It was an astonishing day at the council where a vote was taken to immediately stop paying Councillors director's fees to serve on Boards, Trusts and CCOs.
Voting for were: Councillors Justin Lester, Iona Pannett, Bryan Pepper
ell, Helene Ritchie.
Voting against the amendment to stop paying Councillors who serve on Boards, trusts, and CCOs were: Mayor Celia Wade-Brown Councillors R
ay Ahipene-Mercer, Councillor Ngaire Best, Stephanie Cook, Jo Coughlan, Andy Foster, Leonie Gill, Ian McKinnon, John Morrison.
SOCIALIZING THE LOSSES THE RISING DEBT $$$$ ON YOUR RATES BILL Voting against the temporary venue on the waterfront were: Councillors Cook, Lester, Pannett, Pepperell, Ritchie. HOW YOUR RATES AND RENT GO UPPrivatizing the profits Voting for the Temporary Venue were: Councillors Ahipene-Mercer, Coughlan, Eagle, Foster, Gill, Mckinnon, Marsh, Morrison and Mayor Wade-Brown.
WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL INTEREST ON BORROWINGS FOR THE FULL YEAR IS NOW FORECAST AT $21.2 M. So before all else we must pay $21.2 million in interest alone. Interest on debt is a big problem and you should have your say about this serious issue.
Voting to consult on removing on-street motorcycle parks, car parks and loading zones on KENT TERRACE from MAJORIBANKS STREET TO EDGE HILL to be replaced with a Bus Priority Lane were: Mayor Wade-Brown, Councillors Ngaire Best, Stephanie Cook, Paul Eagle, Andy Foster, Justin Lester, Simon Marsh, Iona Pannett, Helene Ritchie.
THE WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL HAS FAILED TO LOOK AFTER THE HOME OWNERS ONCE AGAIN WITH THE SWITCHING OF BUSINESS RATES ONTO YOUR ( THE HOME OWNER'S) RATES BILL.
Nearly $17m spent on outsourcing work with 1,500 employees
$16,745,526m spent on legal advice, consultants and general contracting
Cr Bryan Pepperell has asked for a breakdown of Council spending on legal advice , consultants and general contracting.
Submit on the Wellington City Council Community Draft Annual Plan now. Don’t dither!
Democracy only works when we all participate. With low turnouts at election time and poor participation rates in the Council Community Annual and Long Term Council Community Plans, outcomes can get distorted. If you don’t vote and participate in the process then you shouldn’t complain about the outcome.
REPORT 1
CAPACITY ( WATER MANAGEMENT FOR WCC AND HCC )
I put forward the following amendment
Recommend to Council that:
(a) it agree to consult under section 88 of the Local Government Act 2002 on a proposal to bring water management back in house and instead pursue joint venture with local authorities and Wellington Regional Council.
(b) it instruct officers to prepare the necessary consultation documentation for approval by the Strategy and Policy Committee
MOVED Cr Pepperell.
SECONDED CrRitchie.
Actually the rate increase is closer to 6.5 percent to the residents if you take into account the swimming pool improvements proposed as an option in the DAP (Draft Annual Plan.) The total rate increase including the commercial and residential sector is quoted as 2.8 percent but when the sectors are broken down the commercial is zero and the residential is 6 percent or 6.5 percent depending on the final fix in the DAP.
By 2019 the City Council's Debt is forecast to reach $355 million. In a time of high unemployment and increasing costs such as ACC and energy to run the house and car the household disposable income is on a steep decline for many ratepayers.
Wellington City Council makes the final decision today with a rubber stamp approving the revocation of Manners Mall after 30 years of being closed to vehicles. The cost is $11.5 million at a time when many ratepayers are struggling to pay their bills.
LTCCP 2009-2019 voting record on some big expenditure items in the worst recession in 100 years. For the record I was joined by Councillors Steph Cook, Leonie Gill and Helene Ritchie in opposing the continued switch of commercial rates onto the residents rates bill.
The following is taken from “IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF NEW ZEALAND” BETWEEN WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL
Appellant
AND WOOLWORTHS NEW ZEALND LIMITED AND OTHERS….
At this week's Strategy and Policy Meeting for the LTCCP (Long Term Council Community Plan) Councillors voted on setting of the rates.The following is a list of how Councillors voted to continue to switch the commercial rates onto the residents' rates bill.
Report 1. MAYORAL TRAVEL TO HONG KONG, EUROPE AND JAPAN
Voting for the substantive: Councillors Best, Cook, Coughlan,Gill, Goulden, McKinnon,Morrison,Pannett,Wade-Brownand Wain.
In last months of 2008 I was giving this warning…
Some of you may be aware of the further deterioration in the global economy with the release of US employment statistics. You are also aware that we are very much connected as a global economy and that there are implications here in Wellington, New Zealand.
Voting at a meeting of full Council on 27/6/2008 to continue to shift the commercial rates onto the residential rates bill were the following councillors:
The differential movement was halted during the election year as it was considered to be politically contentious. It has now been recomended that it move once again, this time from from 4.2 to 3.8 . This movement will have to be added to the residential rate increase. The impact will be felt by all renters and rataepayers throughout the city.
Adshel bus shelters arrived in Wellington as a consequence of Mayor Blumsky and Councillors Foster,Gill, Gotlieb, Goulden, Hutchings,Johnston, Morrison, Parkin, Piper, Prendergast and Shaw voting for them.
oday, in the closing stage of the Draft Annual Plan, Jack Ruben and Bryan Pepperell moved an amendment to stop switching the rates from business onto the residents' rates bill. Those voting for the Ruben / Pepperell amendment were:
Thinking there was political capital to be made in riding climate change Mayor Prendergast attempted to change the window dressing on her watch in the run up to the October election.
Prendergast has recently stated .."The City has $5.8 billion worth of assets. Our debt is just 4 % of our total assets. Council has agreed to borrow up to $20 million a year to pay for new assets. " The statement from Mayor Prendergast about the value of the city's assets in relationship to debt shows just why we are heading for a meltdown.
This week in the Capital's politics the temperature rose steeply over the District Plan and infill housing. That was driven by the City's news maker the Dompost with a series of reports designed to give a favourable impression of a Council that has been papering over the cracks of a permissive District Plan.
Alert! Alert!
Wellington City Council has commenced a General Parking Review that includes free motorcycle parks.
If you value your free motorcycle parks then now is the time to make your views known to Wellington City Council.
This is a Council on the run from its own policies and is about to have cardiac arrest. The Deputy Mayor, with his handful of votes that got him elected to Council, senses that CPR might be needed to a Council that is in its death throes now gasping for life with the possibility of an eight percent rate increase to the residents and a two percent increase to the commercial sector.
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