Public Question Time is held during Ordinary Council Meetings that are open to the public. An individual may submit up to two questions at any Council meeting.
A member of Council's Executive Leadership Team will read out and respond to your question/s during Public Question Time at the Council Meeting. Complex questions may be taken on notice with a written response provided once available.
There will be no Ordinary Council Meetings until 2 December 2024. You can submit a public question for a Council Meeting in late November 2024. |
Public Questions must not:
- Relate to a matter outside the duties, functions and powers of Council
- Be defamatory, indecent, abusive, offensive, irrelevant or objectionable in language or substance
- Concern subject matter already answered
- Be aimed at embarrassing Council or a member of Council staff
- Concern information that is publicly available
- Relate to personal matters
- Relate to the personal hardship of any resident or ratepayer
- Relate to industrial matters
- Relate to contractual matters
- Relate to proposed developments
- Relate to legal advice
- Relate to matters affecting the security of Council property, or
- Relate to any other matter which is considered would prejudice Council or any person
Submission of Public Questions
Questions submitted to Council must:
- Be in writing and 100 words or less
- State the name and address of person submitting the question
- Be lodged by 10.00am on the day of a Council meeting, either
- electronically using the web form below, or
- submitted in writing at the Civic Centre, 399 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading