A JOINT state and local government committee will implement recommendations of a WA Local Government Association report into councils’ sustainability. The committee will include Jenny Mathews (director general of the Department of Local Government and Regional Development), Ricky Burges (chief executive officer of WALGA), Michael Parker (president of Local Government Managers Australia WA), Eric Lumsden (director general of the Department for Planning and Infrastructure), Tim Shanahan (director of Energy and Minerals Initiative at UWA, pictured) and a Department of Treasury and Finance representative