The June 16 Lismore City Council 2020/21 Budget meeting saw residents reinstated with one tip voucher per household. A small win in what was a tough budget.

Details of how those tip vouchers will be distributed have been announced today by the Lismore City Council.

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While each eligible household will be given one (1) tip voucher these will be capped at 5,000 vouchers.

Council is currently putting a new automated voucher system in place and expects this to be operational before rate notices are issued in late July for the 2020/21 financial year.

To ensure equitable distribution of the 5,000 waste vouchers across the year, the following will apply;

• A maximum of one voucher per property, per annum.
• A pre-determined allocation of waste vouchers will be released at the start of each month (e.g. 5,000 vouchers ÷ 12 months = 416 vouchers typically issued per month, depending on the number of vouchers that are redeemed).
• Each voucher will have an expiry date of 30 days from the date of issue.
• Once expired, any unused vouchers will be returned to the pool of remaining vouchers and be made available for issue in future months. Returned vouchers will be allocated evenly across all remaining months in the year.
• Once all vouchers available in a month are used, no further vouchers will be issued until the following month (unless issued vouchers are cancelled). This will be monitored and reviewed depending on take up and may be changed to a weekly or daily issue of voucher allocations.

While it is good to get the tip vouchers back for most households, it will be interesting to see how the public will understand the system and its use in the coming months.

Read carefully and take note, you may have to explain it to your neighbour or Facebook friend.

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