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Money council pays outside bodies outside its grant rounds, from its budgets, reports and minutes.

The Nature Conservancy

Funding from Noosa Council outside its grant rounds, under funding agreement, partnership agreement, from Environment Levy. 11 figures found, 2019-20 to 2022-23.

$1,200,599paid, 3 yrs
$1,200,000approved by resolution, 1 yr
$692,962budgeted, 2 yrs

Each total counts one kind of figure and never adds it to another: a budget and the payment it became are the same money. Years with no figure of that kind are not in its total.

Every figure

YearWhatAmountSource
2019-20 Paid · funding agreement
first instalment, paid upon execution of the Alliance & Funding Agreement
Report states "already paid ... upon the execution of the agreement" (AUD). FY not printed: agreement approved 18 July 2019 and payment reported as made by 7 July 2020, so FY 2019-20 is inferred from those dates, not stated.
$179,237 2020-07-07_2020_07_07_Planning_Environm… lines 806-808
council's words

“Finance Noosa Council has already paid the first instalment of the Alliance & Funding Agreement – AUD$179,237 upon the execution of the agreement.”

2019-20 Paid · funding agreement
cumulative to April 2022
Cumulative amount paid to date as at the 12 April 2022 report ("exc GST"), across more than one FY; financial_year given is the first FY of the agreement. Grant stated as $1.2 million exc GST matched by TNC.
not counted in any total: amount paid to date at April 2022 across several years; overlaps the per-year rows
$232,040 2022-04-12_2022_04_12_Planning_Environm… lines 2664-2666
council's words

“The Alliance and Funding Agreement specifies a grant of $1.2 millon exc of GST for the project, which is matched by TNC. To date $232,040.09 exc GST has been paid in accordance with scheduled deliverables. With the achievement of the RAA, then the next scheduled payment”

2019-20 Paid · partnership agreement
Annual report s 189 'expenditure on grants to community organisations' table, section 'The Nature Conservancy Partnership'. Printed under a partnership heading.
not counted in any total: same figure already counted from 2020-07-07_2020_07_07_Planning_Environment_Committee_Agenda.txt lines 806-808
$179,237 2019-20_Annual_Report_2019-20.pdf p. 49 (pdf 25)
council's words

“The Nature Conservancy Partnership: The Nature Conservancy 179237.00”

2019-20 Approved by resolution · partnership agreement · Environment Levy
3 years from 1 July 2019
Ordinary Meeting 18 July 2019
Total over term (no per-year split stated). Alliance and Funding Agreement for Noosa River oyster reef restoration; TNC matches $1.2M. Staged, subject to Schedule A outcomes; treated as a grant under the Environment Grants Policy (LGR s195). GC 15 July 2019 recommendation adopted OM 18 July 2019 (minutes lines 868-877). In-principle partnership OM 17 Jan 2019. Cr Jackson notified motion 15 Aug 2019 (acquittal requirements) lost 1/5; it describes "a grant of $1.2 million was awarded by Noosa Council to TNC".
$1,200,000 2019-07-15_2019_07_15_General_Committee… lines 612-615
council's words

“The Alliance & Funding Agreement commits Council and The Nature Conservancy each to funding of $1.2 million over three years. Council funding will be sourced from the Environment Levy. Council’s funding commitment will be staged, and subject to the successful completion of measurable outcomes identified in Schedule A of the Agreement.”

2019-20 Stated in a council report · funding agreement
Alliance & Funding Agreement, July 2019 - 30 September 2022 (3 years)
Total over term (four payment milestones), not a per-year figure. Agreement approved OM 18 July 2019 (outside this sweep). Oct 2022 final report: total project budget spent, costs split evenly between TNC and Council ($1.2m each) - see separate row.
$1,200,000 2021-09-13_2021_09_13_General_Committee… lines 2520-2523
council's words

“Finance The Alliance & Funding Agreement has four payment milestones for Noosa Council’s contribution of $1.2 million. Noosa Council has only paid the first instalment of the Alliance & Funding Agreement of $179,237 upon the execution of the agreement.”

2019-20 Stated in a council report · funding agreement
Alliance & Funding Agreement, concluded 30 September 2022
Ordinary Meeting 27 October 2022
Final report: "The total project budget was spent. Costs were split evenly between The Nature Conservancy and Noosa Council ($1.2m each)." Total over term. OM 27 Oct 2022 noted the agreement requirements met (GC 24 Oct 2022). A further $1.2m came to TNC from the Australian Government Reef Builder project - not Council money.
not counted in any total: same figure already counted from 2021-09-13_2021_09_13_General_Committee_Meeting_Agenda.txt lines 2520-2523
$1,200,000 2022-10-24_2022_10_24_General_Committee… lines 1713-1715
council's words

“Finance The total project budget was spent. Costs were split evenly between The Nature Conservancy and Noosa Council ($1.2m each).”

2020-21 Budgeted · funding agreement
second milestone payment
AUD. "This is budgeted for in the 2020/21 financial year, however, payment is made on demonstrated achievement of the measureable outcomes." Sept 2021 report says the second payment was delayed (permits) and had been expected in 2020/21; 2021/22 budget had capacity for the 2nd and 3rd milestone payments.
$200,000 2020-07-07_2020_07_07_Planning_Environm… lines 809-812
council's words

“The second payment of AUD$200,000 is due upon demonstrated achievement of measurable outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 13(a) of the Alliance & Funding Agreement. This is budgeted for in the 2020/21 financial year, however, payment is made on demonstrated achievement of the measureable outcomes.”

2021-22 Paid · partnership agreement
Annual report s 189 'expenditure on grants to community organisations' table, section 'Partnership - Environment'. Printed under a partnership heading.
$200,000 Annual_Report_2021-22.pdf p. 79 (pdf 79)
council's words

“Partnership - Environment: The Nature Conservancy 200000.00”

2021-22 Budgeted · funding agreement
next scheduled milestone payment
Next scheduled payment request "can be anticipated, which has been budgeted for this FY" (report dated 12 April 2022). GST treatment not stated for this figure.
$492,962 2022-04-12_2022_04_12_Planning_Environm… lines 2666-2667
council's words

“scheduled deliverables. With the achievement of the RAA, then the next scheduled payment request of $492,962 can be anticipated, which has been budgeted for this FY.”

2022-23 Paid · partnership agreement
Annual Report 2022-23 (in GC 13 Nov 2023 packet) grants expenditure table, section "Partnership - Environment". Two-column layout: "- budgeted for community purposes" belongs to the adjacent Discretionary Funds column. Oyster reef partnership endorsed July 2019; the 2024-25 operational plan says the work is complete. Same figure is in registers/funding_s189_disclosures.csv. No 2023-2026 council decision about TNC funding found.
$821,362 2023-11-13_General_Committee_Meeting_No… lines 28924-28926
council's words

“Partnership - Environment - budgeted for community purposes The Nature Conservancy 821,362.00”

2022-23 Paid · partnership agreement
Annual report s 189 'expenditure on grants to community organisations' table, section 'Partnership - Environment'. Printed under a partnership heading.
not counted in any total: same figure already counted from 2023-11-13_General_Committee_Meeting_November_2023.txt lines 28924-28926
$821,362 Annual_Report_2022-23.pdf p. 196 (pdf 99)
council's words

“Partnership - Environment: The Nature Conservancy 821362.00”

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