Blacktown City Fire Works Rooty Hill - Question Is How Does The Community Know If The Event Is Cancelled?

I remember a few years ago the Blacktown City Fire Works at Rooty Hill was cancelled due to extreme bad wet weather.

To publicize extensively and hold such a wonderful public event, the only thing that can stop it is wet rain. The question is then raised for the community and Council to respond too, 'How does Blacktown City Council inform all of the community of Blacktown local government area?'

In Blacktown City Council, it would  be difficult to inform the community unless notified by social media like twitter and face book. Although the event is sponsored by Channel Nine, I am not to sure whether it was advertised on their channel as a cancellation or whether the event would be held earlier.







 
The only problem is, the above is not enough to inform the community, on the same day. My suggestions after attending more then a decades worth of Australia Day events held by Blacktown City Council is that a flashing note could be on the home page of the Council's website indicating he decision of whether to hold the event or not. Other suggestions are to place the events phone number on the home page of the Council's website as well. Although yesterday I obtained a phone number from a drop down box from Council's website and later on could not locate it. Maybe others got the same result. 

Today, I twittered a question to Blacktown City Council twitter account@blacktowncc . As of today, it has 3,275 followers and this may not be enough to send messages to the entire Blacktown local government area. Blacktown City Council would need to take serious steps to increase the amount of followers. The first check would be to see if all Councillors are following it. From then they can ask their constituents to follow it and so on. The question raised was as follows:

John Svoboda ‏@nsjpas1 10h hours ago

@blacktowncc How do residents of BCC get notified of a weather cancellation?

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and the response was from Council:

Blacktown Council ‏@blacktowncc

@nsjpas1 yes, we will keep our followers updated on Twitter. At this stage the event is still on. You can also call 9839 6577 for updates.

And One response from the community:

Narelle favorited a Tweet you were mentioned in

10h:

@nsjpas1 yes, we will keep our followers updated on Twitter. At this stage the event is still on. You can also call 9839 6577 for updates.

 

Further suggestions are that through the NSW Government that there are paid advertisement/news read outs on all Free TV Stations at say, about 3pm, 5pm and 7pm informing of all Councils within Sydney, Fire Works being continued or not!

 

Should anyone in the community have any other suggestions/ideas please notify Blacktown City Council directly or contact nsjpas@gmail.com and will publish your suggestions.