Code of Meeting Practice

The purpose of the Code of Meeting Practice is to set out the manner in which meetings of Campbelltown City Council are to be convened and conducted, to be an effective aid to good governance and ensure maximum transparency and openness of all Council and Committee meetings in accordance with the following principles:

• Transparent - Decisions are made in a way that is open and accountable.
• Informed - Decisions are made based on relevant, quality information.
• Inclusive - Decisions respect the diverse needs and interests of the local community.
• Principled - Decisions are informed by the principles prescribed under Chapter 3 of the Act.
• Trusted - The community has confidence that councillors and staff act ethically and make decisions in the interests of the whole community.
• Respectful - Councillors, staff and meeting attendees treat each other with respect.
• Effective - Meetings are well organised, effectively run and skilfully chaired.
• Orderly - Councillors, staff and meeting attendees behave in a way that contributes to the orderly conduct of the meeting.

The new mandatory provisions to the Model Code which have been incorporated into Council’s Draft Code for exhibition are in blue text, the non-mandatory provisions are in red text, and the proposed deletions are struckthrough. The main proposed amendments include:

• A new statement of ethical obligations
• New provisions for meetings by audio-visual link which incorporates and formalises the pandemic emergency provisions for online meetings by audio-visual link

Read our draft Code of Meeting Practice.

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