Another meeting about Central Otago's recycling services was held in private this week.
Public and media were excluded from the Central Otago District Council waste and property infrastructure committee meeting.
The structure of future recycling services was the only item on the agenda and the reason given for confidentiality was ''to enable the waste and property infrastructure committee to protect the privacy of natural persons and to carry out, without prejudice or disadvantage, commercial activities''.
In November, a council meeting to review recycling services was also held in private.
It was revealed Central Otago WasteBusters, which provides recycling services for the council, was struggling financially when it approached the council in June last year for a bail-out, which it received.
Despite budgeting $516,750 for WasteBusters for the past financial year, the council paid another $79,000.
In September, the council agreed to shore up WasteBusters on a month-by-month basis to prevent it from becoming insolvent, and a review of the services it provided was ordered.
Two months later, it was announced WasteBusters had lost the recycling contract, but would continue to provide the service until a new contractor took over, which was thought could take six to nine months.
Yesterday, council infrastructure services manager Jon Kingsford said the outcome of this week's meeting would remain confidential ''until several actions resulting from that meeting are completed''.
