Councillors unanimously moved a motion to note the matter was operational and would remain operational after receiving results from inspections and soil samples of the ground.

Soil sampling was undertaken to determine if there was asbestos contamination within a stockpile between the sixth and seventh tees at Bowral Country Golf Club. Safe Work and Environments completed the sampling and no asbestos was found.

A visual inspection of the stockpile was also undertaken and one square metre of asbestos cement debris was found. Council disposed of the asbestos at the Resource Recovery Centre (RCC) at a cost of $22.72.

Councillor Larry Whipper said it was time council moved on.

"When I look at this report, and note the amount of asbestos that was there cost council $22.72 to dispose of at the RRC, and then when I ask myself, how much did it cost, all these reports, all the staff time, everything else that went into it including community money only to get to this point where it was proven it's not a problem," Cr Whipper said.

"It concerns me. And it concerns me as well that a fellow councillor's reputation has been drawn into question."

Councillor John Uliana is the lessee of Bowral Country Golf Club and said "let's move forward".

"The golf course is the people's facility. To have it open and functioning is a priority to all," Cr Uliana said.

"Some councillors have got to realise that this is community land.

"We have invested more than $1.5 million dollars on the golf course and it is in my family's interest to operate it and work collaboratively with council and its officers."

Mayor Duncan Gair said the matter had cost the community a "fair amount" of money and "a lot of angst" within council and now that the matter was resolved Councillor Juliet Arkwright said council could focus on serving the community.

Council's acting deputy general manager corporate and strategy Barry Paull said the general manager had the authority to bring the matter back to council, should it be necessary.

"If something transpired in the future where the general manager, in dealing with it as an operational matter, believed that it needed to come back to council for direction or decision, then obviously that would happen," Mr Paull said.