Annual Review of the Governance Rules

In accordance with the Local Government Act 2020 Council is required to review and update its Governance Rules every year. This year a comprehensive scale review has been undertaken and a number of recommended changes are proposed, including:

• Improvements to the overall structure and readability of the document and change to from multi-layered legal numbering to simplistic numbering
• Update to the document design, layout, logo and colour scheme
• Automated numbering and cross-referencing
• Clarification of Mayor election procedures (previously adopted)
• Procedural Motions Table moved to the Appendices
• Improvements to the public question time procedure
• New requirement for petitions and joint letters to include a head petitioner or representative
• Changes to how Councillors who wish to attend a meeting via electronic means for any reason