Sunshine Coast Council

Major Community Grants and Environment Levy Grants are now open Our community groups do amazing work across the region to make the Sunshine Coast a great place to live, work and play. Your council’s Community Grants Program provides advice and funding support to not-for-profit groups for one-off projects, events and activities that benefit the Sunshine Coast Local Government Area. The next round of council’s Major Grants (all categories), Minor Grants (Event category only) and Environment Levy Grants are open now and close on Monday, September 3, 2018. For more information visit council’s website.

Our Sunshine Coast Lightning have had another fantastic season in 2018 - both on and off the court.

New school for Baringa I was really pleased to recently attend the official opening of the remarkable new model Baringa State Primary School by the Queensland Premier. Since the year’s commencement, just over six months ago the State’s first science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) school welcomed more than 320 students. The opening showcase performed by the students was a real credit to the schools leadership team, entire staff, parents and students of the school and it showed just how passionate they are about this next generation facility.

Major Community Grants and Environment Levy Grants are now open Our community groups do amazing work across the region to make the Sunshine Coast a great place to live, work and play. Your council’s Community Grants Program provides advice and funding support to not-for-profit groups for one-off projects, events and activities that benefit the Sunshine Coast Local Government Area. The next round of council’s Major Grants (all categories), Minor Grants (Event category only) and Environment Levy Grants are open now and please take note close on Monday, September 3, 2018. For more information visit council’s website or contact a grants officer on 5420 8616 to discuss your project. Don’t forget to check out our top ten tips for grant writing to assist with planning your application.

Horizon Festival 2018 program unveiled This is a very exciting time for the Sunshine Coast with the Horizon Festival about to kickoff. Council recently unveiled an impressive 2018 program catering to the popular, emerging and experimental genres. There’s so much variety in the program this year - you can dip your toes in, or really immerse yourself and step outside your comfort zone. There are free and ticketed events across the region, visit the website www.horizonfestival.com.au to view the full program and plan your days across the 10 day festival. You can also pick up a printed copy of the 51 page brochure at council’s customer contact centres and libraries. Give my office a call on 5420 8987 as we’re also happy to post you a copy!

There are plenty of opportunities to enjoy an outdoor lifestyle in Division 9 and council’s 2018/19 budget will deliver even more.

It was a privilege to be invited to launch the Muller Park Indigenous Cultural Signage as part of NAIDOC Week activities.

Cheers to the start of a new financial year with plenty of goodies in store for Division 7 thanks to the $864 million region-wide 2018-19 budget recently endorsed by council.

Council is going back to the drawing board for the Brisbane Road car park redevelopment after the withdrawal of Abacus Investments Pty Ltd.

I am pleased to see that modification works to the lane marking and traffic signals to accommodate bike lanes and improve traffic flow were recently completed at the Bellara Drive intersection with Nicklin Way, Currimundi. Green cycle lane markings on Boram and Bluebell Streets are also due to be completed in the coming months.