With the season looking to be shortened, have no crowd, canteen or big sponsors, if council can't reduce or waive their fees, the Wolves say they may be in financial trouble.

The Workies Wolves both train and play their home games at Tony Luchetti Sportsground, and with the impact of COVID-19 restrictions, the fields closing and the competition and training being put on hold, the Workies haven't been able to use the grounds as they normally would.

Currently the Wolves pay a total of $5088 for ground fees, excluding lighting costs.

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With the NSW Government recently announcing the easing of lockdown restrictions, Group 10 is planning to commence their 2020 season from July, 1.

Lithgow Workies Wolves president Anthony Brown said the club wrote the letter to see if council would be in the position to waive the ground fees and lighting should they have a shortened season.

"We are awaiting instruction from NSWRL, and we will have some meetings in June but our cut off is the first of July, if we don't start training and kick off by July, 18 then our season could be over," Brown said.

"With the way things are looking for our financial plan it just wouldn't be viable to proceed, especially with no crowds, no canteen and no major sponsors, it just doesn't look promising."

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The team raised concerns such as loss of sponsorship from community businesses who are unable to assist due to financial impacts from the recent bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic, a shortened season meaning less home games and with some restrictions still in place, the teams will not be able to raise funds from gate entry or raffles at local sponsors businesses.

"We just want to see if they would be willing to waiver because this situation could have an impact on our club for a couple of years," Brown said.

"A lot of clubs are in the similar situation, we need to have a crowd, otherwise that is the biggest kicker with no income.

"But there is a fair bit of outlay we have to go through for how the competition and games will run, if we went ahead there will be financial pressures next year since we aren't guaranteed sponsorship."

At the council meeting on Monday night, May 25, council unanimously decided to defer the motion until the next council meeting in June so that a report could be presented to council detailing how all sporting codes will abide by the constraints imposed by the public health order.

Councillor Joe Smith said that he was all about looking after the sporting bodies but there was a lot of information he needed before agreeing to waive the fees.

"There is a lot of information we need to know before we can open up any of our facilities," he said.

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"There is a lot of things involved for the council to sort out, with the different restrictions, if they go ahead and were to open, more things need to be looked at like sanitisers at the site, splash trays in the canteen, so there is a lot to go into play.

"I'm not worried about the fees, we just have to make sure we do it right."

Cr Wayne McAndrew said that at the moment no fees are being paid by any user of council fields at this stage.

"While there are relaxing of restrictions, we need to be clear on what those relaxations are," he said.

"I see that things like dressing rooms and shower facilities might not be able to be used and we own the change shed, showers and canteen area, so all those things are unclear and we want to be clear on the public health order and what we can and can't do."