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Auckland Council’s Consultancy Bill Nears $100 Million
Monday, 20 February 2023, 1:36 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
After initially refusing to provide the information, Auckland Council has months later revealed the eyewatering amount they spent on consultants and temporary staff in the 2022 financial year. Consultancy Temporary ... More >>
Council Officers Should Be Held Accountable For Mistakes Made During The Flood Response
Saturday, 4 February 2023, 6:30 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is calling for Council officers to be held accountable for mistakes made during the flood response. On Saturday, Auckland Council confirmed that Mayor Wayne Brown and his staff were not included on the Civil Defence or Emergency ... More >>
Aucklanders' Rates Pay For Project To Convert Meat Eaters To Vegetarianism
Thursday, 5 January 2023, 7:36 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is calling on Auckland Council to stay in its lane and butt out of Aucklanders' dining rooms after it uncovered the council spent nearly $50,000 on a survey to measure how receptive meat-eating households are to ... More >>
Auckland Council Middle Manager Salaries Revealed
Thursday, 5 January 2023, 7:28 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance can reveal that the Auckland Council parent employs 436 middle managers paid an average salary of $162,464. Statistics obtained under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act confirm that 436 ... More >>
Mayor Must Reject Staff Advice On Auckland Transport
Friday, 9 December 2022, 9:55 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is urging Mayor Wayne Brown to reject official advice that says Auckland Transport must put up public transport fares by 6% and reduce services by 20% to find savings. Earlier this week, Auckland Council staff ... More >>
Rate Hikes Double Inflation Totally Unacceptable
Thursday, 24 November 2022, 3:23 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Ratepayers’ Alliance says that Wayne Brown needs to instruct Auckland Council officials should scrap their summer holidays plans and get to work finding wholesale savings if rate hikes of 14% next year are to be avoided. Reacting to today's news ... More >>
Fullers Contract An Affront To Local Democracy
Thursday, 17 November 2022, 12:25 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance says a decision by Auckland Transport to award Fullers360 a $351 million contract is an affront to local democracy and highlights the need for urgent reform of the Council-Controlled Organisation model. On Thursday, ... More >>
Plenty Of Room For Savings – But Core Services Should Be Protected
Friday, 11 November 2022, 10:50 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is hopeful that Wayne Brown means what he says when he states he has picked a committee structure to find savings at Auckland Council, but is calling for assurances that cuts won’t be made to core services such as ... More >>
Panuku Staff Cost Millions More Than Net Contribution
Friday, 4 November 2022, 11:03 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is demanding that Eke Panuku stop spending more than it makes from managing the Council's property portfolio. In a statement published last night, Eke Panuku responded to pressure from the Ratepayers' Alliance and Mayor's ... More >>
AT Must Disclose Cost Of National Ticketing
Friday, 21 October 2022, 2:28 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is calling on Auckland Transport to disclose the full cost to ratepayers of Auckland participating in the National Ticketing Solution announced today. Auckland Transport, along with all the country’s other Public ... More >>
Ardern Must End Light Rail Gravy Train
Thursday, 20 October 2022, 9:46 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is calling on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to end the failed Auckland Light Rail project following revelations that the Government plans to spend a further $16 million to private consultants. Ratepayers’ Alliance ... More >>
Eke Panuku Must Explain Failure Of 'Own-your-own' Home Scheme
Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 11:59 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is calling on Eke Panuku to explain why close to 60 Auckland Council-owned flats are sitting vacant and in a state of dire disrepair. This morning, Radio New Zealand reported that more than a third of the flats owned ... More >>
Ratepayers' Alliance Calling For Urgent Review Of Eke Panuku
Monday, 17 October 2022, 12:17 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance says the Governing Body must investigate why the Council Controlled Organisation is not self-sufficient and whether it is duplicating the work of Council officers. Information obtained under the Local Government ... More >>
Ratepayers Congratulate Wayne Brown
Saturday, 8 October 2022, 6:57 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is congratulating Mayor-elect Wayne Brown. A progress report on Saturday afternoon indicates that Brown has won a strong mandate to govern from the centre-right. Ratepayers’ Alliance spokesman Josh Van Veen said: ... More >>
Goff Sets Very Bad Example For Next Mayor
Friday, 7 October 2022, 10:49 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance says outgoing Mayor Phil Goff has treated councillors and ratepayers with contempt by withholding information about rail closures. On Friday, Stuff reported that Mayor Phil Goff was briefed about planned rail shutdowns three ... More >>
Big Salaries Lead To $30 Million Payroll Blowout In Auckland Council
Friday, 30 September 2022, 5:18 pm | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance says the number of Auckland Council staff paid more than $200,000 has increased by 32% since the year ended 30 June 2021. On Friday, Auckland Council published the 2022 Annual Report including Financial Statements ... More >>
Darby Must Tell Voters About 'Cyclavia Sundays'
Thursday, 29 September 2022, 11:13 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
Emails obtained under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act confirm that Councillor Chris Darby (North Shore) has been lobbying Waka Kotahi to close a lane of the Auckland Harbour Bridge for cycling on Sundays. In an email to ... More >>
Brown Must Stand Up For Ratepayers
Friday, 16 September 2022, 11:48 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Ratepayers’ Alliance asked all mayoral and ward candidates to give an iron clad guarantee that they will vote to keep future rate rises below household inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index. The 2022 Ratepayer Protection Pledge also ... More >>
Rates Could Double Under Efeso Collins
Saturday, 3 September 2022, 12:33 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is calling on Labour-endorsed mayoral candidate Efeso Collins to sign the 2022 Ratepayer Protection Pledge if he is serious about easing the financial burden on struggling Auckland households. In a policy release ... More >>
Auckland Rates Up 17% Under Goff, Staff Costs Out Of Control
Thursday, 1 September 2022, 5:22 am | Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance
Auckland households are now paying the highest average rates in the country, according to Ratepayers’ Report , a nation-wide local government league table published by the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance with the Tauranga Ratepayers' Alliance and the ... More >>
