Code of Practice - Access to Council and Committee Meetings and Documents

Public access to Council and Committee meetings and documents is one of the main ways you can gain information about the business of the City of Unley and its Committees.

The Code of Practice for Access to Council and Committee Meetings and Documents captures the principles of open, transparent, and informed decision-making of Council meetings or those of Council Committees, and encourages community participation at these meetings and access to such meeting documents.

This Code includes information on:

• Access to the agenda for meetings.
• Public access to meetings.
• Process to exclude the public from meetings.
• Matters for which the Council or Committee can order that the public be excluded.
• How Council will approach the use of the confidentiality provisions of the Local Government Act.
• Public access to documents, including minutes.
• Accountability and reporting to the community and the availability of the Code.
• Grievances about the use of the Code by Council.

What is changing?

In the Document Section on this page, you can:

• View a PDF of the revised Code of Practice
• See a summary of the amendments by viewing the Revised Code Summary.

How to have your say

After reading the revised Code or reviewing the Summary, we invite you to:

• complete the short survey below
• or email us your feedback to pobox1@unley.sa.gov.au (Subject: Revised Code Feedback)

This consultation is open until 5pm, Tuesday 4 June.