We aim to promote greater accessibility, transparency and inclusivity to Council Meetings by:

• live-streaming Council Meetings
• attend meetings in person.

Live-streaming reaches community members who might not attend a Council Meeting.

The draft Policy proposes:

• continue live-streaming all Council Meetings. Except for confidential items that are considered by Council after closing the meeting to the public.
• continue to record Council Meetings. And make the recording available on Council’s website as soon as practicable.
• streaming of Council Meetings outsourced to a professional company.

The Local Government Act allows:

• councils to close meetings to the public if the council live streams the meeting
• Councillors to attend meetings online.

This allowed Council Meetings to continue from early 2020 due to:

• COVID-19
• risks to public health
• the declaration of the State of Emergency
• restrictions on public gatherings.