• Council meetings are usually held on the fourth (4th) Tuesday of the month.
• Each meeting commences with the Council prayer, followed by an acknowledgement of local indigenous people and then acceptance of apologies and the confirmation of minutes of previous meetings.
• Members of the public, who have previously registered their interest in speaking at the meeting, are then invited to address the councillors, in accordance with the Council's policy. (One person may speak for and one against any item on the Agenda, but ONLY ONCE and only for a period of three (3) minutes each.) Members of the public should be mindful of the laws relating to libel and defamation as no protection is available to them when making statements at Council meetings.
• Following the final speaker, the Mayor reconvenes the meeting or calls a short adjournment, following which the business, according to the meeting agenda, is dealt with.
• Mayoral minutes, which are usually tabled and not printed in the business paper, take precedence over all other items on the agenda and are considered as the first item of business of the meeting. Consideration then takes place of any reports by the General Manager or other Directors.
• This is followed by the submission of petitions from local residents by councillors and their referral to Council officers for relevant reports to future committee meetings or the councillors' bulletin.
• Motions Pursuant to Notice by Councillors are dealt with at this stage and then any Notices of Rescission Motions.
• The Council may, as the last item of business, discuss confidential items in closed session. Members of the public and press may be excluded from the meeting during discussion of these items, but when the council meeting resumes any decisions made in closed session are read out to the meeting.
• If you have any documentation you wish to provide to the councillors for the meeting, please email the documents to submission@randwick.nsw.gov.au or fax the documents to (02) 9399 0747 no later than 2 pm on the day of the meeting. In your submission please indicate the name of the meeting and the item to which your submission relates. This is necessary to avoid the distribution of possibly defamatory material at the meeting.
• Documents are delivered to the councillors every Friday at 2 pm.

Note: A decision of the Council may only be reconsidered and altered if three (3) councillors submit a rescission motion, which may be dealt with at that meeting or at the next Council or other appropriate meeting.