The Council has produced a budget showing a 10.4% increase in rates after deferring $62 million of infrastructure works and delaying $6 million of loan repayments. The future cost of these two items has not been stated.
It appears that the 10.4% increase is a cost increase, not an increase in the volume of services provided.
It is high time the Council engaged some hard headed people, not experts or consultants, to review service delivery and cost and eliminate the extravagances presently enjoyed by all but the ratepayers.
Stuart Keene, Otumoetai.