Council League tables: The report compares 67 Councils from around NZ including TCC and WBOPDC and ranks them according to their results including: debt level, rates, governance, sustainability and more.
In one year TCC has dropped from 32nd to 48th and WBOPDC from 42nd to 58th, they are both nearing the 'red zone”, this independent report states clearly that the WBOP Councils are slipping fast into financially troubled waters.
Despite this independent review both Mayors reject the league tables, they say 'the finances are just fine!”
TCC Mayor said $400m debt 'is high” (but that was back in 2010). By June 2012 Audit NZ confirmed the debt was $460m, since reported it had exceeded $500m. So perhaps the league table ranking presented looks better than it should, surely the Mayor will remain happy with this 'small” difference and I would guess thinks 'that is not a problem” either? Perhaps Tauranga is a lot worse than the League Tables shows?
WBOPDC is a smaller Council but all the same problems exist, unbelievably the League Table ranks them as a lot worse than TCC but that most likely is because the figures used are a bit more accurate at WBOPDC than TCC by the odd few $100m or so.
S Bailey, Tauranga.
2 comments
To much debt
Posted on 03-05-2013 13:36 | By The Master
Means mor erates and onward the spirral goes into that black hole. In fact the bottom half of the tables really look like a "race to teh bottom" to me, proven leadership ...
Red v black?
Posted on 05-05-2013 13:50 | By YOGI BEAR
The irony of it is that when you are in the "red" means losses constantly and getting worse, the end result is that you end up in a "Black" hole and no escape becasue of the 'red' factors.
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