Thank You To Community Members Attending Doonside Festival - Blacktown City Council Twitter

@blacktowncc Blacktown Council 
Thank you to all those who came out to Doonside Festival over the weekend! #doonside

3:54 PM · Jul 31, 2019·Twitter Web App

Street University -Mount Druitt - Needsa A New Artist - Twitter

Hey guys we're looking for an new artist to be apart of our Street Sessions mini concert series. If you're a recording artist or know someone who is, tag them in the comments below. The gig does pay! For more information checkout Street Sessions

Mount Druitt Fire Station Has A New Twitter Account - Mount Druitt Face Book Group!

So, we all think we are all  internet and social savvy, Mount Druitt Fire Station is also as well, with their new Twitter account. Great idea - to keep the wider world informed of local fires issues and  rescues.

This another way we can keep in touch with them!


Click here for it!

Remember With Australia Day Fireworks At Rooty Hill - Check For Wet Weather Cancellation!

So as we remind community members each year, that when there is  wet weather due on the day of Australia Day Fireworks celebration at Rooty Hill,  we do have to check in case the fireworks are cancelled (like a few years ago).

We all are sad when the fireworks are cancelled as we know each year, Blacktown City Council places such a great effort in ensuring that the night display is better and better and the entertainment:




As thousands and thousand make their way up the hill by car or  even on foot, it is well worth the effort as this is a one time event of the year that we all love to come to see and experience!

So contact Blacktown  to find out if it is on:

• Twitter: @blacktowncc
• Phone: (02) 98396000
• Face Book Group: https://www.facebook.com/ILoveBlacktown

Our Australia Ambassador on the day is: Kumud Merani
She is the Producer of SBS Radio and we are glad to have her as our Embassador.



check here for last years blog 

Blacktown City Council Favored Tweet on Twitter.......

This is a first for myself, representing the people of Mount Druitt and surrounding suburbs as a community! It is a first that there was a summary published on the Draft Budget Launch Blacktown City Council 2015-2016 Budget and received a Favored Tweet on - twitter, guess where from? Blacktown City Council ( That's on behalf of 332,000 population).


This favored tweet  makes myself feel so proud of being an Australian, a New South Walesman, a Blacktown City rate payer and a Mount Druitt community member!

Blacktown Council favorited your Tweet

May 20:

Check out @blacktowncc Draft Budget Launch 2015, community insight:http://whyilovemountdruitt.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/blacktown-city-council-budget-201516.html …

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Further Feedback On 'Snap Send Solve' - Blacktown City Council Twitter

John Svoboda ‏@nsjpas1 23h23 hours ago
How can the community check the registration numbers and be shown the result for inspection or improvement publicly? https://twitter.com/blacktowncc/status/593922646292566017 …
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   @nsjpas1 by calling Council on 9839 6000.

   
   

   
   

   The problem here is you are sending them a message regarding improvements by an email - Blacktown City Council doesn't provide you with a registration number, so it may be hard to trace it! So we will need to  ask further questions of the process!
   
   
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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.

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@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.