Your City Council
For any matter, including emergencies, the general contact details are:
City of Melbourne
Town Hall
90-120 Swanston Street
Melbourne, 3000
Victoria, Australia
PO Box 1603
Melbourne Vic 3001
Tel: +61 3 9658 9658
Fax: +61 3 9654 4854
Email: enquiries@melbourne.vic.gov.au
The City of Melbourne website is very useful to find information on most aspects of the Council’s functions and policies.
Council Committees
From the website you can find the dates of Council and Committee meetings, agendas, documents and minutes of such meetings. The Future Melbourne Committee was established for 2010 and the following committees dissolved -Connected City Committee, Eco-City Committee, Economic Development & Knowledge City Committee and People & Creative City Committee.
The Finance & Governance Committee and Planning Committee were subsequently dissolved, effective from 24th February, 2010 and will now be under the “umbrella” of the Future Melbourne Committee.
Future Melbourne Committee meetings will be held in the Council Meeting Room – Level 2, Melbourne Town Hall Administration Building
Docklands Coordination Committee meetings – Goods Shed, 710 Collins Street, Docklands.
Council meetings – Council Chamber. Public Gallery is on Level 3.
It is worthwhile looking at the activities of these committees and their decisions. You will quickly see which Committees are likely to interest you most.
In addition to looking on the web, you can attend to watch the Council in action. Before the meeting is due to start, go to the Concierge in the Administration entrance to request a security pass for the meeting you wish to attend. You will be directed to the “public gallery”.
If you have a particular interest in a matter a Committee has on its agenda, you can make a written submission. It is best to do this about 2 days in advance. Your submission will be included in the papers the Councillors have before them.
In addition you may ask to address the Committee in support of your submission. This is normally agreed – in which case you have just 3 minutes to address them.
Going to see your Council in action is very interesting and useful – it helps you to see the way decisions are reached and it helps the Councillors to know what you are interested in.
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