THE City of Swan has paused the rollout of its FOGO service.
Swan councillors voted 13-2 on Wednesday, April 9 to seek a review of the FOGO service and consider GO as an alternative but Echo News understands the service had already been paused before the councillors made this decision.
A notice of motion put forward by Pearce ward councillor Aaron Bowman requested that a report be provided to the council within two months (changed to within four months) to allow for any budget considerations, of possible options available to the council of amending the current FOGO program, which includes GO instead of FOGO and GO collected fortnightly with general municipal waste reverting back to weekly pick up and all rural properties removed from the GO service.
Cr Bowman said the reason for the motion was feedback from the community had been and continued to be overwhelming that a fortnightly general municipal waste pick up was not satisfactory, community feedback on the proposed changes was never sought and the contamination rates were excessive.
On Thursday morning the city said the matter would be reported back to the council in the coming months.
