Cr Hayes said residents displaced by the bushfires could find temporary accommodation in new caravan park units until their homes were rebuilt.

"We have spent $1.3 million on the Batlow Caravan Park; we had $700,00 already which was part of the amalgamation process," he said.

"We decked the caravan park and put new facilities in and now we have done one step further and put six new two-bedroom units in.

"They're pretty schmick, they cost $85,000 each and they're pretty well ready to go for people to move in there so we don't lose them from the community.

"Later on when those people have rebuilt their houses or found alternative accommodation the units can be used for tourism when it gets back up and running, for backpackers and fruit pickers, by people coming to CiderFest."

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The original $723,000 project involved closing the park for six months to refurbish existing amenities, remove dilapidated buildings and improve its road and fencing.

Neil Hamilton from the Save Tumbarumba Shire said some parts of the Snowy Valleys Council area had been left out of the new round of post-bushfire projects.

"The big problem is that nobody from the council has ever sat down with anyone in community and said 'what do you need? What do you want?'," Dr Hamilton said.

"There's a huge problem in that the council does not understand how to engage with the community and what is required to recover from these bushfires.

"We don't even know what money the council has got, apart from the $1 million they got from the state government."

Dr Hamilton said he had some ideas for projects that would help Tumbarumba recover from the bushfires but he would prefer the council to ask the community directly.

"I'm not going to stand up and say 'the Tumbarumba community needs A, B and C'," he said.

"There needs to be a process where the council says 'OK, what do different parts of the community need?'

"I have my own personal opinions but that is not the issue; the issue is their lack of understanding in how to engage with the community."