Our 7th Special Council Meeting for the year (compared to only 5 Ordinary Meetings so far) – this one to pass the 2020-21 Budget for Town of Cottesloe. The Budget was passed, and follows three earlier workshops, involving Councillors and relevant Administration, each focussing on different areas of the Budget (eg Rate-setting, Capital Works and […]
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Special Council Meetings – 2 and 4 May 2020 (and 12 May)
Two Special Council Meetings over the weekend – to select a new CEO after final interviews, and to progress the Foreshore detailed design and “minor” works. New CEO This process is still in motion, however on Saturday, Council met to appoint its preferred candidate as our new CEO from final interviews. Negotiations on salary and […]
Special Council Meeting – 17 March 2020 (COVID-19)
Tonight’s Special Council Meeting was called on a day’s notice to address COVID-19 issues, a few days after the pandemic was formally declared. At this “SCM”, the Town’s first response to COVID-19 was a recommendation to delegate to the CEO all power to “make any lawful decision” deal with the health crisis. Such a delegation […]
Special Council Meeting – 27 February 2020
In this post I’ll summarise both of Council’s steps to support ‘Sculpture by the Sea‘. These occured both at this ‘SCM’ called for that purpose, and the February “OCM”. In summary, Council approved $70,000 in direct support to “SxS” in 2020, and the procurement of traffic management and provision of extra toilets . The key […]
Special Council Meeting – 5 February 2019
This post summarises the outcome of the first (and ‘early’) Council meeting for 2019. The full agenda and attachments can be found at the Town’s site. Item 9.1 (“Swanbourne Village“) concerned the Town’s Report to the Joint Development Assessment Panel, which had been submitted by the Town prior to this Special Council Meeting in order […]