Public transport campaigner Bronwyn Batten and paramedic and environmental activist Jess Whittaker will join existing councillors Mithra Cox and Cath Blakey.

Ms Cox will lead the Greens team as Lord Mayoral candidate, as well as seeking re-election in Ward 1. Ms Blakey will again be the lead candidate in Ward 2. Priority candidates will also include Ms Whittaker as the lead candidate in Ward 3, and Dr Batten as the number 2 candidate in Ward 1.

Greens Councillor Mithra Cox said parents shouldn't be penalised for encouraging kids to play outdoors.

The catalyst was the call from Labor Councillor, Tania Brown, in the wake of Monday's March 4 Justice rallies, to write to Prime Minister Scott Morrison to express the council's support for the principles behind the movement.

Greens councillors  Mithra Cox was among councillors who shared experiences of harrassment. The motion was passed unanimously.

Each project will receive a $250 voucher for Wollongong Botanic Garden's Greenplan Nursery under a Wollongong City Council pilot to build gardens on verges and improve neighbourhood connections.

Wollongong councillors unanimously endorsed the grants at this week's ordinary council meeting.

Greens Councillor Cath Blakey said that while it was a small amount of funding, the program got "great bang for its buck".

She said the project was a good way to activate the city's suburbs.

A motion brought by Deputy Lord Mayor Tania Brown in response to the recent deaths of five people at the site was carried unanimously at the council's ordinary meeting this week.

Council staff will engage with the state government and relevant agencies about ways to improve safety, and a council delegation plans to meet with the relevant state ministers to discuss the issue

Councillors discussed the difficulty of promoting safety while allowing access and fishing. While locking people out of places could force them to more dangerous spots, Greens Councillor Cath Blakey said lock-outs needed to be explored as a possible option, with people rock fishing at night when they could not see.

Transport for NSW has released its draft Illawarra-Shoalhaven Regional Transport Plan, which sets out its strategy for the next 20 years.

At this week's Wollongong City Council meeting some councillors expressed disappointment with the contents of the plan.

Greens Councillor Mithra Cox was pleased to see the inclusion of the South West Illawarra Rail Link in the council's submission, but  said Wollongong needed a transport system that reflected it was a city with a metro core, peak-hour public transport services, and late night options to support the late night economy and travel within Wollongong.

Greens Councillor Cath Blakey, who described the draft plan as "totally undercooked", also spoke of West Dapto and how the absence of public transport corridors would force the eventual 50,000 to 70,000 residents of the area onto the roads.

Councillors were united in their support for a hydrogen industry in the area at Monday's ordinary meeting, where they unanimously endorsed a submission to a NSW parliamentary inquiry into the development of such an industry in the state.

Greens Councillor Mithra Cox said the steelworks meant Wollongong had a strong argument to make for trialling hydrogen steel production.

"If we go out and make declarations, people come to us," she said.