Cabonne mayor Kevin Beatty has requested that the issue of funding for the Rural Fire Service be put on the agenda for the next Country Mayors Association meeting on March 5.
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While welcoming changes in workers compensation legislation for RFS workers, Cabonne Council's general manager report - to be presented at Tuesday's monthly council meeting - said "the financial impost should not be 'cost shifted' to the NSW Local Government sector".
The report stated that the increase year on year, "in the main" due to the workers compensation changes, was 42.7 percent, and that Cabonne could not cover increases of hundreds of thousands of dollars without receiving rebates or introducing higher rates.
The meeting agenda also includes a recommendation that council submit an application for $500,000 for Canowindra's Age of Fishes Museum, as part of the federal government's Building Better Regions Fund.
Other items to be canvassed at the council meeting include the "repurposing of the former Canowindra Court House building".
This part of the meeting will be closed to the public and media, as it involves "commercial information of a confidential nature".
Councillors will discuss a proposal to send two council representatives to the local government National General Assembly in Canberra in June, at a cost of about $3,000.
Nominations will be sought from councillors to attend the Australian Local Government Women's Association NSW Branch conference in Shellharbour in March.
The report to council stated that the association "supports and promotes women in local government through advocacy, advice and action".
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