At the 18 October 2018 Extraordinary Meeting of Council, Council resolved to form a Budget Review and Finance Committee. This Committee is to:
a. Be tasked with examining Council’s budget and service delivery to keep the budget in surplus;
b. Focus on key Council functions and clearly identify options to service level delivery and operating procedures necessary to support (a);
c. Scrutinise discretionary expenditure, including cost benefit analyses as appropriate for recommendation to Council;
d. Be a Committee of the whole;
e. Meet monthly or more frequently if determined by the Committee; and
f. Be chaired by a Councillor.
At its Ordinary Meeting on 25th June 2019, Uralla Shire Council resolved to adopt a bi-monthly meeting schedule for its Budget Review and Finance Committee for 2019-20. The following schedule details the dates of the each Committee meeting scheduled for the 2019-20 period:
- Tuesday, 9 July 2019
- Tuesday, 10 September 2019
- Tuesday, 12 November 2019
- (No meeting scheduled for January 2020)
- Tuesday, 11 February 2020
- Tuesday, 14 April 2020
- Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Meetings are to be held at the Uralla Shire Council Chambers at 32 Salisbury Street, Uralla. All meetings are scheduled to commence at 12:30pm. The meetings of the Budget Review and Finance Committee are open to the public.