If a committee was charged with determining hardship applications, I suggest including an officer from a Community Services area of Council to ensure the assessment process has (and importantly is seen to have) balance with input from someone independent to finance.
We did this once before at a Council Skye will be familiar, to address claims of hardship caused by a rate structure change. This was before that Council had a hardship policy so the “committee” was not “formal” but I believe it added balance to the matter.
