Council business

Council Meetings and Committees

• Council Business Schedule - dates and times of future Council meetings
  
  
• Council Business Papers & Archives - all business papers listed
  
  
• List of Council Committees - committees within Council
  
  
• List of Delegates to Other bodies - committees outside Council Councillors attend
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  List of Councillors and Department heads - current elected Councillors
  
  
• List of past Councillors - elected Councillor's archive.

Governance

• Local Government Reform Process (2006 review) (pdf 466Kb) - Kiama Council was asked to complete a strategic management assessment and a comprehensive set of checklists about key council practices. The review team examined these and a range of other source documents prior to visiting council, in order to gain a preliminary understanding on the pressures on council and how the council has sought to manage that environment.
  
  
• All Public documents - including Management Plans, Policies and budget summary.

• Business Ethics - guidance for ethical dealings with Council
  
  
• Code of Conduct - code adopted by Councillors, Council staff and delegates
  
  
• Code of Meeting Practice - how to run Council meetings
  
  
• Confidential Committee - how to run closed Council meetings
  
  
• Declaration of Interest - how a Councillor should declare an interest
• Delegation - when Council or the General Manager can delegate
  
  
• Payment of Expenses and Provision of Facilities - for Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Councillors
• Privacy Management Plan (pdf 58Kb) - The Acts provide for the protection of personal and health information and for the protection of the privacy of individuals.
  
  
• Public Access to Council Meeting - conditions for public access
• Statement of Values - essential principles for Council operations
  
  

Lobbying Councillors

The Indepedent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has produced a brochure that provides a guide for councillors, constituents and other interested parties on the subject of lobbying local government councillors.

This brochure uses the term lobbying to cover certain types of communication between local government councillors and the community. The Commission's view is that appropriate lobbying of councillors is normal. It is also in the public interest that lobbying is fair and does not undermine public confidence in impartial decision-making. The brochure considers the types of activities that constitute inappropriate or unlawful lobbying. The brochure also advises councillors on ways they can help ensure transparency whilst being lobbied. The brochure also notes that the lobbying of councillors by tenderers about the outcome of a tender process is an exception to the principle that lobbying is permissible. ICAC brochure (pdf 222Kb)