About Council Meetings

The Town of Claremont Meeting Procedures Local Law provides an opportunity for the public to ask up to five questions at Ordinary Council Meetings.

Public questions must be submitted to the Town in writing by 12pm on the day of an Ordinary Council Meeting. Should you wish to ask a question, please fill out a Public Question form here.

A total of 15 minutes is set aside for questions at the beginning of each meeting, which may be extended by resolution of Council. To ensure an equal and fair opportunity is provided to everyone, a maximum period of five minutes per speaker is allocated.

Once a question is asked the Mayor may:

• Respond to the question asked;
• Refer the question to an officer for response; or
• Take the question on notice, in which case a written response will be forwarded to you and included in the agenda papers in the next Council Meeting.

The Town of Claremont Meeting Procedures Local Law provides an opportunity for the public to make statements at Ordinary Council Meetings that relate to an item on the Agenda for that meeting.  

Public statements must be submitted to the Town in writing by 12pm on the day of an Ordinary Council Meeting. Should you wish to make a statement, please complete a Public Statement form here.

A total of 15 minutes is set aside for public statements at the beginning of each meeting which may be extended by resolution of Council. To ensure an equal and fair opportunity is provided to address Council, a period of five minutes per speaker will be allocated.

Any Town of Claremont elector, or group of electors, can submit a petition to Council. A petition is a formal written document appealing to Council in respect of a particular cause.

The Town of Claremont Meeting Procedures Local Law 2018 sets out the requirements for submitting a petition. To be accepted, a petition is required to:

1. be addressed to the Mayor;
2. contain the name, address* and signature of each petitioner together with the date they signed the petition;
3. contain a summary of the reasons for the request, to be stated on each page of the petition; and
4. contain the name and address of the person to whom notices regarding the petition can be given (lead petitioner). f.

*Council will only recognise signatures from electors of the district. Signatures from persons outside of the district will be disregarded.

A petition template can be viewed by clicking here. 

Petitions must be lodged with the Town by no later than 12pm on the day of an Ordinary Council Meeting in order to be presented to Council.  

Once Council has received a petition it will be referred to the Administration for further action. This generally involves a detailed report being prepared for consideration at a future council meeting.

Disclosure: The name of the lead petitioner and details of the request will be published in the Ordinary Council Meeting minutes from the meeting during which the petition is presented to Council.