Council meetings temporarily closed to public attendance
In light of the presence of COVID-19 in the community outside of Auckland, Rotorua Lakes Council committee and Council meetings will be closed to public attendance for the time being.
The public can still access meetings as they happen via livestreaming, and can access recordings of the meetings later, both via Council’s YouTube channel HERE.
“We are erring on the side of caution at this time, in the interests of public safety,” Council CE Chief Executive Geoff Williams says.
“We will monitor and review the situation as required.”
Elected members will have the option of either attending in person or via Zoom and provision will be made for media to attend in person if they wish.
Meetings were also closed to public attendance during Alert Level 2 following the 2020 lockdown with elected members able to attend via Zoom if they wished.
Under the current Alert Level 2 staff have been managing numbers in the Civic Centre and the public has had direct access to only the Customer Centre, with processes in place to escort people needing to access other areas.
Council’s meetings have been livestreamed since 2015 and the public is able to watch meetings as they are happening and access full recordings afterwards, both via Council’s YouTube channel.
The next scheduled meeting is the monthly Operations & Monitoring Committee this Thursday [7 October 2021], starting at 9.30am. You can view the meeting via livestream (see link above) and you can view the agenda for the meeting HERE on Council's website.
The agenda for this meeting includes the financial report for the two months ending 31 August 2021 and the Operations Report which provides updates on projects, services and work programmes from across the council organisation.