Wagga City Council has delayed a vote on allowing a trial of food trucks in select areas of the city.
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Councillors voted for a motion during Monday night’s meeting to delay the vote until after a ‘councillor workshop’.
Mayor Greg Conkey told councillors the workshop would be held on November 19.
The next council meeting has been scheduled for November 26.
The trial would exclude food trucks from Wagga’s restaurant areas on Baylis and Fitzmaurice streets.
If the motion passes during a future meeting, the council will seek expressions of interest for between six and nine ‘food trucks’ to trial operating in limited areas of Wagga between December 1 and May 30.
The trial will also likely contain the clause that “vendors cannot operate within 100 metres of a brick and mortar business selling a similar product”.
Thaigga restaurant owner Robert Baliva, who also runs Tammy’s Thai Kitchen and Bay 85 in Wagga, said he did not mind the trial going ahead but wanted more clarification on the rules.
The council had previously collaborated with groups such as Wagga Business Chamber to establish the proposed trial’s terms.