Glen Innes Severn Council to go cashless after councillors sign off on 2022 plan

Mayor Carol Sparks said just one member of the four-person council voted not to take the leap.

Councillor Glen Frendon, Deputy Mayor Dianne Newman and Cr Sparks voted to no longer take cash payments for council charges at its Church Street offices by July 1 2022.

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Andrew Parsons was the only councillor to object to the plan.

Cr Sparks said the move will save the council money and people inconvenienced can still pay at the post office, or their bank.

She said other councils would likely follow suit.

"I think it's inevitable, really," she said.

The council will hold a workshop for councillors after elections in December, which will allow the new council to review the policy.

Council financial accountant Amy Watson said the country is set to go cashless by 2024.

"It is not only the impact on staff productivity that has encouraged the proposal to make the town hall office cashless," she said, in the report.

"There are many other benefits associated with becoming cashless such as less opportunities for human error (for example providing customers with incorrect change), reduction of the opportunity to commit fraud, and less risk of theft to staff and the organisation."

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