Financial Sustainability of Local Government
- Commit to a three-way equal shared funding model (federal, state & local) for funding improvements to council owned water & sewer infrastructure
- Amend disaster recovery funding arrangements to support water & high priority community infrastructure
- Establish a non-competitive resilience and betterment funding framework that allows resilience upgrades during the emergency works phase of recovery
- Return 9% of the waste levy previously provided to Hunter councils to support delivery of the NSW Waste and Sustainable Materials Strategy 2041
- Support advocacy to Federal Government to increase Financial Assistance Grants to 1%