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.

Public notice of council meeting

Notice is hereby given in accordance with the Local Government Regulation 2012, section 254B of the Council Ordinary Meeting schedule:

Thursday, January 27, 2022

  • 10am – Ordinary Meeting – MECC

Post January 27, 2022, Ordinary Council Meetings will be held on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month commencing at 10am in the MECC until further notice.

In line with the 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 meetings will be closed to the public until further notice.

Strategic Advisory Committee

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