Council meetings

Ordinary meetings

Council meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at 10am commencing  in Council Chambers which is located on the first floor of the Sir Albert Abbott Administration Building Gordon Street in Mackay.

Council meeting times

  • 10am, Wednesday, August 12, 2020
  • Mackay Entertainment and Convention Centre (MECC) – 58 Macalister Street, Mackay

    • In line with the newly amended provisions within section 277E of the Local Government Regulation 2012, due to Covid-19 safety provisions it is not considered practical for the public to attend and therefore the meeting will be closed to the public.

A Strategic Advisory Committee, which operated from March, 2018, was abolished in January, 2019.

Formed after four previous standing committees were abolished, it focused on the strategic vision of council’s Corporate Plan and met monthly, with any recommendations taken to the bi-monthly ordinary meetings of council.

It was abolished by council resolution as the majority of councillors felt it was not achieving the separate outcomes required.

As the membership of that committee was the full council, they believed the best use of resources and delivery of transparency was to bring any matters to ordinary meetings of council, which are open to the public.

Three sub-committee working groups – Regional Economy, Community Education and Environment, and Infrastructure and Performance, formed under the Strategic Advisory Committee, remain in place.

Directorate reports

Council previously operated four Standing Committees. With the move to twice monthly ordinary meetings, each directorate provides a monthly report to one of the two ordinary meetings.

Mayor and CEO reports