Policies
Our policies and procedures guide our day-to-day actions and operations. They support good governance, consistency in decision-making and outcomes.
Community services
- Acceptance and treatment of donations (PDF 64KB)
- Arts, culture and heritage (PDF 112KB)
- Community engagement (PDF 118KB)
- Community recognition (PDF 122)
- Disability access and inclusion (PDF 154KB)
- Event sponsorship (PDF 119KB)
- Local studies collection (PDF 106KB)
- Minor community grants scheme (PDF 109KB)
Corporate services
- Acceptable use of business systems (PDF 87KB)
- Asset management (PDF 204KB)
- Authorisation of payments (PDF 104KB)
- Borrowing management (PDF 69KB)
- Budget management – capital acquisitions and works (PDF125KB)
- Climate change adaption and sustainability (PDF 120KB)
- Common seal affixing (PDF 63KB)
- Compliance (PDF 155KB)
- Corporate credit and debit cards (PDF 121KB)
- Council chambers usage (PDF 92.8KB)
- Council facility hire and usage (PDF146KB)
- Customer service (PDF101KB)
- Donations (PDF 103KB)
- Fair value of assets (PDF 131KB)
- Financial hardship (PDF 70.5KB)
- Financial reports (PDF 116KB)
- Financial reserves (PDF83KB)
- Fraud and corruption (PDF 126KB)
- Information technology (PDF 127KB)
- Internal controls (PDF 77KB)
- Investment of funds (PDF 142KB)
- Legislative Compliance (PDF 80KB)
- Preparation of integrated plan and budget (PDF 127KB)
- Purchasing (PDF 159KB)
- Rate Revenue (PDF 117KB)
- Records management (PDF 106KB)
- Related party disclosures (PDF103)
- Rewards payment conditions (PDF 80.6KB)
- Risk management framework (PDF 203KB)
- Self-supporting loans (PDF 106KB)
- State administrative tribunal (PDF 101KB)
- Superannuation contribution (PDF 66KB)
- Use of shire logo (PDF180KB)
- Volunteers (PDF 119KB)
Council
- Attendance at events (PDF 120KB)
- CEO Performance and Salary Review (PDF 147KB)
- Communication and social media (PDF 111KB)
- Complaints management (PDF 114KB)
- Councillor briefing framework (PDF 95KB)
- Councillor retirement gifts (PDF 72.5KB)
- Council Member Professional Development (PDF 100KB)
- Disruptive behaviour at council meetings (PDF 109KB)
- Honorary freeman (PDF 98.6KB)
- Legal representation, costs and indemnification councillors and employees (PDF 92KB)
- Media contact (PDF 53.8KB)
- Policy Framework (PDF 87KB)
- Recording of the vote of all members present (PDF 80KB)
- Temporary Employment or Appointment of CEO (PDF 81KB)
- Travel expenses (PDF 107KB)
- Web streaming of council proceedings (PDF 101KB)
Engineering and operations
Health
- Caravan parks, park homes rigid annexes and camping other than at a caravan park or camping ground (PDF 114KB)
- Event management (PDF 195KB)
- Integrated pest management (PDF 95KB)
- Public health priorities (PDF 90.8KB)
- Shade and SunSmart policy (PDF 82KB)
- Trading and operating a stall in public places (PDF 518KB)
Law, order and public safety
- Authorising officers – request to burn (PDF 90KB)
- Authority of the chief and deputy chief FCO (PDF 90KB)
- Brigade members – competence at fire grounds (PDF 76KB)
- Brigade officer competence (PDF 109KB)
- Bush fire advisory committee meetings (PDF 100KB)
- Bush fire control officer appointments (PDF 79KB)
- Bush fire prevention order – exemptions and variations (PDF 76KB)
- Fire appliances – repairs, servicing & modification (PDF 80KB)
- Firefighter meals – fire service incidents (PDF 96KB)
- Fires outside the shire of capel (PDF 69KB)
- Hazard reduction on council land (PDF 76KB)
- Minimum driver training – shire of capel fire appliances (PDF 80KB)
- Payment to the chief and deputy chief FCO (PDF 1.08KB)
- Personal protective equipment (PDF 97KB)
- Purchase of equipment for bush fire brigades (PDF 79KB)
- Standard operating procedures (PDF 55KB)
- Training arrangements (PDF 79KB)
- Use of brigade appliances (PDF 61KB)
- Use of council plant – fire service incidents & civil emergencies (PDF 127KB)
- Use of fuel cards by bush fire brigades (PDF 61KB)
- Use of warning lamps and audible warning systems (PDF 89KB)
Planning
- Ancillary accommodation and ancillary dwellings (PDF 92.2KB)
- Bed and breakfast accommodation (PDF 126KB)
- Boyanup public open space strategy (PDF 63.6KB)
- Boyanup townsite strategy (PDF68.8KB)
- Boyanup transport infrastructure study (PDF 76KB)
- Capel town public open space strategy (PDF 64.6KB)
- Capel townsite district water management strategy (PDF 60.9KB)
- Capel townsite strategy (PDF 69.8KB)
- Capel townsite transport study (PDF 63.8KB)
- Car parking requirements for light industrial land uses (PDF 68KB)
- Dalyellup common interest area (PDF 63.7KB)
- Heritage places (PDF 153KB)
- Highway signage for rural tourism activities and services (PDF 170KB)
- Home occupations and home office (PDF 83.6KB)
- Land use strategy (PDF 63KB)
- More than one dwelling on a rural lot (PDF 63.8KB)
- Peppermint grove beach land use strategy (PDF 70.7KB)
- Peppermint grove terrace detailed area plan (PDF 544KB)
- Road and reserve names (PDF 75KB)
- Rural tourist accommodation (PDF 79.6KB)
- Signs (PDF 353KB)
- Subdivision of rural land (PDF 63KB
- Urban landscape strategy (PDF 64.KB)
- Visual truncations (PDF 76.7KB)