Council Meetings

This page belongs to Governance Team Leader.

Page updates are made by Governance Officer.

Council Meetings

Council meets to discuss, debate and make decisions on issues of public importance. The role of the governing body includes to direct and control the affairs of Council and provide civic leadership.

Dubbo Regional Council’s meetings are governed by the Code of Meeting Practice.

All Council Meetings are open to the public; we encourage you to attend. If you are unable to attend in person, the meeting will be live streamed and recorded. The link will be made available here on our webpage.

Dubbo Regional Council currently hold Standing Committee meetings and Ordinary Council meetings at 5.30pm in either the Dubbo or Wellington Council Chambers on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month except for January.

All Council meetings are open to the public.

Public Forums are held at each Council meeting and members of the public are welcome to address the Council as per the Council’s Model Code of Meeting Practice. For further information on the Public Forum or if you would like to register to speak, please contact Council's Governance Team on 02 6801 4000 or email governance@dubbo.nsw.gov.au

Agenda and Business Papers for Council and Standing Committee meetings

Business papers for Council and Committee of Council meetings are available on our website ahead of the meetings, no later than 5 business days before the meetings take place.

View an Agenda

Click on the link next to each Meeting event and 'Download Packet' located at the top left of the page. The Agenda, Reports and Attachments can be viewed on this page, along with the Minutes and Recordings after the meeting, under 'Most Recent Events'.

Live Streaming and Recording

Meetings of Council are live streamed and recorded. To view the livestream, open the meeting link and click the 'LIVE' button. To view a recording of a previous meeting, open the meeting link beside the camera icon in the Media column below.

My Subscriptions

If you wish to be notified when Agendas are published, please click 'My Subscriptions' below, click on 'Manage' and create an account. You will receive email notifications each time the requested agenda is published online

Previous Council Meeting Papers

These papers are available further on this webpage as past and archived papers.

If you need business papers that are not below, please lodge a request via our DRC&ME portal or call us on 02 6801 4000.

Speaking at Meetings

Members of the public are able to address the Mayor and Councillors at Committee meetings or during Public Forum at Ordinary Council meetings. 

Any person wishing to address Council or Committees is to be provided with a copy of the Procedure for Addressing Council and Standing Committees. Such persons are then required to formally advise Council that they have read the Procedure and will abide by its contents.

Speakers must conduct themselves with respect to Council and observe the rules of order and meeting procedure as contained in Council's Code of Meeting Practice. As part of Public Forum, the Mayor shall ensure the conduct of Public Forum is such that presenters:

• Confine their presentation to a statement of facts

• Not insult or make personal reflections or impute improper motives to the Mayor, Councillors or member of staff
• Not say or do anything that is inconsistent with maintaining order at the meeting or is likely to bring Council into contempt
• Allow other speakers to put their views without interruption.

To address Council during Public Forum, the below form must be completed and returned to a representative of the Manager Corporate Governance. Contact details are available within the form.

Procedures for Addressing Council and Standing Committee Meetings

Past Meetings

Business Papers and Meeting Minutes

For business papers and meeting minutes prior to these dates, please view the 'Archived Business Papers' section further down on this webpage.

Archived Business Papers

Council business papers and minutes prior to between January 2021 and July 2024 can be found in the meeting archive.

Browse past papers at Council's webpage Archived Business Papers.

To be provided with access to a business paper prior to January 2021, you can request it here; Business Paper Requests.

For further information please contact Council's Corporate Governance team on 02 6801 4000.

Last Edited: 12 Nov 2025

I'm Looking For