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.

Support for Blue Mountains City Council to remain in office is building after the decision in the Court of Appeal on Wednesday to lift the injunction stopping the Minister for Local Government, Gabrielle Upton MP, from suspending the Council after a 7 days stay.

The Mayor is calling for the Commonwealth Bank to change its decision to close the Blaxland Branch, a call which has the full support of the elected Council.