Time to Act - Kia Rite!

Consultation closed at 8pm 2 May 2021.

We consulted on our plan for the next ten years. We propose to spend an extra $10.5 million on the activities and services we deliver and $14.7 million on infrastructure and capital projects in 2021-22. This takes advantage of funding already secured from the Government’s COVID-19 stimulus package.

Doing more puts more pressure on rates, so to reduce the impact on ratepayers, we will continue to borrow for intergenerational and capital projects, and to cover operational costs. We borrowed to defer last year’s rate increase (7.3% or $1.8 million) to provide immediate relief to ratepayers.

In our full consultation document we talk about the things we have to do. 

What we consulted on

There were six specific consultation proposals that needed your feedback. Each proposal had options to consider as well as cost, funding, rates, debt and level of service impacts.

These proposals will cost an additional $840,000 in 2021-22 in operational costs. Additional costs fall in later years or will be funded in other ways. 

We also talked to people about our:

• Significance and Engagement Policy
• Fees and Charges
• Revenue and Financing Policy
• Recovery of freshwater management costs from affected consent holders

Summary document Full Consultation Document

Consultation starts - 1 April 2021

Consultation ends - 2 May 2021

Hearings - 17 & 18 May 2021

Deliberations - 26 May 2021

Long Term Plan adopted - 30 June 2021

Submissions to the Long Term Plan 2021-2031 proposals

• Index of submitters by surname
• Submissions 1-499
• Submissions 500-782
• Anne Wallace submission
• Facebook posts

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