Wellington City Council / March 2010
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New City Architect appointed
- Eye of the Fish
- The folk here at the Fish have been following the reshuffling down at the City Council with interest, as they restructure the Urban Strategy Group yet again and find new positions for expired urban designers and heritage advisors.
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The politics of urinating
- Wellington Scoop
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What more can we be told about the people who owe money to the council?
- Wellington Scoop
- Ratepayers have reason to want more information about the $30million in overdue payments which was owing to the Wellington City Council at the end of its last financial year.
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Why the secrecy about debtors?
- Wellington Scoop
- When the Wellington City Council’s audit and risk subcommittee met behind closed doors yesterday afternoon, the last item on its agenda was a report giving details about people who owe money to the council. Ratepayers, one presumes.
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Another restructure - Should we care?
- Architectural Centre Inc
- It’s inevitable, given their political nature, that governments (local and central) are subject to “restructuring” more than most institutions. Anyone involved in architecture and urban design in Wellington will have known, for a little while now, that the urban design bits of our city council have been, and are in the middle of, such [...]
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Why the secrecy?
- Wellington Scoop
- The Wellington City Council has issued another agenda with a list of topics which it intends to discuss behind closed doors. At a meeting of the council’s audit and risk subcommittee on Friday afternoon, the public will be sent out of the room before five presumably contentious issues are dealt with.
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5.8 percent Rate increase to Wellington's homeowners and zero to commercial buildings
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- 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.
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Why the secrecy for this council meeting?
- Wellington Scoop
- The Wellington City Council is having a secret meeting this morning. Here’s the agenda for the meeting, which was announced only three days ago: Apologies, Public Participation, Announcements by the Mayor, Petitions, Conflict of Interest Declarations, Questions.
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Why the secrecy when city council staff approved a 27-acre car yard?
- Wellington Scoop
- Although the proposal for a 27 acre (11.2 hectare) car storage and distribution facility for 2,500 vehicles in Grenada Village has been rejected by the Greater Wellington Regional Council on environmental grounds, the granting of a Land Use Consent by Wellington City Council needs to come under public scrutiny.
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