Lismore Mayor Steve Krieg statement on Waste Review following rejection of Rescission motion

“Council has resolved to further investigate how we might progress with a new waste and resource recovery model and strategy.

“As has already been stated, the Waste Service Review report was long overdue, and the most comprehensive review into our waste and resource recovery services and plans, ever undertaken by council.

“The report provided transparency to all our elected members on Lismore’s current state, identifying every challenge we face and providing a recommended pathway to get things back on track to being fnancially, environmentally, and socially sustainable.

“This is not just about domestic waste collection services; it is a much bigger body of work to ensure the health of our region and the sustainability of our services well into the future.

“The reality is, with successive leadership changes and through successive natural disasters the overall operations of our waste services and resource recovery for the city is not where it should be.

“We are being honest about that with our community because it is our responsibility to deliver effcient and sustainable services. No one would expect us to continue to operate with multi-million-dollar defcits year on year.

“As we have stated from the beginning there are no Lismore City Council staff job losses proposed as part of these actions.

“Council has received the report into the sustainability of the city’s waste and resource recovery operations and has now endorsed further work be undertaken to explore the feasibility of the proposed Option Model C.

“The reality is however, there are still several steps and separate decision points for council before we can adopt an alternate model of operating.

“Our priority continues to be our people and will continue working with our teams over the coming months as we start to formalise what needs to be done to transition toward more sustainable operations for our waste and