Council meeting agenda - 4 June 2012 - Clarence City Council

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� That the Waste Advisory Committee be formally acknowledged within
the legislation as having an integral role in the disbursement of funds
from the Waste to Resources Funding Pool, providing
recommendations to the EPA Board in accordance with relative
priorities in the Waste to Resources Strategy.
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ASSOCIATED REPORT
1. BACKGROUND
1.1. In 2009 the Southern Tasmanian Councils Authority (STCA) convened a
working party comprising officers of the STCA, Southern Waste Strategy
Authority (SWSA) and member Councils. A report from this group was
circulated to the member Councils and at its Meeting on 30 November 2009
Council resolved:
“A. That Council endorses the working party recommendations
in relation to the governance structure for SWSA and waste
management in Southern Tasmania, and that the STCA and
SWSA functions be merged.
B. In relation to the waste levy proposed, Council opposes any
proposal to negotiate or have imposed a mandated waste
levy”.
1.2. The STCA conducted a Workshop on 19 January 2010 and drafted a further
set of recommendations, set out below, for the member Councils to consider
prior to the SWSA Board Meeting on 26 February 2010.
“Negotiations commence immediately with the State Government
and Local Government in the North West and North both directly
and through the Waste Advisory Committee (WAC) to determine
whether a process backed by State legislation can be agreed upon
which will:
i. Raise sufficient funds to finance waste reduction and waste
management initiatives;
ii. Achieve the overall goal of equitable funding and
management of waste issues into the future;
iii. Restrict the use of such funds to waste reduction and waste
management initiatives; and
iv. Protect and preserve Local Government’s interests”.