................................................................................................... 1 Corporate Business ...................................................................................................................... 1 Tourism and Events ...................................................................................................................... 1 Economic Development ................................................................................................................ 2 Social Media ................................................................................................................................. 2 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Strategic Planning ........................................................................................................................ 3 Energy and Major Projects ........................................................................................................... 4 Statutory Planning ........................................................................................................................ 15 Building, Health and Regulatory Services .................................................................................... 24 Environmental Management ......................................................................................................... 29 Coast ............................................................................................................................................ 30 Waste Management ..................................................................................................................... 31 PHYSICAL SERVICES Small Towns Community Planning ............................................................................................... 33 Recreation .................................................................................................................................... 37 Arts ............................................................................................................................................... 37 Rural Access................................................................................................................................. 38 Youth ............................................................................................................................................ 38 Roads & Streets ........................................................................................................................... 41 Contracts & Contract Work ........................................................................................................... 42 Other Works/Issues ...................................................................................................................... 43 ADDITIONAL ITEMS Words of Thanks .......................................................................................................................... 45 CEO Activities Report – November 2015 Edition For Public Distribution Published – 2 November 2015 COMMUNITY & CORPORATE SUPPORT EARLY YEARS “No Jab, No Play” “No Jab, No Play” legislation has been passed through Victorian Parliament and will commence 1 January 2016. From the date legislation commences, all children enrolling in an early childhood education and care service will need to be up to date with their immunisations or have a medical exemption. Conscientious objection will no longer be an exemption under the new legislation. AGED CARE HACC Statistics for September 2015 SERVICE September 2014 September 2015 Home care hours 1,332 1,191 Personal care hours 790 549 Respite hours 419 340 Home maintenance hours 249 208 Kilometres travelled 16,319 12,957 Travel time in hours 23 28 Meals delivered 1,263 964 CORPORATE BUSINESS Caravan Parks • Temporary Customer Service Officers and Cleaners are currently being recruited for the 2015/2016 holiday period. Port of Port Fairy • The Port’s permanent commercial fishing fleet has expanded with the arrival of the Killarra. The Killara is a commercial shark fishing boat. TOURISM AND EVENTS Great Ocean Road Regional Tourism (GORRT) • The next GORRT Board meeting is on 25 November 2015. It is to be held in Portland. • The draft brief for the Visitor Servicing Review has been released for comment by GORRT. Festivals and events • The Lions Club 201V2 Convention is being held in Port Fairy from 6 - 8 November. It is expected that up to 400 people will be attending this convention. • St Patrick’s Port Fairy Santa Scamper is being held on 29 November. Page 1 CEO Activities Report – November 2015 Edition For Public Distribution Published – 2 November 2015 COMMUNITY & CORPORATE SUPPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Great South Coast Small Business Festival, August 2015 The Summary Outcomes Report for the 2015 Small Business Festival Victoria has been released. The report is compiled using attendance figures and feedback from all event hosts and participants. This year, over 39,000 participants attended 440 events held across the state in August. The location of events was split evenly between metropolitan Melbourne (48%) and regional Victoria (48%), with the remaining 4% of events taking place online. Some individual statistics from attendees of the Moyne Shire events are: Big Brekky for Small Business − 70% were business owners or managers. − Attendees were evenly spread between ‘sole-trader’ through to ‘20 or more’ employees. − 45% stated the event was excellent and better than they expected, and 45% stated it was very good and what they expected. − 85% agreed that the event was relevant to their needs and helped them to gain additional skills that they could apply to their business. Marketing your Business to Local Customers - with Ailsa Page − 56% were home-based business operators. − 69% were sole traders. − 94% were business owners or managers. − 87% stated that the event was relevant to their needs and helped them to gain additional skills. − 25% stated the event was better than they expected, and 62% stated it was about what they expected. SOCIAL MEDIA Social media report Summary to 23 October 2015 (changes compared to previous 28 day period) Tweets Tweet impressions Mentions Followers 15 17.3K (up 8.8%) 5 471 (up 20) Definitions Impressions: Basically how many people have seen our Tweets Mentions: Any Tweet that contains “@moyne_shire” in it. Page 2 CEO Activities Report – November 2015 Edition For Public Distribution Published – 2 November 2015 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC PLANNING Amendment C48 (Part 1) – Mortlake Urban Design Framework In accordance with Council’s adopted resolution at the February 2015 Ordinary Meeting, final amendment documents were lodged for formal approval of the Amendment with the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) on 8 July 2015. Discussions with DELWP have been productive and Council is now just awaiting formal acknowledgement of approval for the amendment. Amendment C55 – Port Fairy Heritage Review This planning scheme amendment was submitted to the Minister for Planning for approval on 28 September 2015. Council is now awaiting confirmation from DELWP of the date this amendment will be formally gazetted. Port Fairy Car Parking Strategy A draft version of the Port Fairy Car Parking Strategy was received by Council from the consultants on Monday 21 September 2015. The draft Strategy is currently being reviewed internally and Council will be briefed on its recommendations and further steps required to finalise this project at a November 2015 Workshop. Amendment C60 - Port Fairy West Structure Plan The public exhibition of this amendment finished on 23 October 2015. At the time of writing, Council had received one submission. The outcomes of the exhibition process and the next steps to finalising the amendment will be reported to Council at the December meeting. Amendment C61 - Mortlake Heritage Council was briefed at a recent workshop about the background and purpose of this amendment. This briefing was followed by a walking tour to inspect some significant heritage buildings and places in the centre of Mortlake. The next step for this project is the preparation of planning scheme amendment documents by Heritage Consultants, Context Pty Ltd which will occur in November and December this year. Rural Housing and Settlement Strategy and Land Capability and Biodiversity Study On 22 September 2015 Council resolved to adopt the Addendum Report 2015 in addition to the existing adopted Rural Housing Settlement Strategy (RHSS) and Land Capability and Biodiversity Study (LCBS). Council also resolved to commence preparation of a planning scheme amendment to implement the recommendations of the Strategies and Addendum Report. Following these resolutions, work has begun preparing a tender brief to seek a consultant to translate the recommendations of the RHSS, LCBS and Addendum Report 2015 into planning scheme amendment documents. It is envisaged that the amendment documents may be completed in early 2016. Once these documents have been finalised,