'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH': Weekly red bin removal petition reaches 6800-signatures, forcing City of Rockingham into legal showdown

The campaign, driven largely through the Rockingham BIN Management Chat Facebook group is spearheaded by local resident Jarrad Krollig.

The Rockingham resident's petition has now culminated into a formal lodgement of Form 1 paperwork — a legal mechanism under state law that obliges the City to hold a Special Meeting of Electors.

"The City of Rockingham thought if they ignored the 6,800 of us who signed the petition, we would just get tired and go away. They were wrong," Mr Krollig posted.

"We didn't just ask nicely — we escalated it."

The meeting has been scheduled for May 4, but already a new flashpoint has emerged over the City's decision not to livestream proceedings.

The council has publicly defended the move but residents have slammed as an attempt to limit transparency on a deeply contentious issue.

Mr Krollig alleged in a subsequent post that while the council claimed it could not afford a $10,000 livestream, it was running "propaganda machines" disguised as community news pages.

The campaign kicked off after Mr Krollig presented a petition of 500+ signatures at a council meeting, citing a 5-5 voting deadlock on the issue and what he described as nearly 70 per cent of Mayor Lorna Buchan's winning mandate now calling for change.

"I've been up since 2 a.m. working to help build this city, but tonight it felt like the Council is only interested in ignoring it," he wrote after attending that meeting.

Commenter Kim Amer urged every petition signatory to attend the upcoming meeting.

"We have to do this guys to show this council this is it!!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!" she wrote.

Diane Park, a veteran of council meetings, vowed: "Absolutely will be there! This council needs to be held accountable!"

"We have a right to say what we want in this City, we pay rates!!!!!"

Others turned their frustration directly on the Mayor. Jeff Miles wrote: "I can't believe I voted for this muppet!"

"She made out like she cared then as soon as she got in power she shut down!"

Adding insult to injury, resident Peter Leech flagged a newly released Corporate and Community Development Committee agenda for April 21, which he said included proposed fee increases for red, yellow and green bin services, despite the red bin service having already been halved.

"Don't you just love how the red bin charge was increased, then service halved and now planned to be increased again," he wrote.