Council Meetings

COVID-19 and Council’s General Meetings

Members of the public are now permitted to attend Council Meetings in person. Council’s Meetings will proceed on the second Wednesday of each month commencing at 6.30pm in the Council Chambers.

Conditions of attendance

Members of the public are required to register their attendance and must adhere to strict social distancing measures (1 person per 2 square metres). In addition, all attendees are required to be fully vaccinated, wear a face mask and QR code check in upon arrival.

On arrival, attendees will also be required to undergo a rapid antigen test and return a negative result to proceed to the meeting. Testing will be available from 5.45pm prior to the 6.30pm meeting. Results take approximately 15 minutes, so please ensure you allow enough time when planning your arrival.

Updated arrangements

Council is mindful of the safety and welfare of Councillors, staff and the public requiring extra precautions and management of the meeting in the Council Chambers. Social distancing requirements means a limited number of public attendees will be allowed to be in the Council Chamber at one time. All attendees are required to register to attend, be fully vaccinated, wear a face mask and QR code check in upon arrival.

Registrations to attend and/or speak along with copies of your address to Council are to be received by Council no later than 12 noon on the day of the Meeting by emailing tcampbell@hornsby.nsw.gov.au. For members of the public that are unvaccinated and wish to address the Council on a particular item may have your submission read out by the General Manager.

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 from the public are permitted on any agenda or non-agenda item – usually two addresses 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 address applies so members of the public should ensure their addresses meet this criteria.

All of the written addresses 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 will continue to be live-streamed via the usual link: 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 tcampbell@hornsby.nsw.gov.au.