Published 26 October 2009 Local Government Minister Rodney Hide said on Friday analysis of council long-term plans for 2009-19 showed councils’ operating costs would increase 39% over the next 10 years. Their planned capital expenditure would total $31.4 billion and their total debt was forecast to rise 56%, from $7 billion to $10.8 billion. […]
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Hide on his mission to stop rates blowout
Published 22 October 2009 Local Government Minister Rodney Hide said yesterday that recent analysis by the Department of Internal Affairs of data from long-term council plans for the next decade indicated rates income would continue to rise faster than council costs. Addressing a Property Council breakfast in Wellington, Mr Hide said: “Even more concerning […]
Read more →The meaning of life, as explained in a community outcome statement
Published: 9 August 2005 Local body politicians have been searching for the meaning of life in recent times, helped by truckloads of legislation to ensure the exercise is an holistically complicated one. One of the latest treats is the community outcome statement, one of which has been pieced together by the Auckland Regional Council and […]
Read more →Long-term council plans – and the attention you should be paying to them
Peter Winefield – former Rodney District Council senior officer, nowadays working on management services for MWH NZ Ltd, an international consultancy with particular expertise in power, water & wastewater issues – produced a briefing paper last year on the Local Government Act, philosophical changes, new reports &administrative changes, and on financial provisions. A central part […]
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