Draft Councillor Expenses and Facilities Policy 2025

The City of Parramatta Councillor Expenses and Facilities Policy was due for review. The updated Draft Councillor Expenses and Facilities Policy applies to all City of Parramatta Council (Council) Councillors and staff involved in the administration of Councillor facilities and expenses provision.

Key changes in this Draft

A table summarising all proposed updates to the Policy is provided in the Resources section.

Project Overview

The Draft Councillor Expenses and Facilities Policy 2025 enables the reasonable and appropriate reimbursement of expenses and provision of facilities to Councillors, to help them undertake their civic duties.

The Draft Policy ensures accountability and transparency and seeks to align Councillor expenses and facilities with community expectations. Councillors must not obtain private or political benefit from any expense or facility provided under this Policy.

Council's Draft Policy has been prepared in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Local Government Act 1993 (NSW) and the Local Government (General) Regulation 2021 (NSW) and complies with the Office of Local Government’s Guidelines for the payment of expenses and provision of facilities to Mayors and Councillors in NSW (October 2009).


Public exhibition - Completed

Submissions were welcomed on the updated Draft Councillor Expenses and Facilities Policy 2025 until 5pm on Monday 18 August 2025.


Next steps

Following public exhibition and a review of all submissions, the Draft Councillor Expenses and Facilities Policy 2025 will go to Council for adoption.

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