A full report on the workshop will be put to the next Palerang Council meeting.

Council met recently with the NSW Department of Commerce and the Department of Water and Energy to discuss new tender documents that would that would include alternative systems. Council has been pushed by community concerns at the $6.8 million cost estimated for a new system to be paid for by around 600 ratepayers.

Council has received an extension on the time to build the new Sewerage treatment plant from the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) until June 2009.

Mr Ellison said that "we had reached a plan which was standard for just about every country town in NSW, but now we have to tender for alternative systems."

Mr Eillison said that the Value Management Workshop would include community representatives, technical experts from the Department of Water and Energy, as well as representatives from the EPA and Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA).

Mr Ellison proposed that the workshop would include an independent expert from Melbourne water, with the Centre for Value Management as facilitators.

He said that there was a need to "spell out the case why we have gone to replace the system rather than repair it."

Mr Ellison said that "time is of the essence, and it will take between four to six weeks" to organise the workshop.

"The point of a value management workshop will be to eliminate some of the things from the tender" said Mr Ellison. "The purpose is to get the best most economic Sewerage Treatment Plant out of it."

The General Manager Peter Bascomb later confirmed that the workshop would take about 11/2 days, and would not be open to the public." However he said that representative from Braidwood Residents Association and Save Braidwood Incorporated would be included.