Cairns Regional Council will enter into a new four-year Memorandum of Understanding with CQUniversity.
A four-year MOU was signed between the two organisations in November 2016, with the intent of fostering a collaborative relationship to enhance and progress mutually beneficial outcomes of relevance to the Cairns community and Tropical North Queensland.
The current MOU, which expires on 4 November, has helped to deliver environmental, entrepreneurial, artistic and economic outcomes.
The education industry in Cairns has evolved in the past four years and the university has grown and evolved to meet new opportunities.
The new MOU builds on the established relationship, with some amendments to better reflect current and future priorities, and will encourage industry development or diversification that could result in direct or indirect economic benefit for the local economy.
This resolution is to be ratified at the next Ordinary Meeting of Council, to be held on 28 October 2020.
