Let’s Save Waitakere’s Outdoor Education Centre

Auckland Council have the chance to save ratepayers some money and a very useful public facility, by working together with the local community and  restoring a quickly deteriorating community asset at Huia.  The location is amazing, the asset is wanted by community groups and volunteers who can provide sports, recreation , youth activites, water safety […]

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Taxes Taxes and more Taxes.

Auckland Council is reaching the limit of what they can reasonably extract from Aucklanders pockets. The Auckland Council’s 10 Year Budget and 30 Year Plan is a disappointing read. The problems are listed (we all know what they are) followed by predictions of how much money will be needed to address each one, almost always […]

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Auckland Council Cashing up Local Assets

Disguised as saving money Auckland Council is intent on cashing up asset. Our relatively new SuperCity acts more like an asset stripping Corporate Raider of the 1990s, than the superefficient, benevolent public administrator we were promised.  As I read about Council closing 6 regional Customer Service Centres, it brought to mind a recent Waitakere Ranges Local […]

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