All seven member councils across NSW are being asked to pay $80,000 a year in 2019/20 with an increase of $2000 a year until 2023.

In 2015 the contribution was $60,000.

So far Dubbo Regional Council is the only council to agree to pay up although Tamworth Regional Council was to discuss recommitting on Tuesday night.

Orange City councillor Jeff Whitton said the proposal had not yet been presented to the council.

Cr Whitton said he initially backed the Evocities program.

“In the original 10 years I was very supportive of it,” he said.

However, he said he began to doubt its effectiveness.

“Then  I was vocally against it because I couldn’t see any value in it.”

Cr Whitton said Evocities had since had a new chairman and been reinvigorated.

He said he hadn’t received feedback on it from council staff to assess its current usefulness to Orange.

Mayor Cr Reg Kidd said he also had not seen a new request.

“I still haven’t seen it in writing. I’d like to see it debated vigorously in council,” he said.

A spokeswoman for Evocities said about 3619 households had relocated to one of the Evocities since the program was launched in 2010.

However, she said it was difficult to determine how many people had relocated after receiving some help as they did not all tell Evocities of its involvement.

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She said about 47,500 job vacancies had been listed on its Evojobs website and about 1000 employers and agencies had registered to use the site.

It has also attracted 2.4 million visits to the Evojobs website.