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- Tamworth council to consider asking LGNSW to call for renewable energy benefit-sharing rates 25% higher plus indexation, and an extra 15% for First Nations priorities
- Narrabri councillors approved procuring a temporary PFAS plant for the Killarney bore, subject to state endorsement. An estimate for that bore exceeds the $4 million grant
- Inverell's draft waste strategy includes delivering a kerbside FOGO service. The council is seeking an indefinite exemption from the state's FOGO mandate
- Lower Namoi and Gwydir general security stays at 0% in October, and supplementary take is restricted again because Menindee's upper lakes fell below 250 GL
- Tamworth's draft accounts show a $14.5 million operating deficit before capital grants. Its new ten-year plan budgets a $5.1 million surplus on that measure for 2026-27