Both Camden and Campbelltown Councils will tomorrow night try to move with the times – the digital times.
In what is no doubt a timing coincidence, councillors at both have tabled notices of motion calling for recordings of the regular council meetings that are open to the public.
Both notices of motion have been tabled by recently elected Labor councillors.
In Camden Cr Paul Farrow’s motion, which will be debated tomorrow night, Tuesday, March 14, calls on council to permit live streamings of council meetings.
His motion reads: “Camden Council make all necessary arrangements to enable ordinary council meetings to be live streamed and accessible through the council website.”
Campbelltown Councillor Margaret Chivers is being a little more cautious in the wording of her notice of motion, which reads: “Council request a report on the recording of council meetings based on the social justice value of inclusiveness. The report to highlight costs and benefits in the recording of council meetings based on inclusiveness, given that council is in the process of reviewing the code of meeting practice.’’
This motion will also be debated at the same time as Camden Council is discussing Cr Farrow’s suggestion.
Other than these two proposals, neither business paper at Campbelltown and Camden contains anything else that’s likely to be controversial.
At Campbelltown, veteran councillor Meg Oates is asking for council to look into the feasibility of operating night food markets either in Mawson Park, the council forecourt or at the Campbelltown Arts Centre.
And a report to council says that its bid, pushed strongly by Cr Oates, to have first and second names used in street names has again been rejected by the Geographic Names Board.
Cr Oates quite rightly argues that you need both names so you know who is the person a street or road was named after.
