Meander Valley Council met its Northern Midlands and West Tamar counterparts to discuss combined resource sharing.

The councils will this month vote whether to enter formal discussions about identifying strategic shared service opportunities.

The move was proposed after each council was invited to join Launceston Mayor Albert van Zetten to speak about amalgamation options.

The councils are yet to reply to the Launceston request.

Cr Perkins said although he did not believe Meander Valley would benefit from amalgamating with Launceston, he would seek approval from the council to meet with Alderman van Zetten.

"I just don't think there would be an outcome that's going to stack up, don't know that the community would buy it," he said.

"I hope the council will support a conversation with the mayor of Launceston, but there needs to be some substance to it.

"The other thing is that we're not going to make any commitments."

The move to open resource sharing options between the regional councils was sparked by individual meetings with Local Government Minister Peter Gutwein in February.

Mr Gutwein encouraged the councils to explore the benchmarking of financial and service delivery measures by using an independent consultant.

Cr Perkins said the exercise could help the councils lower the impact of impending funding cuts from the federal government.

"The point is that it's a good time for us to review and look at how we do business and the cost of business and running councils," he said.

"We'll look at the benchmarking process and then make that publically available, so people understand what we're doing, and open that to the community for scrutiny."

The council will vote whether to meet with Launceston, and whether to join West Tamar and Northern Midlands in resource-sharing on Tuesday, April 21.