In order to help local supermarkets dealing with changes in shopping patterns due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Blue Mountains City Council has relaxed restriction and movement caps for deliveries.

Blue Mountains City Council is continuing to roll out a range of economic initiatives, aimed at helping local businesses through the recovery period following the recent bush fires.

Council is rolling out an assistance scheme to help local ecotourism operators, whose livelihood has been affected by recent bush fires.

Blue Mountains Mayor Mark Greenhill is urging visitors to return to the Blue Mountains, after bush fires. The plea has gone nationwide, in a bid to encourage visitors who have stayed away over the Christmas/New Year period to visit the Blue Mountains to help businesses who are struggling.

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.