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Kiama Council has called an Extraordinary Meeting for Thursday 1 February to consider the Blue Haven Bonaira tender, and the Notice of Motion regarding the divestment of Blue Haven Bonaira, which was deferred from the December meeting.

The Extraordinary Meeting will commence at 5pm on Thursday 1 February.

Public Access will be held beforehand at 4pm.

The meeting agenda will also be published three days before the meeting.

Consideration of the Blue Haven tender will be held in a confidential session, as with all tenders presented to Councillors for consideration.

The following week, the Mayor and Chief Executive Officer will meet with Blue Haven staff, independent living residents, nursing home residents and their next-of-kin, Council staff and unions to discuss the outcomes and next steps.

The community will also be provided an update of the meeting outcomes.

The December meeting of the South Precinct will be held at the Gerringong Town Hall at 7.30pm on Thursday 14th December.

The December meeting of Kiama Council will be held at the Kiama Council Chambers at 6.00pm on Thursday 14th December with Public Access at 5pm prior to the meeting. NOTE: This is the same night as the Precinct Meeting.

Minutes from November 2023:

South Precinct November minutes here

Kiama Council November minutes here

Agendas for December 2023:

Minutes from October 2023:

South Precinct October minutes here

Kiama Council October minutes here

Agendas for November 2023:

South Precinct November agenda here

Kiama Council agenda Table of contents here

To download the full business paper (512 pages and 63MB) and the Enclosures document (573 pages and 74MB) go to the Council’s meetings page and select the November 2023 link here

or else look at the table of contents and select from the list below

Special links from Council Agenda via items:

Item 13.1 2022-23 Annual Report. Staff comments here and full document here.

Item 14.1 Draft Child Safe Policy here

Item 14.2 Draft Complaints Handling Policy here

Item 14.3 Draft local Government Elections Policy here

Item 14.4 Draft Data Breach Policy here

Item 14.5 Quarterly Budget Review here

Item 14.7 Statement of Investments here

Item 15.1 Draft Coastal management Program Stage 4. Staff comments here and full document here.

Item 15.2 Draft DCP Chapter 13 – Agritourism here

Item 15.3 Kiama Town Centre PP here

Item 15.4 Kiama Heritage PP here

Item 15.5 Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023-2027 here

Item 15.6 Contribution Plans here

Item 16.1 Draft Crown Land Plan of Management. Staff comments here and full document here.

The October meeting of the South Precinct will be held on Thursday 12th October at the Gerringong Town Hall at 7.30pm. The minutes from the September 23 meeting can be downloaded here.

The Business Paper for the October meeting of Kiama Council can be found on the Council website here. Go to the link for the October meeting and click on the Agenda for download. NOTE the document is 75Mb in size.

Table of contents for October 2023 can be downloaded here

Minutes of the September Council meeting can be downloaded here.

Some of the items of special interest have been extracted and listed separately below for download from this website.

(a) Draft Media Policy can be downloaded here

(b) Annual Financial Statements 2021-2022 can be downloaded here

(c) Integrated Planning and Reporting report for period January 2023 to June 2023. This report provides an update on progress of the 2022 – 2026 Delivery Program and 2022-2023 Operational Plan for the January to June 2023 period. It can be downloaded here.

(d) Draft Disability Inclusion Plan can be downloaded here.

(e) Notices of Motion of E-scooter bans (Clr Brown) and Jamberoo Pool opening times (Clr Larkins) can be downloaded here.

The September meeting of the South Precinct will be held on Thursday 14th at 7.30pm at the Gerringong Town Hall.

The draft South Precinct agenda can be downloaded here.

There will be discussion about matters in the Kiama Council meeting agenda for next Tuesday.

Two matters of specific interest are:

New delegations policy

Update on the Precint Guidelines and the future of the South Precinct.