Council Meetings

Council’s General Meetings

The most significant decisions in Hornsby Shire are made at public Council Meetings which are held each month. All meetings are held in the Council Chambers at 296 Peats Ferry Road (formerly Pacific Highway), Hornsby. The meetings start at 6.30pm.

Due to Council’s COVID Safe Plan, members of the public are required to register their attendance and must adhere to strict social distancing measures (1 person per 2 square metres).

Social distancing requirements means a limited number of public attendees will be allowed to be in the Council Chamber at one time.

Registrations to attend and/or speak are to be received no later than the day before the meeting. Please complete and email a Speaker Form to councilmeetings@hornsby.nsw.gov.au.

If you are speaking on behalf of a community group provide the details of the name of the group, what position they hold in the group, the number of members in the group and the authorisation by the group to make representation to Council on the matter.

Please do not register or attend Council if you are ill even in a minor way. Please also do not attend if you have come into contact with someone who is displaying fever, cold and flu like symptoms.

Generally, a maximum of four addresses/speakers from the public are permitted on any agenda or non-agenda item – usually two addresses/speakers for and two against the recommendation, in respect of agenda items. Where more than four registrations to speak are received on an item, preference will be given to those registrations received by Council first.

A time limit of three minutes per speaker applies so members of the public should ensure their address/speech meets these criteria.

The Speaker Forms will be distributed to Councillors and relevant Senior Staff prior to the Meeting to ensure that Councillors have all available information on hand to make appropriate and well-informed decisions.

Meetings are live-streamed via - http://hornsby.webcastcloud.com.

If there are any questions in respect of the above, contact should be made with Council’s Council Meeting and Governance Officer on 9847 6836 or by emailing councilmeetings@hornsby.nsw.gov.au.

Live streaming of Council Meetings

You can now view Council Meetings live from the comfort of your own home. As of 8 August 2018 General Meetings of Council will be live streamed from the Council Chambers and viewable at https://hornsby.webcastcloud.com/. You are also able to access archived meetings (for the preceding six months). Confidential sessions of Council Meetings will not be broadcast. If the webcast stream goes black during a meeting, this means that Council has entered into confidential session.

Hornsby Council accepts no liability for any defamatory remarks that may be made during the course of the meeting.

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