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Cabonne mayor Beatty asks Orange for manpower and machinery
November 15, 2022
By David Fitzsimons
Up to 20 workers plus machinery might be offered by Orange City Council to help clean up flood-ravaged neighbouring towns in Cabonne Shire.
Council staff will talk to Cabonne authorities on Wednesday to determine how best Orange can help.
Councillor Tony Mileto said he spoke to Cabonne mayor Kevin Beatty during a visit to Cudal and Eugowra on Tuesday and asked how they could assist.
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He said mayor Beatty told him they needed manpower and machinery.
“We need 20 people, we need trucks, we need somebody with a [bull]dozer to get things started," Mileto said Beatty told him.
Meanwhile, Mileto said he was contacted by a Cudal resident who said he had been forced to pay $50 to dump flood rubbish at the Orange tip after the Cabonne facility was closed on Tuesday.
“The bloke said: ‘You’ve got to be kidding. All I’ve got is mud.'"
However, he was told the tip fee had to be paid.
Mileto said the Cudal resident was not even disposing his own rubbish, but helping someone else out. Mileto said such fees should be waived in a flood crisis.
“I think it is a breakdown in communication, something which shouldn’t happen. It needs to be resolved very quickly. They can’t get to their own tip.”
Orange mayor Jason Hamling said he hoped the money could be refunded.
Council was also told it had received a request from Cabonne Shire to facilitate the disposal of dead livestock at the Orange waste facility as Cabonne could not take the carcasses.
In other business council agreed to back a move to rename Lily Place in north Orange to Viola Place, to end confusion for delivery drivers and workers over Lily Place and the nearby Lily Pilly Place.
It will go to the Geographical Names Board for approval.
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