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 as required 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 2020-21. The following schedule details the dates of the each Committee meeting scheduled for the 2019-20 period:
- Tuesday,11 August 2020
- Tuesday,13 October 2020
- Tuesday,8 December 2020
- (No meeting scheduled for January 2021)
- Tuesday, 9 February 2021
- Tuesday, 13 April 2021
- Tuesday, 4 May 2021
- Tuesday, 8 June 2021
Meetings are to be held at the Uralla Shire Council Chambers at 32 Salisbury Street, Uralla. Start times for each meeting are published in each Business Paper. The meetings of the Budget Review and Finance Committee are open to the public.