Blue Mountains City Council will propose at the next Council meeting that a series of social wellbeing, environmental and waste, local economic and infrastructure initiatives be endorsed, to help the community recover after bush fires.

Blue Mountains City Council is urging residents to spend at least an extra $20 a week locally in 2020, to help the City recover after bush fires.

Council wants more local businesses and service providers to submit tenders for Council work. To help achieve this, Council is offering free procurement training on Saturday, 16 November at a Doing Business with Council workshop.

Small business owners and their staff are invited to a free workshop to learn how to save money, while helping the environment.

Blue Mountains City Council is partnering with the ATO to offer local small businesses free training sessions in Single Touch Payroll. 

Council is hearing the views of Blue Mountains businesses at a quarterly Mayoral Reference Group meeting.

A summary of Blue Mountains City Council’s current actions and strategic direction for economic growth in Blue Mountains City was endorsed at the Ordinary Council Meeting on 28 May, 2019.  

Blue Mountains City Council will partner in Service NSW’s ‘Easy to do Business’ program for those opening or expanding a small business, to streamline the process. 

A Mayoral Reference Group is to be established for Blue Mountains businesses, to advise Council on matters affecting business.

The proceedings commenced by the Council against the Minister for Local Government, Gabrielle Upton MP, were the subject of a short directions hearing today, before the NSW Land and Environment Court.