Auckland Ratepayer's Alliance - Latest News [Page 1]
Troubling Revelations Over $315m In Secret Payouts From Auckland Council
Thursday, 8 August 2024, 2:34 pm | Auckland Ratepayer's Alliance
Large payments over leaky building claims and settling legal disputes are well within the interest of ratepayers, who are ultimately the ones footing the bill. An inquiry must be made into the council’s finances to restore faith that these expenses can ... More >>
Recklessness On High: Eke Panuku Blows $1m Renovating And Moving To New Office Floors In Ironic Bid To Save Money
Wednesday, 31 July 2024, 1:56 pm | Auckland Ratepayer's Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance can reveal through the Local Government Official Information Act the cost of moving and renovating was $920,000. More >>
Opposition To Port Of Auckland Lease Deliberately Misleading
Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 10:45 am | Auckland Ratepayer's Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance is calling out a deliberately misleading poll commissioned by It's Our Auckland that claims Aucklanders are not in support of the proposed lease of Port of Auckland operations in the mayor's Long Term Plan (LTP). ... More >>
Auckland Transport It Upgrade To Cost Ratepayers $237.2 Million
Tuesday, 27 December 2022, 9:33 pm | Auckland Ratepayer's Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance can reveal how much Transport Minister Michael Wood's pet project is costing ratepayers. Auckland Transport (AT), along with all the country’s other Public Transport authorities, signed up to the Government’s ... More >>
Mayor's Announcement A Ratepayer Victory
Monday, 5 December 2022, 3:25 pm | Auckland Ratepayer's Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is praising Mayor Wayne Brown’s commitment to keeping rates below inflation but warns that his proposed savings package isn’t bold enough. Mayor Wayne Brown has announced that he intends to propose a 4.66% overall ... More >>
Efeso Collins Must Clarify His Position On Bike Bridge
Saturday, 30 July 2022, 5:05 pm | Auckland Ratepayer's Alliance
In response to a full-page advertisement in the Weekend Herald today, the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance has been contacted by a journalist who suggested that Efeso Collins supports a return to the 2006 Skypath Trust proposal for a ‘clip-under’ ... More >>
Goff's Final Budget A Climate Action Sham
Wednesday, 29 June 2022, 1:34 pm | Auckland Ratepayer's Alliance
Auckland Council has formally adopted the 2022/23 Annual Budget. This includes Mayor Phil Goff’s proposal for a billion-dollar “Climate Action” package to be funded by a new targeted rate levied on households. The Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance has ... More >>
Goff’s Climate Targeted Rate Is A Scam
Wednesday, 1 December 2021, 5:41 pm | Auckland Ratepayer's Alliance
“Phil Goff’s proposal to hike Aucklanders’ annual rates bills by $57 to fund ‘climate action’ is a scam that will pump up council coffers while doing nothing to reduce emissions,” says Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance spokesperson Jo Holmes. ... More >>
More budget blowouts at Auckland Council
Friday, 28 September 2018, 6:12 pm | Auckland Ratepayer's Alliance
Auckland Council has revealed more budget blowouts in its 2017/18 Annual Report released today. The Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance is working through the documents (some 651 pages across four volumes). More >>
Auckland Council Unitary Plan Changes a Last Minute Shambles
Monday, 15 February 2016, 11:22 am | Auckland Ratepayer's Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is slamming today’s revelation by the NZ Herald that just three councillors plus an unelected Maori Statutory Board member approved the dramatic changes to the Unitary Plan that rezone tens of thousands of properties ... More >>