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Mayor’s obsession with City Rail Link risky
Monday, 10 February 2014, 9:42 am | No More Rates
Mayor Len Brown's proposal to the Prime Minister is that the Auckland Council will fund the entire cost of the City Rail Link up to 2020 when the Government will repay 50% of that cost. More >>
Mayor apologising to councillors changes nothing
Monday, 16 December 2013, 3:29 pm | No More Rates
An apology by the mayor to the twenty elected councillors does nothing to respond to those ratepayers and residents of Auckland who no longer have any respect for the Mayor and his office. More >>
What next for the Auckland Council and its Mayor
Saturday, 14 December 2013, 12:37 pm | No More Rates
The release of the EY report and the subsequent media response must surely drive the twenty elected Auckland Councillors into taking action to restore credibility and respectability to the city’s governance. More >>
Auckland Councillors must prepare for action on Mayor
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 12:43 pm | No More Rates
Several Auckland Councillors are becoming increasing concerned at the ongoing Len Brown saga and many ratepayers are also demanding that councillors take action to resolve the apparent hiatus of leadership on the Governing Body of the Auckland Council. More >>
ATEED must be brought under control
Monday, 9 December 2013, 9:51 am | No More Rates
Auckland Councils economic development and tourism activity [ATEED] is out of control and out of reach of any level of accountability to Auckland ratepayers, The recent reports of huge spending in San Francisco for the Americas Cup by an 18-person team ... More >>
Changes mean higher rates or reduced services
Tuesday, 3 December 2013, 12:57 pm | No More Rates
Local Councils face a likely loss of income from development contributions as a result of The Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill (No 3), which will have its First Reading in Parliament today. More >>
Mayor’s progressive Income Tax unacceptable
Friday, 11 October 2013, 11:39 am | No More Rates
Auckland mayor Len Brown’s proposal to replace council rates with income tax will be unacceptable to ratepayers who will see it as a further step in the redistribution of wealth, and would be open to widespread avoidance, More >>
Mayor Len Brown’s 2.5% rates pledge worthless
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 11:44 am | No More Rates
The promise by Auckland Mayor Len Brown to hold rates increases to 2.5 % hides the true picture that two in three ratepayers will pay above the so-called average. More >>
Housing and the Unitary Plan
Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 11:17 am | No More Rates
Unitary Plan to be notified with 100,000 fewer homes than needed to accommodate one million more people. More >>
Auckland Council must lead way in developing fairer system
Monday, 12 August 2013, 11:12 am | No More Rates
The list of council rate increases payable by high-profile Aucklanders in today’s New Zealand Herald serves to demonstrate the inequality of the council’s rating system. More >>
Ratepayers in the firing line to meet transport costs
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 3:17 pm | No More Rates
The Auckland Council today ‘received’ the final report of the Consensus Building Group (CBG) which had been set up to find options for funding Auckland’s $12 billion ‘transport funding gap’. More >>
CBG report on transport funding a failure
Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 11:42 am | No More Rates
Auckland ratepayers have paid $1.5 million for a mixed group of lobbyists to produce proposals for how the Council could raise an additional $400 million a year for the next 30 years to pay for the transport requirements set out in the Auckland Plan. More >>
Just a minute Mr Mayor
Monday, 8 July 2013, 11:52 am | No More Rates
City Rail Link must not start construction until the Auckland Mayor and his council have consulted ratepayers on the funding for the entire project and its effects on rates. More >>
Thousands of submissions to Unitary Plan not seen
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 4:17 pm | No More Rates
The thousands of Aucklanders who attended and organised public and community meetings on the draft Unitary Plan will be astounded to learn that notes from those meetings, prepared by Council staff, have mysteriously disappeared and have not been seen by ... More >>
Auditor General asked to investigate consultation process
Monday, 1 July 2013, 11:45 am | No More Rates
Many Councillors and Local Board members have been complaining that they have not seen the written feedback sent to the Council by the thousands of people who responded to the draft Unitary Plan. More >>
Council decisions illogical
Friday, 28 June 2013, 12:07 pm | No More Rates
Yesterday the Auckland Council voted not to support a Convention Centre at Sky Centre – on the grounds that the additional gambling facilities would be expanded to a level which would bring misery to millions of Aucklanders, and presumably to the ... More >>
Council must give details of Central Rail Loop effect
Wednesday, 26 June 2013, 6:18 pm | No More Rates
While Auckland Council may be happy with the Government proposal to part fund the CRL there is a big question mark against the likely cost to ratepayers who will ultimately guarantee and pay for the Council’s share of the total cost, plus on-going passenger ... More >>
Responses to Feedback on draft Unitary Plan
Tuesday, 18 June 2013, 12:59 pm | No More Rates
The Auckland Council is to respond to all submitters to the draft Unitary Plan prior to the formal notification of the Plan. More >>
Council must reverse its decision to give $3m to Cathedral
Friday, 7 June 2013, 10:46 am | No More Rates
The donation of three million dollars of public funds to Auckland Cathedral has raised a great deal of anger among Auckland ratepayers. More >>
Council should withdraw the draft Unitary Plan
Monday, 27 May 2013, 11:02 am | No More Rates
Council has failed to meet consultation requirements of Local Government Act [Section 82} and Clause 3, Schedule 1 of the Resource Management Act. More >>
