For ongoing updates, the Ballina Shire Emergency Dashboard provides the latest information, including recovery assistance, road closures, power outages, and more. For real-time updates, visit:
All Council facilities have returned to normal operating hours. Ballina Resource Recovery Centre is OPEN daily (8am to 4pm) - expect delays as high demand will mean longer wait times.
We livestream Council meetings and provide recordings of previous Council meetings for the community to access. These videos provide an insight into local government and ensures Council's Council decision-making process is open and transparent. Videos of Council meetings are owned by Ballina Shire Council and cannot be reused or reproduced without permission. Closed captions and transcriptions are available on our recordings - scroll down for further instructions.
To access the Ballina Shire Council meeting livestreams, select the appropriate below link:
To view video recordings from previous meetings, find the date and click the relevant meeting below:
Recording for Ordinary meeting - 27 February 2025
Watch Meeting recordings prior to 2022
Closed Captions and Transcripts
Livestream captions are available via Microsoft Teams. Select turn on live captions from the Microsoft Teams menu:
Please note closed captions are a feature of Microsoft Teams software and Council does not have control as to how the content is relayed to closed captions. This means that some words are misunderstood by the closed caption service.
Recordings have closed captions and transcripts available. To turn the Vimeo Transcript function on, toggle the transcript button on the top right corner of your video screen:
To turn Closed Captions/Subtitles on for video recordings, click the Closed Captions button and choose your language: