Cr Downie said the council hoped to find a solution to the end-of-life tyre issue this year, and was waiting on a response from the state government.

"We're waiting on a response from the minister, Matthew Groom, from the working group that he set up," he said.

"We should hear shortly his response to that, but ... the ultimate solution may take some while to sort through."

Cr Downie said the council hoped to secure an investor to establish a processing system for the tyres.

"It's also encouraging that at least four expressions of interest have been declared on looking into making that sort of investment," he said.

He said the Longford tyre stockpile would be less susceptible to fire such as the one that affected a tyre pile in Broadmeadows, Victoria, last week, due to additional measure that had been implemented here.

He said the tyres in Broadmeadows had been stacked in one pile, while that was not the case at the Longford stockpile.

"The piles at Longford, they're all set up in bundles of about 5000-6000 tyres in each pile," he said.

"It's set up under what they call South Australian standards for storing tyres, and the idea is if a fire did get going they'd be isolated to one [pile].

"A whole lot of measures [have] been put in place to protect the whole stockpile going up in fire."

Cr Downie said the council was still waiting on the results of a federal review into the airport rates issue to be handed down.

He told The Examiner last week the council was hoping for the revaluation to be released "sooner rather than later", but meanwhile the council had found some common ground with the airport on other issues.